UK Stocks Offer Value, Despite Looming Budget
November’s fiscal event has Britain on the edge of its seat — but UK stocks are pricing in a fair bit of gloom already.
Chancellor Rachel Reeves: a lot of bad news is in the price.
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The pall of gloomy uncertainty hanging over the UK is unlikely to lift until the big budget reveal on November 26th — and perhaps not even then, depending on how chancellor Rachel Reeves’s latest cunning plans are received.