Sentences with phrase «equities have risen»

Global equities have risen alongside their U.S. counterparts this year as economic conditions around the world have improved.

In any case, due to the steady price gains home owners have seen, total home owner equity has risen by $ 760 billion so far this year.

Not exact matches

Since the Great Recession, fund managers have been talking about rising fixed - income yields and their impact on equities and, more specifically, dividend - paying companies.

If bond yields rise significantly then some analysts have highlighted that they could offer a better investment opportunity than equities.

In addition to catapulting EverFi into the ed tech big leagues, the fundraising round marks the debut deal for lead investor Rise, a newly established social impact investing fund managed by TPG Growth, a private equity firm that has also backed Internet hotshots like Uber and Airbnb.

Because for the past few years, many gold companies have nearly run their businesses — and their investors» equity — into the ground, despite an incredible rise in gold prices.

The equity markets have taken notice: the values of American apartment REITs have risen 72 % since early 2010.

The benchmark index for equity volatility rose to more than twice its level the day before, crushing bettors who'd gotten used to years of very low volatility.

One question swirling is whether rising interest rates would create a headwind for equities.

The agency commissioned a survey that found 720,000 families would struggle to make payments on their home - equity loans if interest rates rose by a mere 0.25 percent, and almost one million would be in trouble if borrowing costs rose a full percentage point.

The rise in bond yields, which investors fear could hurt equities, has been partly fuelled by the spike in crude oil prices, which on Tuesday crossed $ 75, boosting energy shares.

Commercial lending to businesses by banks is rising at a rate that far outpaces the loans they're making for mortgages and home equity lines of credit, but you wouldn't necessarily know that from speaking to some of the smallest businesses in the U.S.

World stocks rose 20 percent last year, significantly outpacing the average on bond markets, meaning the relative value of funds» equity holdings has increased without a single new share being bought.

Since the leveraged buyout, SRC's sales have grown 40 % per year and are expected to reach $ 42 million in fiscal 1986; net operating income has risen to 11 %; the debt - to - equity ratio has been cut from 89 - to - 1 to 5.1 - to - 1; and the appraised value of a share in the company's employee stock ownership plan has increased from 10?

The report said that equities have only come under pressure when the two - year Treasury yield rose above 3.5 percent.

The VC firms weren't taking any equity in Basis's parent company, Intangible Labs — they were just getting the Basis tokens, whose price, by design, would never rise.

«In the current environment, although inflation appears to be increasing, it's still not likely to cause 10 - year yields to rise to levels that would be problematic for equities.

Equity markets have had an ebullient 2017 with the S&P 500 rising 18.8 percent so far this year and the Nasdaq clocking a 27.7 percent gain.

Fast - rising home values have more homeowners sitting on newfound home equity.

Rather, its problems are related to the rise of fracking, which depressed the natural - gas prices that private - equity buyers had expected would climb and help the company boost revenue and service its debt.

On average, debt - to - equity ratios have been on the rise over the past two decades.

yields will hit the highs on close end of the day... equity markets setting up to be slammed tomorrow maybe but today they have run over weak shorts in the face of rates... the federal reserve see's this and again will wonder if they are behind on hikes, strong data, major expansion in credit, lack of wage growth rising bond yields and ballooning debt... rates will go much higher and equities will have revelations as to what that means for valuations

Equities really have had the best of all worlds these past few years, with earnings growth in the double digits and financial conditions remaining very accommodative, despite the recent rise in both short - and long - term interest rates.1 The combination of rising earnings growth and benign financial conditions is a powerful set of tailwinds which usually drives stock valuations higher.

«The housing market has taken a long time to adjust,» Chessen said, but «declining home equity delinquencies reflects a healthier housing market and rising home values.»

«In a nutshell, we're bullish on Japanese equities,» he says, adding that rising wages would most benefit sectors such as real estate, insurance and media.

The higher that stock prices rose, the more people thought that equities had little risk.

Global equity markets have risen to be nearly 50 per cent above the lows in early March this year.

The number of woman and minority - owned private equity firms had risen to 220 at mid-year, up from approximately 185 at the end of 2016.

A number of factors — such as rising US interest rates, the recurrence of big fluctuations in global currencies, and the widening dispersion of equity returns across sectors and regions — may have helped to create an increasingly conducive environment for hedge - fund strategies, which have seen a positive turnaround in performance in recent quarters.

Structural changes to the equities business over the last several years, such as the rise of electronic trading, have knocked off around $ 15 billion from the equities fee pool, according to a report from Morgan Stanley and management consulting firm Oliver Wyman.

They can offer the growth potential of stocks, a possible plus at a time when the economic environment and earnings are generally supportive of equities, as we've seen with the steady rise in indexes across most asset classes.

To the extent any rise in bond yields is modest and gradual, these same developments would be positive for equity markets.

The turnaround is in part due to policy initiatives such as debt - for - equity swaps that helped the largest banks deal with rising debt loads, and a widespread crackdown by the government on shadow banking that has given them an edge over smaller peers.

A portfolio that has more risky assets like equities tends to rise more in positive markets and suffer greater losses in negative markets.

An abrupt rise in interest rates, concerns about rising inflation, and a potentially more hawkish Federal Reserve have created an equity market tantrum that now has the Dow and S&P 500 Index in full correction territory (a correction is a price decline of between 10 % and 20 %).

For equity markets, the combination of low interest rates, strong economic growth and low inflation has proved very beneficial, with global share markets rising solidly in each of the past three years.

The fact that U.S. equity multiples have been consistently rising since 2011 suggests that markets are at greater risk for at least a modest correction following a rate hike.

With home values on the rise, many jumbo loan holders are using a refinance as an opportunity to tap into some of the equity they've built.

Cash transfers would likely trigger a rapid rise in equity markets, because earnings are currently cyclically depressed, so the asset price effect of cash transfers would likely be way more powerful than any impact of «small» amounts of QE.

Speculation that U.S. stocks have risen too far, too fast fueled losses earlier in the week as Raymond James & Associates Inc. said equities are vulnerable and Citigroup Inc.'s chief U.S. equity strategist cited concerns for a «severe» pullback.

Moreover, a sustained move toward higher inflation is a risk to most investors and investment strategies, given that rising inflation has historically been a drag on equity and bond returns, making diversification beyond mainstream asset classes more critical.

Among the awardees are partners who have risen through the ranks at highly reputable organizations, founders who have started their own growth equity firms, and up and comers who have demonstrated a mastery in growth investment deal making.

Many asset classes, notably U.S. equities, have benefited from years of rising valuations.

The long - short equity strategy generally has performed well in flat to rising equity markets that are driven by corporate fundamentals.4

These Australian equity hedge fund managers employ a variety of absolute return strategies that when combined produce a portfolio that has the ability to deliver positive performance irrespective of whether the equity market is rising or falling.

The relative value strategy generally has performed well during periods of equity market uncertainty and in flat to rising bond markets.6

My point is that if you're under 40 - 45 and don't have much capital, it's a suboptimal strategy in a rising market to have the majority of your equity portfolio in dividend stocks.

By Claire Milhench (Reuters)- Global investors» equity holdings rose to six - month highs in December on bets that U.S. President - elect Donald Trump's promised fiscal splurge would spur higher growth and inflation, a Reuters monthly poll showed on Thursday.

Rising house prices and the accompanying wealth effect, courtesy of ballooning equity lines of credit, have kept the economy from faltering as business spending retrenches and exports disappoint — last year real estate was by far the largest contributor to GDP in seven of 10 provinces, including B.C. and Ontario.

Finally, Chinese stocks (measured by the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index) have trailed their Brazilian counterparts (measured by the Ibovespa Index) and moved in lock step with Russian equities (represented by the MICEX Index) since late January, based on Bloomberg data, and their low valuations are poised to potentially rise in a risk - on environment.