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Article: Assessing the volatility of nutrition stocks: despite a major blow to the stock market in mid-September, nutrition stocks held their own.(WORD FROM WALL STREET)
- Article from:
- Nutraceuticals World
- Article date:
- October 1, 2008
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The 500-point jolt that shook the stock market on September 15th scared a lot of people, prompting many of them to believe that an even larger stock market crash was imminent due to poor economic conditions and the ongoing credit crunch. When the markets become this volatile, growth companies and industries are often even more volatile. With the nutrition industry steadily growing much faster than the general economy, does this make nutraceuticals a growth industry as well? And if so, how damaging could a stock market crash be to nutraceutical stocks?
Growth industries are often more volatile than stock indices because they are supposed to cover a large universe ...