These buybacks and dividends should provide some support to cushion
any further decline in the stock price.
As the Saudis try to squeeze out expensive oil producers, some of these producers could run into financial difficulty that leads to
further declines in stock prices or even bankruptcies.
I'll buy more if it's yielding 3.6 %, which could happen soon with a likely dividend hike happening this week and / or
further decline in the stock price.
Not exact matches
World
stock markets skidded
further Wednesday as fresh
declines in crude oil prices stoked fears for the health of the global economy.
Later
in the morning, US
stocks turned lower (S&P -12 to 2643, consumer staples lead decliners), with a
further decline in oil (WTI to $ 66.91 - EIA Oil Inventories showed a much larger than expected build) weighing.
As of last week, the Market Climate
in stocks remained characterized by an overvalued, overbought, overbullish, rising - yields syndrome that has historically produced periods of marginal new highs, slight
declines, and yet
further marginal highs, followed somewhat unpredictably by nearly vertical drops.
So yes, interest rates fell during that period, but
stock yields fell
far more than can be attributed to the
decline in interest rates alone.
That's why Andrew Sheets, Chief Cross-Asset Strategist, expects
further declines in UK, European and global economic growth, the value of the British pound, and also UK and European
stocks.
These concerns are
further inter-related to the diminishing state of food
stocks, farmlands, oceans, climate, bio-diversity and more that are adding to an overall
decline of the planet's wealth thus making the probability associated with a massive die - off
in some form much more likely.
My opinion is that while there is still risk that the market will
decline even
further, investors may be underestimating the potential for a rapid 20 - 25 % spike higher
in U.S.
stocks as risk aversion collapses.
But at the same time, the Fed's stimulative policies helped fuel a surge
in the
stock market, which, even with the recent
declines, remains
far above pre-recession levels.
And should gold and silver
stock prices experience
further consolidation price
declines in the future, their valuations will again rise
in attractiveness.
So
far, it did produce another 50 %
decline in the
stock market
in 2008 and early 2009 as a credit crisis
in 2007 caused the worst recession since the Great Depression.
One could try to argue that once a
stock market
decline goes
far enough, corporate fortunes
in general are so poor that there is no longer any need to punish trusts.
Monday's
decline left
stocks down more than 4 percent so
far in 2018.
Looking at TSLA's historical short interest chart and one can see that the negative investor sentiment or volume of shares sold short continues to
decline, a
far departure from June when Tesla was named the largest shortest
stock in the U.S. equity market.
We think the chart below suggests that POT's 75 %
decline over the last decade has the
stock very
far along
in its bottoming process.
Stocks and bonds haven't
declined in the same calendar year since 1969 (the S&P 500 fell 8.5 %, 10 - year treasury bonds fell 5 %), so even though bonds have not cushioned the blows thus
far in 2018, you'll probably be better off if you can look past the day - to - day.
Greetings, The United States: Economists are predicting a
further decline in the household savings rate as
stocks and home prices boost the wealth effect.
Oil and gas equities have been underperforming crude oil prices since the middle of 2017, but the outlook for energy
stocks deteriorated
further in the past two weeks, as major oil benchmarks have
declined more than 10 per cent.
Those data do not yet reflect the impact of the
stock market
decline since 2007: the drop
in the value of pension funds means
further increases
in employer contributions will be required to fund promised benefits.
Index funds do not offer protection from market
declines: when
stock markets around the world plunged during the tech wreck and again
in 2008, active mangers could move into cash and avoid
further losses.
Bonds fall
in value when interest rates rise, but
stocks can suffer
declines that are
far more gut - wrenching.
(And later they don't want to increase their
stock holdings
in a bear market because they don't want to risk
further declines.)
It also shows me which
stocks have made big moves
in my investment accounts and how
far my mortgage balances have
declined (to keep me motivated to pay off the loans early).
But with investment pros like Portfolio Solutions» Rick Ferri forecasting
far lower returns for
stocks and bonds
in the years ahead, that success rate has
declined a good 10 percentage points or more.
And if the sector keeps
declining, you're probably
far safer
in your new holding — while if it rebounds, who cares how much your loser
stock rallies, you're sure to be making out v nicely with your new
stock anyway...
That being the case, bonds — like
stocks — can be expected to trade
in a very wide trading range for some time, and we'll tend to extend our durations on
further spikes
in yields, while contracting them when yields
decline significantly.
30 million units with a great tie ratio is still a hugely profitable console - and while the markets may abhor the notion of a company's market share
declining in this way, Nintendo is
far less
in thrall to
stock price than most companies
in this industry.