Investors react to exit of UK government big-hitters

The resignations of UK foreign secretary Boris Johnson, Brexit secretary David Davis and other Conservative MPs this week appear to suggest a ‘soft’ Brexit is likely – but in practice they have left investors even less certain about the likely form of any deal between Britain and the European Commission. Could buying short-dated UK bonds be a good bet, as some suggest, or is the environment simply too unpredictable to warrant making any calls? “I want more decisiveness,” said Br…