US Equities – Investor Nervousness Intensifies

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Although Wall Street continues to boast outperformance against competing asset classes YTD for 2018, there are signs in the market that investors are growing nervous when it comes to US equities. Posting the first quarterly loss since 2015, the end of Q1 2018 has seen the S&P stumble from its stellar 2017 consistent upward climb – falling 1.2% into March end. Pessimists await bubble bursts as leverage surges higher. Meanwhile optimists highlight that the bull run of the past year was over-extended and moderate falls are to be expected as part of normal corrective market behaviour. In any case, investors…

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“Quantquistador” has a Masters in Science from Oxford University. She worked as an analyst at a bulge bracket bank, as well as a quant researcher at one of the world’s largest asset managers. She is currently studying for CFA level III and works part time as a quantitative researcher at a top hedge fund. Article Archive