The US stock market has remained highly volatile over the past few months and there are now clear si...
The US stock market has remained highly volatile over the past few months and there are now clear signs of a slowdown in economic activity in the US. With signs of a slowdown in economic activity, we may have seen the last rate increase of this cycle. If so, this would be rather bullish for equities. Demographic trends and savings also remain supportive to the stock market. Against this broadly supportive background to equities we have a number of short-term negative factors that have undermined confidence. The combination of a slowing domestic economy, a weak euro and high energy price...
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