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16th October 2017

Investec Wealth & Investment: Hurricane Watch Weekly Digest

Welcome to this week's edition of Weekly Digest; a topical in-house review of world stock markets and the global economy.

This week John Wyn-Evans reflects on the stock market crash of 1987, and looks at whether there are similarities today.

"There are obvious similarities with today, not least in full valuations and the threat of tighter monetary policy, even if it will still be exceptionally loose by historic standards. But, more encouragingly, central banks are now much more coordinated in their views, and appear paranoid about the threat of a market setback, let alone a crash."

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