Will The Stock Market Crash In 2017?
All across the country and all around the world people paid attention to the news closely. During the dark days of the 2008-2009 Great Recession, for example, the average investor believed there to be a 25{bf6128eaee7daf804a40e739f155a69f2d5a72ca2bacccc9954495bcd60bdcac} probability of a big crash over the subsequent six months—six percentage points higher than the long-term average. A margin purchase allows an investor to borrow money, typically as much as 75{bf6128eaee7daf804a40e739f155a69f2d5a72ca2bacccc9954495bcd60bdcac} of the purchase price, to buy a greater amount of stock. Table B3. Stock returns assumed to be distributed log-normal with parameters μi and σi (which are not the mean and…