RE: buying?There's barely ANY sector you wouldn't have been clobbered in. If you were lucky enough to get into the Potash stocks you've done well, or some solar stocks. But in all seriousness even if you had taken your money a year ago and bought banks just to "feel safe", where would you be?
REITS? Income Trusts? LOL....show me 5 that went up in the last year. It'll probably take a while to find 5. Many cuts dividends also, which in turn killed stock prices even more.
Everyone got butchered unless you got out very early. You're not the only one that got hammered.
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