What market fundamentals are telling us

Recent turmoil should have set investor alarm bells ringing, so now is the perfect time to revisit the fundamentals and ensure that your investments could weather tougher market conditions.

This week, the stock market flashed warnings that investors should fasten their seat belts and revisit fundamentals. The fundamentals underlying the broad market are weakening, so if you are invested in the stock market, you want to be in the right sectors.

As my colleague Chris Mayer wrote in this space on Wednesday, "Diligence and discipline and selectivity are keys. As I've said before, we don't invest in the market. We invest in specific opportunities in the market. Not the produce section, but specific avocados, onions, and melons."

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