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"By Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Correspondent
LONDON (Reuters) - You never know when a market hits bottom until well after the fact, but there have been a series of hints over the past few weeks that stock market investors may be flirting with one.
For one thing, volatility is easing. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or VIX, is down about 8 percent for the month and around 38 percent below its 2008 peak hit last month.
A series of sentiment and flow indicators have also suggested this month that, while major investors remain very gloomy about the world around them, they are not getting much gloomier.
On Thursday, Reuters asset allocation polls showed that, though leading investment houses continued to hold minimal levels of stocks in their portfolios, they had not reduced exposure in November........................................
Data hints markets close to bottom | News | Reuters
"By Jeremy Gaunt, European Investment Correspondent
LONDON (Reuters) - You never know when a market hits bottom until well after the fact, but there have been a series of hints over the past few weeks that stock market investors may be flirting with one.
For one thing, volatility is easing. The Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index, or VIX, is down about 8 percent for the month and around 38 percent below its 2008 peak hit last month.
A series of sentiment and flow indicators have also suggested this month that, while major investors remain very gloomy about the world around them, they are not getting much gloomier.
On Thursday, Reuters asset allocation polls showed that, though leading investment houses continued to hold minimal levels of stocks in their portfolios, they had not reduced exposure in November........................................
Data hints markets close to bottom | News | Reuters
