Reuters stock market polls give exclusive insight

Reuters handed subscribers a perfectly-timed outlook for world stock markets in the second half of 2009, just as Q2 drew to a close and investors appear to be taking a pause on an explosive rally out of the depths of the worst market crash since the Great Depression. The quarterly global stock markets poll of more than 150 equity strategists, fund managers and independent research analysts from around the globe has been steadily expanding. After the addition of Sao Paulo’s Bovespa index in March and the Russian RTS index in June, now has a full offering of the 16 most-watched stock market indexes in the world, along with a package of stories from financial capitals from Toronto to Tokyo. While the polls concluded that the market is set to extend its climb into next year, it won’t be a straight line and the road will be bumpy from here. It also found that emerging markets, where most of the growth is set to come, probably have the most to gain after a near 50 percent rise in world shares since March.