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Investment myths in a fast-moving stock market

By watching daily stock price movements, you may be receiving the wrong signals and end up learning the wrong lessons

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    • Nvidia was expected to lose the most with the emergence of DeepSeek. But since then much of the spending on data centres has flowed to Nvidia, whose shares have risen by 39% from a January low.
    • Nvidia was expected to lose the most with the emergence of DeepSeek. But since then much of the spending on data centres has flowed to Nvidia, whose shares have risen by 39% from a January low. PHOTO: REUTERS

    Chin Hui Leong

    Published Tue, Jul 15, 2025 · 06:06 PM

    [SINGAPORE] Welcome to the most volatile decade in recent memory – and we’re not even halfway through.

    The 2020s have already recorded 440 trading days with daily stock movements of 1 per cent or more, according to wealth manager Ben Carlson. To put that in perspective, an entire decade typically averages just 507 such days.

    Said another way, the 2020s have crammed nearly 10 years of stock market volatility into less than five years – an unusually heavy dose of ups and downs. So, if you feel the stock market is moving faster, you now know why.

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