What's in store for the markets in 2008?

Jeremy Batstone-Carr of Charles Stanley Equity Research looks at the big picture for 2008, and explains how the recent financial market turmoil could impact on global economic activity and long-term returns.

On a recent marketing trip to the South West of England we spent a lot of time running through how we felt the autumn's financial market turmoil might impact on global economic activity and long-term financial market returns.

The conclusion was, perhaps unsurprisingly, that there would be an obvious negative impact on global and particularly developed economy activity and that in future financial market returns would more closely match underlying economic reality than perhaps they had over the previous four years. It is now time to look at the big picture for 2008 in more detail.

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