03.2014: Bears Again Confounded by Market Reversal
Channel: Voya Global Perspectives
Date: 2014-05-01

- While recent equity pullbacks have provided under-exposed investors with attractive opportunities to re-enter the market, many remained spooked by memories of 2008.
- Risk has remained low in a virtuous cycle where good news is accepted as good news and bad news is quickly discounted.
- Many emerging economies have struggled this year, but they are generally better positioned to withstand a currency assault than they were in 1997.

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