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A BBC review looks back at how the Brexit vote, the US election and Federal Reserve policy moved sterling, shares and oil in 2016. It notes sterling fell more than 15% against the dollar this year, with the sharpest drop on the June referendum result.
The review confirms that a weaker pound has been a persistent cost pressure for UK feed buyers through 2016, with no new market-moving event.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.