Sentences with phrase «recent bond market volatility»

The recent bond market volatility already prompted Fannie Mae to revise its outlook for mortgage rates, while housing experts are also concerned about how recent tax reform legislation will affect home prices.

Not exact matches

Although it is fair to say that the recent uptick in volatility has in part reduced earlier concerns about prolonged low volatility and associated reach - for - yield behavior, it has placed added focus on the resilience of liquidity, particularly in markets, such as the market for corporate bonds, that may be prone to gapping between liquidity demand and supply in stressed conditions.

European Central Bank President, Mario Draghi, addressed the recent volatility in the bond market.

This would help mitigate the risks associated with what is widely perceived as a «liquidity illusion».10 The transition to such a market environment, however, could be accompanied by strained market conditions, as suggested by recent episodes of elevated bond market volatility.

While base rates kept at or close to zero for almost seven years and three massive asset - buying programs by the Fed have undoubtedly helped stabilize the US (and world) economy during and after the recession that followed the global financial crisis, the continuation of expansionary monetary policies is now supporting a growing excess of global liquidity that has been distorting the market signals sent by stock and bond prices and thus contributing to the growing volatility seen in recent weeks.

This is a defensive allocation, as a result of recent volatility and negative performance in a variety of equity, commodity and bond markets.

This is a defensive allocation, as a result of recent volatility and negative performance in a variety of equity, commodity and bond markets.

This is still a somewhat a defensive allocation, as a result of recent volatility and negative performance in a variety of equity, commodity and bond markets.

In the wake of the recent market correction, several callers into my Sunday morning radio show, «Money Matters» on WSB Radio, have asked whether bonds are still an effective way to insulate a portfolio against stock volatility.

If recent volatility in the equity market has you thinking about different ways to diversify your assets, new data released by Roofstock illustrates why single - family rentals are a strong investment alternative to stocks and bonds.

For reference, the volatility target is about a third of the historical volatility of the U.S. stock market and roughly the same as the historical volatility of the Barclays Aggregate Bond Index (though in recent years the bond index's volatility has dropped to about 3Bond Index (though in recent years the bond index's volatility has dropped to about 3bond index's volatility has dropped to about 3 %).

Given the recent volatility in the bond market, we thought it was a good time to re-visit why we prefer bond funds to bond ETFs (we first wrote about this in the March 2013 in NoLoad FundX and Janet Brown wrote about it on the Forbes Intelligent Investing blog that month, too).