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Market Comment - February 2014

February 2014

Investing in shares may lose you all or some of your money. Past performance is no indication of future performance. Some of the shares recommended here may be small company shares, which can be relatively illiquid and hard to trade and this makes such shares more risky than other investments.

The 'January effect' is in full swing. Last time we pointed out that if the US stock market fell for the first five days of the year, history going back over 60 years suggests a 50/50 chance that the market would be down for the whole year. If it falls in January as a whole the odds rise to 89% of the market either falling noticeably for the whole year, or barely moving one way or another. As we have said previously, where the US stock market goes, so goes the UK, which is where most of you have your exposure. The UK is nowhere near as overpriced as the US, which may limit downside but not eliminate the risk. Just focus on the fact that on the few occasions in the last 100 years when the US has been similarly over-extended, on ave ...

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