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DetlefK

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4. By pure coincidence, experts have been predicting a stock-market downturn for 2018 for months now.

Reply to peggysue2 (Original post)

Sun Feb 4, 2018, 05:34 PM

Feb 2018

Right now, everybody is investing in A-list companies only, because they are stable and people are still carefull, 10 years after the recession.

The experts expect that banks will shift their investments from A-list companies to all kinds of companies in general in 2018. This will cause the stock-market to go down, even though the money is just shifted around from the A-listers to B-listers and C-listers.

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The Fiscal Responsibility of Republican Governance. And Other FairyTales [View all] peggysue2 Feb 2018 OP

this is what I've been saying for almost a week lapfog_1 Feb 2018 #1

It's the 'or worse" . . . peggysue2 Feb 2018 #3

and then some other fairy tales: lindysalsagal Feb 2018 #2

Yes! peggysue2 Feb 2018 #5

By pure coincidence, experts have been predicting a stock-market downturn for 2018 for months now. DetlefK Feb 2018 #4

The fact that banks . . . peggysue2 Feb 2018 #6