Most important, it suggests that, while activism may be intensified by economicadversity, it now has a life of its own in any kind of economic weather.
In Sao Paulo, soccer pitches are being hastily laid in the outskirts to remind the nation that its best players have come from conditions of socio-economic adversity.
The huge pharmaceutical, insurance and medical services stocks that make up the XLV ETF have proven their resilience and ability to grow through any kind of economic or political adversity.