Tense it is ahead of the UK referendum

TO stay or not to stay, that is the question. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous bureaucracy, or to say "no" against a sea of red tape and, by opposing, throw global markets into disarray. To leave, to exit - no more - and by Brexit to say Britain ends the border system and the thousand European Union regulations that it is subject to - 'tis a resolution likely to be a close call.

To leave, to exit - to exit, perchance to grow the economy on its own. Aye, there's the rub. For, in a Brexit vote what contagion may come, when Britain has shuffled out of the European Union, must give traders pause. There's the prospect that makes markets jittery this week.

Britain heads to the polls on Thursday, June 23, which bodes for a tense mood in the sessions leading up to the crucial referendum. The results are likely to be out on Friday, Singapore time.