If yesterday’s big rally did signal that markets have put in their lows for the year, someone should tell retail investors to get on board because, according to this Gallup poll , they were pretty shaken up last month, investor confidence plunging to early-2009 levels.
It should come as no surprise that two-thirds of the survey respondents said they feel “little or no control in their efforts to build and maintain their retirement savings in the current environment”, but Fed Chief Ben Bernanke’s low interest rates have forced many of them to hold their nose and stay in the market in hopes of higher returns.
The potential good news here is that markets last reached current levels in February 2009 just before one of the biggest stock market rallies in history that began in March.
