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Fear of rising interest rates led investors to dump income stocks such as utilities.While short - term volatility is...

LONDON (Reuters)- Gold demand posted its weakest start to the year in a decade, the World Gold Council said on Thursday, as prices of the metal stagnated and the threat of rising interest rates led investors to seek better returns elsewhere.

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«Strong economic momentum and accelerating price and wage gains should lead to three more Fed rate hikes this year,» Kathy Bostjancic, head of U.S. macro investor services at Oxford Economics USA, wrote in response to the survey.

Particularly, in my conversation with investors, a lot of people talk about the Fed and there being the uncertainty around who might lead it, and whether they might raise rates or move too soon.

In the lead - up to Fed Chair Janet Yellen's testimony before Congress next week, investors will be looking for rate clues from three regional Fed presidents Friday.

While New Zealand's official cash rate is already at a record - low 2 % after the latest cut in August, it is still the highest in the developed world — a major draw for yield - hungry investors and a complication for the central bank as a higher kiwi further dampens imported - led inflation.

After years of anemic growth and brain drain, Puerto Rico has been left with a 12 % unemployment rate and stagnant wages, leading Padilla to come clean and ask investors for mercy.

Many investors expect that the tax overhaul may boost U.S. growth, leading to more interest rate hikes and a higher dollar.

GREEN Line Investor Services has taken up the challenge laid down by E * Trade and drop - ped its lead brokerage rate to $ 28 for online trades up to $ 10,000.

For the last couple of years, Musk had led investors to expect the Model 3 to reach an annual production rate of about 400,000 cars by the end of 2017.

Bond indexes have declined this year, as the growing economy has led the Fed to raise interest rates and investors have grown increasingly concerned about the potential for accelerating inflation.

While investors are often concerned about catastrophic risks, failing to allocate enough to risky assets can lead investors to «fail slowly» by not maintaining pace with inflation or supporting withdrawal rates.

«The energy sector posted stronger returns in September due to a rebound in oil prices which helped lift Canadian equities, while the bond market slipped into negative territory after strong Canadian economic growth led the Bank of Canada to raise interest rates for the first time in seven years,» said James Rausch, Head of Client Coverage, Canada, RBC Investor & Treasury Services.

In her speech, she warned that low rates could lead to the possibility of excessive risk as investors look for alternatives to combat the low - rate environment.

This very low market volatility can lead investors to take on more risk, and in a period of still relatively low interest rates, to «reach for yield» — that is, buy riskier assets than one would otherwise, in order to achieve a desired profit or savings goal.

Many investors tend to project high growth rates far into the future without fully considering forces that eventually will lead to slower growth» Ed Wachenheim

The fact that these expectations have not been fulfilled in the nearly nine years since the initiation of zero interest rates, notwithstanding the recent 25 - basis - point Fed rate hike, leads us to believe that investor credulity in central bankers may be stretched about as far as it can go.

Westpac has followed NAB's lead with an out - of - cycle rate rise that targets both owner - occupiers and investors.

CHICAGO (Reuters)- Michigan State University's heightened financial risk in the wake of a sex abuse scandal involving former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar led Moody's Investors Service to cut the school's credit rating to Aa2 from Aa1 on Thursday.

High initial hit rates will lead to greater hype, momentum and press coverage, which will bring in investors from outside of the community.

The expectation is that the central bank will hold rates steady this month, but investors may be most interested in hearing the lead bank's outlook for the rest of this year.

In fact, this scenario occurred back in 2013: as the Fed's taper tantrum led to a sharp rise in US real rates, gold collapsed by 29 % as investors exited gold exposures.

This leads to value investors often ignoring them believing they are too expense, while growth investors will often only be excited during the early stages of rapid growth but lose interest when the growth rate slows to solid, but not exciting, levels.

Michigan State University's heightened financial risk in the wake of a sex abuse scandal involving former USA Gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar led Moody's Investors Service to cut the school's credit rating to Aa2 from Aa1 on Thursday.

Not so popular last month was the iShares 20 + Year Treasury Bond ETF (TLT), which led outflows with net redemptions of $ 1.34 billion, as investors trim exposure to long - dated bonds ahead of what could be another rate hike before the year is over.

Moody's Investors Service is a leading provider of credit ratings, research, and risk analysis.

The $ 38 IPO price is the rate at which Facebook's underwriters (including lead banker Morgan Stanley) will sell shares to their clients, which typically include large institutional investors, mutual funds and hedge funds.

Our first sure thing was that the Federal Reserve would continue to raise interest rates in 2017, leading many to recommend investors limit their bond holdings to the shortest maturities.

The recent rise in bond yields has convinced investors that rising inflation may lead the Federal Reserve to hike interest rates faster than previously expected.

Many of these stocks have depressed valuations due to concerns that rising rates would increase their cost of capital, decrease mortgage activity, lead to higher rates of default, and decrease their attractiveness to yield - seeking investors.

Not only do Wall Street and investors look to faster growing stocks to lead the stock market higher during bull markets, but the current low interest rate environment remains conducive to borrowing, which should allow high - growth stocks to outpace their competition.

He thinks wealthy investors may be holding back on cashing in their capital gains, hoping for tax reforms from President Donald Trump and the Republican - led Congress that will result in lower tax rates.

Representatives from leading banks, investors, rating agencies, charter networks and others came together earlier this month to tackle that challenge.

Whatever the rate of change, and whatever the velocity of change, most of the other players in the book business and many of Amazon's market analysts and investors may be missing the point as to exactly where this change leads.

You could even take a few minutes to review instances in recent years (Brexit, the Greek debt crisis, fears of a slowdown in China's growth rate) when many investors were convinced a market drop would lead to a major selloff but stocks recovered.

The odds of a rate hike have been declining in recent weeks as a combination of tepid data and comments by Fed governors have led most investors to believe that there won't be a move.

Though they tend to lower bond prices in the short term, interest - rate hikes have generally led to higher fixed - income returns down the road for investors who have stayed the course.

Still, the slowing construction sector and the tempered expectation for price appreciations in the housing resale market are taking a toll on investor outlook — and this is prompting leading economists to suggest an interest rate cut by the Bank of Canada at tomorrow's monetary policy announcement.

Historically low interest rates in recent years that has led Canadian investors to increasingly venture into the world of private mortgage investment corporations or MICs.

That action led many investors to believe the Fed would follow with more fed - funds hikes that would ultimately lead to higher bond rates as well.

Investors and economists alike view lower interest rates as catalysts for growth — a benefit to personal and corporate borrowing, which in turn leads to greater profits and a robust economy.

If persistent zero interest rates and quantitative easing that were intended to lead investors to take more risk in pursuit of higher yielding assets led to dampened volatility, we should expect greater financial market volatility in 2015 as the Fed pulls back from its zero rate policy.

It is rated highly by investors for showing them how to balance investments properly to avoid an «overdose» that leads to financial ruin.

SocietyOne is Australia's leading peer - to - peer lender where investors fund your loan at rates that are sometimes up to 4 % better than the average rates of the big banks.

«Many of the investors joining the dividend stampede appear to be motivated by the low interest rates mandated by the Federal Reserve, which have led to a yield famine among traditional income investments like bonds, certificates of deposit and money - market funds,» Zweig writes, adding that others may be chasing performance, since high - yield stocks fared well last year.

State securities regulators have led the national effort to give investors access to billions of dollars of their funds, which have been frozen in the auction rate securities markets.

Such a number before the June 5 European Central Bank interest rate announcement led investors to question economic strength and the possibility of an additional rate cut in Europe.

This year investors who followed the MFIP were led to shorten maturities (therefore lowering their interest - rate risk) and also to use higher - yielding corporate bonds rather than Treasuries or mortgage - backed securities (thereby keeping lower duration and less interest - rate risk).

Low commission rates sometimes lead investors to trade a great deal.

Increased deficits, political stalemate and protectionism all could lead investors or rating agencies to re-evaluate the credit standing of the United States.