Las Vegas Sun

April 25, 2024

Claire Hunt, center, of Reading, England, changes pounds for dollars, Friday, June 24, 2016, at a money exchange in New York. Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, toppling the government Friday, sending global markets plunging and shattering the stability of a project in continental unity designed half a century ago to prevent World War III. "I think the exchange went down about eight percent (from yesterday)," said Hunt, who is vacationing with her son, Jacob Wood, right. "It's scary. I don't know what we are going home to."

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Claire Hunt, center, of Reading, England, changes pounds for dollars, Friday, June 24, 2016, at a money exchange in New York. Britain voted to leave the European Union after a bitterly divisive referendum campaign, toppling the government Friday, sending global markets plunging and shattering the stability of a project in continental unity designed half a century ago to prevent World War III. "I think the exchange went down about eight percent (from yesterday)," said Hunt, who is vacationing with her son, Jacob Wood, right. "It's scary. I don't know what we are going home to."