Three weeks ago, the FED chairman, Bernarke, made some comments about inflation in the USA. It caused the global stockmarkets to fall by 10% to 20%.
A few days ago, he made some positive comments. The global stockmarket recovered by 2% to 4%.
What are the lessons?
- the stockmarkets are volatile
- a long term investor can ignore the volatility
- the monetary authorities around the world want to have a robust stockmarket
Any conclusion? It is better to invest when the stockmarkets are down?
Oh yes, we shd invest when the market is down.
ReplyDeleteBUT how does one knows that we are now at a "down" level. It could well be mid-way through a down wave. So, it's easy to say "invest low, sell high"
Thanks.