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Investing in companies Pre-Brexit
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Yes I do believe Britain leaving the eu will effect certain companies for better or worse. If you can't say anything helpful, encouraging or positive, why say anything at all?
We told you not to lose money by churning your portfolio trying to predict how one specific insignificant localised event will affect share prices that have already priced it in. If you think not losing money is unhelpful then I'm afraid you're on the wrong forum. Try the Daily Telegraph or the ADVFN forums.
You are not going to find a magical Amazon share that will go up by 1,000x on Internet forums. Virtually nobody had more than a handful of shares in Amazon when they were £1.79, that's why they were £1.79.0 -
Only the probability of specific outcomes is priced in i.e. no deal, soft Brexit, remain, etc.
A fair point, the consensus of all those views is whats priced in. But that doesnt help the OP who wants share tips for companies that will specifically do well out of Brexit (whatever that actually turns out to be including no Brexit ! ).0 -
It certainly will but we don't know how yet as the outcome is uncertain. That's why it might be best to avoid specific shares and invest in a global fund.
And when we do know what BREXIT is, so will all the big traders and the price of those shares will have changed well before most small investors can do anything about it.0 -
It certainly will but we don't know how yet as the outcome is uncertain. That's why it might be best to avoid specific shares and invest in a global fund.
From a global perspective Brexit is to a large extent a zero sum game - eg if the UK companies lose export markets then foreign companies will pick up the sales, so yes global funds is the way to go0 -
I guess buying shares is a mugs game, no point in buying shares in amazon in 1997 for £1.79 each.
It's easy to look back and pick from the survivors but the problem is that in 1997 it wasn't obvious that Amazon was any better an investment than the thousands of other dotcom companies competing for investment. Many more people will have picked the losers than the winners.
The UK based dotcom company I worked for in the late 90s (one of my first jobs) was completely gone in about 3 years - probably a 100% loss of tens of £millions to its investors. One of their big ideas was making us sit on spikey chairs so working there was a pain in the....
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As soon as an outcome is known (soft, hard or medium rare) and the uncertainty diminishes (perhaps quite quickly), I expect a correction of some sort (similar to 2016) followed by a rally, whichever way it goes.0
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As soon as an outcome is known (soft, hard or medium rare) and the uncertainty diminishes (perhaps quite quickly), I expect a correction of some sort (similar to 2016) followed by a rally, whichever way it goes.
It's not hard to predict what might happen in certain scenarios:
Hard Brexit (no deal) = UK-listed shares fall (except multinationals like BP, BATS, etc), sterling falls (value of foreign investments rises so people like Rees-Mogg do very well
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Soft Brexit = sterling rises, UK-listed shares rise (except multinationals like BP, BATS, etc)0 -
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dividendhero wrote: »From a global perspective Brexit is to a large extent a zero sum game - eg if the UK companies lose export markets then foreign companies will pick up the sales, so yes global funds is the way to go
Over 92% of UK companies don't export.0
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