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After January’s precipitous declines in equity markets, February has witnessed a period of calmer waters – with most of the major stock markets ‘going sideways’, and lower intraday volatility.
Barclays Wealth, 02 April 2008
Perhaps more importantly, the psychology of markets has shifted a little too, so that when there has been unexpected bad news – such as Credit Suisse’s admission that ‘mismarkings and pricing errors’ required write-downs of $2.85 billion – the market has not immediately tanked. Rather, the impact was fairly narrowly felt, as indeed might be deemed appropriate in the circumstances.
An optimist might well claim that this shift in tone marks the trough in the bear market, and that perhaps after a period of ‘bouncing along the bottom’ riskier asset classes might begin to perform better than less risky ones again – i.e. equities outperform bonds and credit ‘govies’. That may well be true. But it feels to us as if it might be a little early to make such a strong call. In our judgement, there are still many potential dangers lurking below the surface. In this month’s Signpost, we briefly run through some of those dangers and consider what to look for if we are to avoid encountering them. Or to put it another way, we consider what we would need to see for us to join the optimists and, as it were, avoid a shark fest becoming a shark feast.
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