The TIMES2 Mar 2020 22:29
Shares succumbed to coronavirus, but you’ll be sorry if you sell out nowMarkets have always bounced back from financial shocks and health scares, so hang on in there — and maybe even start buying
Commuters in New York read about the crash of 1987 — but the ‘bloodbath’ turned out to be more of a blip
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Ian Cowie
Sunday March 01 2020, 12.01am, The Sunday Times
You shouldn’t be reading this now. That might seem a counterintuitive introduction in the midst of the financial fallout from the coronavirus epidemic, but it is the simplest way for investors to avoid doing anything silly in a stock market slump. When we are scared, our caveman instincts tell us to choose between fight or flight. But there are less dramatic and more rewarding ways to react to the current crisis.
Take a break from the bad news, stop scaring yourself witless and, when in doubt, do nowt. And if you feel you need cheering up immediately, try looking at your dividend income, as I just did.
Distributing income to millions of investors last month were tech giant Apple; two investment trusts — BlackRock Latin
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