Sentences with phrase «of equity market weakness»

But while there has been some spillover of equity market weakness, the difficulties in credit markets at this stage have been mainly confined to the industrial countries.

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In past issues of The Boeckh Investment Letter (subscription required), Tony and Rob Boeckh recommended using the current bout of stock - market weakness to rebalance toward equities.

At the moment, there's a little bit of support from weak equity markets, but we see further weakness coming through,» Daniel Hynes, senior commodity strategist at ANZ, told CNBC.

Elsewhere in forex markets, it's a relatively calm day, with a slight correction in the risk - off trade that we have been monitoring for weeks, as the yen is a tad lower today against all of its major peers, while the Dollar couldn't gain on risk - on currencies, despite the equity weakness.

Although the Euro's dip today is helping equities in Europe somewhat, the pronounced long - term weakness in Asian and European markets still persists, and the deterioration among the leaders of the rally, like the Nasdaq, is another sign that the correction will continue.

We would infer a much higher probability of an economic contraction if current economic data was coupled with fresh equity market weakness.

Among the evidence that would shift our expectations in this regard would be: material equity market deterioration, further weakness in regional Fed and purchasing managers indices, a slowing in real personal income, a spike in new claims for unemployment toward the 340,000 level, an abrupt drop in consumer confidence about 10 - 20 points below its 12 - month average, and at least some amount of slowing in employment growth and aggregate hours worked.

Baker expects that the weakness from the housing market, which is already spreading over to other sectors of the economy, will have an even larger impact in 2007 as consumers lose the ability to borrow against dwindling home equity.

Accordingly, a year - over-year increase in new claims of about 20 % (which would currently equate to a level of about 340,000 weekly new claims) would create a significant concern of a new recession in progress, particularly if coupled with other evidence such as equity market weakness and slowing growth in real personal income.

Among the explanations that have been put forward are the increased credibility of central banks in controlling inflation (inflation rates remain below 3 per cent across the developed world), the low level of official interest rates in the major economies reflecting low inflation and the continuing weakness in some economies, a glut of savings on world markets particularly sourced from the Asian region, and changes to pension fund rules in some countries which are seen as biasing investments away from equities towards bonds.

If anything, recent weakness — particularly compared to the relative strength of the US market — has only served to strengthen the value case for European equities, in our view.

These funds have been marred by two major weaknesses: continued uncertainty in Europe and the extended under - performance of emerging markets equities.

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Stronger global equity markets contributed to the earlier weakness in the Dollar as traders once again increased demand for more risky assets after reassessing U.S. economic data and the odds of an interest rate increase by the Federal Reserve.

But equity analyst Meyer Shields of Stifel Nicolaus slapped the dreaded sell on Warren Buffett's baby Thursday, citing economic weakness and the potential «double whammy» that the recent stock market correction might mean for Berkshire's equity portfolio and derivative positions.

«Rising oil prices, additional correction in the equity markets and a further tightening of credit could trigger some economic weakness,» Dr. David Leareah told delegates attending NAR's annual conference in San Francisco in November.