Sentences with phrase «global flight to safety»

In 2008, once the contraction gathered steam, and the Fed had begun lowering interest rates, treasuries rates collapsed across the board in a global flight to safety.

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The flight - to - safety from global investors eased overnight, but it's continuing during European trading hours.

The interest rate on the U.S. government's 10 - year Treasury fell below 2 percent on Tuesday morning for the first time since mid-October, as fears over global growth led a flight to safety.

Last week's British vote to exit the European Union (EU) has spurred a flight to perceived safety and left many investors asking where to find opportunities amid indiscriminate selling of global risk assets.

«The increasing number of flights worldwide requires that we as a global aviation community acquire, share and analyze safety data so that we have more data points to predict and mitigate risk,» said Randy Babbitt, administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).

Additionally, one of the possible results of a financial crisis is a «flight to safety»; the global financial markets still seem to think the US dollar is pretty safe, and they may bid it up as they have done in the past, resulting in losses to your position (at least in the short term).

Last week's British vote to exit the European Union (EU) has spurred a flight to perceived safety and left many investors asking where to find opportunities amid indiscriminate selling of global risk assets.

A combination of bond - buying programs by central banks, negative - and zero - interest - rate policies, and continued fears that a new global crisis may be around the corner (a hard path to Brexit being the latest source of such concern) have held the pedal down on the flight to safety.