2016-06-27marketwatch.com

"George Soros did not speculate against sterling while he was arguing for Britain to remain in the European Union. In fact, he was long the British pound leading up to the vote," the spokesman said in an emailed statement.

Soros, however, did profit from other investments "because of his generally bearish outlook on world markets," according to the statement.

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Soros had urged British citizens to vote to remain in the European Union in the run-up to last Thursday's referendum. The investor warned that a "leave" vote would spark a sterling plunge but without the beneficial impact that followed the "Black Wednesday" devaluation that accompanied the pound's 1992 ejection from the European exchange-rate mechanism.



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