Technology is increasingly dominating every sector of the economy. There are many published studies about the importance of technology for the next years. Accenture Technology R&D published this year a report where it is highlighted that according to their global technology survey of more than 3.100 IT and business executives, 86 percent of the executives anticipate that the pace of technology change will increase rapidly or at an unprecedented rate in their industry over the next three years
In this last period, I read on many financial web sites some warning comments about the potential and imminent starting of a bear market on the S&P 500. The main point that these sites show graphically, is the rising trend of the index from 2009 and the price break of a short term trend line togheter with a medium term oscillator reversing (graph 1, A and detail in B). Other websites point out a downside breakout of a short term simmetric triangle (graph 1, C).
The STOXX Supersector Europe 600 Basic Resources Index, has been in the last years, one of the most underperforming indexes in the group of the 19 European Supersectors group. Since January 2008 he had a performance of -51,29%, and only the banking sector had a worse result with a -65,80%.
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