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One in ten German firms to cut UK investments before Brexit: survey
TheLocal.de ^ | 28 March 2017 14:30 CEST+02:00 | AFP

Posted on 03/28/2017 9:40:37 AM PDT by Olog-hai

One in ten German firms present in Britain plans to stop investing in the island nation even before it definitively leaves the European Union, an industry group survey published on Tuesday found.

German firms believe Brexit “will seriously damage business with the United Kingdom,” said Eric Schweitzer, president of the Association of German Chambers of Commerce and Industry (DIHK), which surveyed 2,200 internationally active companies.

Some nine percent of firms who have invested in the UK plan to shift investments elsewhere, with Germany and the rest of the EU the top choices.

Britain is the third-biggest export market for Germany after the United States and France, buying some €86 billion of goods in 2016. The DIHK estimates some 750,000 German jobs are dependent on exports to Britain. …

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Foreign Affairs; Germany; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: brexit; chamberofcommerce; dihk; eu; eurozone; eussr; eutrade; fakenews; freetrade; fud; germany; socialmarketeconomy; tradewar

1 posted on 03/28/2017 9:40:37 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

Great opportunity to purchase UK securities, but most likely fake news.


2 posted on 03/28/2017 9:43:12 AM PDT by caltaxed
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To: Olog-hai

1 in 10? That would be the case if there was never a Brexit. Some firms are always changing their exposure to a given market. Others are probably increasing their UK investment.


3 posted on 03/28/2017 9:43:25 AM PDT by WashingtonSource
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To: caltaxed

All about FUD obviously.


4 posted on 03/28/2017 9:45:54 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

So 9 in 10 won’t be. Lord grant me the patience to tolerate fake news for another day.


5 posted on 03/28/2017 9:48:18 AM PDT by FlipWilson
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To: WashingtonSource
Yes. You are of course right. What will be more significant, if the Brits regain their emotional swagger, how many more German companies increase their investments in Britain. The same psychological factors are in play here--from the Brexit haters--as we describe in The Trump Haters, in America.

The emotion driven Globalists are desperate to complete their war against the very concept of the nation. The vultures were circling for the expected kill, when Brexit, Trump and some others rallied patriots against them.

To the horror of loathsome betrayers, the Western heritage may yet survive!

6 posted on 03/28/2017 9:53:49 AM PDT by Ohioan
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To: Olog-hai

They’d be smarter to dump their German investments and double-down on British investments.


7 posted on 03/28/2017 9:58:57 AM PDT by bigbob
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To: Olog-hai

One in ten German firms to cut their investment, means 9 in 10 won’t cut.

Notice how the “bad” though a minority, gets top billing.


8 posted on 03/28/2017 10:29:34 AM PDT by Wuli
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Headlines should read: NINE in ten German firms to KEEP UK investments before Brexit: survey


9 posted on 03/28/2017 10:48:09 AM PDT by ZULU (DUMP THAT POS PAUL RYAN!! HE KILLED OBAMACARE REPEAL AND WILL KILL TAX REFORM!!)
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So the U.K. will get less business from Hitler descendants because they voted for Brexit. UK should stop buying German cars because they killed Jews.


10 posted on 03/28/2017 11:19:21 AM PDT by Rebelrage ("To crush your enemies -- See them driven, and to hear the lamentation of their women")
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Can’t expect anything like that out of Agence France-Presse.


11 posted on 03/28/2017 11:25:46 AM PDT by Olog-hai
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England has been around several hundred years longer than Germany and I’m sure will do just fine. Isn’t it time for the Germans to start indiscriminately murdering their neighbors again?


12 posted on 03/28/2017 11:27:50 AM PDT by Seruzawa (I keel you Vorga feelthy.)
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