How to keep this bull run going

Despite there being so many global problems, don't discount this stockmarket rally becoming the longest ever, says Matthew Lynn.

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Markets are hitting recordhighs in the US

A military coup in Turkey. A banking crisis in Italy. Britain leaving the European Union, and Donald Trump closing in on the US presidency. In the last few months, the world has hardly been short on the type of shocks you might expect to send equity markets lower. And yet markets are hitting record highs in the US and are close to record highs in Britain as well. We are now in the second-longest bull market in history.

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Matthew Lynn

Matthew Lynn is a columnist for Bloomberg, and writes weekly commentary syndicated in papers such as the Daily Telegraph, Die Welt, the Sydney Morning Herald, the South China Morning Post and the Miami Herald. He is also an associate editor of Spectator Business, and a regular contributor to The Spectator. Before that, he worked for the business section of the Sunday Times for ten years. 

He has written books on finance and financial topics, including Bust: Greece, The Euro and The Sovereign Debt Crisis and The Long Depression: The Slump of 2008 to 2031. Matthew is also the author of the Death Force series of military thrillers and the founder of Lume Books, an independent publisher.