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Seems all the recent gains have been wiped out.
Is this all down to (foreign) interest rate rises?0 -
Federal Reserve meeting today - worries about emerging markets and related devaluation of currencies after Argentina.I am one of the Dogs of the Index.0
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veryintrigued wrote: »Seems all the recent gains have been wiped out.
Is this all down to (foreign) interest rate rises?
Share prices have been raised by money printing, particularly American money printing because they have been printing the most. All the printed money has to go somewhere so it tends to fly round in circles blowing up asset prices including share prices.
What is unsettling at the moment is that the Americans are due to make a decision in the next few hours about how much more money printing they are going to do.“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” --Upton Sinclair0 -
Glen_Clark wrote: »What is unsettling at the moment is that the Americans are due to make a decision in the next few hours about how much more money printing they are going to do.
And they have decided to slow down the printing presses by $10bn a month so US shares are staying lower“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” --Upton Sinclair0
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