This year demonstrated a steady build - up of housing momentum — fueled by significant improvements
in economic fundamentals, low mortgage rates, and compressed inventory — and is expected to carry the market into 2015 gains, according to the 2014 Housing Review issued today by realtor.com ®.
The bottom line is that if you are trying to get a measure of how much treasury bond rates will change over the next year or two, you will be better served focusing more on changes
in economic fundamentals and less on Jerome Powell and the Fed.
It's a safe position, but one that's well - grounded
in the economic fundamentals currently impacting our nation's economy.
Our reasoning was that places where homes are affordable are places where real estate prices are solidly rooted
in economic fundamentals and are therefore unlikely to plunge.
From an economic standpoint, my impression is that this whiplash is largely psychological, and has very little to do with any underlying change
in economic fundamentals.
We view this correction as more technical, and sentiment - driven, and we do not believe that it signals a material change
in the economic fundamentals.
Although volatility can go both ways, «market volatility» is usually code for «market declines,» which can erode consumer and business confidence and cause a weakening
in economic fundamentals.
«The history of currency pegs is that they are susceptible to changes
in economic fundamentals that warrant a completely different level in the exchange rate,» said Neil MacKinnon, global macro strategist at VTB Capital.
What's surprising about the weakness on the West Coast is the absence of any change
in economic fundamentals, such as a spike in unemployment, to explain it.
Not exact matches
Not only are there numerous highly valued tech companies looking for an exit,
economic fundamentals remain moderately strong
in the U.S., which has been eking out
economic gains since late 2009.
Since that time, Geoff has survived and grown the business through several
economic downturns and
fundamental shifts
in technology, a feat
in itself.
For all the talk of abnormal times and changes
in underlying
economic fundamentals, the Fed is pinning its hopes on a very conventional premise — that the U.S. consumer will keep spending at recent strong rates, encouraged by low unemployment and the apparent beginnings of higher wages.
In April, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said prices in several cities didn't match with their economic fundamental
In April, the Canada Mortgage and Housing Corp. said prices
in several cities didn't match with their economic fundamental
in several cities didn't match with their
economic fundamentals.
Paladin Energy has backed its decision to place its Kayelekera uranium plant on care and maintenance
in February and says the market
fundamentals needed to restore it to
economic production are now heading
in the right direction.
The company said
in a statement that Indiana is under saturated and «favorable
economic fundamentals.»
«Given developments
in other parts of the world, I think what's been reaffirmed to me is the importance of building an inclusive innovation strategy for Canada, one that focuses both on
economic and societal prosperity for all Canadians, and how
fundamental that is to our long - term flourishing of our society.
«We are losing that to China»
in a way that doesn't reflect
economic fundamentals, he said.
«Now that the volatility event is over, investors will focus on the
economic data and the
fundamentals,» said Sameer Samana, global equity and technical strategist at Wells Fargo Investment Institute
in St. Louis.
Stronger
economic growth and and solid company
fundamentals will drive earnings
in 2018, leading fund managers said.
What small - business groups should advocate comes down to a
fundamental question: Do they believe
in their own
economic analysis enough to risk a recession that could hurt many small - business owners
in a game of chicken over taxes on the highest earning Americans?
But even without changes
in the
economic climate, the last couple of decades have highlighted several other,
fundamental flaws
in this approach:
Mr. Harper has long maintained he is the only leader who can be trusted to protect the economy and public finances, and he clearly believes
fundamental change
in the key
economic portfolios would contradict that message.
The end result, investors say, is that the national team is unwittingly encouraging short - term trading patterns that amplify the detachment of stock markets, which have become less responsive to
fundamental drivers such as earnings trends, domestic
economic data and shifts
in global markets.
«For a politician who doesn't want to admit that the electorate sent a message that they don't like politicians, it's far easier to scapegoat it on
economic issues than it is to address the
fundamental question: that there are voters
in this country who no longer think their representatives represent them,» said a Democratic strategist involved
in 2016.
The wave of bad
economic news is eroding confidence and buying power, driving consumers to adjust their behavior
in fundamental and perhaps permanent ways.
Analysts said after a temporary boost markets will focus on more
fundamental matters again,
in particular the progress of the global
economic recovery and how central banks respond to higher inflation.
Globalization and the emergence of new
economic powers
in Asia and Latin America have expanded the number of connections but not the
fundamental facts of Canada's
economic situation or the policy environment within which we operate.
In itself, it seems fairly clear, at least to me, that the current account surplus indicates that the RMB is undervalued on a
fundamental basis, and that the balance of payments deficit is caused primarily by speculative outflows, or other kinds of outflows that are not sensitive to
economic valuation issues.
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The Congressional Budget Office defines asset bubbles as: «An
economic development
in which the price of a class of physical or financial assets (such as houses or securities) rises to a level that appears to be unsustainable and well above the assets» value as determined by
economic fundamentals.
Eventually,
economic fundamentals will reassert themselves: high corporate profits, positive industrial growth, lower unemployment and improved consumer sentiment
in the United States; lower inflation and a transition to easier, expansionary money policies
in Brazil, Australia, India and most significant of all, China, the world's second - largest economy.
Of course, there is no shortage of
fundamental issues to worry about: another downgrade to the outlook for global growth, uncertainty about the
economic transition
in China, the pace of normalization
in the United States, worries about Europe, worries about Japan, just to cite a few.
The survey found the
fundamental factor determining Canadian investment decision to Asia is the sound
economic growth
in the region.
This can happen very naturally as a matter of course because
economic fundamentals deteriorate, or because there is a change
in rules or regulations that disrupts the balance between supply and demand.
White House spokesperson Raj Shah said on Thursday that the «president, like the rest of the White House, is concerned about long term
economic indicators,» adding that the «factors and
fundamentals in terms of long term are very strong.»
[13] But the opportunities for these reversals of confidence are greater
in the Asian countries, where foreign investors did not know these economies well and the
economic fundamentals are not well established.
In this webinar, we will examine the long - term fundamental drivers of China's secular economic growth, highlighting risks and investment opportunities in the A-Share marke
In this webinar, we will examine the long - term
fundamental drivers of China's secular
economic growth, highlighting risks and investment opportunities
in the A-Share marke
in the A-Share market.
2018 Outlook: «A synchronized improvement
in global
economic and financial market conditions means
fundamentals are likely to play a larger role
in driving individual stock prices, while geopolitical risks and investor complacency leave markets vulnerable to bouts of volatility that may present us with attractive investment entry points.»
It is
fundamental to the way the growth model works, and we have arrived at the stage, probably described most imaginatively by Hyman Minsky
in his work on balance sheets,
in which the system requires an acceleration
in credit growth simply to maintain existing levels of
economic activity.
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In line with a positive assessment of
economic fundamentals, we view credit conditions as favorable.
For many years, China kept the renminbi weaker than
economic fundamentals dictated, to help its exporters stay competitive
in foreign markets.
This will require improving the
economic fundamentals in those provinces, which can not be accomplished through a cut
in the GST / HST.
The massive Central Bank intervention has largely removed the ability of the stock market to perceive
fundamental problems developing
in the financial and
economic system.
While policymakers can witness the movements
in key financial market variables, it is difficult to say for sure what their implications are for
economic fundamentals, that is, for inflation and output.
Though most of the damage to the market didn't occur
in the second quarter, thus far, the recent stock market volatility doesn't seem to be having a noteworthy impact on China's
economic fundamentals.
John Maynard Keynes was right to emphasize the great importance of animal spirits, but other economists have also been right to emphasize that it is political and
economic fundamentals that dominate
in the medium and long terms.
In a recent speech to the
Economic Club of New York, I discussed a number of areas where economic fundamentals have i
Economic Club of New York, I discussed a number of areas where
economic fundamentals have i
economic fundamentals have improved.
Estimates of prospective long - term returns for the S&P 500 reflect our standard valuation methodology, focusing on the relationship between current market prices and earnings, dividends and other
fundamentals, adjusted for variability over the
economic cycle (see for example Investment, Speculation, Valuation, and Tinker Bell, The Likely Range of Market Returns
in the Coming Decade and Valuing the S&P 500 Using Forward Operating Earnings).
As 2016 continues to demonstrate, market volatility does not always reflect a
fundamental shift
in underlying
economic conditions — the U.S. economy is essentially as «healthy» now as it was
in December 2015.
Volatility
in equity markets is, of course, not always a reflection of weak
economic fundamentals.