Along with Forbes.com and other analysts, there is once again the long awaited tallk about a bull market, (a period in which investment prices rise faster than their historical average).
Countries right around the world have been concentrating on building of infrastructure, which in turn has created opportunities for investors in all classes of assets, such as stocks, bonds commodities, currencies and real estate. Everyone is aware that full recovery may be a long way down the road, yet there are numerous opportunities to make money, beginning to appear, as a ‘Baby Bull’ starts to stir. Maybe it is the beginnings of the end of the bear market.
Investors have had to stay in the play over the bad times, so as to be ready to take full advantage of bull runs, no matter how small they may be. Once the economic news is positive, it is too late to start trying to catch the wave. The world markets have risen 37% since early March, so investors are once more beginning to make noises of slowly stirring from their credit-crunch hibernation.
Though there is a widely recognized number one emotion that will continue to dominate, in the early times of any new bull market. Fear of owning, fear of buying and fear of the future.
The world’s billionaires have been forced from having a collective $4 trillion, to having just $2.4 trillion, in just one year. Their average net worth fell 23% to $3 billion. Collectively they were pushed billionaires back to their 2003 figures.
As customer confidence begins to be stir, it is thought financial, (where the cascading crash began), will lead the way out. Technology and biotech will follow the lead. However there are still plenty of caution signals out there, even if some of the ‘experts’ are beginning to feel the market has hit the bottom – the lower fruit having been already plucked.
Some are still suggesting the market is experiencing a ‘dead-cat-
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