Sentences with phrase «safe haven for investors when»

Once a reliable hedge against equities, gold has, to a very large extent, lost its status as the go - to safe haven for investors when stocks start crashing.

Precious metals are a traditional safe haven for investors when the market slumps.

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Regular Truewealth readers know precious metals are widely considered «safe havens» for investors - a form of insurance when financial markets go through periods of big uncertainty.

They consider a range of arguments for owning gold, such as: (1) gold hedges inflation; (2) gold hedges currency decline; (3) gold is attractive when other assets are not; (4) gold is a safe haven in times of crisis; (5) gold is a de facto world currency; and, (6) central banks and investors in aggregate are still underweighting gold.

Wall Street tends to duck for cover in so - called «safe haven» sectors — think utilities, which traditionally have high dividends and whose services are in demand in good times and bad — when investors» confidence in the markets is shot.

In August, when rising defaults on subprime home loans, made to borrowers with poor credit, began causing market turmoil, the dollar initially benefited from safe - haven flows as investors fled risk for U.S. Treasuries and Americans repatriated funds.

Corporations have also benefitted in the past few years by investors looking for a safe haven for their money when equity markets got hammered.