Overdone ? Well maybe from a technical aspect, but not from a fundamental and macro economic view.
Just read your Bloomberg, check the PMI's and services indices, and remember that Italy is in recession and
France for all intents and purposes as well. German industrial ouput is sharply down and their PMI and services index
are hitting new lows. China is not going for QE type stimulus and is slowing, despite the occasional small upward blip
to their PMI.
So all we have is the USA with a little growth and hence the prospect of rising rates sometime in the first half of 2015.
This is all translating to a stronger dollar and generally weak commodity prices. ZA can only counter with a weaker Rand.
So, where is the good news that is supposed to get us out of overdone territory ?
I am of course cheesed off that my portfolio is suffering, but it's not too bad as I mainly have Rand Hedge stocks and
defensives.