Global Matters Weekly – Understanding human behaviour can fuel our returns

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This week, an innocuous announcement from BP about temporarily closing a handful of its petrol stations due to a driver shortage caused panic buying and fuel shortages across the UK. In March, I wrote a blog called “Why we are all hard wired to be bad investors”. This week’s events are a good example of some of the behavioural inefficiencies highlighted. It is worth looking at the psychology of panic buying events and how these behaviours read across to stock market movements.

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