Sentences with phrase «economy than the stock market»

Typically, the property we buy is local and it is more of an insulated investment and less impacted by what happens to the Greek or Spanish economy than the stock market.

Not exact matches

It looks like 401 (k) retirement savers are doing better than ever — and they have a strong economy and strong stock market to thank.

Asian stock markets rose to their highest level in more than four months on Thursday, helped by optimism in the global banking sector and hopes of stabilisation in the China's economy.

European stock markets in London, Frankfurt and Paris closed lower on Wednesday on worries China's economy is struggling more than previously thought.

In fact, stock market weakness generally has less impact on the real economy than real estate weakness.

The November 2013 Wells Fargo / Gallup Investor and Retirement Optimism Index survey found investors more confident in the stock market than in other aspects of the economy; still, fewer than four in 10 said the stock market is an excellent or good way for average Americans to grow their assets.

Leverage in both our economy and the stock market is higher than ever, fueled by liquidity created by the Fed.

Trends Credit Ratings More than six years after the housing market crashed — dragging the world economy and stock markets down with it — Standard & Poor's settled in early February with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its alleged part in triggering the meltdown.

More than six years after the housing market crashed — dragging the world economy and stock markets down with it — Standard & Poor's settled in early February with the Securities and Exchange Commission for its alleged part in triggering the meltdown.

These elements are turning China into a more sophisticated, more domestically focused economy and will have a far bigger effect on China's prospects — and indeed on world prospects — than the short - term gyrations of the much - manipulated Chinese stock market.

Bill Adams, PNC senior international economist, and Bill Stone, chief investment strategist for PNC Asset Management, explain how China's economy affects the United States and why our own stock market ups and downs are influenced less by China than many people think.

The eighth sure thing was that, with non-U.S. developed market and emerging market economies generally growing at a slower pace than the U.S. economy (and with many emerging markets hurt by weak commodity prices, slower growth in China's economy, the Fed tightening monetary policy and a rising dollar), international developed market stocks would underperform U.S. stocks in 2017.

And then there is the game in the stock exchanges of the financial markets, global speculation, more than 2,000 billion dollars is exchanged every day and scarcely 5 % represents the real economy.

This activity has been spurred by the prevailing market ideology, by the concomitant deregulation of the financial markets and the growth of the financial services industry and by the combination of a, fairly sluggish economy with a hot stock market that encourages paper profiteering rather than investment in plant and product.

Economically effective management, access to high - value markets and having other income opportunities often play a larger role in human outcomes than stock health, especially in communities where fishing is a large share of the economy.»

When the economy is expanding, earnings tend to grow across the market and in such an environment, investors historically could purchase value cyclical stocks at a much more attractive price than evergreen growth stocks.

The picture it paints of the economy is far better than what one might assume from the stock market's recent gyrations — but probably not good enough to support another increase in the Fed funds rate this month.

The average US investor holds 70 % of her equities in American stocks, but the US makes up more than 40 % of the global markets, and its economy is the most diversified in the world.

Why rising home prices are more important than the stock market for the economy.

In my small unique book «The small stock trader» I also had more detailed overview of tens of stock trading mistakes (http://thesmallstocktrader.wordpress.com/2012/06/25/stock-day-trading-mistakessinceserrors-that-cause-90-of-stock-traders-lose-money/): • EGO (thinking you are a walking think tank, not accepting and learning from you mistakes, etc.) • Lack of passion and entering into stock trading with unrealistic expectations about the learning time and performance, without realizing that it often takes 4 - 5 years to learn how it works and that even +50 % annual performance in the long run is very good • Poor self - esteem / self - knowledge • Lack of focus • Not working ward enough and treating your stock trading as a hobby instead of a small business • Lack of knowledge and experience • Trying to imitate others instead of developing your unique stock trading philosophy that suits best to your personality • Listening to others instead of doing your own research • Lack of recordkeeping • Overanalyzing and overcomplicating things (Zen - like simplicity is the key) • Lack of flexibility to adapt to the always / quick - changing stock market • Lack of patience to learn stock trading properly, wait to enter into the positions and let the winners run (inpatience results in overtrading, which in turn results in high transaction costs) • Lack of stock trading plan that defines your goals, entry / exit points, etc. • Lack of risk management rules on stop losses, position sizing, leverage, diversification, etc. • Lack of discipline to stick to your stock trading plan and risk management rules • Getting emotional (fear, greed, hope, revenge, regret, bragging, getting overconfident after big wins, sheep - like crowd - following behavior, etc.) • Not knowing and understanding the competition • Not knowing the catalysts that trigger stock price changes • Averaging down (adding to losers instead of adding to winners) • Putting your stock trading capital in 1 - 2 or more than 6 - 7 stocks instead of diversifying into about 5 stocks • Bottom / top fishing • Not understanding the specifics of short selling • Missing this market / industry / stock connection, the big picture, and only focusing on the specific stocks • Trying to predict the market / economy instead of just listening to it and going against the trend instead of following it

The reality is that the stock market is often very different than the economy which brings us to the next law of investing...

Today, New York Life holds more than $ 425 billion in assets under management — and it has set many financial records throughout the past several years — even given the state of the volatile stock market and unsettled economy.

Always keep an eye on stock markets and the world economy, they're constantly shifting and more often than not have repercussions on the stocks in your portfolio.

But despite the plunging stock market and dismal economy, we are still a bit richer than we were back in 2000.

You can't accept you're not smarter than the market No matter how much you know about business or the economy, you can be sure that countless others know the same things and have already assimilated them into stock prices.

Investing in the stock market as a whole though, as index funds do, means you're effectively investing in the American economy (and even larger than that, since we have plenty of global companies).

Binary options depends upon world economy more than stock markets do.

We investors have been doing well the past few years as the economy and stock market recovered from the Great Recession, When in a bull market, the probability of making mistakes becomes lower than when one is in a volatile or bear market.

True diversification requires more than just stock investing: remember that index funds only go up when the entire economy goes up — and we have happened to enjoy a 25 year joyride of amazing overall market returns.

So yes, everyone is talking about «a bubble» and we all understand why: the U.S. stock market could be trading higher than what underlying fundamentals support (like how fast or slow the economy is growing), but it doesn't mean that there isn't more room on the upside before things head back down.

You have a great blog and are clearly very bright and above many of your peers in the finance industry.As you know, when the market goes down, it pretty much takes everything down with it and small caps have been hit even harder.Everyone feels dumb when the prices of their stocks decline and feels smart and vindicated when prices turnaround and shoot up.We are living in challenging times and the macro is likely to affect future stockmarket performance affecting 80 % of all stocks for a long time to come.Stocks as part ownership of businesses are affected by the global economy.In the meantime, most stock prices have been gyrating based more on Mr Market's emotions of how various economies will emerge than anythingmarket goes down, it pretty much takes everything down with it and small caps have been hit even harder.Everyone feels dumb when the prices of their stocks decline and feels smart and vindicated when prices turnaround and shoot up.We are living in challenging times and the macro is likely to affect future stockmarket performance affecting 80 % of all stocks for a long time to come.Stocks as part ownership of businesses are affected by the global economy.In the meantime, most stock prices have been gyrating based more on Mr Market's emotions of how various economies will emerge than anythingMarket's emotions of how various economies will emerge than anything else.

Gyrating stock values, slumping oil prices, turmoil in foreign currency markets, predictions of slow growth or even deflation abroad... Suddenly, the outlook for the global economy and financial markets looks far different — and much dicier — than just a few months ago.

With all the negative talk in the press about how poor the economy has been over the last two years, many people might be surprised to learn that the stock market has more than doubled in value since the «Great Recession» of 2008.

the European periphery is a bubble («The Euro crisis is not over... the European economies are not going to change for the better for years to come despite all the cheating and breaking of laws»), Value investors need to venture to Russia («when you look at today's opportunity set, you're left with a set of assets where nothing looks attractive from a valuation point of view») or buy gold mining stocks -LRB-» The down cycle could be much bigger than anybody believes if the market realizes that all the actions taken in recent years do not work.»)

In the short run, stock markets can perform better than the economies they represent and the companies that make them up.

This methodology creates a representative portfolio, weighted to mirror the look, and composition of the publicly traded economy, rather than the look and composition of the stock market.»

Emerging economies might offer greater growth potential than advanced economies, but the stocks of companies located in emerging markets could be substantially more volatile, risky, and less liquid than the stocks of companies located in more developed foreign markets.

Given the tentative state of the stock markets and the national economy, this should prove to be quite a test of the contemporary art market, although this evening sale really consists of more post-war modern masters than «contemporary» artists although it does have works by Jeff Koons (b. 1955) and Robert Gober (b. 1954).

More than three quarters (79 %) would prefer that the underlying economy grow through 2017 rather than the stock market continue to strengthen.

«The significant rise in home values and the stock market at record highs are why a majority of homeowners, as well as those with incomes above $ 100,000, are more optimistic about the economy than renters and those with lower incomes,» Yun says.

No one can accurately predict where airfares are heading, any more than we can predict the stock market, because we have no idea when the economy will improve, or how much airlines will cut back capacity, or when the next flu epidemic will hit or where fuel prices are going.

Mortgage rates are at the mercy of the US and global economies so predicting their direction is no different than predicting how the stock market will do.