If the new visa program is not ample enough, it will not succeed in replacing this illegal flow with a legal workforce.

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However, if retail investors have an ample amount of money that they have not yet deployed (and according to mutual fund flow data, this may be the case), then it might be sufficient to sustain an uptrend for a significant amount of time.

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