Property News · January 24, 2016

Bear market: unless riding rollercoasters is your thing better sit this one out


For those willing to speculate at times of high volatility there is money to be made, but it takes more courage to take the long view and keep your sanityAs if it weren’t bad enough being mauled by a bear market, we have to get mauled on a rollercoaster as well.The UK entered a “bear market” last week – one where the indexes have dropped 20% from their highs. Here in the US we are suffering wild swings but we’re not technically bear yet. Taken day by day, the percentage-point movements sound anodyne enough – 1% here, 2% there. Until you realize that they translate into the kind of movements in the major stock market indexes and individual stocks that we simply haven’t witnessed in years. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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