Why do the markets demand that a stable government be formed as soon as possible?

Question

Can we also have an end to graft, insider trading, inappropriate bonus payments and reform of the financial sector some time today as well?

You would think the 'markets' rule this country, or maybe they do.

Answer 1

I hate the way city bods always get to come on TV and tell us what they think, why not let doctors, teachers, plumbers, builders come on TV and tell us what they think of the political situation.



After all it affects everyone.



Good Call!

Answer 2

Companies who invest heavily, such as the pension funds, they hate uncertainty because confidence oozes out of the market which can lead to heavy losses. If the pension funds lose money, then that can have a knock-on effect to everyone's pensions.



To correct you on one point. Insider trading is a criminal offence. It carries a high jail sentence if found guilty as some have found to their cost!



The financial moneymen do rule the economy to a certain degree. They can weaken a company by heavy selling. Fear and worry can play a big part in their dealings. We and the rest of the western world live by a free market economy. That's what makes the world go round!

Answer 3

Some of the economic correspondents (Robert Peston) do seem to be obsessed with the bond market worm, squiggling away in response to each and every political utterance over the last 48 hours ... Cameron falls off his bicycle and it goes down 20 points!



What would happen if it was Boris Johnson, falling into a swamp? Gadzooks, it's hard to fathom, chaps.

Answer 4

In a unfastened marketplace, the main inexpensive producer wins, in spite of if the product reasons maximum cancers, and the production of the product pollutes the air, land, and rivers. I agree that the call for for drugs persists, in spite of our government's unwell-fated "war on drugs." Democrats are afraid of legalizing drugs because of the fact the Republicans will use it to kick the Democrats out of workplace. in case you will get the Republican legislators to flow to legalize drugs, the Democrats will save on with. yet, no longer vice-versa.

Answer 5

Your owners understand that turmoil is not good for business.



Our owners on this side of the Atlantic sometimes even shoot each other's coalition frontmen.



Be thankful your bosses are more stodgy and less adventurous.

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Answer 6

Do you honestly believe that it is the MP's who run this country, I do hope not, for the sake of your intelligence!