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Supply and Demand. More demand is better terms for stock sellers, i.e. companies. And their investing would probably completely skew the market. So it's hard. I
by sonnyblarney 8y ago
Supply and Demand. More demand is better terms for stock sellers, i.e. companies. And their investing would probably completely skew the market. So it's hard. Investing directly might put them at risk of some kind of oversight as well.
And they already have a lot tied up in those kinds of investments anyhow. They own a lot of real estate around the world as well.
It's hard to find places to park that amount of money esp. if there are political considerations. Nobody is worried about taking money from the Norwegians ...
- verbify 8y agoBut there's more than one stock market - there are so many around the world, surely them buying couldn't make that much of an impact?
- sonnyblarney 8y ago" there are so many around the world" Not really. Or rather, they are smaller in terms of market cap. Also - you basically have US and EU, the rest are very high risk, and subject to all sorts of shenanigans. That's how much money the Saudis have. We need to go clean nuclear, it would solve so many problems ...