Word: markets
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...many ways, a market that keeps going down is a good market. If it has momentum in one direction, it may transfer that energy to a leg up. That happened in the late 1930s going into the 1940s and happened again at the beginning of the current decade...
...pictures of the stock-market crash...
...most frequent comments made by market experts and investors now that the indexes are reaching multi-decade lows is that the market can't keep going down forever. It allows investors to feel something beyond the overwhelming pessimism that greets them every day when the bell rings at 9.30 and the trading starts...
...course, a mathematician can show anyone who has a minute's time that the markets can go down for a nearly infinite number of days if the decreases get smaller and smaller. For investors who want to get a small fraction of their investments back sometime in the next decade this sort of academic argument may be didactic, but it has no practical use. What is likely to happen to the market is that it will fall another 15% or 20% and then trade sideways, perhaps for several years. That is what happened from 1965 to 1981.There were peaks...
...This wish to see the market stop its drop is in many ways misplaced. Investors still have an excessive desire to see the market change direction while it is still too early. Getting money back into the market will require that a perception of value has returned in the form of lower prices in relationship to earnings and assets. That seems a long way off. And, it is, but the length of this stagnation depends on the violence and rapidity of the correction. The market is going down, probably much further. It can get there at a trot...