Will Fourth Time Be The Charm For The Market's Dislocation From Fundamental Reality?

Thursday, 3 January 2013

Will Fourth Time Be The Charm For The Market's Dislocation From Fundamental Reality?

Sometimes you just have to step back and laugh. Three times in the last two years, global stock markets have lurched higher four times (fed by a hosepipe full of central bank largesse) only to fall rapidly back to the fundamentally weak reality of the global economy. If ever there was a chart that summed it all up - and highlighted the inexorable optimism that this time it really is different - the *current chasm between Global Manufacturing PMI and MSCI World *suggests either stocks are off in fairy-land again or there is about to be the biggest surge in the global economy since 2009 (right as currency wars escalate and the debt-ceiling debate in the US threatens more fiscal drag).

and meanwhile the divergence between developed markets (down) and emerging markets (up) continues to grow...

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