The fed could take rates negative and do more QE which would potentially
drive asset prices further.
Changes in expectations can move prices wildly even with little change in the economic variables that should
drive asset prices, such as inflation or company earnings.
Ultimately, it is investors changing their asset allocations that
drive asset prices.
We expect his actions can and will
drive asset prices to crazy levels.
Central banks have been the only game in town for years now,
driving asset prices higher with the help of interest rate cuts and quantitative easing (QE) programs.
Monetary policy may have reached the limits of its effectiveness in
driving asset prices.
They're
driving asset prices through the roof.
What
drives asset prices?
Our research shows that it is not a single risk - free rate that
drives asset pricing, but rather the entire term structure of interest rates (also referred to as the shape of the yield curve; we use these terms interchangeably).
Not exact matches
Three years ago Druckenmiller was negative about U.S. and Chinese actions, yet he still felt
asset prices could be
driven higher.
It is created by a surge in
asset prices unwarranted by the fundamentals of the
asset and
driven by exuberant market behavior.
asset prices,
driven up by over-optimism about profit potential, spill over into investment decisions;
«Institutional investors and other long - term funds have already unloaded Toshiba shares, so currently the stock
price is being
driven by short - term investors,» said Takatoshi Itoshima, chief portfolio manager at Commons
Asset Management.
Important factors that may affect the Company's business and operations and that may cause actual results to differ materially from those in the forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to, increased competition; the Company's ability to maintain, extend and expand its reputation and brand image; the Company's ability to differentiate its products from other brands; the consolidation of retail customers; the Company's ability to predict, identify and interpret changes in consumer preferences and demand; the Company's ability to
drive revenue growth in its key product categories, increase its market share, or add products; an impairment of the carrying value of goodwill or other indefinite - lived intangible
assets; volatility in commodity, energy and other input costs; changes in the Company's management team or other key personnel; the Company's inability to realize the anticipated benefits from the Company's cost savings initiatives; changes in relationships with significant customers and suppliers; execution of the Company's international expansion strategy; changes in laws and regulations; legal claims or other regulatory enforcement actions; product recalls or product liability claims; unanticipated business disruptions; failure to successfully integrate the Company; the Company's ability to complete or realize the benefits from potential and completed acquisitions, alliances, divestitures or joint ventures; economic and political conditions in the nations in which the Company operates; the volatility of capital markets; increased pension, labor and people - related expenses; volatility in the market value of all or a portion of the derivatives that the Company uses; exchange rate fluctuations; disruptions in information technology networks and systems; the Company's inability to protect intellectual property rights; impacts of natural events in the locations in which the Company or its customers, suppliers or regulators operate; the Company's indebtedness and ability to pay such indebtedness; the Company's dividend payments on its Series A Preferred Stock; tax law changes or interpretations;
pricing actions; and other factors.
It's a counterfeiting currency cartel problem
driving prices of
assets up.
These risks and uncertainties include food safety and food - borne illness concerns; litigation; unfavorable publicity; federal, state and local regulation of our business including health care reform, labor and insurance costs; technology failures; failure to execute a business continuity plan following a disaster; health concerns including virus outbreaks; the intensely competitive nature of the restaurant industry; factors impacting our ability to
drive sales growth; the impact of indebtedness we incurred in the RARE acquisition; our plans to expand our newer brands like Bahama Breeze and Seasons 52; our ability to successfully integrate Eddie V's restaurant operations; a lack of suitable new restaurant locations; higher - than - anticipated costs to open, close or remodel restaurants; increased advertising and marketing costs; a failure to develop and recruit effective leaders; the
price and availability of key food products and utilities; shortages or interruptions in the delivery of food and other products; volatility in the market value of derivatives; general macroeconomic factors, including unemployment and interest rates; disruptions in the financial markets; risk of doing business with franchisees and vendors in foreign markets; failure to protect our service marks or other intellectual property; a possible impairment in the carrying value of our goodwill or other intangible
assets; a failure of our internal controls over financial reporting or changes in accounting standards; and other factors and uncertainties discussed from time to time in reports filed by Darden with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
«Large flows [from indexing] can impart a momentum effect,
driving narrowing
prices in certain
assets higher.
Time will tell if central bank tightening will break correlations that have long been known to traditional 60/40 long - only managers, but if this reality materialises, LO could potentially withstand the turbulence from its commitment to focus on investing specifically in various factors that
drive prices rather than in
asset classes and sectors.
Lastly, as noted in BCA's 2014 outlook report: In a liquidity trap, where interest rates reach the zero boundary, the linkage between monetary policy and the real economy is
asset markets: zero short rates act to subsidize corporate profits,
drive up
asset prices and encourage risk - taking.
Monetary policy can
drive up
asset prices and create a bubble, Mr. Stiglitz said in an interview, «but consumption isn't going to go up.
This skepticism about the future — even with
asset prices rising — has created a negative feedback loop,
driving investors to safe harbors such as cash, bonds, gold and yield - generating securities thereby reducing demand, inflation and growth in an ongoing vicious cycle.
Too much money printing and debt expansion
drove the
prices of all
asset classes to artificial, non-economic levels.
The joint venture will take up closed - ended municipal - bond funds in the next year or so that when the predicted bond market collapse comes, it will
drive fund
prices down to as little as 40 % of net
asset value.
Indeed, because all of this yield seeking has
driven a persistent uptrend in speculative
assets in recent years, investors seem to believe that «QE just makes
prices go up» in a way that ensures a permanent future of diagonally escalating
prices.
The
asset inflation that results can
drive widespread
price increases.
The insatiable search for yield has
driven many income
assets to high valuations, but dividend growers are still attractively
priced at 13.4 times forward earnings, our analysis shows.
In this new age of fiat money, credit growth
drives economic growth, liquidity determines the direction of
asset prices and the government controls both through aggressive policy intervention.
For one, cheap funding and higher
asset prices have
driven the recovery.
The main reason for the slowdown was subdued growth in dwelling
prices, and hence dwelling
assets, although strong growth in household financial
assets,
driven by rising equity
prices, offset this to some extent.
It's therefore unlikely that the new regulations in China allowing for the purchase of foreign financial
assets will
drive prices higher, even if all $ 70 billion of the recently raised
assets find their way into gold ETFs, such as the oldest and biggest of them all, the SPDR Gold Shares (NYSEArca: GLD).
It will be interesting to see whether farmers will be
driven purely by
price or other factors will come into play, such as preferring to be part of an Australian - owned operator such as Bega Cheese, which has been widely tipped in the media as an interested party for a full takeover or some key
assets.
Colliers International agribusiness valuer Nick Cranna said rising cotton, dairy and beef
prices had all
driven increased appetite for these rural
assets.
Launched while Japan was in a recession following the 1991 collapse of the Japanese
asset price bubble, this generation Taurus was exported to Japan in limited numbers, and sold at Japanese auto dealerships called Autorama (a joint venture with Mazda), where the sedan and wagon versions with right - hand
driving positions until 1997.
While it's true that commodities have cratered of late, it's possible to construct a real
asset portfolio that's not entirely
driven by commodity
prices.
Changes in expectations
drive prices, and unless you are clever enough to divine the future, perhaps the best you can do is search for places where those expectations are too low, and tuck some of those
assets away for a better day.
A healthier economy also means stronger corporate earnings, which
drive stock
prices, says Jim McDonald, chief investment strategist at Northern Trust
Asset Management.
Without increases in real wages or
asset prices to
drive consumer spending growth, and business profits damped by high input
prices, the only bright spot I can envisage will be the US export sector, which benefits from a weak US dollar.
The first model that initiated the conversation on factor investing was the Capital
Asset Pricing Model (CAPM) suggesting that a single factor — market exposure —
drives the risk and return of a stock.
In percentage terms, target - date products make up roughly 24 % of T. Rowe
Price's
assets under management, twice the percentage at the end of 2010, largely
driven by 401 (k) wins.
We do not try to predict or judge the
prices of individual stocks; instead, we focus on a data -
driven, risk - based division of capital across broad
asset classes.
The insatiable search for yield has
driven many income
assets to high valuations, but dividend growers are still attractively
priced at 13.4 times forward earnings, our analysis shows.
This
drives prices up substantially over a short period of time and leads to the
asset being overvalued until the market corrects.
They make other
asset classes look relatively more attractive and
drive the
prices of equities, property and bonds higher.
Inflation or oil
prices may
drive some while overheated economics or
asset overvaluation awakens others.
When investors are seeking risk - free
assets (i.e. bad times), the
price of Treasuries goes up and
drives interest rates down.
Prices are not determined by the net
asset value (NAV) of the fund, but are
driven by investor demand.
Crises lead to a failure of both ideas, together with a set of forced sellers
driving down the
price of
assets being repo - ed, which sometimes leads to a cascade where repo terms get progressively tighter, and only those that were the most conservative at the start of the crisis survive.
With increased levels of volatility, a rising dollar and a potential bottoming of commodity
prices, investors jumped into each of those categories in February,
driving up
assets in each by $ $ 527 million (volatility), $ 389 million (currencies) and $ 657 million (commodities), respectively.
In value investing,
asset allocation is
driven more by
price considerations and less by predicting outlooks.
The yield on the two - year Treasury dropped 0.28 percentage points, the most since 2008, signalling investors were
driving prices up as they rushed to buy the safe - haven
asset (bond yields and
prices move inverse to each other.