Investors Scour Magazines to Surveys For Clues to Stock-Rout End
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As the world grapples with the question of where the bottom lies for pandemic-wrecked global equities, the answer may be on magazine covers and in investor surveys.
Investors are getting creative in their quest to find the bottom as one benchmark after another has slipped into a bear market. Some market participants have started studying media coverage and investor sentiment surveys to gauge market mood, alongside conventional measures of valuations and returns.