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Analysis: Summer market shock not quite over as investors brace for more turmoil

Big investors are bracing for this summer's stock market rout to run into the autumn, fearing a broader wave of selling will follow the turmoil sparked by US recession concerns and the Bank of Japan wrong-footing currency speculators. The sudden reversal of crowded equity and foreign exchange trades that generated vicious feedback loops of price drops, volatility and hedge fund selling has eased, with world stocks almost 2% higher so far this week. But asset managers overseeing hundreds of billions of dollars of investments said they were more likely to carry on selling stocks than buy back in, with signs of weakness in the U.S. jobs market and global consumer trends lowering the bar for market aftershocks.