
Investors with undisguised anxiety monitor the events in the UK after the country's population voted in the European Union on June 23. Brexit’s national economy losses will amount to € 81 billion (5.6 trillion rubles - almost three Russian reserve funds ), the local Ministry of Finance calculated . Financial companies have already begun to transfer their offices from London to other countries: the first Russian VTB publicly announced this today.
The painful procedure will begin until the end of March 2017, the country's Prime Minister Teresa May in early October promised. So far, her government, which came to power after a referendum, has shocked the business community with a new isolationist idea-to make the company keep records of all foreigners working in order to protect jobs for the British.
“The status of London as a leading world financial center and Britain’s access to the Unified Market of the European Union was sacrificed to the altar of immigration curbing,” said Bloomberg columnist Marc Gilbert.
The most clearly consequences of Brexit guilt on the pound sterling course. In early October, the British currency was selling to the dollar at minimums since the 1980s. On the night of last Friday, October 7, the British currency was survived by Flash Crash - an instant collapse, sharply cheaper by 6%, and then grew quickly, but remained at the levels lower than before the collapse.
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