A clear breakdown below the last major swing lows in the main stock market indexes would make for a very tough
year for the equities markets, but it would not be very surprising.
I agree with Michael Comeau with a twist... this may end up being
good for the equity markets eventually, but in the short run, it is a negative.
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.
While converters continue to pay higher prices for properties, home buyers continue to spend more for condos, says John Goldsworthy, director of
marketing for Equity Marketing Services in Miami, a firm that has handled the sales and marketing of 130 condominium developments since 1980.
Alongside this USD trade volume commanded quite a bit of trading but since the recent U.S. tax
cuts for equities markets, new money has likely jumped to those investment vehicles.
Now, with baby boomers streaming into their retirement years and a smaller cohort to replace them, the
prospects for equity markets — both in North America and around the world — look to be compromised.
The latest six - week period covered in our Industry Price Performance rankings stretched from July 29th to September 9th and was a relatively favorable
run for the equity markets.
The secondary indicators (sentiment) we mentioned as a concern in our 2017 year - end commentary (see Tactical Trend, Q4 2017) proved to be a bit too
much for the equity markets to digest during Q1.
Longer term, we do not think an increase in interest rates would necessarily be a
negative for equity markets, particularly because a return to normal rates would be regarded as a sign of the Fed's confidence in the strength of the US economy and its belief that the economy could stand on its own.
There are too many people who are little better than
cheerleaders for the equity markets, and think that the Fed should cater its policy for the good of public equity shareholders.
The cost of buying default protection on the largest bond market borrowers in the S&P 500 is tracked by the S&P / ISDA U.S. 150 Credit Spread Index and has fallen to lows which can be an indicator of
strength for the equity markets.
The RealBeta ™ of the portfolio was slightly lower than one because Alpholio ™ uses a broad - based equity ETF, which includes mid - and small - cap stocks, as a
proxy for the equity market.
Robust consumer spending is typically a friendly
factor for the equity market, and may provide a reason to maintain equity exposure, in my view, despite high equity valuations seen over the past year and the lack of any significant market correction.
There is a feeling that bond yields above 3 % will make bonds far more attractive than equities, and rising yields could lead to a serious
downdraft for equity markets.
When a high CAPE mean reverts toward the historical norm, the resulting forward return
for the equity market falls meaningfully below average.2
The best measures we have of forward - looking long - term return
projections for the equity markets, what I call «leading investment indicators» (PE10, dividend yields, Q, market cap - to - GDP, interest rates), are very negative.
One of the two main stock indices used in India, the Nifty 50 is India's benchmark stock market
index for their equity market listed on their National Stock Exchange (NSE).
Recently, I posted a piece a number of readers asked me to write: The Fundamentals of Market Bottoms, where I concluded we weren't yet at a
bottom for the equity markets.
25 SEP 2017 - Paul Russo, co-COO of the Equities Franchise in the Goldman Sachs Securities Division, explains how technological change and regulatory reform helped develop a growing class of institutional investors - systematic traders - and what a rising interest rate environment could
mean for the equity markets.
It is similar to a Recurring Deposit (RD) in a bank, but the difference is that your money will be invested in a Mutual Fund scheme, which may mean it is
headed for the equity markets or debt instruments.
While today, choppy trading is expected with a likely bullish bias, tomorrow's session could be another key
one for equity markets, with the Dollar and Treasuries being in the center of attention.
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.