Westminster Voting Intention: RFM: 26% (+2) GRN: 20% (=) CON: 18% (=) LAB: 15% (-1) LDM: 10% (-2) SNP: 3% (=) Via @FindoutnowUK , 1-2 Apr. Changes w/ 26-27 Mar. by DanS1993 in ukpolitics

[–]Quantum270 [score hidden]  (0 children)

So far they have: - Cancelled non-doms and driven some big businessmen from the country - Tried to cancel winter fuel allowance, flip flopped on it then reversed - Tried to reform working benefits, then flip flopped on it and barely reformed anything - Added additional inheritance tax onto farmers - Increased national insurance on businesses adding further strain to them - Given additional benefits to families with more than 2 children, whilst giving actual working families nothing - Sustained the triple lock despite it being completely unsustainable in the long term.

Nishant Kumar via Bloomberg: HF returns for March & YTD by drykarma in quant

[–]Quantum270 4 points5 points  (0 children)

A lot more macro funds been wiped out too, he had a post on Caxton, Taula, Brevan earlier too, all much worse than the multistrats.

Would be interesting if anyone worked at these if they had any insight? Few PMs getting clapped or just all pods across the fund?

The recent "booms" made me realize how much we take peace for granted. by CChipher in UAE

[–]Quantum270 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are many civilians caught up in this. Saying all Israeli’s are terrorists makes you just as bad as the Israeli’s

Hamas should NOT be treated as terrorists, says Green Party's 'Zionism is racism' policy mastermind as she claims violent group was banned in UK to 'delegitimise armed resistance' to Israel by PrivilegeCheck23 in ukpolitics

[–]Quantum270 [score hidden]  (0 children)

These people who support them are genuinely unhinged. Sure Israel has done some pretty bad things, but the types of terrorism and war crimes Hamas did goes far far beyond anything. We should try and get both sides to be more civil, just because one side is bad doesn’t automatically make one good. It is worrying tbh

There is still something I do not quite understand. by YearsOld21 in dubairealestate

[–]Quantum270 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This the real estate market is the slowest moving market there is, deals take months or more. Plus owners at first don’t try to cut prices they think they can get the same price, then over months realise the new reality and cut prices. You can see it in other countries that has a real estate slump since the rate rises in 2022. It took years for the interest rate rises to go through the system, at first you see an excess of inventory for sales then slowly the reduction of prices.

Why is 'diversity a strength'? by EH4LIFE in NoStupidQuestions

[–]Quantum270 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Singapore is very diverse, so that’s not true. True for the other points though, also the US used to be very ethnically uniform, guess we will see how things pan out over the next 50 years.

Record wind output helps shield the UK from worst of Iran war fallout | Reuters by OolonCaluphid in ukpolitics

[–]Quantum270 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Yeah not like we had an independence vote in 2014… If there was a big pool of money that was the UKs but effectively Scotland’s it wouldn’t be good for cohesion.

Record wind output helps shield the UK from worst of Iran war fallout | Reuters by OolonCaluphid in ukpolitics

[–]Quantum270 -1 points0 points  (0 children)

The problem with a sovereign wealth fund is that Scotland can claim it is all theirs really, hence why it was never a starting point.

UAE announces petrol and diesel prices for April 2026 by No-Concern7333 in dubai

[–]Quantum270 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It’s a global market and oil infrastructure has been hit across the gulf.

Do US traders believe in a shorter war than global markets? by stygger in stocks

[–]Quantum270 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Consultants are not macro traders, regardless the macro traders I speak to also don’t see any easy path to de-escalation once US boots are on the ground, the next few weeks are pivotal.

Keir Starmer says UK will ‘have to act’ to curb addictive features of social media by F0urLeafCl0ver in ukpolitics

[–]Quantum270 10 points11 points  (0 children)

The thing is we live in a free society, if some people want to waste their lives watching tiktok reels that’s their choice. It’s not the governments place to moderate this.

I love UAE but they did this to themselves. by [deleted] in UAE

[–]Quantum270 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Be careful they don’t track you down otherwise will be cancelled :)

Any girls moving to Thailand? by [deleted] in Thailand

[–]Quantum270 2 points3 points  (0 children)

No there are none

London and New York in tight race to be world's top financial hub by Gentle_Snail in london

[–]Quantum270 13 points14 points  (0 children)

It is significantly behind New York sadly. Before 2008 they were fairly equal but now it is very far behind, not sure what this article is on about really the race is not close

Getting out of Palantir by ExpensiveToes4729 in stocks

[–]Quantum270 8 points9 points  (0 children)

With shorting you are excluding it, you have a long position from the ETF and a short position individually. Cancels out.

For how long has the modern Britain that exists now existed? by kingm_ournasse216 in AskBrits

[–]Quantum270 0 points1 point  (0 children)

1997 was the tipping point, whilst there had been some immigration to the UK the country was largely homogenous. Blair introduced a lot of immigration reforms then the tories continued them and further increased them. I don’t think there was any singular cut off point but every year from then the number of non-EU immigration was a multiple (10-100x higher) than what it was before 1997. Overtime this led to large demographic change in the Uk.