Squeaky bum time!

Username999

pensionpawn said:

Worth a read...
 

No mention of the Spanish Flu (1918 - 1920)?
Which infected 27% of the World Population.

royalmike

Deleted_User said:

Anyone thinking that the world is ending after experiencing a mere correction needs to invest time and understand risks and asset allocation.  What we are likely to see next is interest rate drops, Central Banks providing additional liquidity, bargain hunters jumping in and recovery of the market within a few months. It is also possible that Coronavirus will devastate world economies, cause revolutions and create long term bear markets. In the latter case portfolio performance is the least of your problems. 

Interest rates are already rock bottom they have used ultra low interest rates for the last decade 

Prism

royalmike said:

Deleted_User said:

Anyone thinking that the world is ending after experiencing a mere correction needs to invest time and understand risks and asset allocation.  What we are likely to see next is interest rate drops, Central Banks providing additional liquidity, bargain hunters jumping in and recovery of the market within a few months. It is also possible that Coronavirus will devastate world economies, cause revolutions and create long term bear markets. In the latter case portfolio performance is the least of your problems. 

Interest rates are already rock bottom they have used ultra low interest rates for the last decade 

There is some room to drop interest rates further in many countries - just not really Europe and Japan. US is at 1.75%, China 4%, India 5% etc

[Deleted User]

Prism said:

royalmike said:

Deleted_User said:

Anyone thinking that the world is ending after experiencing a mere correction needs to invest time and understand risks and asset allocation.  What we are likely to see next is interest rate drops, Central Banks providing additional liquidity, bargain hunters jumping in and recovery of the market within a few months. It is also possible that Coronavirus will devastate world economies, cause revolutions and create long term bear markets. In the latter case portfolio performance is the least of your problems. 

Interest rates are already rock bottom they have used ultra low interest rates for the last decade 

There is some room to drop interest rates further in many countries - just not really Europe and Japan. US is at 1.75%, China 4%, India 5% etc

Yes. Already we are are expecting two or three drops in the US this year rather than one. Also the main threat right now is credit availability  as people are moving from corporate bonds into government debt. When corporate debt comes up for renewal the costs could jump. Again, governments have means of helping out, as we have seen. 

westv

A little less squeak in the bum this morning.

k6chris

westv said:

A little less squeak in the bum this morning.

......so far.......

triplea35

Dead cat bounce!

Bravepants

"dead cat bounce

noun

Stock Market

noun: dead cat bounce; plural noun: dead cat bounces

a temporary recovery in share prices after a substantial fall, caused by speculators buying in order to cover their positions."

Surely it's the stimulus brought about by the central banks? Not speculators!

[Deleted User]

Not yet. This is the expectation of the stimulus 

MarkCarnage

All this is speculation about speculation on the expectation of the impact of the expected stimulus......tosses coin....