Sentences with phrase «against higher market»

When high - risk mortgage borrowers could not make loan payments, they either sold their homes at a gain and paid off their mortgages, or borrowed more against higher market prices.

Much like many major and smaller forex brokers, who took precautions against high market volatility around the first round of the presidential

Much like many major and smaller forex brokers, who took precautions against high market volatility around the first round of the presidential elections in France on April, days...

In fact, most FX brokers have increased their margin requirements ahead of UK referendum on EU membership that takes place today, as a preventive measure against high market volatility.

The forex brokering branch of one of Russia's largest banks — VTB24 — joined the ever growing group of cautious forex brokers to take precautions against the high market volatility around the eventual Brexit on June 23.

Not exact matches

So far, though, no one is reporting any unusual outflows in the bond market, but Hamilton - Keen cautions investors against chasing high - yield products.

In commodity markets, oil prices hit their highest level in approximately two months on Monday morning as the U.S. considers sanctions against Venezuela.

The euro reached a five - and - a-half month high against the dollar when markets opened Sunday evening as exit polls in the French presidential election indicated a victory for centrist Macron.

Their declining currencies against the dollar (8 - 9 percent over the past 12 months), falling stock market values since the beginning of the year and high (India) and rising (Brazil) bond yields are reflecting their funding difficulties.

(New throughout, updates prices, market activity and comments; adds second byline and NEW YORK dateline) NEW YORK / LONDON, April 10 (Reuters)- Gold prices rose on Tuesday, hitting their highest in nearly a week as the U.S. dollar weakened and investors awaited potential U.S. action against suspected use of chemical weapons in Syria.

MARKETS: The dollar held near a four - month high against a basket of major currencies, buoyed by the outlook for a strong U.S. economy and rising yields amid signs of slowdown elsewhere, especially in Europe.

The dollar rallied as much as 2.5 % against South Africa's rand to 13.613, its highest since early February, after President Jacob Zuma fired finance minister Pravin Gordhan in a cabinet reshuffle following days of speculation that has rocked the country's markets and currency.

SINGAPORE, May 3 - The dollar traded below a four - month high against a basket of currencies on Thursday, with the focus shifting to economic data after the Federal Reserve did little to alter market expectations for further interest rate rises this year.

LONDON, April 12 - Cryptocurrency prices jumped on Thursday, led by a surge in bitcoin to two - week highs, with people active in the market citing a squeeze on traders who have bet against prices, given a lack of obvious news to trigger the gains.

Commodity stocks» tale of woe continues, Japan enters bear market, and the dollar makes new highs against the ruble and pound.

By late - morning in London, the dollar was 3.7 % higher against it at 63.12, although the move was exaggerated by the fact that neither the Russian central bank nor big Russian corporates, which have been instructed to provide dollar liquidity to the local market were in the market due to the Orthodox Christmas holiday.

«It's the weaker dollar, it's the inflation focus and it's also to some extent the market is continuing to look for a hedge against a world that's becoming incredibly complacent with stocks at record highs,» said Ole Hansen, head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank in Copenhagen.

TORONTO — Canada's main stock index closed higher Monday as the loonie moved up against the U.S. dollar on a mixed day for the markets.

In the currency markets, the differing messages of the world's major central banks on inflation and monetary policy prodded the dollar higher against the yen ahead of a series of appearances by U.S. Federal Reserve officials this week.

The euro has been on a steady rising path since mid 2017, reaching a more than three - year high against the dollar in February and capping gains for European stock markets.

The report made for good reading, to be sure, but with the stock trading near an all - time high going into the release, it was unable to climb further and swim against the tide of profit taking that ensnared the broader market on this particular day.

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.

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.

Investors should stick to larger companies at least until the end of June, as the enforcement of stronger supervision against the financial markets could raise their wariness for high - flying smaller firms, according to Wu Kan, a fund manager at Shanshan Finance.

Sometimes a larger allocation to precious metals is recommended — either because precious metals are highly undervalued against other assets or there's a high financial risk (e.g. excess leverage in the markets).

The externals have been mixed so far this week with the global equity markets in a light round of profit taking selling while the U.S. dollar is correcting to the downside after hitting new highs against most major currency pairs.

With many high - yield stocks also having defensive characteristics, some conservative investors like funds such as the Vanguard ETF as a way of protecting against market downturns.

Since rising interest rates means the bond's fixed rate is not competitive against newly issued bonds at higher market rates, then it stands to reason that longer - term bonds (those with longer to pay at the lower rate) are going to see their prices fall further than short - term bonds.

As the dollar sinks to near - record lows against the euro and the British pound, the stock market has returned to record highs, but investors are being advised to anticipate a worldwide downturn and the U.S. economy may have already entered a recession.

It also can be used to compare the whole market against bond yields... In most cases the earnings yield of equities are much higher then in risk free treasury bonds Earnings yield is basically the amount of earnings you buy for every dollars worth of...

Markets continue to bounce up against all time highs, which has prompted me to harvest some winning positions and hide out in bonds.

Stocks with high dividend yields are attractive from the standpoint that they are providing meaningful income when the broad market is flat, they can buffer against a downturn due to the yield they're throwing off, and best of all, during a market upturn, they continue to provide yield and capital appreciation simultaneously.

According to this theory, if, for example, the U.S. inflation rate is higher than the Canadian inflation rate, then the purchasing power of Americans will erode compared to that of Canadians, and the value of the U.S. dollar against the Canadian dollar will be adjusted in the markets to balance the purchasing power of the two currencies.

-- 2:51 PM: Amazon shares spiking higher following report that White House does not have any specific plans for action against AMZN --- MARKET RALLIES ON THIS NEWS by more than 1 % (100 point move for the NAZ100 in minutes)-- If it was any other country we would say that this was a ploy to short stock or markets for profit

LONDON (AP)-- European stock markets dipped Thursday while the euro struck two - week highs against the dollar after the European Central Bank left its key interest rates unchanged and decided against extending the duration of its bond - buying stimulus...

The cost of protecting speculative - grade bonds against default in the credit - default swap market climbed to its highest level since July 6.

This sentiment was most noticeable in currency markets, where the euro continued to move higher against many other major currencies.

Purchasing any kind of real estate during a hot, sellers» market would be against my buy low, sell high strategies, so my real estate investing plans will be put on hold until the markets soften.

The euro plunged from near two - year highs to a six - week low against the dollar in early November, after weak inflation figures stoked fears about demand in the 17 - member economy, according to Nawaz Ali, UK market analyst at Western Union Business Solutions.

«It was unusual to see regular grade whole milk powder selling at a premium to the higher specification product but we have seen a lot of strength in the futures market recently and it is the regular grade product this market settles against,» Ms Kilsby said.

The competition will play out against a backdrop of a softening global market where the exportable surplus in liquid milk equivalents is estimated to be 3.2 billion litres higher year - on - year for the six months to March 2018.

We are competing with the US in Korea but our weaker dollar against the US is helping us and we're seeing continuing demand for high - quality beef in that market.»

Rashid Ghazi of Paragon Marketing Group, which is in final negotiations with ESPN to televise Lawrence North's Dec. 9 game against Poplar Bluff (Mo.) High and its North Carolina — bound power forward, Tyler Hansbrough, says, «Greg Oden is, by most accounts, the Number 1 player in the country who is not in the NBA.

Charlotte, again, has very high attendance for their minor league team, but they'd also be competing against the 2 biggest Big Four sports in the same media market.

ADM gets away with heavy - handed behavior, according to another civil antitrust suit filed against ADM and three other companies two weeks ago in a St. Paul, Minn., U.S. District Court, because it is the largest U.S. producer of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), controlling about one - third of the $ 2.6 billion U.S. market.

If implemented, these recommendations would see the creation of a market in higher education - course against course, department against department, university against university.

He warned against the emergence of a market in higher education which would not accurately reflect the reality of students» experiences, however.

Testing of the Paint Preparation Pad has demonstrated high standards of performance and more than comparable surface measurement statistics against other similar products on the market.

«To the point where competition among the Oil Marketing Companies remains high, market price for both Brent crude and refined oil dropping in average price terms, added to the appreciation of the Cedi against the U.S. dollar, and increasing national fuel stock; the Institute for Energy Security (IES) believe that there is enough positive momentum and fundamental justification to move the prices of Petrol and Diesel lower on the local market,» IES said in a release signed by Gilbert Richmond Rockson, Principal Research Analyst.

They are also worried that despite the huge crash in value of the Naira against world's major currencies, CBN maintained its official rate at N197 / USD1 thereby creating wider parallel market margin of about 50 per cent, the highest so far in the history of Nigeria's currency market.