Sunday, February 15, 2009

How Will The Stock Market Perform In 2009? by blueboy

I think that the majority of people would agree that 2008 was not a good year for stock markets from around the world. What with the credit crunch and the resulting bank failures consumer and investor confidence fell to an all time low. The past is the past however, the future is what many people are looking to now even though it is without doubt important to try and learn from past mistakes.

So what will 2009 bring? How will stock markets perform? How long will the credit crunch? When will house prices start to rise again? These are the big questions of the day, questions which are very difficult to answer. For the purposes of this article I will concentrate on the stock market.

To start with I would like to write a little disclaimer! I am not a financial adviser and therefore what you read should not be seen as advice. I am just a regular guy who has a rather strange hobby; I like to study financial markets. I actually do not think that it is that strange, in fact I believe that the people who do not study these markets are the strange ones as it is effectively costing them money.

I am a person who likes to invest in these volatile financial markets, yes I agree it is quite a risky strategy however this is where serious money can be made. I firmly believe in the concept of pound cost averaging and am therefore investing regular premiums into my equity based investments.

As for 2009 I actually believe that on average the stock markets from around the world will lose 20% of their value. I am however hoping that I am wrong but I feel that there is just too much bad news still out there at the moment.


Steve Hill is a webmaster from Birmingham, he has interests in a number of websites including:
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