Monday, November 23, 2009

Risk appetite gets into alarm zone



You don’t need to look at risk appetite indicator (short description of the index you may find here) to know that optimism spreads across markets. But the above attached chart is giving a good visualization of the current market situation. As John Maynard Keynes famously said “Successful investing is anticipating the anticipations of others”. Along this line high risk appetite may be signal that this rally is maturing and soon the optimistic assumptions may be put under test.

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