To be sure, there would have been more drilling companies going belly up if it had not been for the generous credit offered
by bond and equity markets, and large financial institutions.
Not exact matches
Volatility in the
bond markets transcended into
equities, knocking down the pan-European Euro Stoxx 600 Index
by 0.9 percent
and leading Wall Street shares to finish narrowly mixed on Friday.
Part of the reason to have
bonds is to have stability on days like this; government
bonds provide that stability,
and they're acting like they should act,
by providing that cushion to the
equity volatility in your portfolio.
The board has been dealing with the volatility of publicly traded stocks
and low returns from government
bonds by diversifying into other forms of assets, including
equity in private companies
and investments in infrastructure such as highways
and real estate.
Fidelity Strategic Funds are multi-asset-class strategies that seek to address key income needs —
bond income from global sources, non-
bond income,
and real return —
by investing in a diversified mix of fixed income
and / or
equity investments chosen for their historical combined performance.
All markets will continue to focus on the volatility in the
equity and bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration, corporate earnings, oil prices,
and will turn to this afternoon's FOMC Meeting Statement followed
by reports tomorrow on UK PMI, Eurozone PPI, CPI, US Challenger Job Cuts, Productivity, Unit Labor Costs, Jobless Claims, Trade Balance, Markit Services PMI, ISM Services, Durable Goods
and Factory Orders for near term direction.
I thought that you were treating the
equity premium as the premium (if it exists) between
equity shares sold
by a firm
and bonds sold
by the same firm.
Business credit has been falling, but this has been more than offset
by increases in non-intermediated sources of funding, such as
equity raisings
and corporate
bond issuance.
We view long - term government
bonds as useful diversifiers against volatility
and equity market selloffs sparked
by such shocks.
In other words,
equity dividends are higher
by a third of a percentage points than quality
bond yields,
and that's before the dividend tax credit
and before any capital gains.
Money,
equities,
bonds, titles, deeds, contracts,
and virtually all other kinds of assets can be moved
and stored securely, privately,
and from peer to peer, because trust is established not
by powerful intermediaries like banks
and governments, but
by network consensus, cryptography, collaboration,
and clever code.
Yet long - term government
bonds are useful diversifiers against volatility
and equity market selloffs sparked
by geopolitical risks.
Mladina used a modified version of the Fama - French five - factor model to evaluate how well the returns
and risks of publicly traded
equity REITs
and private real estate investments are explained
by common stock
and bond factors.
As evidenced
by the image below, interest in momentum research has taken off since the original 1993 Jegadeesh
and Titman paper: Source: «Two Centuries of Multi-Asset Momentum (
Equities,
Bonds, Currencies, Commodities, Sectors
and Stocks)»
Generally,
bond and equity markets move in opposite directions, so if your portfolio is diversified across both areas, unpleasant movements in one will be offset
by positive results in another.
That's why experts typically advise folks who are closer to retirement to decrease their exposure to
equity risk
by reducing the percentage of their investments in stocks
and increasing the percentage in
bonds.
Both men are certain we are into a global
equity and bond bear market
and into a bull market in commodities
and precious metals despite all efforts
by the government
and Federal Reserve to keep financial bull markets alive.
To survive, Ganti says, money managers should look beyond the multitrillion - dollar stock exchanges,
bond - trading platforms,
and big deals backed
by private
equity and venture capital.
But this masks the reality that
equities —
and by extension other risk assets — still look attractive taking into account that
bond yields are likely to stay historically low.
In surging, gold blurted out the Deep State Central Planners» strategy for dealing with the Great Financial Crisis: the hyperinflation of
bond,
equities and real estate prices via the hyperinflation of both official
and totally clandestine, off - the - books money supply, in order to create the hyperinflation of tax revenues desperately required
by the government to forestall its fiscal collapse.
If there's not a single buyer that will take on both the assets
and liabilities without the government assuming private default risk, Bear's assets should be put out for bid, Bear's
bonds should go into default,
and by the unfortunate reality of how
equities work, Bear's shareholders shouldn't get $ 2 - they should get nothing.
The SNB's «profit was lifted
by a trio of positive forces: Low
bond yields preserved the value of its foreign
bonds; higher
equity prices raised the value of SNB holdings...
and the weaker Swiss currency made those foreign assets worth more in franc terms.»
And given the unprecedented algorithmic intertwinement of equities and bonds — exemplified by risk parity — pain could ripple quickly, leaving cash and hard assets like commodities and gold the only safe place to retre
And given the unprecedented algorithmic intertwinement of
equities and bonds — exemplified by risk parity — pain could ripple quickly, leaving cash and hard assets like commodities and gold the only safe place to retre
and bonds — exemplified
by risk parity — pain could ripple quickly, leaving cash
and hard assets like commodities and gold the only safe place to retre
and hard assets like commodities
and gold the only safe place to retre
and gold the only safe place to retreat.
US REITs have been double - hammered
by the rise in
bond yields
and equity market correction.
These concerns might recently have been exacerbated
by changes in the pattern of corporate financing: in countries in which the swap spread has increased the most — the US
and UK — growth in private sector
bond issuance has been relatively large, while net
equity issuance has been low (or even negative as in the United States).
NBAD raised $ 757 million in two
equity deals, more than was raised
by any other bank in the United Arab Emirates,
and led the country's public
bond market
by raising $ 1.5 billion in 12
bond deals.
Controlled
by Santander of Spain, Santander Mexico nearly doubled its investment banking revenue from
bonds,
equity and M&A, to $ 44 million in 2013, from $ 28 million in 2012, according to Dealogic.
In the initial stage, the regulators said Friday, the linkage will only apply to general
equity and bond funds, as well as to certain exchange - traded funds that track benchmark stock indexes
by purchasing the underlying shares.
But make no mistake —
by moving more of us out of super-safe cash
and gilts
and into riskier assets like peer - to - peer savings, corporate
and retail
bonds and equities, the stakes are being raised for everyone.
On the heels of that decision
by the FOMC, the Federal Reserve's policymaking body, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management's Global Investment Committee (GIC) recommended that investors position their portfolios to overweight
equities and underweight fixed income, or
bonds.
Should you decide you do want to add
equities you then have your pick from the other funds
and ETF's on offer
by Vanguard or simply go with LS100 to balance your
Bonds.
Pretty much everything
and everyone says that now I'm older I need to reduce risk
and volatility
by holding
bonds (e.g. McClung receommended 50 - 60 %
equities).
Dynamic asset allocation means that your yin
and yang of
equities and bonds is no longer fixed
by some permanent cosmic ratio.
(I only have cash
and equities) I want an easy option
and am on the point of increasing my
bond holdings
by settling on say, one of Vanguards» Lifestrategy funds when... «the more I read the more confused I get!»
Asset - backed securities are
bonds or notes backed
by financial assets such as non-mortgage loans including credit card receivables, auto loans, manufactured - housing contracts,
and home -
equity loans.
You might allow the overall
bond portion to rise
by 1 % a year,
and run down your
equity exposure accordingly, for example.
Our own Near - Term Tax Free Fund (NEARX) saw its 21st straight year of positive returns in 2015, a rare accomplishment that has been achieved
by only 39 out of 31,306
equity and fund
bonds — around 0.12 percent — according to Morningstar data.
All markets will continue to focus on the volatility in the
equity and bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration, corporate earnings, oil prices,
and will turn to this afternoon's Commitment of Traders Report, followed
by reports Monday on Chinese PMI, German CPI
and Retail Sales, US Personal Income, Personal Spending, PCE, Chicago PMI, Pending Home Sales,
and the Dallas Fed's Manufacturing Index for near term direction.
By design, the Fed wished to push investors into higher risk assets such as equities and real estate by lowering the return on safe bond investment
By design, the Fed wished to push investors into higher risk assets such as
equities and real estate
by lowering the return on safe bond investment
by lowering the return on safe
bond investments.
This led to higher
bond yields
and another weak close for US
equities as business
and consumer activity could be dampened
by higher interest rates.
The market has yet to reach critical mass, but given the kinds of projects funded
by state
and local governments, «the market should be a natural issuer of green
and social impact
bonds,» notes Victoria Irving,
Equity Strategist for the Global Sustainability Research team.
City
bond projects should be guided
by racial
and economic
equity standards.
Michael Pento, the president
and founder of Pento Portfolio Strategies
and author of the book, «The Coming
Bond Market Collapse»,
and the producer of weekly podcast, «The Mid-week Reality Check», wrote in his commentary on CNBC that «the yield curve will invert
by the end of this year
and an
equity market plunge
and a recession is sure to follow».
Alibaba, China's leading e-commerce company, will pay approximately $ 214 million for a 9.9 %
equity stake in Hong Kong - listed Intime
and subscribe to $ 478 million worth of convertible
bonds issued
by Intime.
For most individuals
and institutions, it's a wise idea to basically control the amount of risk in the overall portfolio
by setting targets for the percentage of your portfolio that you would want in
equities, in debt securities or
bonds,
and in cash, certificates of deposit, Treasury notes
and Treasury bills.»
All futures
and options on futures trading - which includes such product areas as short - term interest rate
and swap products,
bonds,
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Little did anyone know that what Peter Obi called cash - in - hand were basically investment in stocks,
bonds and other non-performing
equities arranged
by Obi in his final days in office; long - term uncompleted assets that will not earn cash until they are completed; various sums spent in rehabilitating federal roads in the State for which re-imbursements may come in the distant future; computation of the State's share of the Excess Crude Account contributed as capital to the Nigerian Sovereign Wealth Fund in 2010, etc..
Until CMOs can benefit from the billions of dollars of school
bonds raised
by districts, they will need «
equity - like» investments from philanthropy in order to expand
and effectively serve more students.
In addition to the TIFIA loan, the $ 922.6 million project is funded
by $ 252.6 million in private activity
bonds (PABs), $ 280.4 million in private
equity, $ 82.6 million in grant funding from the Commonwealth of Virginia, with the balance coming from TIFIA capitalized interest
and interest earnings on PABs.
The project is funded
by a $ 275 million TIFIA direct loan, $ 232.9 million in state motor fuel taxes, $ 265.9 million in GDOT program funds
and $ 59.9 million in developer
equity to be repaid
by the state with $ 10.0 million in toll revenue
bonds and motor fuel tax revenues.