World stocks fell today, Friday, after a disappointing U.S. jobs report and a sluggish euro zone services sector survey reinforced expectations that the process of recovery in the global economy would be long and slow.

U.S. employers cut far more jobs than expected last month and the unemployment rate hit 9.5 percent, the highest in nearly 26 years.

While analysts caution that jobs data is a lagging indicator and unemployment can still rise when the economy is turning around, it was enough to prompt investors to reduce their risk assets especially before a long weekend in the United States.

Furthermore, signs of a recovery in the euro zone’s dominant service sector took a backwards step in June with the final services purchasing manager index coming in at 44.7 in June, down from May’s seven-month high of 44.8.

This marks the thirteenth consecutive month the index has been below the 50.0 mark that divides growth

Donald Coxe, Global Portfolio Strategist of BMO Financial Group, has just published the May issue of Basic Points – Traders of the Lost Ark (courtesy of GreenLightAdvisor). This report is a firm favorite with investors as Donald has established a great “big picture” track record and built a large following over the years. His eloquently phrased investment recommendations are particularly insightful and are repeated in the paragraphs below in an attempt to make sense of the troubled times encountered by financial markets.

1. Assume that the leading US forecasters on the US economy will be cutting back on their economic and earnings forecasts. You could be pleasantly surprised, but

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