Sentences with phrase «markets higher equity»

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«Aequitas clearly is looking to have a high - impact campaign,» says Kevan Cowan, president of TMX Markets and group head of equities.

After all, the former economics professor who is now president of the Hussman Investment Trust has made a name for himself by repeatedly predicting a stock market decline exceeding 60 % and forecasting a full decade of negative equity returns — and yet here we sit just 9 % from record highs, even after some bouts of heavy selling.

The high - yield market has underperformed equities this year, often seen as a sign of trouble for stocks.

In fact, the opposite happened: prices in U.S. fixed - income markets rose and are showing remarkable resilience (in spite of a hugely expansionary monetary policy), while equity markets hit new record - highs.

In his view, with U.S. equity indices realizing all - time highs, now is the time to look at undervalued markets around the world.

In reality, when investors are paying extremely high prices for each dollar of earnings that equities produce, market math dictates that future returns will be the reverse of what the bulls are claiming — extremely low.

On Wednesday, bond yields in both the U.S. and Germany reached highs on the year, which likely helped trigger a selloff in equity markets Thursday.

We've seen rates really move higher on a year - to - date basis and vacillate and that's had a ripple effect into the equity markets.

Scilla Huang Sun, portfolio manager of the GAM luxury brands equity fund at GAM Investments, discusses the high - end watch market.

Reuters» monthly asset allocation poll of 50 wealth managers and chief investment officers in Europe, the United States, Britain and Japan showed growing caution about equities even as world stock markets surged to fresh highs in January after repeatedly smashing records in 2017.

The NOCs are being approached by lawyers and investment bankers not just from Calgary but from Houston and Melbourne too, seeking patient capital for long - timeline projects while equity prices for energy companies have been steadily sinking on stock markets despite the high price of oil.

When Canadians have higher equity stakes in their homes, it imparts more stability to the market.

The office would also police debt markets and oversee institutional traders, high - frequency traders, new bond and equity issues and disclosure relationships between investment advisers and their clients.

Hedge funds and private equity funds saw the potential to corner this market and began offering much higher loan to value ratios, meaning they would lend as much as 80 percent of the value of the property.

«The current equity market valuation is certainly stretched in historical terms but it does not appear unreasonable based on the high level of corporate profitability,» he said.

You might be surprised how little equity is actually required to build a marketing - leading, cash flow positive, high growth, hardware related company.»

Valuations in equity markets have been high and can't be justified by company fundamentals, Allianz CEO Oliver Bate said.

«Equity markets have really been buoyant for a long time now and valuations are extremely high, higher than you can actually justify based on fundamentals,» Allianz Chief Executive Oliver Bate told CNBC Saturday at the China Development Forum in Beijing.

NEW YORK, April 30 - Global stock indexes were flat to slightly higher after upbeat earnings and deal news on Monday, while the U.S. «If the previous several weeks of earnings season are any indication, corporate results should continue to act as a buffer to any meaningful turn lower in equity markets,»...

WHO: David Shore, associate dean and faculty member at Harvard University, where he teaches the course «Strategic Marketing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Positioning and Branding» RATING: 7 (on a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being the highest) «They have enormous equity in the purchase of the Dr. Spock name.

Tal believes that improving participation rates in high - demand fields will likely require finding a way to identify emerging trends in labour market needs, as well as improved quality and equity of learning opportunities and increased resources.

Greek equity markets ended the week higher, even as the news — which was all good on Monday after Tsipras made his first real concessions to creditors since becoming prime minister in January — became steadily more discouraging by the day.

Stock markets have been rallying for months in anticipation of sharply lower tax rates for corporations, with Wall Street's three major equities indexes closing at record highs on Friday.

All told, the jump in Treasury yields has yet to make its way into the broader economy in the form of higher borrowing costs, yet it will likely start to dampen the housing and auto markets as consumer loans become more expensive, said Gary Cloud, a portfolio manager of the Hennessy Equity and Income Fund.

«The extent and speed of the rally in gold prices is somewhat surprising as there are few pressing reasons to be bullish, indeed there are more headwinds than tailwinds,» ScotiaMocatta said in a monthly note, citing rising U.S. equity markets as well as higher U.S. interest rates.

«The market is fragmented and inefficient, and traditional indexes are poorly designed,» he said, but he added that higher - fee active bond funds run into the same problem as active equity funds.

The determination of Albertsons» majority owner, private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management LP, to carry out the IPO despite volatility in the stock markets underscores its confidence that it can fetch a high valuation for Albertsons.

That being said equity markets have the highest rate of return at ~ 10 %.

Spooked by a sudden 19 % plunge in the Shanghai Composite Index, regulators halted initial public offerings, suspended trading in shares accounting for 40 % of market capitalization, forced state - owned brokers to promise to buy stocks until the index reached a higher level, mobilized state - controlled funds to purchase equities, and promised unlimited support from the central bank.

It's a (mostly) short term, higher risk, higher reward place to invest cash that has a low correlation with the stock market, but is far more passive than buying and managing properties, has more opportunity for diversification than private placements (minimums of 5 - 10K, rather than 100K), and most of the equity offerings (and all of the debt offerings) provide monthly or quarterly incomes.

yields will hit the highs on close end of the day... equity markets setting up to be slammed tomorrow maybe but today they have run over weak shorts in the face of rates... the federal reserve see's this and again will wonder if they are behind on hikes, strong data, major expansion in credit, lack of wage growth rising bond yields and ballooning debt... rates will go much higher and equities will have revelations as to what that means for valuations

It's impossible to time the market, so it's counterproductive for long term investing to worry about the «high price» of equities on any given day.

We also like emerging market energy equities and selected debt of high - quality E&P companies.

The market's price action since late January hasn't been inspiring, and with bond yields up, commodity prices higher and sharp price moves among equities, it might be time to break out the bear suit.

A wobbly equity market, expectations for higher interest rates and weaker economic growth in the first quarter have inspired some pundits to claim that bear - market risk for stocks...

In the European market, the oil sector has a high dividend yield of about 6 percent — the highest there is — which adds up to real value, says Nick Nelson, head of global and European equity strategy at UBS.

It intends to give investors higher returns by eschewing market capitalization weightings in and across equity asset classes.

«Higher interest rates compete with the equity markets for capital,» which could slow down market growth.

According to Bloomberg data, the VIX Index, a proxy for U.S. equity market implied volatility, traded over 50 on Monday morning, the highest level since the financial crisis.

The global synchronized economic expansion, a business - friendly administration in Washington, solid corporate credit quality, modest default activity, robust equity markets and a favorable supply - demand balance set a strong backdrop for high yield in the New Year.

Investors hedging against a sharp fall in equity markets in the coming 12 weeks has also reached its highest level since the onset of the global financial crisis, the bank said.

You still have 25 % of American homes in negative equity — that is, when the mortgages are higher than the market value of the housing.

Equities in developed market — Canada, the United States, Europe — are down between 12 to 20 % from their April highs but have recovered somewhat from their mid-August lows.

In a healthy market, equities with relative strength will continue higher, even when the broad market takes a rest.

Since the end of August to a couple weeks ago, the rally of 22 % was unprecedented as the market took cues from the other global equity markets hitting all - time highs in many cases (US, German, etc.) and the -LSB-...]

Such developments are characteristic of the current high volatility of China's mainland equity markets, Shanghai and Shenzhen, capping a year of exceptional gains.

Against this environment, our strategists remain bullish on equities and continue to favor emerging market currencies and, in the fixed income space, prefer local markets over external debt and maintain their higher - yielding yet better - quality bias.

To the extent that lower Treasury yields are even weakly associated with higher equity valuations, recognize that this effect is also expressed over time as lower subsequent stock market returns.

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«Equity investors should, likewise, favor stable - cash - flow global companies and ones exposed to high - growth markets.