Sentences with phrase «equity market index earnings»

Setting all that aside, if we assume that profit margins of domestic businesses are, say, 30 percent higher than where they should be and will be, then we also need to figure out what percentage of equity market index earnings come from domestic operations.

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NEW YORK, April 30 - Global stock indexes were flat to slightly higher after upbeat earnings and deal news on Monday, while the U.S. «If the previous several weeks of earnings season are any indication, corporate results should continue to act as a buffer to any meaningful turn lower in equity markets,»...

All markets will continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration, corporate earnings, oil prices, and will turn to reports tomorrow on Japan's Leading Index and Machine Tool Orders, German IFO, US Case - Shiller Home Price Index, New Home Sales, Richmond Fed and Consumer Confidence for near term guidance.

All markets will continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration, corporate earnings, oil prices, and will turn to this afternoon's Commitment of Traders Report, followed by reports Monday on Chinese PMI, German CPI and Retail Sales, US Personal Income, Personal Spending, PCE, Chicago PMI, Pending Home Sales, and the Dallas Fed's Manufacturing Index for near term direction.

Even after a year that saw major stock market indexes simply tread water, equities are by many accounts considered expensive, challenged by rising interest rates and a less - than - stellar outlook for corporate earnings.

However, given the good run of the equity indices over the last five years and the advanced stage of the bull market, Charles Schwab's revenues and earnings will take a hit as soon as equity indices are tanking.

The key criteria for a stock to figure in bellwether indices are its free float, market capitalisation and impact costs, not the company's return on equity, cash flows or earnings growth.

The earliest and most widely adopted forms of smart beta have been equity index portfolios that are weighted by factors such as price to earnings or dividend yield, rather than by traditional market capitalization.

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When the index is high, it means either the equity market is attractive relative bonds or that the market isn't pricing in much earnings growth.

Matt Barasch, Canadian equity strategist at RBC Capital Markets, noted that Canadian banks, which account for nearly a quarter of the weighting in the benchmark equity index, generate approximately half of their average earnings from net interest margins.

Figure 5 displays the relationship between real global 10 - year equity returns7 (represented by the S&P 500, MSCI EAFE, and MSCI Emerging Market indices) and the average of the starting dividend and trailing 12 - month earnings yields.

Lured by a sharp rally in the benchmark sensitive index (Sensex), a large number of traders have squared off their position in the commodity market and invested their earnings in shares to take a pie of growing equity markets.