What might Brexit mean for London’s financial center?
Kai Ryssdal
Campaigners to remain in the EU unfurl a banner on Westminster Bridge as a bus bearing the face of UKIP leader Nigel Farage and a message urging voters to leave the EU in the upcoming referendum sits behind it as they wait for a flotilla of boats from the group 'Fishing for Leave' to sail by on the river Thames in London on June 15, 2016. A Brexit flotilla of fishing boats sailed up the River Thames into London today with foghorns sounding, in a protest against EU fishing quotas by the campaign for Britain to leave the European Union.
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Just a couple days and counting until the referendum in the U.K. about whether to stay or get out of the European Union. Economy-wise, it’ll either be another Y2K — nothing to see here — or it could be quite the opposite.
For those who’s job it is to watch global markets, currencies and stocks, it’s the not-knowing that’s the problem. Nowhere less, maybe, than in The City of London, the UK’s financial center.
