Tigue talks up market prospects

Despite market volatility, investors should “start lacing up their buying boots”, he says. Tigue’s stance is based on sound global economic fundamentals. “There is a clear disconnect between market behaviour and the underlying economic picture. "In this respect 2007 is starting to feel very similar to 1987 when markets took a short, sharp hit”, he says. “Stock markets are increasingly unsettled with ever more erratic swings in share prices. Although there have been pockets of problems, predominantly from the slowdown in the US housing market, the world’s economic fundamentals are i...