Sentences with phrase «event of a market drop»

Many people make the mistake of replacing bonds with preferred shares in their portfolio for the increase in yield, but as the charts above show that is a grave mistake as it exposes you to a lot more downside in the event of a market drop.

Not exact matches

That's why during a recession, you want a lot of cash, cash equivalents, or access to money in some way at your disposal in the event that you lose your job, the stock market crashes and you don't want to sell your shares at depressed prices, you suffer a pay cut of some sort, are disabled, or you own a business and sales start to drop.

If the market was «certain to crash» in the event that Bear Stearns failed, then the market is certain to crash anyway, because Bear Stearns wasn't the last shoe to drop - it was one of the first.

But in the event of a housing market drop or crash, those who bought most recently with high - leveraged mortgages will be underwater quickly.

When stocks decline steeply with no related news events to set - off the price - drop — and when one of the largest individual holders, Leon Cooperman, is unloading shares — it's the market's way of signalling problems not yet recognized by the peanut gallery.

We don't know whether this qualifies as a black swan event, but a drop of more than 4 % during a bull market is indeed very rare.

Luckily for me, I honestly wasn't aware of the drop in the market simply because my mind was to say the least preoccupied with other life events, so when I opened up my brokerage account for the first time in weeks I was pretty surprised.

At a 13 June event at AAAS headquarters in Washington D.C., experts described examples of harmful drugs and devices that had reached the market and suggested that the bar to public safety has dropped below an acceptable level.

Indeed, Paramount just did the same thing with The Cloverfield Paradox, a film that was dropped out of the blue online after the SuperBowl, in a bravura piece of event marketing by Netflix.

When you buy an individual stock, you put a relatively large chunk of capital to work, which exposes you to the occasional bombshell, whether it's a bad earnings report, a big drop in the market or a random company - specific event that brings out the sellers.

It seems like unfortunate timing that what should have been one of the biggest news events in the DIY investing space since the commission drop by RBC Direct Investing in January of 2014 actually got eclipsed by the major market meltdowns.

The cause of the massive stock market drop can not be attributed to any single news event because no major news event was released the weekend preceding the crash.

For example, an adverse event, such as an unfavorable earnings report, may depress the value of equity securities of an issuer held by the Fund; the price of common stock of an issuer may be particularly sensitive to general movements in the stock market; or a drop in the stock market may depress the price of most or all of the common stocks and other equity securities held by the Fund.

If the market was «certain to crash» in the event that Bear Stearns failed, then the market is certain to crash anyway, because Bear Stearns wasn't the last shoe to drop - it was one of the first.

While of course a tragedy and sad event, there were probably people who made money buying on the immediate drop, because the market did recover within a few weeks — back to old levels.

During a side event of the Nintendo Gamers Summit, Vice President of Marketing George Harrison commented on whether or not Nintendo would drop the price of the GameCube.

The news reports differ on what events are emphasized depending on what coverage you look at (and if you look to John McAfee for causation, you'll note the market drop was all because of J.P. Morgan spiking fears about potential government bans).