Sentences with phrase «bond and stock prices»

It influences interest rates around the world and affects everything from bond and stock prices to currencies to mortgage and car loans.

The recent divergence between US bond and stock prices demands attention as we move ahead.

This means bond and stock prices can both go down at the same time.

As a result, junk bond and stock prices can at times move in the same direction based on the market's perception of the companies strength or weakness.

But with global growth still sluggish and bond and stock prices looking expensive, balancing income and risk is more important (and challenging) than ever.

So now bond and stock prices move opposite of each other.

«In 1981 the public should have seen Volcker's jacking up of short - term rates to 21 percent as a very positive move, which would bring down long - term inflation and push up bond and stock prices.»

The financial sector wins at the point where you don't see that the prices that the banks are inflating are asset prices — real estate prices, bond and stock prices — and that the role of commercial banks is to increase the power of wealth over the rest of society, over labour, over industry, to create a new ruling - class of bankers that are even more heavy than the landlords that were criticised in the last part of the 19th century.

It influences interest rates around the world and affects everything from bond and stock prices to currencies to mortgage and car loans.

Not exact matches

Bond prices moved slightly higher and stocks waffled, after the Fed sounded slightly less «hawkish» than expected.

Bond prices were higher, stocks waffled and the dollar flip - flopped after the Fed's post-meeting statement failed to deliver the clarity markets were looking for on the course of rate hikes.

The biggest losers were energy (XLE), consumer staples (XLP) and materials (XLB), all down more than 7 percent amid riding bond yields — which makes dividend stock yields less attractive and overrode other factors, like stronger oil prices and a weak dollar.

I noted a week ago that Bernanke had essentially eased monetary policy by spurring a loosening of financial conditions via higher stock prices, lower bond yields, tighter credit spreads, and a weakening of the U.S. dollar.

NEW YORK, Jan 17 - U.S. fund investors stampeded into bonds and world stocks during the latest week, ignoring warning signs about stretched prices, according to the Investment Company Institute.

A generous back - of - the - envelope estimate is that Hugh Hefner is worth $ 26 million, not accounting for price fluctuations in Hefner's stock market and bond investments.

After the rig - count data release, crude oil prices remained weak alongside stocks and bonds.

Former Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave a stark warning about stock and bond prices Wednesday.

If Brexit - like sentiment in other nations leads to restrictions on the flow of trade and labor, he adds, «that is going to create greater uncertainty and volatility» — at a time when some commentators believe that global stock and bond prices are overdue for a tumble.

Here's the upshot: After an initial multiyear recovery in stock and bond prices after a crisis (the rally we saw through last year) comes a long stretch of lousy returns.

The stock price has collapsed below $ 1 in recent days (although it climbed back above that mark in today's session) and bond prices also have plummeted amid open talk from analysts that a bankruptcy filing is imminent.

Right now with earnings growth very strong and the bond market already reflecting a fair amount of Fed tightening (pricing in 5 rate hikes over the coming 2 years), my sense is that the stock market is in OK shape to withstand some tightening of financial conditions and not unravel in the process.

Treasury yields pull back sharply Thursday after the reemergence of trade tensions between global powerhouses rattles investors, pushing stocks down and bond prices up

Stock / commodity prices are dropping steadily, while bond returns in the US and even such «spendthrift» nations as France remain historically low.

In times of economic instability and deflation (falling prices), bonds have performed better than stocks in the past.

Instead of financing Social Security and Medicare out of progressive taxes levied on the highest income brackets — mainly the FIRE sector — the dream of privatizing these entitlement programs is to turn this tax surplus over to financial managers to bid up stock and bond prices, much as pension - fund capitalism did from the 1960s onward.

The dream is to manage labor's savings on a commission basis, steering it to inflate stock and bond prices.

Tax cuts on wealth are promoted as if they will be invested rather than used to pay the financial sector more interest or be gambled on currencies and exchange rates, interest rates, stock and bond prices, credit default swaps and kindred derivatives.

I think we're going to see a lot of action in declining prices in both stocks and bonds because they will be highly correlated.»

In actuality, while the skill set necessary to make intelligent decisions can take years to acquire, the core matter is straightforward: Buy ownership of good businesses (stocks) or loan money to good credits (bonds), paying a price sufficient to reasonably assure you of a satisfactory return even if things don't work out particularly well (a margin of safety), and then give yourself a long enough stretch of time (at an absolute minimum, five years) to ride out the volatility.

Rising housing prices raise the cost of living, while rising stock and bond prices increase the cost of buying a retirement income — leaving pension funds unable to make good on their promises.

At the start of the sustained rise in equity prices, stock dividend yields exceeded the yields on Treasury bonds and this was perceived as normal, partly reflecting the searing experience of the Great Depression.

We advocate reducing popular positions where prices have moved beyond fundamentals (examples are gilts and bond - proxies such as utility stocks).

This is all because the central tenet of the old playbook — the Fed buys bonds, forcing interest rates down and stock prices up — is being rewritten.

Bond act as both a volatility - minimizer for those investors that can't stomach a large stock allocation and a source of stability during stock market sell - offs for either spending purposes or liquidity for those that need to rebalance into lower stock prices.

Stock prices have plummeted, risks premiums are rising in bond markets, and exchange rates are becoming misaligned.

The act of a securities dealer to raise or lowering prices on certain investment options such as stocks and bonds...

«Between 2 % and 5 % for stocks, bonds and commodities are expected long term returns for global financial markets that have been pushed to the zero bound, a world where substantial real price appreciation is getting close to mathematically improbable.

Earlier this month in his outlook for September, the head of the world's largest bond shop employed the Lindy dance craze, former Citigroup CEO Chuck Prince, the Wimpy cartoon character and his «dying cult of equity» argument in a mash - up of prose to describe the «age of inflation that is upon us,» which he claims typically «provides a headwind, not a tailwind, to securities prices in both stocks and bonds.»

The issue is very simple: U.S. wealth is overstated because the prices of stocks, bonds (particularly corporate), even real estate, are excessive in relation to the replacement value of the underlying assets, and the income streams that are derived from them.

Although bonds generally present less short - term risk and volatility than stocks, bonds do contain interest rate risk (as interest rates rise, bond prices usually fall, and vice versa) and the risk of default, or the risk that an issuer will be unable to make income or principal payments.

Prices for stocks, bonds and real estate are near all - time highs.

An array of measures is selected from the overall credit supply (or what is the same thing, debt securities) to represent «money,» which then is correlated with changes in goods and service prices, but not with prices for capital assets — bonds, stocks and real estate.

But the real emergency affects mainly debtors — mortgage debtors with negative equity, companies loaded down with junk bonds (many of them taken to buy back corporate stock and increase dividend payouts to increase the price at which managers can cash out).

The essence of the global financial bubble is that savings are diverted to inflate the stock market, bond market and real estate prices rather than to build new factories and employ more labor.

This is especially true at a time when some investors have lost faith in this principle following several notable episodes in recent years when stock and bond prices moved together.

He has experience in bond trading, equities trading, settlement and pricing, as well as stock market analysis.

Bond prices have tended to go up when stock prices have gone down and vice versa, displaying a negative correlation on average.

An alternative definition of a Bubble Economy therefore focuses on asset - price inflation — rising stock market, bond market and real estate prices in the face of an economy - wide debt deflation.

The markets finally woke up to this on Wednesday, after sleepwalking for the past year, as bond yields and stock prices sank and the...

In general, they may seek to take advantage of market inefficiencies such as pricing differences and relative discrepancies between securities such as stocks and bonds, technical market movements, deep fundamental valuation analysis, and other quantifiable trends and / or inconsistencies.