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Why isn't anyone panicing?
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Thrugelmir wrote: »Money is chasing yield. Which amounts to pure gambling. Underlying the investment is a living breathing trading business not a printing press.
True. But cranking up the printing press to keep interest rates down has an effect on the profitability of the business - particularly those servicing a lot of debt. It also makes holding cash less attractive than equitites. Hence poor results = more money printing = higher equity prices. The economics of the madhouse it may be, but apparently thats whats happened?“It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it.” --Upton Sinclair0 -
The FTSE actually closed at the same price on Friday as what it closed at the Friday before, just very volatile within the week!"If you aren’t willing to own a stock for ten years, don’t even think about owning it for ten minutes” Warren Buffett
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george4064 wrote: »The FTSE actually closed at the same price on Friday as what it closed at the Friday before, just very volatile within the week!
Unless you are tracking the index precisely. Then some shares are worth more and some less.0
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