Sentences with phrase «on dollar assets»

A Chinese gambit to assume that Chinese robots will be allowed to replace other robots, or that companies taxed on dollar assets held abroad, or financial flows, or what have you, is a marginal movement of thought to merely another corner of the same old old box.

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Investors who were underweight on the Canadian market because of negative outlooks on the Canadian dollar, oil and other commodities are returning, says Lesley Marks, senior vice-president and chief investment officer, Fundamental Canadian Equities, at BMO Asset Management.

Many niche ETFs have only a few million dollars in assets under management — asset size can have a big impact on an ETF's ability to track an index and trade efficiently.

Gold prices fell to the lowest in nearly six weeks on Monday as the US dollar strengthened and easing tensions on the Korean peninsula helped boost appetite for higher risk assets such as stocks.

There's opportunity in emerging market debt despite growing concerns over higher credit levels and the impact of a strong dollar, the chief executive of Goldman Sachs Asset Management told CNBC on Tuesday.

Later, in a response to a question on why the Canadian dollar remains buoyant despite so many negatives, the governor said Canadian asset prices tend to track what's happening in the U.S. because, historically, when the American economy grows, the Canadian economy grows with it.

Hannah Anderson of J.P. Morgan Asset Management says the near - term focus is on oil prices ahead of an important meeting in June on OPEC - led oil curbs, but the weak dollar is the longer - term variable for markets.

As Marx foresaw, this process leads to monopoly and cartels as a few strong players drive weaker ones out of business or acquire their assets for pennies on the dollar.

On Monday, the fund said its portfolio return was 5.1 percent per annum in U.S. dollar nominal terms over the five years to March 31, 2017, helped by the run - up in global financial assets, versus 3.7 percent a year ago.

LONDON, April 30 - Gold fell to its lowest in nearly six weeks on Monday as the dollar strengthened and as easing tensions on the Korean peninsula helped boost appetite for assets seen as higher risk, such as stocks.

Japan's government said on January 29 it would impose administrative measures on virtual currency exchange Coincheck after hackers stole hundreds of millions of dollars in digital assets from the Tokyo - based firm.

Asian shares edged higher on Friday, turning positive for the year, while the US dollar weakened broadly after the Federal Reserve's cautious stance on further rate increases prompted investors to rebuild their bets on riskier assets.

TORONTO — The 2013 - 14 financial year was an unusually strong one for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which earned a 16.5 per cent annual return on the billions of dollars in assets it manages for the national retirement system, but its CEO cautions that level of growth likely won't soon be repeated.

Khodorkovsky was stripped of the bulk of his assets but is using his remaining fortune — around half a billion dollars — on a plan to re-imagine the Russian political system.

The yen soared 1 percent against the dollar and euro on Tuesday after the Bank of Japan said its open - ended commitment to buy assets would kick in only next year, disappointing those who had expected more aggressive monetary easing.

At close to half a billion dollars, it was well beyond the outer limits of what investors had ever paid for a publishing company of Wired's size — never mind one whose operations were on track to lose $ 11 million that year (not even counting a onetime $ 20.5 - million write - off to put the company's disparate assets under one corporate umbrella).

In other words, P&G's strategy of shrinking by dumping laggards and promoting its most profitable brands is failing to generate more cash on every dollar of assets.

We've already invested the lion's share of our funds» original equity commitments to acquire about $ 1.8 billion of assets, based on unpaid principal balance, for less than $ 0.40 on the dollar.

With global synchronized growth underway and demand outstripping supply in a number of cases, not to mention the U.S. dollar in decline and inflation on the rise, commodities are poised to be among the best performing asset classes in 2018.

We also expect SolarCity to immediately account for 40 % of the assets of the combined company on a historical cost basis, to contribute $ 1 + billion in revenue in 2017, and to add more than half a billion dollars in cash to Tesla's balance sheet over the next 3 years.

Benchmark spot gold prices were on course for an over 1 percent decline this week, pressured by a thaw in tensions on the Korean peninsula and a stronger dollar as investors looked to riskier assets such as equities.

That is because a decline in the dollar would raise the value of the income earned on our foreign direct investment and foreign - currency denominated assets, relative to the income that foreigners earned on their dollar - denominated investments in the United States.

Such a move by the Trudeau government to draw more revenue into federal coffers would take Canada in the opposite direction as the United States, Mr. Rosenberg said, noting that «the implications for the Canadian dollar is decisively negative, not to mention the deflating effect on asset values.»

The U.S. dollar depreciated as investors sought higher returns elsewhere, putting downward pressure on foreign interest rates and upward pressure on global asset prices and foreign currencies.

When I employ that strategy it pushes me to work on building my total available assets so I can expose more dollars to the speculative asset class and participate in the proliferation of the bitcoin rally.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

The fact that many advanced economies are suffering from deficient demand and have policy rates at or near the zero bound and that the U.S. dollar is a favored safe - haven asset may imply that adverse foreign demand shocks have a particularly strong effect on the value of the dollar, effectively transmitting the weakness to the U.S. economy.

That's why we hold over 200 individual investment positions in Strategic Growth, why we diversify across industries, why I left complete put option coverage underneath the Fund's portfolio even in response to a favorable shift in our measures of market action two weeks ago (now neutral), why the dollar value of our shorts never materially exceeds our long holdings, and why even in the most favorable conditions, the Fund can establish leverage only by investing a small percentage of assets in call options (never on margin).

But we believe a moderate rise in the dollar is more likely, and the support for profit margins from better wages, spending and nominal growth reinforces our broadly positive view on risk assets and equities in particular.

The attack has likely sharply lowered the price Avid Life could muster in any sale of assets, assuming it could find a buyer willing to take on a company facing several multi-million dollars lawsuits and the challenge of rebuilding a computer network that has been so badly infiltrated.

Australia's dollar is poised to drop another 5 per cent this year as the central bank stays on hold while the Federal Reserve keeps raising interest rates, Goldman Sachs Asset Management says.

Donald Trump's election may have seen a broad rally in US equities, the dollar, and other assets, but the president's big plans are built on some very shaky economic foundations.

I would suggest that the bid for these assets is either lower than expected or non-existent other than a pennies on the dollar «option value» bid.

There is still a possibility this will happen; in a wind - down like this, the board and founders are obligated (sometimes legally, always morally) to sell the assets to recover even a penny on the dollar for investors (which in this case would be ~ $ 50,000).

A Fed on hold and weaker dollar are good news for the asset class (see the chart below), and there are signs of progress on structural reforms in certain EM countries.

San Francisco, CA, May 3, 2018 — Codex, a cryptocurrency and decentralized title registry for the $ 2 trillion dollar arts & collectibles (A&C) asset class, has unveiled a distinguished catalogue of crypto - themed artwork that will be made available at the live Codex Charity Art Auction at Ethereal Summit on May 12, 2018.

Over the past couple of years, speculators have also used short sales of gold to obtain low cost funds to invest in other assets — for example, by shorting gold (borrowing it and selling it in the spot market), market participants have been able to obtain US dollars at between 1 and 2 per cent, well below the rate of return available on US assets.

We believe synthetic gold has been co-opted by risk managers and speculators as a convenient, high - capacity instrument to offset bullish bets on financial assets, the US dollar, and ultimately on the success of radical Fed policies.

Overall, the Strategic Total Return Fund remains positioned primarily to benefit from downward pressure on real interest rates and the U.S. dollar, but our overall exposure to risk is relatively conservative in all of the asset classes we hold - TIPS, precious metals, utilities, U.S. agency notes, and foreign government securities.

That s my best guess as it looks now but all asset classes seemingly are being manipulated from gold to bonds to currencies to stocks.Which one breaks away from the puppet strings that the Central Banks are holding on to.Fascinating that the dollar is surging causing gold and commodities money to be diverted to stocks.Is the dollar being purchased by our Fed?

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The play here is to start buying distressed poor American assets and forming farms, ranches or even islands dedicating to housing them and fattening them on low cost / calorie inputs like McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) dollar menu and corn syrup IVs.

The valuation impact on US dollar and foreign - denominated assets would hurt Americans with foreign assets or foreigners with dollar - denominated debt.

Moreover, it is now doubtful whether the efficient market hypothesis makes any kind of sense. Indeed, a great many economists and bankers have discovered Minskyâ $ ™ s views on financial fragility and his financial instability hypothesis, according to which banks and financial markets can not be left to themselves: we need regulations even though regulating markets may not succeed in avoiding another crisis once the memory of the current crisis has faded away.As told to me by a law student recently hired by Blackrock, the largest asset manager in the world, with assets totalling more than 3,500 billion dollars â $ «thatâ $ ™ s one and a half times larger than UBS and twice as large as PIMCO â $ «many asset managers are now turning away from hiring neoclassical economists and actually prefer hiring engineers, sociologists and even philosophers.

Phil focuses on asset - based lending and specialty finance, having executed several billion dollars worth of transactions in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Trade on those assets that are most familiar to you such as euro - dollar exchange rates.

What's really unfortunate with the whole situation is that the men and women who do exactly what history has proven works, that is, continue to dollar cost average, reinvest dividends, and focus on strong quality assets, were punished for the stupidity of others.

The dollar's weakness should continue in at least the very short term, as bond yields keep on descending in the wake of QE2 and investors flock to non-dollar-denominated assets, says Marc Chandler, global head of currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman, based in New York.

Rather, the current economic downturn is likely to focus its damage on asset prices - the U.S. dollar, home values, low and mid-quality debt, and equity prices (largely through the combination of narrowing profit margins and lower valuations).

One factor supporting the Australian dollar over the past couple of years has been that interest rates right across the yield curve in Australia, and perceived returns on other assets, have been higher than those in a number of other countries, particularly those which experienced a recession and a collapse of share prices in the early part of this decade.