Lose-Lose for Business as U.K. Election Defies Prediction

Businesses faced with a general election in the U.K. are finding that the only thing certain about the vote is its unpredictability.

Three-and-a-half months before the ballot, polls agree that neither Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservatives nor the Labour opposition are likely to win a majority. And the odds have already shortened on a rerun having to be held this year.