There is a Debt Crisis in Europe that is causing a massive amount of risk aversion in the world markets. Investors tend to not invest in speculative investments when there is large scale risk aversion going on.
The Europeans are having a summit tonight, to sort their debt mess out, and they are successful, the markets will have a greater chance of returning to "normal".
Suggest you perhaps do some reading on the subject if you have money invested in the equity market.......
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