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The ayes to the right, 202. The noes to the left, 432.
The morning after Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit plans took a monstering from her fellow MPs, Bank of England governor Mark Carney took to the airwaves. The currencies market, he said, offers the clearest expression of how investors think Brexit is panning out.
Well, a quick look at that market, a quick look at sterling, tells you that still investors have no clue what's going to happen next. The pound did sell off in the immediate aftermath of this historic defeat for Theresa May, but that didn't last. It snapped back to pretty much where it already was, which is about $1.28.
What is that telling us? Well, it means that, rightly or wrongly, investors still think that somehow there will be a deal, somehow there will be an extension. It might come at the last minute, but somehow it will come. If markets really thought that we were going to crash out of the EU without a deal, then sterling would crash out too.
Now for some market commentators, that's enough reason to buy, but it doesn't look like the market is going their way yet. Most sensible investors are saying, do you know what? It's time to just sit on your hands, switch off your screens, and do nothing until we have a clear answer.