The Value Perspective: One Halloween chart literally built on fear

Plus the spectre of greed

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To mark Halloween, Andrew Williams offers up a genuinely frightening chart - and, just for good measure, it is one that actually stems from a very particular kind of fear

Forget ghoulies and ghosties and long-leggedy beasties - not to mention things that go bump in the night - this Halloween there are already plenty of reasons to lie shivering under your bedcovers. From Donald Trump's unconventional approach to running the world's largest economy to the hugely volatile situation in the Middle East, these are worrying times to say the least. So how are private investors reacting to an environment that also, of course, includes the uncertain outlook posed by Brexit? Why, by taking their cash levels down to record low levels - what else? Seriously, ...

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