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Is the stock market over heating?

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  • IronWolf
    IronWolf Posts: 6,445 Forumite
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    gadgetmind wrote: »
    Recessions are good for burning off the "dead wood" and making the companies that survive more efficient.

    A friend of mine calls this process when applied to excess employees as "dew*nkerisation"!

    And recession is a great excuse to freeze everyones wages, even if your company is doing well
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  • gadgetmind
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    IronWolf wrote: »
    And recession is a great excuse to freeze everyones wages, even if your company is doing well

    Yup, it's the gift that just keep giving.
    I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.

    Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.
  • StevieJ
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    pqrdef wrote: »
    When everybody is saying there's going to be a crash, it can't be far away. It's a self-fulfilling prophecy.

    The crash will be caused by everybody trying to sell before the crash. Any sign of the beginning of a sell-off could start a panic.

    So, these defensive shares. How defensive will they really be? A lot will be dumped willy-nilly when people sell off their funds and trackers.

    Tends to be the other way round.
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  • srcandas
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    OMG it is happening as we speak. The little red lines on the BBC are tumbling as we chat. SELL SELL

    I blame the doom merchants here

    :rotfl:
    I believe past performance is a good guide to future performance :beer:
  • redbuzzard
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    srcandas wrote: »
    OMG it is happening as we speak. The little red lines on the BBC are tumbling as we chat. SELL SELL

    I blame the doom merchants here

    :rotfl:

    Your TV is upside down.
    "Things are never so bad they can't be made worse" - Humphrey Bogart
  • srcandas
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    redbuzzard wrote: »
    Your TV is upside down.

    :D No I'm being serious. The indices are dropping. Have the fed just announced the end to printing???? ;)
    I believe past performance is a good guide to future performance :beer:
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    srcandas wrote: »
    :D No I'm being serious. The indices are dropping. Have the fed just announced the end to printing???? ;)


    FTSE +0.35% & FTAS +0.36% on my yahoo ticker.:D
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

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  • srcandas
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    Panic over (although DJ, Nas, CAC and DAX in red) but it is interesting what this big collapse will look like (if it comes) and whether a headline will trigger it? Or will it come over night with no chance to sell anything? Or will it be a gradual soft landing?

    Must admit can't wait to see it :)
    I believe past performance is a good guide to future performance :beer:
  • grizzly1911
    grizzly1911 Posts: 9,965 Forumite
    srcandas wrote: »

    Must admit can't wait to see it :)

    Why?

    I think it will be more of a tailing off soft landing but who knows.
    "If you act like an illiterate man, your learning will never stop... Being uneducated, you have no fear of the future.".....

    "big business is parasitic, like a mosquito, whereas I prefer the lighter touch, like that of a butterfly. "A butterfly can suck honey from the flower without damaging it," "Arunachalam Muruganantham
  • gadgetmind
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    srcandas wrote: »
    it is interesting what this big collapse will look like

    Thin at one end, much much thicker in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That's my theory.
    I am not a financial adviser and neither do I play one on television. I might occasionally give bad advice but at least it's free.

    Like all religions, the Faith of the Invisible Pink Unicorns is based upon both logic and faith. We have faith that they are pink; we logically know that they are invisible because we can't see them.
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