Sentences with phrase «bond markets do»

But the stock and bond markets don't affect annuity income.

Many passive funds that track the broad Canadian equity and bond markets do so extremely well.

Lisbon can keep outshining Rome, so long as lax bond markets don't encourage bad habits.

As long - term investments, many factors that roil the stock or even broader bond markets don't affect high yield, the panelists pointed out.

Indeed, the big banks currently have a much lower cost of capital than their smaller brethren precisely because the bond market doesn't believe they will ever be allowed to fail.

One can effectively manage funds to track bond indexes, even though the bond market does have complexities and idiosyncrasies that don't exist in the stock market.

Although the performance of the bond market does NOT affect our day to day swing trading stock picks, having a general idea of how bond ETFs such as $ TLT are performing helps us with our «bird's eye view» of the overall market trends and sentiment.

We sold into it, doing a massive up - in - credit trade that left the portfolio higher quality than it was prior to 9/11, and giving us room for the upset that would happen as Worldcom went down, and the corporate bond markets doing a double dip in late July and early October.

@MichaelKj örling the Greek bond market didn't «freeze up» anyone who bought / is buying greek bonds can easily go to the market and sell them... But yes in theory any market can become illiquid.

The bond market doesn't seem to be pricing in all this inflation people keep talking about.

How bonds stayed high The bond market doesn't usually get much attention from investors generally.

One thing's for certain: The Treasury bond market does not support notion that tax reform will light the domestic economy on fire.

«The bond markets didn't react well and that impacted flows going into fixed - income ETFs.»

When you compare investments over time, the bond market doesn't perform as well as the stock market.

Owning bonds helps to diversify a portfolio, as the bond market doesn't rise or fall alongside the stock market.

One can effectively manage funds to track bond indexes, even though the bond market does have complexities and idiosyncrasies that don't exist in the stock market.

Being shut out of the bond market does not matter at that point.

Not exact matches

Several bond market pros who had expected four rate hikes said the statement did not change their view.

Now what this road and the shipping lanes in the South China Sea, et cetera will do, is they will improve productivity and as a result we will see better multiples and better opportunities in Chinese markets and we're going to see more bonds floated in markets, not just in China, but in Europe and the US as well.

In other words, does UNCERTAINTY about forward movement in the administration's program start to affect the financial markets and the market's view of the potential for reforms that have been a significant force in both the equity and bond markets since the election?

Fast forward to 2014, and the markets don't look drastically different: Ben Bernanke steps down as the Fed chief with quantitative easing — a bond - purchasing policy established after the 2008 financial crisis — still in place.

«Investors were saying that the bond market was done and it was time to reallocate into divided - paying equities,» said Matt Hougan, president of ETF.com, but he says that trend hasn't sustained itself.

Bond market pundits think the Fed may raise rates quickly, as they did in other hiking cycles.

Further, we do not expect the bond market to sell off and interest rates to go shooting up when the Fed raises the interest rate from zero by an eighth or a quarter percent.

I sent out to some people last Wednesday why I thought the CDS market would outperform ETF's, and that is still my view, and has a lot to do with the bonds that make up the high yield index and their rate risk exposure for some, and horrible convexity for others.

«The market is paying very much attention to the dollar and bond market in terms of what the Fed is going to do.»

If my capital market expectations are for a good bond market and a weak stock market in the next year (such as this year), I don't necessarily want to change any of the stocks or bonds that I hold.

With inflationary pressures and massive budget deficits having become the topic du jour this year, the bond - market «vigilantes» term has made its way back onto trading floors.

Without getting into preferred shares and other investments that may be up or down (Buffett does own many bonds), it is easy to drum up market value erosion of about $ 7 billion before getting into the other half of Buffett's holdings.

Future analysis done in relation to the October 2014 U.S. Treasury Bond Flash Crash should be done on mini flash crashes in other U.S. markets, especially on mini flash crashes in derivatives markets (since derivative markets exhibit more cross-market interconnectedness than other markets), and on mini flash crashes on the other public stock exchanges.

While it's still not known when interest rates will go up and by how much, what we do know is that the bond market is at greater risk to rising interest rates than at any time in recent history.

The NY Times aptly reflects the consensus view that there has really been no, «rout,» in the market for junk bonds and that they don't signal anything more serious for other markets or the economy, as they don't represent a, «systemic risk.»

See also: There's no such thing as precision in the markets & How often do stocks and bonds decline at the same time

When I was doing this, I was putting about 30 % of my paycheck in twice a month and I was allocating 100 % of the contributions to money market and Pimco Bond Fund so I wouldn't end up losing money when I cashed out.

When you put your money in an index fund, you're investing in a broad range of stock or bonds (again, usually an entire market), so you don't have to deal with — or do the research associated with — buying and selling individual stocks.

If you aren't currently investing (hoarding cash for a while because you don't know what to do with it) and have no interest in following the stock and bond market, then investing with a robo advisor is a good value proposition.

Another aspect to watch: does strong equity - market performance combined with rising rates (bond price declines) create outflows to bond funds?

In the 1980s and 1990s, when stocks and bonds alike racked up double - digit average returns, the markets did most of the work.

Given those durations, an investor with 15 - 20 years to invest could literally plow their entire portfolio into stocks and long - term bonds, in expectation of very high long - term returns, with the additional comfort that their financial security did not rely on the direction of the markets, thanks to the ability to reinvest generous coupon payments and dividends.

What we have really seen over the past several years, in terms of the appreciation of markets and the decline of interest rates based on what the Fed has been doing, is a result which has eliminated the possibility of investors in bonds and stocks to earn an adequate return relative to their expected liabilities.

We're at record highs in the stock and bond market, so now is a great time to do a deep dive analysis.

Bloomberg reported Thursday that after Draghi's bold words about protecting the euro last week, markets expect him to deliver some sort of drastic action to do so and to relieve pressure on bond yields, which have climbed steadily higher for Spain and Italy.

-LSB-...] What does a bond bear market look like?

«We are hoping «mom and pop» can do a little bit better than the bond market at a time of historically low yields.»

When the jig is up in a couple of years, sell most of your stocks, buy bonds which will do very well as the stock market and economy implode.

What it really did was prevent people from embracing one of the best cyclical bull markets of our lifetime — in both stocks and bonds.

This way, if a bear market occurs, you have a year of cash becoming available at the maturity date so that you do not have to sell stocks, and in a bull market you can buy new bonds as the ones you own mature, and you thereby benefit from the higher interest rates that high quality bonds give versus cash or CDs.

I suppose they did this because of the 30 + year bull run in the bond market.

My colleague Martin Small in a recent blog post shed some light on why size does not equal risk in the bond market, which is one of the most common misunderstanding of index management.

To avoid disrupting the bond markets, the Fed's normalization plan does not involve selling bonds.