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What’s behind the spooky investing environment?

by Interactive Brokers Traders Insight|Published October 30, 2020

Steve Sosnick, Interactive Brokers’ chief strategist, discusses why the market seems to be afraid of everything.

With markets trying to balance greed and fear, there have been some valuations stretched more than they possibly should.

What’s behind the market volatility and how long will it last?

Photo Credit: Mark Rickaby via Flickr Creative Commons

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Interactive Brokers Traders’ Insight (IBTI) is a venue for market-related articles and commentary covering an array of asset classes and topics. All articles published on Traders’ Insight are simultaneously published directly to our trading platform (TWS).
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