With that type of devastating flashback in the forefront of an investors mind, along with the widely held belief that another catastrophe is around the corner, professional investors become sell trigger happy.

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Politics is always a trade off between the long game and the short game, of course, and even worse, they might think, is that it's likely that in a few years' time - with an election around the corner - many of those indicators may still not make happy reading for them.

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I'm very happy, it was easier than I expected because Dani made a mistake in a corner and crashed.

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