{"id":129782,"date":"2025-09-09T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129782\/"},"modified":"2025-09-09T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-09T08:39:07","slug":"the-equity-market-correction-was-that-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/129782\/","title":{"rendered":"The equity market correction: Was that it?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">IN LATE July, we started pointing to the risk of a period of consolidation or pullback in global equities. As if by clockwork, global equities started declining, falling almost 3 per cent over the next week. However, since then, they have gone on to hit new highs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">This begs the question: Was that it? What should investors do about it? The answer is clear for those still in retirement-preparation mode: Stick to the plan rather than getting knocked off track by short-term views. <\/p>\n<p class=\"whitespace-pre-wrap break-words mb-4 md:mb-6\" data-testid=\"article-paragraph-component\">There were three main reasons for our cautious short-term outlook in late July. First, our proprietary indicators were suggesting that aggregate investor positioning was quite crowded. &#13;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IN LATE July, we started pointing to the risk of a period of consolidation or pullback in global&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":129783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[64,63,99,171],"class_list":["post-129782","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-markets","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-markets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/129783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}