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Picture du Jour: Watch the stock/bond ratio

By Prieur du Plessis, on April 4th, 2008 posted in: Investment, Markets, Money

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Is the worst of the credit crisis behind us? The short answer is that nobody actually knows. However, the so-called stock/bond ratio serves a useful purpose of indicating to what extent safe-haven buying of bonds as opposed to stocks is taking place, i.e. telling us the language of the market. An interesting poll has also been included with the post. [...]

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