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10 reasons the 'Death of Equities' is real this time :Investors are dissatisfied with the exchanges, regulators, robot traders, and more .
Joe Weisenthal, Business Insider · Tuesday, Sept. 14, 2010
In conjunction with its "Man vs. Machine" special, CNBC released a survey Tuesday that showed widespread discontent among investors in the stock market.
Investors are dissatisfied with the exchanges, regulators, robot traders, and more.
Basically, as we've been writing about for a long time, equities are boring and dead. There's no excitement or enthusiasm among them.
And we think that might last for awhile, unlike when in 1975 BusinessWeek's "Death Of Equities" cover augured the beginning of a gigantic bull market
Investors have lost confidence in the stock exchanges
Following the Flash Crash in early May, if nothing else, you could at least believe that the structure of the exchanges was sound.
But all that went out of the toilet, and amid a stunning (but brief) collapse in prices, some of the biggest, blue-chip NYSE names (like Proctor & Gamble) basically went to 0, a situation that shouldn't have occurred.
Volume dried up rapidly after that.