LONDON: Bank employee Francesca Crimp broke down in tears on Friday after Britain voted to leave the European Union, triggering an earthquake in the City of London financial hub.
"I'm scared, I voted for my son's future and I feel so uncertain now. I'm just absolutely devastated," said Crimp, who works for a US bank.
"This multi-cultural city that I live in is going to change drastically, and the world as I know it is just not the same today."
Sterling and world stock markets plunged after the Brexit vote in which Britons decided 52 percent to 48 percent in favour of quitting the bloc.
In London, banking stocks lost a quarter of their value as the FTSE-100 index tumbled 5.0 percent in morning trade.
Sterling plummeted 10 percent to $1.3229 at one point, its weakest level since 1985.
At foreign currency trader ETX Capital, some employees were in shirts and ties.
Others were in jeans and sports shoes, having stayed up throughout the night "jacked up on coffee", as one trader put it.
Traders stood up with phones pressed to their ears watching numbers scroll past on giant screens. Others had headsets on just shouting out what they saw before them on their screens.
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