The UK Election & What It Means For Investors
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🗓️ 7 May 2015
⏱️ 13 minutes
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What does the UK election mean for investors? Mark Rogers joins us from London to lend his perspective. With the Footsie at an all-time high we discuss what the UK investing landscape looks like and which companies investors should put on their watch lists. Plus, Mark analyzes the often-unusual world of small cap stocks and why naming a celebrity to a company’s board of directors just might be a red flag. Looking to invest in UK companies? Check out our Fool UK site at www.fool.co.uk
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| 0:00.0 | It's Thursday, May 7th. Welcome to Market Foolery. I'm Chris Hill and we are wrapping up |
| 0:07.0 | International Week joining me from Fool UK Studios in London. Mark Rogers. How are you my friend? |
| 0:14.3 | Hey Chris, doing really well thanks. So there is a general election today |
| 0:20.7 | but you and I are taping this ahead of time. |
| 0:24.1 | So this is, so I'm not going to put you in the position of predicting who's gonna win. |
| 0:29.4 | So I don't, or. |
| 0:30.7 | I don't have to pretend like it's like it's Thursday right now exactly right |
| 0:35.3 | exactly but you know at the Mountly Fool we are not as interested in general about what happens with elections. |
| 0:46.0 | We're generally as a business more interested in what does it mean for investors. |
| 0:51.0 | So whether David Cameron is reelected or Ed Millerbrand |
| 0:55.7 | wins, what do you think the landscape looks like for investors in the UK? |
| 1:01.6 | Yeah it's clear it's going to go right down to the wire this election. |
| 1:07.0 | There's, if anything, if one thing is clear, it's that there will not be a clear winner of this election it's |
| 1:14.4 | highly likely to go to a hung parliament which means that effectively no one is in |
| 1:19.0 | charge especially if nobody can form a coalition government. |
| 1:23.0 | And the consequences for that are pretty much as it sounds. |
| 1:27.0 | There's going to be a lot of nervousness among investors |
| 1:30.0 | about the what-ifs, what if the S&P for instance the Scottish |
| 1:35.9 | National Party can form a coalition with the Labour Party and what the |
| 1:41.0 | consequences of that could be for the wider country and for investors too. |
| 1:44.7 | So there's a lot to think about. |
| 1:47.0 | On Tuesday I was talking with Scott Phillips and Andrew Page from Fool Australia. |
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