Sentences with phrase «because of the high volatility»

Despite the strong start to the year, profits are in danger of weakening because of the higher volatility that has been caused by instability in the Chinese economy and the ripple effects that have sent global markets lower.

Because of the high volatility price action, I dropped to the sixty minute chart to look «inside» the bar... read more

Beck and Kalesnik (2014) argue that other factors provide stronger returns when applied to small companies because of the higher volatility and less - efficient pricing of small stocks.

Because of high volatility in this market, these oscillations will likely continue in the short run, so it's best for investors to focus on the long term.

Bitcoin trading may be tough because of the high volatility and markets that are open 24/7.

Because of the high volatility, the exchange rate at the time of a transaction may differ slightly from the estimated rate that you see when you begin a transaction.

Not exact matches

«Volatility impacts our industry tremendously, because we are in such a high - risk, low - margin line of work,» says Palmisano.

Timmer: You know, the last two years until the January high, were really extraordinary times for the market, and I fear that investors got spoiled by that, because the S&P was up I think 52 % in two years and in 2017 the volatility — the standard deviation of those returns — was at an all - time low of 3.9.

The exact size and growth of this workforce is debated, but workers employed under precarious work conditions make up a significant portion of the larger workforce, with estimates that 4 out of every 10 workers are now employed in precarious situations.49 These workers typically face higher income volatility than workers in traditional employment relationships because they spend more time unemployed or underemployed and some have low earnings.50

One study by economist Elaine McCrate found that any reduction in wages associated with the benefit of flexibility is modest at best and, in fact, many jobs with greater flexibility have higher wages.137 Furthermore, the volatility of earnings for many independent contractors would offset any compensating wage differentials, because workers can not compare the value of flexibility to higher earnings when they aren't able to predict their earnings as independent contractors.138

And price volatility is actually higher at lower rates than it is with higher rates because you don't have as large of an income stream to cushion the blow from the loss of principal.

But this isn't all that helpful, because after all in times of high volatility your position sizing is already limited.

This is lower volatility than many other stocks in percentage terms, but because of the high stock price (absolute, not a reflection of value) the moves are large in absolute dollar terms.

«All of this has really triggered a spike in volatility because it's brought into question whether higher interest rates are going to curtail the global growth story or erode corporate profitability,» said Bangsund.

Dividend stocks are enticing to investors during periods of volatility because in such a market they tend to perform well relative to more growth - oriented or higher - risk equities.

In recent times Venezuela as a sovereign country has been involved in sociopolitical problems and with a high volatility in its prices of raw material exports such as oil, because of the low prices...

NOTE: High - yield bonds are subject to additional risks, such as increased risk of default and greater volatility, because of the lower credit quality of the issues.

The high volatility of bitcoin is a giant hurdle that limits the acceptance of bitcoin as a currency because the price of a currency must...

Because of their high prices and low yields, growth stocks tend to have less downside protection and more volatility than cheaper companies.

«We are willing to endure a high degree of stock price and portfolio volatility because we believe it allows us to achieve a greater degree of investment performance over the long term» Bill Ackman

That's because the higher speed of comets and the high volatility of their constituents would create giant plumes on impact, so more of the iridium would escape into space, compared with impacts by rocky asteroids.

This is working because of low stock prices and high volatility.

Interestingly, even though these kinds of high volatility events can occur with some warning, many online brokerages continue to suffer slowdowns or outages because of the trading volume.

Bonds typically have much higher Sharpe Ratios than stocks because of their much lower volatility, so this isn't really a surprise.

It is invested primarily in the credit market, not so much in government bonds because government bond yields are so low, but we're looking for absolute returns even if interest rates go up, so some of the portfolio, a significant piece of it actually, is floating rate, so if interest rates go up, you just get higher cash flows, which will support higher returns, and the rest of the portfolio is in relatively short maturity bonds, which will have some price volatility and if there's bad market conditions, will have temporary losses, so the goal is to offer something that is absolute returns.

However, in these times, we need to remember that we chose a diversified investment strategy because it provides us with the highest probability of obtaining our financial goals while exposing us to the least amount of volatility possible.

Indeed one could argue that the low volatility anomaly is better described as the high volatility anomaly because of the historically poor performance of high volatility equities.

There is evidence that window - dressing has occurred: Some of AQR's principals own both the low - and high - volatility versions of the same strategy, which is strange because it is costlier to own the low - volatility version per unit of exposure.

Investors systematically overpay for high - volatility, high - beta stocks because they like the thrill (kind of like gambling or buying a lotto ticket) leaving a large swath of the market undervalued and underowned.

Many traders are moving out of stocks, futures, and equities to invest in the Forex market, because of it's high volatility and high liquidity.

High yield bonds are subject to additional risks, such as increased risk of default and greater volatility because of lower credit quality of the issues.

«Because of the potential for overheating in the economy, we think volatility in markets is going to be higher,» he said.

While I think it's reasonable to lower your expectations for bond market returns and allow for higher volatility because of the level of rates, it seems to me that many of the fears about fixed income are overblown.

And that endorsement might be strong 10 years from now, because the strategy did well during periods of high volatility.

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Low liquidity and high volatility — some people use index funds to grow the value of their emergency fund, but it's a risky practice because your fund could take a nose - dive in value right before you need the money for an emergency!

It is distinguished by low liquidity, high volatility and high spreads because of the little amount of holding transactions.

Our research on the Fundamental Index ® concept, as applied to bonds, underscores the widely held view in the bond community that we should not choose to own more of any security just because there's more of it available to us.10 Figure 9 plots four different Fundamental Index portfolios (weighted on sales, profits, assets and dividends) in investment - grade bonds (green), high - yield bonds (blue) and emerging markets sovereign debt (yellow).11 Most of these have lower volatility and higher return than the cap - weighted benchmark (marked with a red dot).

The high food price volatility we have seen since 2008 is a bad thing for both producers and consumers because of the uncertainty and risk that comes with it.

Because of market volatility, equity funds are generally classified as the high or low risk, depending totally on the market conditions.

Warning that the use of bitcoins as an investment tool is limited because there is no underlying asset and the virtual currency is subject to high volatility, the central bank said speculators are at risk, as they would have no legal recourse if there is a loss of confidence in the cryptocurrency or if they are victims of theft from hackers.

Chase, Bank of America, Citi and Capital One have all also blocked credit card customers from buying cryptocurrencies on credit, noting that it's a high risk purchase because of price volatility.

Casares says he first found interest in Bitcoin because of high financial volatility in Argentina's native currency, the Peso.

However, despite a protracted period of subdued economic downturn, the local residential market remains remarkably resilient — in part because investors, faced with unusually high levels of financial market volatility, are increasingly opting for the stability offered by «real» assets like property.