Sentences with phrase «slightly negative return»

Stocks have a less - than - stellar reputation in the month of June, as the S&P 500 often notches slightly negative returns in the sixth month of the year.

Both the US index and Global index posted slightly negative returns in June, -0.10 % and -0.09 %, respectively.

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The current level implies slightly negative total returns for the S&P 500 over the coming decade.

During such inflationary periods since the mid-1930s, the magnitude of stock performance on a real (inflation - adjusted) basis has fallen and the real return of intermediate Treasuries, on average, has been slightly negative (see chart).

ZIRP and NIRP policies are forcing investors out of cash and near - zero or negative yielding «havens» and into slightly higher yielding investments in which the potential rate of return does not even remotely reflect the degree of risk being taken.

Assuming a slightly higher volatility of 30 percent - about the risk of many 401K portfolios, say the authors - the chance of a negative return increases.

After January's impressive gains, equity returns reversed course in February and March to end the quarter slightly negative as inflation, trade policy discussions, and a selloff in the technology sector spooked investors.

The long - run correlation of returns for U.S. stocks and gold is modestly negative, while the correlation of returns for U.S. bonds and gold is slightly positive.

Research by Agcapita Partners, a Canadian agriculture private equity firm, shows that one of the beneficial investment qualities of farmland in North America is that is has a very low (slightly negative = -0.13) correlation to stock market returns.

If one excludes the 1980 - 1997 period, the historical correlation between 10 - year Treasury yields and 10 - year prospective (and actual realized) equity returns is actually slightly negative over the past century, and is only weakly positive in post-war data.

While returns on both equity indices were only slightly negative, the last two months of the quarter more than offset the red - hot start the markets got off to in January.

To date the more speculative indices S&P / LSTA U.S. Leveraged Loan 100 Index, S&P U.S. Issued High Yield Corporate Bond Index and S&P Municipal Bond High Yield Index are returning 0.10 %, 1.11 % and a just slightly negative number of -0.16 %, respectively.

Another thing worth noting is that while the strategy's standard deviation of returns is slightly higher than those of the S&P 500, the downside deviation (measure of the variability of negative returns) is 8.9 % relative to the benchmark's 9.4 %.

Assuming a slightly higher volatility of 30 percent - about the risk of many 401K portfolios, say the authors - the chance of a negative return increases.

While the Universe Index is slightly positive for the year - to - date, Federal Government bonds are now showing a negative return.

Profits keep falling, as does interest coverage, and net FCF's been negative for the past couple of years... Return on equity, despite a hefty dose of leverage (a slightly threatening 58 % of total assets), is a measly 4.8 %.