Sentences with phrase «lows of financial markets»

Here, we share some thoughts and experiences of handling the highs and lows of financial markets to help you put the current market activity into perspective.

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The minutes of the Fed's June meeting noted that «some participants suggested that increased risk tolerance among investors might be contributing to elevated asset prices more broadly; a few participants expressed concern that subdued market volatility, coupled with a low equity premium, could lead to a build - up of risks to financial stability.»

The aftermath of the vote was swift and brutal: Prime Minister David Cameron resigned, global financial markets sold off sharply with a massive flight to quality, and the British pound dropped sharply to touch a three - decade low of $ 1.3229.

Chief Executive Jeff Bezos's venture capital arm, Remitly is among a vanguard of financial technology, or fintech, companies targeting what they view as an underserved immigrant market — traditionally disregarded as high - risk and low - margin.

Glassman uses Dimensional Funds, a family of low - cost mutual funds marketed to financial advisors, for his core domestic and international equity exposures.

«Our biggest concerns are reduced access to advice for the lower end of the investor spectrum and higher costs for individuals,» said Andy Blocker, executive vice president of public policy and advocacy at the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association (SIFMA).

She said more established financial companies have long struggled to serve lower - income markets because of high development costs and low profit margins.

Its surprise devaluation also triggered other governments to drive their currencies lower, roiling financial markets and spreading fears of a currency war.

The Healthcare Reform Law, including The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and The Healthcare and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, could have a material adverse effect on Humana's results of operations, including restricting revenue, enrollment and premium growth in certain products and market segments, restricting the company's ability to expand into new markets, increasing the company's medical and operating costs by, among other things, requiring a minimum benefit ratio on insured products, lowering the company's Medicare payment rates and increasing the company's expenses associated with a non-deductible health insurance industry fee and other assessments; the company's financial position, including the company's ability to maintain the value of its goodwill; and the company's cash flows.

Editor's note: The below is a fictional letter by an imagined banker on how the foreign exchange market looks from London's financial district at the end of a week when the pound slumped to a 31 - year low against the dollar, rounded off by a humiliating «flash crash» of 6 % in overnight trading on Friday.

Chief financial officer Mark Lindsay said most of the growth was in the Red Rooster brand in NSW and Victoria, where the company had a much lower market share than in Western Australia.

Yields in the $ 14 trillion market for U.S. government debt touched record lows in 2016, driven by years of aggressive central bank intervention in the wake of the 2008 - 2009 financial crisis to keep interest rates low to stimulate the economy.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

Examples of such projects providing marginal benefits are: improving financial reporting systems through better information technology, minor tweaks to supply chain logistics, cutting back on marketing or increasing low - cost advertising (like social media), «rationalization» of head count, holding average wages as low as possible, squeezing suppliers a little bit, not repatriating earnings to stave off taxation, refinancing rather than retiring debts, and the share buyback that is insensitive to a company's current stock price.

More broadly, global trade has slowed and financial stability risks have increased — with the recent market turmoil partly reflecting lower confidence in the effectiveness of policies.

Financial institutions in advanced economies face a number of cyclical and structural challenges and need to adapt to low growth and low interest rates, as well as to an evolving market and regulatory environment.

«Current interest rates (for money market accounts) are extremely low compared to 10 years ago,» noted Josh Nelson, CFP and CEO of Keystone Financial Services.

Anatoly Aksakov, the head of the Financial Market Committee in the State Duma, the lower house of Russia's parliament, has reportedly said that the Russian Federation's Central Bank may allow the launch of cryptocurrency trading on the Moscow Stock Exchange.

The US export sector is getting the benefit of a lower dollar; there's a significant fiscal package in the pipeline, which will add more than 1 per cent of GDP to private spending power; and sharp cuts have been made in US official interest rates, with financial markets expecting more to come.

If the progress we have seen over the last several years is sustained, the incidence of financial crises in emerging markets will be lower, and the dynamics significantly different.

The rates that have responded most significantly to lower borrowing costs are short - term loans for financial speculation, above all for derivatives and related buying or selling of stocks and bonds on margin — enormous gambles on which way the dollar, the stock market and interest rates may go.

In part this reflects the starting point of many central banks that adopted inflation targeting: they generally had a poor inflation history and low credibility with the public and financial markets.

Founded in 2011 and backed by Amazon.com Inc (AMZN.O) Chief Executive Jeff Bezos's venture capital arm, Remitly is among a vanguard of financial technology, or fintech, companies targeting what they view as an underserved immigrant market - traditionally disregarded as high - risk and low - margin.

... The pricing of financial assets, and today's extraordinarily low interest rates indicate that a flight from the dollar is the last thing expected in financial markets.

Today, the markets are placid, low - volatility affairs that have gained fairly steadily since the end of the financial crisis in March 2009.

Due in part to a growing lack of faith in traditional financial advising brought about by this trend, more and more investors are switching to low - cost passive online advisors (often called robo - advisors) who exclusively or almost exclusively invest clients» capital into index - tracking funds, the thought being that if they can not beat the market they may as well join it.

We believe this diverse experience provides us with an in - depth understanding of the strategic, financial and operational challenges and opportunities of the lower middle market companies in which we invest.»

Effective forward guidance on interest rates causes market participants to lower their expectations and uncertainty about future path of interest rates and to anticipate that easier financial conditions will persist well in to the future.

NEW YORK (AP)-- The latest on developments in global financial markets (all times local): 4:00 p.m. Technology and consumer stocks pulled the broader market slightly lower, even as energy stocks rallied along with the price of oil.

To sum up, once interest rates reach very low levels, the central bank still has meaningful tools that it can deploy in its pursuit of its inflation target: offering forward guidance to financial markets to enhance policy effectiveness, large - scale asset purchases, funding for credit, and pushing short - term interest rates below zero.

The main culprit of these costs, they argue, arise from the incentives financial advisors are given that «encourage savers to move from low - cost employer plans to often higher fee IRA accounts, and from incentives to steer savers into higher cost products within the IRA market.»

The Bank of Canada will continue to focus on what it does best: supporting the economic and financial well - being of Canada by achieving low, stable and predictable inflation; by keeping core financial market infrastructure safe; and by giving sound advice on financial sector policies so that vulnerabilities do not get in the way of sustainable, productive growth for all Canadians.

One of the biggest transformations in global financial markets is the drop in government bond yields — not only to historic lows but into negative territory.

This prolonged a surge in global financial markets over the last two years, occurring against a backdrop of low growth and unusually accommodative monetary policies in advanced economies.

[303][306] In January 2012, the U.S. Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee of the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association unanimously recommended that government debt be allowed to auction even lower, at negative absolute interest rates.

The common challenges historically associated with these countries were that of political instability, access to their financial markets and the low levels of liquidity.

BSCK largely mirrors the broader market, with somewhat lower risk, as it holds a basket of industrial and financial institution debt.

These are helpful.You are right that market failures have hit elder popluation in heavy way in past decade or so, and on top of that the fed locks interest at artificial rate low, so if we did save like our wise elder and financial advisors told us to do, we now get about nothing at all in interest return on those life savings.

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Stock and bond markets barely budged as two huge pieces of news hit the wires Thursday, a counterintuitive, but typical, reaction in a year that has seen record - low volatility in financial markets.

The key feature of 2016 Q1 was the abrupt sell - off between the start of the year and mid-February in financial markets — equities, lower - rated corporate bonds and commodities.

We regard the greater stability in commodity prices, along with a lessening of volatility in financial markets, as welcome, and believe it should provide a more stable platform for the global economy, where growth remains acceptable, if lower than desirable.

Global macro overview for 29/01/2016: The Japanese yen has fallen sharply on Friday after the Bank of Japan shocked financial markets by lowering interest rates into negative territory from 0.10 % to -0.10 %.

It would make the sale through the offices of the Fed Bank of NY, by offering them on the financial market at attractive (low) prices relative to the annual dollar payments the securities promise their holders.

Fed Chair Janet Yellen made a presentation last week to the National Association of Business Economists illustrating that while she is puzzled by low inflation, Yellen is entirely clueless as to the workings of the financial markets.

Emphatically, the next recession, the next equity bear market, and the accompanying collapse in low - quality covenant - lite debt will not be the result of the Fed tightening rates, but will instead be part of economic and financial dynamics that are already baked in the cake.

Yet somehow, despite policy failures that are made obvious by the lowest interest rates ever recorded in human history, a persistent narrative still dominates financial markets: all - knowing, omnipotent central bankers are still in full control of the situation and will do «whatever it takes» to maintain order.

For example, massive printing of money will cause LOWER gold prices because the market sees perpetual support of financial assets.

With rates low, some early signs of reflation and central banks in a stimulative mood, gold prices could be a good hedge against financial market stresses.