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Major Asian equity markets pointed higher on Monday, extending a New Year's rally and shooting for new all - time highs.

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At a minimum, we look for a 400 - basis - point annual excess return over the public equity markets.

by Morgan Stanley equity analyst Ricky Goldwasser and colleagues, points out that the regulatory barriers to entry here are relatively low and that the various markets for dispensing drugs are both fragmented and huge.

LONDON, Jan 31 (Reuters)- Global investors trimmed equity holdings by 1.2 percentage points in January, concerned that markets have grown complacent after a thundering bull run and seeing risks of an inflation wake - up call.

LONDON, Jan 31 - Global investors trimmed equity holdings by 1.2 percentage points in January, concerned that markets have grown complacent after a thundering bull run and seeing risks of an inflation wake - up call.

The first quarter of 2018 proved significantly more volatile for equity markets, with both the Dow Jones industrial average and the S&P 500 falling into correction territory at one point.

A sharp sell off in the equity market «exerts a significant drag on world growth» in the period that follows, according to Deutsche Bank, with real GDP reduced by about 0.5 percentage points.

«If we see 3.0 percent next week that is going to spook people more - the equity market psyche is fragile at this point.»

For the past year or more, many investors suggested that fundamentals were improving, but that the equity market was overvalued at current levels and investors should use pullbacks in the market as entry points to invest.

Still, the session was very choppy with the NSE index falling as much as 1.8 % at one point and rising as much as 1.5 %, with sentiment still weak because of continued worries about a downturn in Chinese equity markets.

He points to a stronger dollar, fiscal retrenchment in the European Union, improving equity market confidence, and an exit strategy from the Federal Reserve forecasting a federal funds rate hike well before late 2014 as significant factors driving gold lower.

Company is raising $ 1 billion in equity to fund the purchase of Blue Buffalo Pet Products; the market does not appear to be crazy about the deal at this point.

Your equity would be defined in each cashflowed home, cash flow of repairs outside of owned properties, as well as equity upon sell of some, or liquidation of all homes at any point as deemed most profitable timing as the market improves.

The point is, you need something sending greenbacks your way when the equity markets fall apart from time to time — which they will — so you can take advantage of it.

In addition, I would point out that equities are purchased and traded by private individuals, who inherently have time value of money and liquidity preferences that are also priced into equities, given their specific limitations and characteristics (e.g., in the event of a stock market crash, liquidity may disappear at the exact moment it is most desired, and therefore the risk of that lack of liquidity is priced into the equity).

Goldman also pointed to some technical factors producing headwinds that are normalizing, including pressure on short - term funding markets due to repatriation of cash parked in short - term credit, and reduced appetite for selling equity volatility.

Investors are more protected against a sharp fall in equity markets than at any other point since October 2008 amid Fed worries and geopolitical fears, according to a Bank of America / Merrill Lynch survey.

From this point forward, even Ben Bernanke knows that aside from some extreme type of measure that the economic effects and the effects on equity markets and bond markets are going to be limited.

Nevertheless, select currency ETFs such as $ EUO or commodity ETFs like $ DZZ (both pointed out as potential pullback entries in the May 21 issue of our newsletter) could be nice plays because they have a low correlation to the direction of the overall equities markets.

At this point, obscene equity valuations are already baked in the cake on valuation measures that are reliably correlated with actual subsequent stock market returns.

We've had some market volatility this year that we've seen that may make some investors uncomfortable, but the reality of it is, the conversations we were having up to this point is, make sure you rebalance your portfolio to make sure that you're not taking on too much equity risk, and that your asset allocation is aligned to meet your goals.

Equity markets were down sharply in overnight trade, with Dow Jones futures pointing to a decline of 300 points or more at the open.

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.

As far as fundamental drivers in the equities market, there's no data point that generates quite so as much buzz as quarterly earnings reports, specifically revenue and earnings per share (EPS).

«Whereas 80 % of beer companies» consumers are male, cider is gender - neutral, opening up a market in which beer players have struggled,» a 2011 Nomura Equity Research report explained — while also pointing out that a typical case of cider ($ 35) costs more than craft beer ($ 33) or imported beer ($ 29).

Bonds seem as yet unable to see what the fuss is all about, but at this point it is important to ask ourselves whether the equity market sell - off is going to bleed into the fixed income world anytime soon.

I think that will be a key point for equity markets going into 2017, and while we remain constructive on the US market, we believe there's also an opportunity to pass the baton from the US equity market in terms of global market leadership.

It's still not great, of course, and as far as traditional equities markets go, a cost 50 % decline is a disaster, but in the cryptocurrency markets, and especially against the backdrop of the bloodbath we have seen across other points over the last few weeks, it's a drop in the ocean.

One final point: Market structure is highly skewed towards long equities and short volatility.

We are at a tipping point in many emerging markets where resources and exports are no longer the primary drivers of growth and of the equity markets.

Futures Point to Full Week of Gains After Sharp Correction US equity markets could end the week with a full house of gains as long as indices manage to hold onto the small gains being seen in futures ahead of the open.

At that point our psyches were screeching like fingernails down a blackboard as the major world equity markets slid into bear market territory1.

They earn additional points when a savings or money market account, mortgage, home equity loan or HELOC, or personal loan is linked to the checking account.

As we pointed out in our post last week, a withdrawal rate strategy should respond to market factors like equity valuations and bond yields as well as personal factors like age, retirement horizon, and expectations about pension and Social Security benefits.

But if you are going to try to strategically manage your equity exposure, then watching how investors treat cash at any point in time might be a useful tactic (alongside monitoring dividend yields and the average market P / E).

This comparison points to the deeper imbalances that brought on the US recession in the first place — namely, the equity market correction, balance - sheet stress in the US corporate sector, low profitability, and an investment overhang, particularly in Information Technology (IT) and communications, all of which weighed on the ability of US businesses to invest.

Among the evidence that would shift our expectations in this regard would be: material equity market deterioration, further weakness in regional Fed and purchasing managers indices, a slowing in real personal income, a spike in new claims for unemployment toward the 340,000 level, an abrupt drop in consumer confidence about 10 - 20 points below its 12 - month average, and at least some amount of slowing in employment growth and aggregate hours worked.

It's awareness of historical context that is important in terms of elevating risk management at any point in time, since equity market valuations are guideposts.

Yet, despite the many bulls claiming low volatility is historically normal, and therefore not a warning sign, evidence is beginning to mount that U.S. equity markets may be near a volatility - driven tipping point.

While some observers will point to recent equity market volatility as a sign that investors should remain defensive when selecting stocks in the region, Philippe Brugere - Trelat, executive vice president and portfolio manager, Franklin Mutual Series ®, says he's encouraged by recent developments.

However, when equity market volatility increases to a point that makes us uncomfortable, it is often this stable part of our portfolio that quells the inclination to make rash decisions, allowing us to stick with our asset allocations when times get tough.

[TOTO] TOTO points out a number of things that should bias investors toward risk - bearing in the equity markets:

Given the present equity market distress, should we assume that the FOMC will do more than 50 basis points in January?

On average, from the year before announcement to the year after, total payout increases by 0.3 - 0.5 percentage points (as a percentage of the market value of equity, relative to an all - sample mean of 2.2 percentage points), and book value leverage increases by 1.3 - 1.4 percentage points (relative to an all - sample mean of 33.5 percentage points).

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I think your point about using CAPE across countries as a way of allocating money across global equity markets is a good one but it does draw on the cross sectional version of mean reversion, not the time version that many in the market are using CAPE for right now.

Historically, people exit the bond market and jump into equities when interest rates climb by a percentage point.

This lack of liquidity is actually the reason why Dwellxchange launched its secondary selling market — an online portal that allows crowdfunding real estate investors to buy and sell their equity portions minus a 25 basis point fee.

With a management fee of just 0.12 % (the MER will be a few basis points higher), VCN is now the cheapest broad - market Canadian equity index fund available.

To illustrate our point, we looked at the S&P 500 to represent equity performance and the Agg to represent bond market performance, both YTD through February 8, 2016.