The Brexit gloom is overdone

Despite worries over Brexit, British stocks look to be on a firm footing.

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British stocks "can't seem to catch a break", say Lisa Pham and Aleksandra Gjorgievska on Bloomberg. The FTSE 100 is down about 7% for the year, while UK indices trailed their major US and European counterparts throughout 2017 too. Short-selling activity on the FTSE 350 index hasn't been this high since 2009.

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Alice grew up in Stockholm and studied at the University of the Arts London, where she gained a first-class BA in Journalism. She has written for several publications in Stockholm and London, and joined MoneyWeek in 2017.