How low have we gone? Are we running so badly at this moment in time as a global economy that any news that isn’t bad news automatically gets translated as good news? There is an expectation among investors that the financial indicators of this week are weak, even bland, but better than expected. Perhaps such a sentiment could spur investors into loosening those purse strings and that won’t be such a bad thing at all, even if the results themselves weren’t something to thump your chest over and go to town singing songs of glee. It’s quite clearly a case of once bitten, twice shy. Investors that have already been burnt once really don’t want to see any of their money evaporate into a lot of nothingness a second time around. The brunt of this has been borne by stocks globally as indices [...]

