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Any hopes that the shake-out in markets would be short-lived were dashed this week when trading was suspended on the Indian stock market and our own FTSE 250 index suffered its biggest ever one-day points fall.
Commodity stocks were behind the pull-back in share prices and to say that confidence is fragile hardly expresses the change in investor sentiment that has taken place. Comparisons are being made with 1987, when markets lost a third of their value in two short weeks. Is the situation really that desperate?See the full content of this document
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Is It a Desperate Situation?
How well I remember the events of that autumn nearly 19 years ago. A hurricane had swept through south-east England during Thursday...
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