(On a side note, I've just create a page for my blog on Facebook, you can go to the page here, or if you want to like it, you can go to the like button on the right column of the blog) Last week has been an eventful one for the markets, with the week starting out bad with a Black Monday of sorts, before recovering back a fair bit. Is the market cleared to return back to normal levels with the worse behind us or is this the calm before the storm?

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First we have to look at the reasons for the crash and the subsequent recovery. The crash was likely due to a combination of the crashing China stock market, the negative reports on China manufacturing and the resultant devaluation of the yuan. The recovery on the other hand, is due to the ......