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Capricious Markets

Global equities markets continued their dramatic recovery this week following the Flash Crash that troughed on Monday, August 5th. The S&P 500 and Nasdaq Composite indices have now notched up sufficient gains to erase the losses recorded during the beginning of August. It is interesting that the confluence of negative factors that caused the sharp…