"Market weakness" refers to a situation where the overall performance or value of a market, such as the stock market, is experiencing a decline or showing signs of being less strong. It means that the market is not doing well and may be facing challenges or difficulties.
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Price action failed to follow through to the downside last week, finding a bid into the weekend amid
equity market weakness.
However, you are concerned about the global economy and how any
broad market weakness might impact the stock.
We're going to suggest an objective, structured timing approach for reducing risk during those periods when
further market weakness may be forthcoming.
That's not a forecast about near - term market direction, but my concern about
potential market weakness is admittedly elevated here.
The key to understanding these reactions, as I observed at the 2007 peak, is to recognize that
abrupt market weakness is generally the result of low risk premiums being pressed higher.
That would help differentiate opportunities driven by
overall market weakness vs. those driven by stock - specific moves.
The net effect of all of the above is that most lenders had some catching up to do with
bond market weakness that they hadn't fully accounted for yesterday.
Second, during times
of market weakness, the gold price per ounce relative to the gold spot price will often decrease as supply becomes more abundant.
Those put options are now slightly in - the - money, so our exposure to
further market weakness is substantially less than it was even a week ago.
Our current hedge places our line of defense between the 800 and 900 area on the S&P 500 for now, meaning that our sensitivity to market fluctuations begins to mute
on market weakness below about 900, and would strongly mute if the S&P 500 approaches 800 or lower.
With the exception of
market weakness in March, which again turned out to be a dip to buy, markets were strong.
But as
recent market weakness has shown, momentum doesn't gently or slowly roll over, it violently reverses, wiping out a large proportion of previously accumulated gains and delivering very volatile overall returns.
But because the DRS is hedged against market sell - offs, there is potential protection in place during periods of
emerging market weakness.
Switching to bonds during stock
market weakness as identified by dual momentum has historically done better than being short stock indices.
The big takeaway for those seeking to buy
into market weakness: Be wary of buying notionally cheap assets that face challenges (e.g. domestically - focused European assets like U.K. real estate and European banks), and instead focus on assets with relatively attractive valuations and positive fundamental drivers, such as quality stocks, dividend - growth stocks and investment - grade bonds.
This pattern was exacerbated during the current business cycle due to
market weakness among first - time homebuyers.
Disruption has become both a description of an economic phenomenon and an overriding goal — disruptive companies aren't just finding
exploiting market weaknesses, they're transforming markets and that very transformation is a net good.
Our reliance on those syndromes, in hindsight, was an excruciating Achilles Heel, and our expectations
about market weakness were persistently detrimental.
Since then, he has extended the US$ 700 - billion Troubled Asset Relief Program to, among other things, address
housing market weakness and revive small - business lending.
«Overall, expectations remain reasonably low, thanks to the challenge of low interest rates and
capital markets weakness, additional loan loss reserve build and myriad fourth quarter clean up actions,» Credit Suisse analysts led by Susan Katzke said in a note Tuesday.
The disappointing job figures were met with
initial market weakness on Friday, but enthusiasm later in the day on expectations that the Federal Reserve will be unable to raise interest rates from zero.
Odey's European Fund lost 12.8 % in 2015, but has reportedly started the New Year with a 9 % gain, an impressive reversal given the
global market weakness since the end of last year.
It's possible that continued quantitative easing will help to mute the potential for
sustained market weakness until investors have a sense that the Fed will discontinue its purchases, but in my view, the likelihood of further material gain is limited.
Even if we look over the past two years - and despite some early signals
where market weakness was postponed by extraordinary monetary interventions - we still have not observed these conditions without resulting market declines of more than 15 % (one in 2010 and another in 2011) that wiped out all of the gains since the earliest signal occurred, and then some.
But to believe that we can't experience a recession or further
market weakness because a single magazine cover expresses concern about that possibility is just naïve.
These raisings amounted to $ 15 billion in 1996, up from $ 14 billion the previous year and roughly double the levels experienced during the period of
share market weakness in the early 1990s.
A tough one at present when declining currencies cause higher domestic inflationary pressures, to say nothing of having to deal with currency and financial
market weakness amidst weakening internal economies.
Ripple's XRP, ether and bitcoin cash have all hit fresh lows for the year, amid broader
crypto market weakness.
A rumored listing on Coinbase never happened, and this, coupled with a broader
market weakness weighed heavily over XRP.
Does construction of new tallest - in - the - world buildings indicate financial hubris and therefore pending
equity market weakness?
Meanwhile, the three sectors in which we have maintained an underweight position — Energy, Consumer Staples and Utilities — have underperformed the prior four, both in 2017 and through
recent market weakness.
Back in the Gulf, Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Qatar all dropped on Thursday, as in addition to
emerging market weakness, some pre-Ramadan selling started, said Vrajesh Bhandari, portfolio manager at Al Mal Capital.
Banks are a potential beneficiary of higher rates, and despite broader
stock market weakness, the S&P 500 financial sector was actually up last week.
The important thing to keep in mind here is that despite what I view as significant concerns about
potential market weakness, we do have the flexibility to take somewhat more constructive investment exposures (though moderate, and without removing our put option defense) if market internals improve.
The big takeaway for those seeking to buy
into market weakness: Be wary of buying notionally cheap assets that face challenges (e.g. domestically - focused European assets like U.K. real estate and European banks), and instead focus on assets with relatively attractive valuations and positive fundamental drivers, such as quality stocks, dividend - growth stocks and investment - grade bonds.
This pattern has been exacerbated in the last two years due to
market weakness among first - time homebuyers.
In reality, this is incredibly challenging given the difficulty of forecasting these episodic periods of high volatility and constraints around expanding balance sheets in order to
exploit market weakness,» it says.
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