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Some comfort for investors

Two weeks ago I penned a column titled “Our watershed election: Should investors be worried?”, in which I set out four possible political scenarios depending on how well the ruling party fared.

Scenarios 1 and 2 were if it won a majority or more than 45% of the vote, resulting in more of the same. Scenarios 3 and 4 were if it fared worse and was forced into either a left-wing or centre-right coalition with one of the larger parties.

We can now rule out

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