Sentences with phrase «losses in a stock market index»

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SAO PAULO, May 2 - Brazil's benchmark Bovespa index fell almost 1.5 percent in morning trade on Wednesday, its biggest intraday drop since - mid April, pressured by steep losses among heavily weighted stocks during an otherwise quiet day across Latin American markets.

The stock market's slump that month prompted the largest one - day spike in the Cboe Volatility Index (known as the VIX), as traders who had bought products designed to profit off a subdued VIX hedged against further losses.

In the same period, the broader stock market had bigger losses, with the Standard & Poor's 500 index down nearly 9 %.

Based on yesterday's (May 23) bullish intraday price action, in which stocks shook off substantial early losses and reversed to finish flat to higher on increasing volume, it appears as if we will see a move higher in the main stock market indexes over the next several days.

The steep losses in U.S. technology stocks were carried into Asian markets today with all major indices tracking Wall Street declines.

This bear market resulted in peak - to - trough losses of around 50 % for the senior US stock indices.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

The main stock market indexes printed significant losses in the first half of the month, then reversed to recover those losses in the latter half of the month.

The MSCI Emerging Markets Index, a gauge of stocks in 21 developing markets, slipped 3.1 % in the first four trading days of 2014, building on a 5 % loss iMarkets Index, a gauge of stocks in 21 developing markets, slipped 3.1 % in the first four trading days of 2014, building on a 5 % loss imarkets, slipped 3.1 % in the first four trading days of 2014, building on a 5 % loss in 2013.

Had your stock fund been invested in a broader market index, the Standard and Poor's 500 in 2008, your stock allocation loss would have been a whopping 36.55 %.

A moderate spillover would lead to similarly muted effects on major indexes, with an incremental fall of 2.8 % in global stocks and modest losses in corporate and emerging - market debt.

And after the 2008 financial crisis, index annuities were pitched as a way of betting on stock indexes with no risk of loss, a big draw after the U.S. market had lost half its value in a little over a year.

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.

The MSCI index of developed - nation shares lost 43 % in 2008, while the MSCI index of emerging - market foreign shares fell 53 % compared with a 37 % loss for U.S. stocks.

I was asked on Quora to answer a question about hedging against losses... How can one hedge against a significant loss in Vanguard's Total Stock market Index Fund?

The major U.S. stock indexes hit record highs this week, in a dramatic rebound from solid losses seen last week that initially hinted near - term market tops could be in place.

As the most popular permanent life insurance in the market right now, Indexed Universal Life is a great option for many who want to participate in stock market returns, without actually being invested in the market and subject to risk of loss.

I'll talk about this more at a later time (along with a new investment concept I came across: the S & P collar index), but the gist of this is that there are products that allow you to participate in the gains of the stock market while preventing you from loss of principal.

The steep losses in U.S. technology stocks were carried into Asian markets today with all major indices tracking Wall Street declines.

Investors should note that when the Philadelphia gold index (XAU) has plunged by more than 20 % over the prior 6 - month period, the general stock market has often experienced significant losses over the following 6 - 12 month period (see, for example, the losses in the XAU in mid-1990 just before the general 1990 bear market, in late - 2000 just before the 2000 - 2002 bear market, and in August 2008 — when the S&P 500 was still at 1300 — just before the general market collapsed).

While the occasional losing year is almost inevitable if you invest in the stock market, you should be leery of pursuing a strategy — like buying stocks with margin debt or purchasing leveraged exchange - traded index funds — that can result in large losses, because you need huge gains to recover from such losses.

Indexed universal life policies are not stock market investments and do not directly participate in any stock or equity investments and helps protect you from market losses.

By the company using an index strategy they are able to lock in gains on the market gains, and avoid losses when the stock market is down.

This video was to simply show you an example of the last 10 years (sometimes called the lost decade due to continual losses in the markets) and how being indexed, and not loosing when the stock drop, over time, will work out WAY better in the end.