Sentences with phrase «swan event occurs»

However, for those looking to both hedge a weaker dollar, hedge inflation AND benefit from the sporadic panic moves that occur when a Black Swan event occurs in the Us like a financial crisis or a terrorist attack, there are precious metals.

This diversification out of equities can help should these black swan events occur.

Not exact matches

In short, a Black Swan is an unexpected event (positive or negative) that was deemed unlikely and once it occurs investor sentiment can shift dramatically and immediately.

Upon further reflection, I believe that the eventual «black swan» event will be an unanticipated derivatives explosion that occurs from an out - of - control OTC derivatives position buried deep off - balance - sheet on one of the TBTFs.

These seemingly unpredictable, rare incidents — dubbed black swan events — may be unlikely to happen on any specific day, but they do occur.

The mainstream application to finance came about in 2007 when Naseem Taleb, In his book The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, used Black Swans as a metaphor for the low probability of destructive events with extreme negative returns occurring in financial markets.

«It is said that «Black Swans» are unpredictable future events, some of which may never occur.