Sentences with phrase «much volatility in the markets»

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«Even though payrolls came in pretty much in line with expectations, it's encouraging to see this type of growth in the face of geopolitical tensions, trade negotiations, and pronounced market volatility.

This resulted in a much more interesting index, one that competes well with other favorites in terms of volatility and correlation to broad market movement.

«It doesn't take much to be a catalyst for higher volatility,» said Peter Cecchini, managing director and chief market strategist at Cantor Fitzgerald in New York.

While the S&P 500 Value Index has slightly outperformed so far in 2016, amid greater market volatility, it has woefully lagged behind for much of this market cycle.

While big banks can absorb big losses on markets, for some smaller firms, the volatility in the franc proved too much.

Combined, these instances capture a cumulative 97 % loss in the S&P 500, but there's really not much difference based on the 200 - day moving average, except that the market tends to experience more violent declines and somewhat stronger rebounds (that is, higher overall volatility) when the S&P 500 is below that average.

Those investors got a reminder of the potential volatility in recent weeks, when emerging - market stock funds lost just as much as S&P 500 index funds during the sell - off in late January and early February, even though the trigger for the market's fear was an economic report out of the United States.

«After 18 months of low - volatility markets, things became much more volatile in the middle of January, starting with a 10 percent slide within just weeks.

Highly volatile, low - returning markets end in fear, which leads to higher - returning markets with much lower volatility, followed by the eventual greed that starts the cycle again.

A zero floor means Capital Choice contracts work much like an indexed annuity in which there is no loss of principal and floors appeal to investors unsure about market performance or nervous in the face of rising volatility, Carlson said.

The data didn't change all that much in the period that followed, despite some market volatility.

In fact, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) traded at its lowest level in decades for much of the year.1 Known as the fear gauge, the VIX reflects the market's short - term outlook for stock price volatilitIn fact, the CBOE Volatility Index (VIX) traded at its lowest level in decades for much of the year.1 Known as the fear gauge, the VIX reflects the market's short - term outlook for stock price vVolatility Index (VIX) traded at its lowest level in decades for much of the year.1 Known as the fear gauge, the VIX reflects the market's short - term outlook for stock price volatilitin decades for much of the year.1 Known as the fear gauge, the VIX reflects the market's short - term outlook for stock price volatilityvolatility.

While the early - 2017 Federal Reserve minutes «expressed concern [about] the low level of implied volatility in equity markets,» it is worth noting that the SPX implied volatility levels at both 80 % and 90 % moneyness (corresponding with out - of - the - money puts used for portfolio protection) generally were much higher than the VIX levels.

Investing in income generating instruments has enormous benefits, especially given the recent market volatility that has generated so much fear in the market.

If much of the investment into bond mutual funds that has occurred the last couple of years is for purposes of dampening the volatility of a portfolio — and with the 10 - Year Treasury yield at 1.8 percent it's difficult to argue for a different motivation - then it's important to think through the thesis that bonds will defend a balanced portfolio in an equity bear market in the same way they have, especially to the extent they have in the last two bear markets.

I have underlined several times that while we did see volatility in the equity market in Q1» 18, the bond market was numb to any market movements; while Treasuries were falling, junk bonds didn't widen much compared to how they were trading at the beginning of the year.

In a bullish market, volatility remains low, and price action is much more reliable.

The stock market does not work as efficiently as some would like to think, or indeed hope that it would, otherwise we would not see volatility in the market as much as we do, which is due to human emotion and people often jumping on the «band wagon».

All markets will continue to focus on the volatility in the equity and bond markets, geopolitical events, developments with the Trump Administration, corporate earnings, oil prices, and will turn to tomorrow's much awaited US Payroll Report for near term direction..

As such, any spike in equity market realized volatility, even to historical average levels, has the potential to drive a significant amount of equity selling (much of it automated).

The strategy that Paulson described as giving investors much lower volatility than the stock market fell almost 50 % in 2016, a year in which stocks rose double digits.

I'm exaggerating here but the general point he was trying to make was that merger arb is very much a low volatility way to invest in the market.

Volatility is to be expected, but we approach the market with a level head and objectivity, seeing the proper positional entries and exits will much easier to spot.Summary: Strong, bearish news hit the crypto community this week as China announced harsh regulations on the BTC to fiat transactions on exchanges.Currently BTC is seeing a strong rally off the $ 3000 levels but is showing signs of waning strength in the upward direction.A possible macro distribution pattern is unfolding and new lows could be in store for bitcoin over the next few days and weeks.

Much like many major and smaller forex brokers, who took precautions against high market volatility around the first round of the presidential elections in France on April, days...

It is invested primarily in the credit market, not so much in government bonds because government bond yields are so low, but we're looking for absolute returns even if interest rates go up, so some of the portfolio, a significant piece of it actually, is floating rate, so if interest rates go up, you just get higher cash flows, which will support higher returns, and the rest of the portfolio is in relatively short maturity bonds, which will have some price volatility and if there's bad market conditions, will have temporary losses, so the goal is to offer something that is absolute returns.

In terms of volatility, December was much more subdued, due in part to seasonal lulls and a lack of major market drivers, relative to the month prioIn terms of volatility, December was much more subdued, due in part to seasonal lulls and a lack of major market drivers, relative to the month prioin part to seasonal lulls and a lack of major market drivers, relative to the month prior.

Any money that you don't want to subject to the short - term risk and volatility in the stock market should be held in a savings account, earning as much interest as possible.

With roughly $ 1,800 in time value remaining, I have a little cushion heading into the spring, but not as much as I'd like based on the increased volatility that's hitting the markets.

While the equity piece is the dominant volatility exposure in our portfolios we know that current bond markets leave much to be desired.

My point is simply that it's very likely that if you are moving money in and out of stocks based on volatility, you're much less likely to get the full market return over the long term, and might be better off putting more weight in asset classes with lower volatility.

I know the markets have more volatility than projects due to the behavioral aspects of investing but in my view equally weighting is more important when you do not know much about your investment and less important when you do.

In low volatility environments there is not as much premium to be extracted from the markets, but in high volatility it is VERY NICIn low volatility environments there is not as much premium to be extracted from the markets, but in high volatility it is VERY NICin high volatility it is VERY NICE.

And he says stock market volatility in the past few years — which many have described as «unprecedented» — isn't much different than it was in the mid-1970s or the 1930s.

After all, the market's been yo - yoing up and down like crazy much of this year and many investors are worried that this recent uptick in volatility could be the prelude to a major slide in stock prices.

Given that there is is no active market for long - dated implied volatility / long - dated options for something as liquid as the S&P 500, much less a mid-sized bank in southern Indiana, the exercise is problematic.

As long as some portion of an investor's portfolio is in foreign stocks, evidence suggests that those stocks should not be currency - hedged for three reasons: (1) Currency unhedged portfolios are not much more volatile than currency - hedged ones (and less volatile for US markets) and (2) Currency hedging appears to add about 1 % extra cost and (3) Some currency unhedged positions reduce overall portfolio volatility.

So my bonds aren't protecting me from volatility in the market as much as earning income which is eventually applied to build up my other investments automatically.

The convertible instruments will tend to move in about the same direction as the underlying (what it can be converted to) but less violently as they are traded less (lower volatility and lower volume in the market on both sides), however, they are not being used to make a profit so much as to hedge against the stock going up.

While there is nothing much that can be done against the market volatility, there is a protection mechanism in place in case the broker firm runs into a financial trouble.

Given that we have gone through 2 nasty bear markets since 2000, the hedged portfolio shows slightly better returns since inception but with much lower volatility than the long only strategy and has not had a down year in the past decade:

In order to estimate which portion of gold and fiat money can be substituted by cryptocurrencies, I will use the most conservative estimate — only 10 % (yearly volatility of stock markets or commodities is much higher!).

This volatility is caused by a multitude of reasons, due to the small size of the trading volume of cryptocurrency compared to that of currencies like the U.S. dollar or the British pound, thus making events and other factors have a much bigger difference in the market.

For this reason, XRP has managed to sidestep much of the volatility in the cryptocurrency market — that is, until this past week.

However, the cryptocurrency market seems to be stabilizing as much of the speculator volatility in the market eased off in the last couple of weeks.

While certainly not all due to a possible Trump presidency, much of the market volatility we're seeing today can be reflected in Bitcoin's rise, with investors seeking out a safe and reliable anchor to cling to.

«Secondary office markets are experiencing higher levels of investment for just this reason, somewhat greater volatility priced by higher yields, and the ability to accommodate fast - growing companies with a volume of new construction, at costs much lower than that available in the primary downtowns,» according to the Aegon report.

Prices may decline as much as 5 percent in the next 12 months because of volatility in the public markets, tightened regulations and maturing loans, according to a June 20 report by Pacific Investment Management Co..