Friday morning in the UK was an unusual one. For many it would have started at 4:30am when their phone's BBC News app dinged an alert saying "BBC forecasts Britain to Vote Leave".
Bleary-eyed readers would then see a piece of related content headlined "Pound hits lowest level since 1985". Gulp. The thing a lot of people did next, according to Google Trends, is search for how to "buy gold" or "buy Bitcoins".
"Buy gold"
As a result, gold has rallied by 8.1 percent (Saturday morning Australian time) to nearly US$1,360 an ounce. This is the highest it's been since March 2014. At 7pm Thursday Australian time, when voting in the EU Referendum closed, the price was US$1,255 an ounce.
"Buy Bitcoins"
The more tech-savvy investors are searching for how to "buy Bitcoins", with the phrase up a massive 900 percent from pre-Brexit figures, according to Google Trends.
The price of Bitcoin is up 6.68 percent, which equates to a USD value of an added US$41.77.
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