Buffett lamented in 2010 that he didn't buy more corporate and municipal bonds
during the credit crisis when yields made the securities «ridiculously cheap» compared with U.S. Treasuries.
It allowed him to do very well
during the credit crisis when many of the CDS positions he had soared.
Not exact matches
Average
credit scores most recently bottomed out at 686,
during the housing
crisis when there was a sharp increase in foreclosures.
«Economic stabilisers» are social security payments, and wage and housing subsidies (tax
credits and housing benefit) that rise
when labour markets are weak and wages stagnate
during economic
crises.
As investors learned
during the
credit crisis,
when the stock market gets really grumpy, no amount of diversification is going to save you.
Pfizer and General Electric, for instance, both carried top - notch
credit ratings
when they cut their payouts
during the financial
crisis.
Many car manufacturers got out of leasing in 2008
during the global financial
crisis when credit markets seized.
Now, it didn't help that I was seeking
credit during the financial
crisis of 2008,
when every institution was tightening its lending policies, but I couldn't even get a Target store
credit card (I had to settle for their debit card) and had to submit extra «identifying documents» to create a PayPal account.
But it is worth noting that
when the
credit crisis of the past several years caused private - sector lenders to begin backing away from the student loan market, the government already found itself having to step in to fill the void and the percentage of direct loans grew considerably
during the recent economic downturn.
Managed futures strategies are generally expected to perform well
during times of
crisis, such as
during the 2008
credit crisis, and
when there are strong directional trends in markets, such as those we have seen in the past year with oil prices and the US dollar.