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  • The recent movements in the markets and its overall behaviour is starting to indicate that the game is changing and has already changed somewhat, and the market participants are having to adapt to these changes rather quickly. And here is an example, so when my GrandMa suggested that never mind the good old correlation theory,

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  • Perception is a major factor driving volatility in the market and this is why I am of the firm opinion now that it’s the market psychology and the overall investors sentiment aka the “mood of the markets” that creates and drives the volatility. And when a perception starts getting entrenched then people generally tend to

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  •   The US Federal Reserve Open Market Committee’s announcement on lowering the amount of monthly bond purchases or in other words tapering of the existing level of quantitative easing (QE) has got the financial markets animated in a big hoo-ha causing volatility. And the financial media has been inundated with commentaries on various plausible scenarios.

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  • In the past few weeks the markets have come to a realization that the developed world is struggling to generate growth and going forward the global growth projections put out by multilateral institutions including of the International Monetary Fund ( IMF ) and the World Bank paints gloomy picture. The growth outlook has been downgraded

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