Key challenges to stock market stability

Despite the sell-offs of late, the long-overdue market correction is still overdue. Find out what the greatest potential disruptions to the market are - and why you should keep an eye on the Dow.

In our previous Onassis newsletter (see: Is the bear market about to make a comeback?) we said that at the time of writing February was proving to be another positive month for the world's stock markets. Everybody now knows that on the 27th February, that situation changed dramatically. The Shanghai market fell about 9%, its biggest decline for nearly nine years and then in its wake, the Dow, which at one point on that day was down over 500, closed 415 down.

Market action since the end of February has been lacklustre, particularly for the Dow, the words dead' and cat' come to mind when viewing the bounce. The next key technical support level for the Dow is 12000, if it does not hold, expect big sell-offs. We would not be surprised if there is some more bad stuff to come. So far, in percentage terms, major markets are not down a huge amount; the long overdue correction of at least 10% is still overdue.

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