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Taking stock of the underperformance of UK equities

Despite a partial reversal today, MSCI’s UK Index has dramatically underperformed its equity indices for other major developed markets in recent months, falling as the latter have risen in local-currency terms. (See Chart 1.) To shed some light on what might happen next, it is worth thinking in more detail about what has been driving their relative performance.

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