In the former, the idea is to make as much money as possible
from rising asset prices (or, if you like, falling asset prices for the shorters out there).
Not exact matches
The
price gap behind the
rise of cross-border airfare shopping, according to Tae Oum, a professor at the University of B.C., stems
from Canada's higher fuel
prices, wages,
asset prices, landing and terminal fees and air traffic control charges.
Rising prices for
assets seem to make most people better off, unless they are renters, or ethnic minorities, or immigrants, or come
from large families and don't inherit a home of their own, or get sick and need to pay for medical care, or get fired, or get their pension fund ripped off or otherwise fall outside what most people think of as the bell - shaped curve of good fortune.
What was
rising for the bottom 90 per cent was debt, not
asset -
price gains
from easy money.
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Rising interest rates keep Wall Street on edge: CBS Investors will focus on various inflation numbers in days ahead: Bloomberg A closer look at the 10 - year Treasury yield's
rise to 3 %: Calafia Beach Pundit T. Rowe
Price's
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Wealthy families are now buying big into Bitcoin as a means to protect their
assets from currency controls and
rising consumer
prices.
SS: The
rising stock market that resulted
from the Chicago Boy's reforms was seen as a way to inflate
asset prices the capital gains of which would be used to pay off debts.
If these inflows however are counterbalanced by
rising private inflows
from Chinese businesses and wealthy individuals taking money out of China, either because of weaker domestic growth prospects of because of
rising nervousness and uncertainty,
asset prices might not fall as much as we would have expected, but Australia will be caught in a vice a little like that of, for example, Spain, in which export weakness can not be partially counterbalanced by a weaker currency.
Beyond profiting
from a future
rise in the gold
price, gold will protect your wealth and purchasing power at a time most other
assets won't.
What was
rising for the bottom 90 percent was debt, not
asset -
price gains
from easy money.
On the contrary, the safe - haven
asset has seen a massive drop in investment interest as investors have flocked to profit
from rising stock
prices.
With QE it's the ultra-rich that gained tremendously
from the
rise in
asset prices.
We also still favor
assets levered to
rising oil
prices — energy stocks and select master limited partnerships — and other commodities that should benefit
from accelerating global growth.
When needs are fixed and outcomes are variable, it can be quite a trouble, particularly when
asset prices have been
rising because of increased buying power
from debt arrangements.
Secondly, when investors begin to seek yield
from two very different
asset classes — fixed - income investments vs. equities —
rising stock
prices follow as investors bid down a yield to match alternatives.
Based on current positioning, we expect the All
Asset strategies to benefit
from the following return tailwinds: a stable to
rising breakeven inflation rate, appreciating EM currencies, convergence of EM - to - U.S. cyclically adjusted
price / earnings (CAPE) ratios toward longer - term averages, and appreciation of global value stocks
from today's elevated discounts toward longer - term norms.
If XOM's cash flow generation doesn't improve, either
from rising oil
prices and production, substantial reductions in capital expenditures and costs, or additional
asset sales, it will need to continue tapping debt or equity markets to fund the gap.
If you are discharged
from your bankruptcy and the house remains unsold, it is still an
asset and, if house
prices rise, it may be sold in the future.
Some wealth builup will come in the spontaneous
rise in
asset prices, which we have already seen in the securities markets, but some must come
from decreases in consumption, whether in automobiles, other consumer durables, travel, or other less necessary components of consumption.
That said, any downside protection is beneficial, and even if all the growth came
from acqui - hires, this data point can explain away some of the
rise in
asset prices.
In the attached chart, Bespoke analysts compared the
price of Bitcoin
from 2015, with other
assets that enjoyed parabolic, or bubblelike,
rises since 1990.
As home
prices rise, some unhappy couples are seeing it as an opportunity to part ways without losing a ton of money
from their real estate
assets, according to an article at RISMedia.