The more the uncertainty in the stock market, the higher the volatility. Personally, I believe this recent extreme volatility is derived from hedge fund activity.
Hedge funds control large amounts of money and don’t have the limiting rules of mutual funds. They can move quickly in and out of investments of their choice. But, hedge funds [...]
As so poignantly written yesterday by Andrew Leonard on Salon.com:
The word of the day on Wall Street is “deleveraging.” The simplest way to explain the concept is with an old bromide: What goes up, must come down. If you borrow a lot of money to make big bets in the market when times are good [...]
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