The index shows global investor confidence to have risen – by 9.3 points to 97.5 from October’s 88.2 – but the geographical breakdown looks rather curious.
North America investors are shrugging off the somnolent recovery and the last-chance-saloon feel of QE II to be 12.2 points more confident in November – 97.1 – than they were in October when the index registered a mere 84.9.
Likewise, the Europeans seem unconcerned about the possibility of sovereign debt restructuring or that the continent’s banks may still be sitting on assets that smell more than decomposing Dublin Bay prawns.
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