It's not too late to cash in on the crash
When the pandemic caused markets to tumble by as much as 30 per cent in March 2020, I remember thinking to myself that I would 'buy the dip'.
Cash-strapped and in my early twenties, the thought was strictly hypothetical — if I did have spare money and investments of my own, I would surely make the most of all the market turmoil by buying up shares.
In recent weeks, however, I've proven my younger self wrong. On April 2 President Trump announced an array of tariffs, upending the status quo of global trade agreements and sending the markets into a frenzy. The FTSE 100, an index of the UK's largest listed companies, fell 10 per cent in the days after, while the S&P 500,
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