“This is one ‘mother’ of a market,” 83-year old market veteran Richard Russell aptly described what market participants were again faced with during the past week. Sentiment was fragile as the outlook was still dominated by the familiar cast of deteriorating economic data, housing woes and concerns about the financial sector.

Read all about this in Prieur du Plessis's regular weekly blog post, highlighting some thought-provoking news items and quotes from market commentators during the past week, and briefly reviewing the week’s market action.

Here is the link to the “Words from the Wise”: http://www.investmentpostcards.com/2008/03/30/words-from-the-investment-...

Enjoy the read.