During recent days there have been suggestions in the stock market that investors were being too pessimistic about the windfall taxes likely to be lumped on electricity generators.The chancellor slapped the generators with a 45% levy on the 'excess profits' being made by them.
Shares of Orsted, the Danish wind generating giant with significant UK operations, have fallen only very slightly in Copenhagen. However, as with the electricity generators, Mr Hunt's raid appears to have been fully priced in by investors in a number of cases. That said, shares of two other North Sea oil specialists, Enquest and Energean, are off by 2% and 3% respectively.The answer is because these are global multinationals and the vast majority of their profits are made outside the UK.
The windfall tax will also be extended to electricity generators but shares in many of these companies were up, reflecting again that - with a number of reports predicting the move - it was mostly priced in to markets.
Should have kept Kwasi and Liz.
When the pound fell under trussliz you called for her to go, does that mean we can now get rid of Hunt the communist? Or do Sky news’ handlers approve of the communist and want him around?
No trust in the conservatives, it wouldn't matter what they do now.
Incoming coup to coup the first coup
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