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The business of Brexit: how companies make decisions in uncertain political times

Business has mixed feelings over Brexit, and a relatively small number of factors can explain why.

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The maker of Toblerone Swiss chocolate says it has widened the spaces in its iconic, triangle-array bars for some discount shops in Britain to keep prices down. EMPICS/Press Association. All rights reserved.

Since the UK referendum vote to leave the European Union on 23 June, numerous prognostications regarding the vote’s impact on the UK economy have been made. The more credible of these have come from two sources: economic data published since the referendum, which largely assesses past economic performance, and forecasts of future economic performance.