No the FTSE is measured in pounds. That means to a foreign investor the cost of buying shares in those companies is now 20% cheaper and so they can afford to buy more shares and get better dividend returns.Sadly that is wishing thinking on your part.
"With the ever increasing use of derivatives"
1. What is a "derivative" ... ?? <Will Hutton>
2. Yeah but no but yeah but no but. My mate Tanya says With the ever increasing use of derivatives ...
"But, I suppose in your dream world that has nothing to do with Brexit and won't affect the economy at all??"
Again, I expect to see the FTSE250 plummeting right now as I type on this news.
That is what is happening, right ... ??
At the moment the underlying profitability of those companies is largely unchanged as we haven't left so by far the biggest factor in the shares value is currency exchange and while shares rise at the same rate the currency falls then it's cost neutral.
Effectively for the stock markets to have the same value they had pre referendum they need to be 10-20% higher to compensate for devaluation.
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