Sentences with phrase «currency positions over»

Though Buffett got scared out of many of his foreign currency positions over the last few years, intellectually he was right about the direction of the US dollar, and made decent money off it.

Not exact matches

The likely eventual inclusion of the Chinese yuan in the elite rank of «reserve currencies» will not threaten the global leadership position of the US dollar, which currently accounts for over 60 % of global currency reserves.

The authors find that knowing the direction of the change in the net position in a particular currency, one would have a 75 percent chance of correctly guessing the exchange rate's direction over that same week.

Since results are in local currencies, an investor in one country seeking equity positions in another country would need to take into account expected change in the associated exchange rate over the equity holding period.

Currency could be a consideration for US - based assets but even here I take the position that it is impossible to tell how rates will vary over 10 + years.

Their approach is to calculate excess returns in U.S. dollars from a portfolio that is iteratively long (short) the fifth of currencies that are most undervalued (overvalued) per each of these four metrics and hold the positions over periods ranging from one week to 12 months.

Already Buhari has started giving excuses for the abysmal performance.He attributed the quagmire to drop in the price of oil globally and cleverly laid the blame on the doorsteps of all Nigerian accusing them of relying solely on oil.All renowned rating agencies including fitch continue to downgrade Nigeria ever since Buhari took over and it is projected that Nigeria will not be able to repay its debt obligations.Fitch for instance downgraded Nigeria's longterm foreign currency issuer default rating to B + from BB - and longterm local currency IDR to BB - from BB.The general position expressed by almost all the Briton wood institutions is that Nigeria's fiscal and external vulnerability has worsened under Buhari and it is projected that the government's general fiscal deficit could grow up to 4.2 % by the end of 2016 after averaging 1.5 % under the previous regime.A recent capital importation report by Nigeria Bureau of Statistics confirms that, last year, the country recorded total inflow of capital into the economy stood at $ 9.6 billion which was a 53 % drop from previous year and the lowest recorded total since 2011.

11:42 - Mundell says uncertainty over Scotland's position in the EU and questions over which currency it will use will hinder inward investment.

Managed futures as an asset class are historically non-correlated to the stock and bond markets over long term periods and encompass a wide range of trading strategies (generally taking long / short positions in futures contracts on equity indices, commodities, financials and currencies).

If you do «repatriate» funds this way, remember that the next time the loonie rises, heading towards parity, you'll want to start rebuilding those positions in U.S. securities, so you can ride the currency cycle all over again.

Currency could be a consideration for US - based assets but even here I take the position that it is impossible to tell how rates will vary over 10 + years.

I personally prefer using unhedged positions because (a) It is cheaper (b) In the long run, currency effects will average out (c) The value of hedging is questionable when a basket of currencies are involved and (d) While currencies on their own have zero expected return over cash, adding them to a portfolio reduces volatility and offers diversification benefits.

Our direct currency positions have yielded $ 2.3 billion of pre-tax profits over the past five years, and in addition we have profited by holding bonds of U.S. companies that are denominated in other currencies.

«We are declining comment,» said an SEC spokesman by email, in response to questions regarding whether the agency had a position on the currency or if it had jurisdiction over Bitcoin trading in the first place.

The yen has been the number one currency by volume worldwide as far as bitcoin, and South Korea has taken the third BTC volume position behind the U.S. South Korea also commands the most bitcoin cash (BCH) volume, as the won is over 50 percent of the global market on any given day.