Prudential Investment Management experts are focused on an aging global investing population that will continue to dampen economic growth and keep interest rates low globally — rivaling the impact of
cyclical market trends heading into 2016.
We call these long trend «secular» markets as opposed to the commonly - known
cyclical market trends that last about four years on average.
Not exact matches
The
trend can be seen in both the supply of and demand for
market - making services, and reflects both post-crisis
cyclical conditions (such as diminished bank risk appetite and strong bond issuance) and structural changes in the
markets themselves (such as tighter risk management or regulatory constraints).
After the third longest bull
market advance on record, fresh deterioration in key
trend - following components within our measures of
market internals (see Support Drops Away) recently joined this extended, overvalued, overbought, overbullish peak, even as the S&P 500 hovers at the top of its monthly Bollinger bands (two standard deviations above the 20 - period average) and
cyclical momentum rolls over from a 9 - year high.
Higher oil prices would reinforce current
market trends based on reflation: rising long - term bond yields and a shift out of perceived safer assets — bond proxies and low - volatility stocks — and into
cyclical assets such as EM.
From a sector perspective, we see investors are starting to rotate into more
cyclical parts of the stock
market, a
trend that we would endorse.
Cyclical markets, which often follow the business cycle, are shorter in duration and can move in opposition to the broader
trend.
Expert analyses, provided by some of the most reputable names in the business, help identify perceived
market trends,
cyclical opportunities, and / or risks in the
markets.
The point is that passive investors do not ignore that
markets experience
cyclical and secular
trends.
One of the problems with passive investing, Balance Junkie says, is that a «reliance on broad - based historical data ignores the fact that
markets experience both
cyclical and secular
trends over the long term.»
During secular bear
markets, there are shorter - term
cyclical bull (upside) moves, but the general
trend is sideways and down.
Within a secular
trend, there may be a number of shorter
cyclical bear and bull
markets.
Within these long
trends there are shorter
cyclical bull and bear
market trends that generally last 2 - 3 years.
Think of a secular
market as the primary long term
trend, while a
cyclical market is simply a shorter term cycle within the primary long term secular
market.
Evaluates structural, momentum and thematic factors from multiple global vantage points to define
market regimes that exist between secular and
cyclical trends
Factors that could cause Blizzard Entertainment's actual future results to differ materially from those expressed in the forward - looking statements set forth in this release include, but are not limited to, sales of Blizzard Entertainment's titles, shifts in consumer spending
trends, the seasonal and
cyclical nature of the interactive game
market, Blizzard Entertainment's ability to predict consumer preferences among competing hardware platforms (including next - generation hardware), declines in software pricing, product returns and price protection, product delays, retail acceptance of Blizzard Entertainment's products, adoption rate and availability of new hardware and related software, industry competition, rapid changes in technology and industry standards, protection of proprietary rights, litigation against Blizzard Entertainment, maintenance of relationships with key personnel, customers, vendors and third - party developers, domestic and international economic, financial and political conditions and policies, foreign exchange rates, integration of recent acquisitions and the identification of suitable future acquisition opportunities, Activision Blizzard's success in integrating the operations of Activision Publishing and Vivendi Games in a timely manner, or at all, and the combined company's ability to realize the anticipated benefits and synergies of the transaction to the extent, or in the timeframe, anticipated.
However, the message was loud and clear, a
cyclical global warming
trend may be coming to an end for a variety of reasons, and a new cooling cycle could impact the energy
markets in a big way.
Other shorter - term factors affecting
market fundamentals include
cyclical trends, such as broad macroeconomic conditions measured by metrics that include the jobless rate, employment growth, consumer confidence and the velocity of residential home sales.
Given the
cyclical nature of commercial real estate combined with current secular
trends shaping the
market, single - tenant real...