Sentences with phrase «investments than commodity»

Most value investors understand that leaving the question of price aside, businesses with enduring moats are more attractive as investments than commodity - type businesses which have no low - cost advantages.

Not exact matches

This discussion also does not consider any specific facts or circumstances that may be relevant to holders subject to special rules under the U.S. federal income tax laws, including, without limitation, certain former citizens or long - term residents of the United States, partnerships or other pass - through entities, real estate investment trusts, regulated investment companies, «controlled foreign corporations,» «passive foreign investment companies,» corporations that accumulate earnings to avoid U.S. federal income tax, banks, financial institutions, investment funds, insurance companies, brokers, dealers or traders in securities, commodities or currencies, tax - exempt organizations, tax - qualified retirement plans, persons subject to the alternative minimum tax, persons that own, or have owned, actually or constructively, more than 5 % of our common stock and persons holding our common stock as part of a hedging or conversion transaction or straddle, or a constructive sale, or other risk reduction strategy.

And on the way down — even as commodity prices fell sharply and mining investment declined — growth in GDP, employment and wages was only a little weaker than average.

All of this makes the investment case for commodities, gold, and energy more compelling than at any other time in recent memory.

The downward revision reflects further downgrades of business investment plans in the energy sector, as well as weaker - than - expected exports of non-energy commodities and non-commodities.

For example, if Bitcoin is not a currency, then Bitcoin forwards and Bitcoin swaps that involve the exchange of Bitcoin for another currency will not fall under the statutory definitions of the more lightly regulated foreign exchange forwards or foreign exchange swaps.10 Likewise, retail trading of Bitcoin derivatives will be limited to designated contract markets, rather than subject to the retail foreign exchange dealer regulations.11 Treating Bitcoin as a commodity that is not a currency dovetails with the stances taken by other U.S. regulators such as the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN)(virtual currency does not have all of the attributes of real currency) 12, the Securities and Exchange Commission (Bitcoin investments are investment contracts because Bitcoin is a form of money) 13 and the Internal Revenue Service (treating Bitcoin as property for tax purposes).14

Since sector - and commodity - specific funds are not diversified and focus their investments entirely in a single sector, commodity, or basket of commodities, the funds will involve a greater degree of risk than an investment in other diversified fund types.

The associated commodity super-cycle and emerging markets century have proved much less durable investment trends than Wall Street expected.

Investments in commodity - related products may subject the fund to significantly greater volatility than investments in traditional securities and involve substantial risks, including risk of loss of a significant portion of their princInvestments in commodity - related products may subject the fund to significantly greater volatility than investments in traditional securities and involve substantial risks, including risk of loss of a significant portion of their princinvestments in traditional securities and involve substantial risks, including risk of loss of a significant portion of their principal value.

there is a larger than anticipated impact of our financial crisis and deleveraging on potential output; there has been the global commodity price shocks, exacerbated here by our depreciated exchange rate; and, of course, there is the ongoing uncertainty in the eurozone which is now acknowledged to be having an impact on growth and investment across the world, from the US to China.

Alternative investments, including commodities, involve a higher degree of risk and can be more volatile and less liquid than shares and bonds.

Not always true, if the prices of extraction / production rise faster than the commodity price, as it has been with gold producers, the stocks will be a bad investment.

Firstly I do not have a crystal ball nor do I give investment advice other than my Commodity Trading advisor client who have signed and agreed to all kinds of disclosures and are aware of -LSB-...]

Commodity — Commodities investments and / or commodity - linked derivative instruments, especially if leveraged, may entail greater volatility from a variety of causes than traditional seCommodity — Commodities investments and / or commodity - linked derivative instruments, especially if leveraged, may entail greater volatility from a variety of causes than traditional secommodity - linked derivative instruments, especially if leveraged, may entail greater volatility from a variety of causes than traditional securities.

Exposure to the commodities markets may subject the fund to greater volatility than investments in traditional securities.

The fund may invest in securities issued by domestic or foreign companies; in fixed - income securities that are investment grade and below investment grade, but limits its investments in below - investment - grade securities to no more than 10 % of its net assets; may include real estate investment trusts, investments that provide exposure to commodities (such as ETFs or natural resources companies), and derivatives, including futures and options.

• Commodities may be more volatile than investments in traditional securities.

Some ETFs offer exposure to investments such as small companies, emerging markets or commodities that may be harder to sell in certain circumstances, or more complex and volatile than ordinary company shares.

What I can say from a strategic perspective is that 1) I like a purchase of assets at historically low prices, 2) MFC has some expertise in the commodity business so this isn't completely outside their playing field, 3) perhaps, worst case, there could be a strategy to purchase the assets in bulk at a distress sale and then sell them off piecemeal for a profit, and 4) while this may be a role of the dice (who knows where gas prices will be a year from now) MFC is not betting the ranch; the total investment will be about CDN $ 75 million ($ 33 for the outstanding shares, $ 8 million for the warrants, $ 30 million additional investment and I've estimated $ 4 million for transaction costs), or less than 25 % of MFC's current cash hoard.

Without a commodity investment, the returns for each of the five equity portfolios are higher during expansive monetary environments than during restrictive monetary environments.

Investing in the commodities markets (directly or indirectly) may subject the Fund to greater volatility than investments in traditional securities.

On the one hand, the return on investment is much different than with stocks or bonds and the fluctuation of commodity prices can be affected by things like supply and demand, inflation, and the condition of the economy as a whole.

Investing in commodities markets may subject the Fund to greater volatility than investments in traditional securities.

Investments in commodities are subject to higher volatility than more traditional iInvestments in commodities are subject to higher volatility than more traditional investmentsinvestments.

A tedious period of time while all the prices on investments, capital issues and commodities are falling in leaps and bounds by more than twenty percent and all of it is conducted by broad in content pessimism.

Gold as an investment is no safer than pork bellies; it's just a commodity, just like any other, and I wouldn't recommend that new investors go straight for commodities.

Put another way, Congress could raise all of the funds needed to support long - term investments in this Energy Security Trust by increasing royalties paid for producing oil and gas from public lands and waters by an amount less than the typical daily fluctuations of oil and gas commodity prices.

For example, Mr. Klamann was lead counsel in a commodities churning case which was tried to a $ 700,000 punitive damages verdict, a securities fraud case which produced a seven - figure confession of judgment involving a Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT), a successful consolidated case of more than 140 plaintiff investors in varying combinations of six commercial real estate syndications, several individual securities churning cases, a fraudulent energy conservation limited partnership of 75 investor / plaintiffs, a successful consolidated case involving 124 investors in forty diverse limited partnerships, and a successful case involving scores of investor / plaintiffs in a series of fraudulent oil and gas limited partnerships.

We should be under no illusion as to the impact of this fraud upon the national economy, where it is estimated to cost the UK more than # 50bn every year with crimes ranging from investment fraud schemes to the hacking of businesses to obtain that most valuable of commodities, personal data.

If this does happen it will make cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin, plus their siblings, a more popular investment asset among this generation than shares, bonds, commodities or a second property.

One of the cases involved an investment company collecting more than $ 1.1 million worth of bitcoin from hundreds of people, claiming to pool them for trading commodities interests then allegedly misappropriating the funds.

In one case, the CFTC alleged that Dillon Michael Dean from Colorado and his company, Entrepreneurs Headquarters Limited, collected more than $ 1.1 million in bitcoin from over 600 people as part of a pooled investment vehicle for trading commodity interests.

Some investors have viewed the currency as simply a commodity rather than a solid investment.

Restaurants that were once a taboo real estate investment are now a hot commodity with more than $ 4 billion in net - lease restaurant properties expected to change hands in 2006.

She believes metro Vancouverites end up in a position of having to rent out units because the units built are expensive and only «serve to promote Vancouver as an investment commodity rather than a planned community.»