It's an excellent time to buy.

It's a brave broadsheet journalist who, these days, will point out what - to professional investors - is the obvious: if you wait until you have proof that the market has reached it's lowest point, you've missed it. Yes, you can wait, and buy at the same point on the way up. But time isn't on your side, you'll end up having to move quicker, and pass some of the bargaining power over to the vendor. How far the market has yet to all, of course, nobody knows. The only certainty is that the piece will no doubt be followed by reader comments accusing the writer of self-interest.

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