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Words from the (investment) wise for the week that was (March 24 – 30, 2008)

By Prieur du Plessis, on March 30th, 2008 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

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“This is one ‘mother’ of a market,” 83-year old market veteran Richard Russell aptly described what market participants were again faced with during the past week. Sentiment was fragile as the outlook was still dominated by the familiar cast of deteriorating economic data, housing woes and concerns about the financial sector. Read all about this in my regular weekly blog post, highlighting some thought-provoking news items and quotes from market commentators during the past week, and briefly reviewing the week’s market action. [...]

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