A Boris boom or Corbyn crash? How will the election result move the stock market?

With just days to go before the UK general election, all eyes are on the stock market for clues to which way prices might move once the result is known. After three and a half years of uncertainty since the EU referendum, the biggest questions surround Brexit, and whether the result will make things clearer. There’s a view that Brexit turmoil has put the brakes on big decisions by corporates and consumers alike. So, will the Conservatives win a majority and “get Brexit done”? Will Labour defy the polls and introduce a new agenda for Brexit and business? Or will a coalition government emerge and bring with it all manner of uncertainty? There are also wider questions about how the market will react to some of the policies on offer. In many ways, the Tory manifesto promises more of the same, together with pledges on infrastructure spending, house building and progress on a new free trade agreement with the EU. That’s likely to soothe investors, but the outcome of Brexit looks likely to remain a big uncertainty. Labour’s manifesto offers some rather more dramatic changes – some of which contain at least a…