"Investors should brace for... a reckoning that threatens to drag prices lower...Liquidity-driven rallies are deceptively attractive and tend to result in excessive risk-taking. "
Yesterday saw swings in the markets, some key stocks in the US in particular, and equal swings in our underlying backdrop. Let’s try and join them into a coherent whole.
"We are extremely disappointed in both our second quarter results and our intent to reduce our dividend. Our view of the length and severity of the economic downturn has deteriorated considerably from the assumptions used last quarter."