What do you do when fear trumps greed?

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Investors face a volatile summer as fear and greed lock horns...

The biggest challenge in the months to come will be making sensible judgements unclouded by emotion and avoiding both stubborn bullishness and irrational panic. There is no doubting which of these two emotions has held sway in recent days. The list of things to worry about has grown considerably longer of late. Top of the list, of course, is the sovereign debt crisis in the eurozone. The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) added to the noise on Wednesday, calling in its twice-yearly economic report for advanced nations to get more serious about cutting spendi...

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