British Stock Bargains: Bag £1 For Just 82p

The UK’s persistent discount isn’t a good thing, but you might as well profit from it.

Forget pound shops — the UK equity market is an 82p shop! Bargain!

Photographer: Dominic Lipinski/Bloomberg

Welcome to Money Distilled. I’m John Stepek. Every week day I look at the biggest stories in markets and economics, and explain what it all means for your money.

There’s been an awful lot of hand-wringing in recent months about the state of the UK equity market.