Sentences with phrase «stock as a bubble»

Many have described the stock as a bubble, a self - fulfilling prophecy where people are buying into the stock just because everyone else is.

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An economic bubble happens when products, such as stocks or homes, become worth more than their actual value.

By late last year, people — investors, angels, venture capital firms — were all overpaying for growth in technology startups and stocks, just as they had been 14 years earlier at the height of the last bubble.

Hedge fund legend Julian Robertson Jr. sees stock market valuations as «very high» and worries about a bubble forming.

In November, the Nasdaq composite index broke 4,000 for the first time since the last bubble burst, inflated by stocks even some CEOs, such as Elon Musk from Tesla and Netflix's Reed Hastings, warned were overpriced.

If the stock market seemed like it was zooming along during the dot - com boom of 1999 — later to become known as a bubble — just try keeping up with it in 2016.

However, if the economy is near or above its potential, as some measures indicate, it may merely cause faster - than - desired price increases, or a jump in stock and other asset values that raise concerns of a bubble.

As for the general public, the kind of frenzy that marked the late 1990s dotcom bubble in the stock market has yet to appear.

When Immelt took over at General Electric in 2001 from venerable GE boss Jack Welch, the stock was already turning over, as the dotcom bubble of the 1990s burst and took the broader stock market lower as well.

For example, large - cap companies dominated during the tech bubble of the 1990s, as investors gravitated toward large - cap tech stocks such as Microsoft, Cisco and AOL Time Warner.

As long as you do your due diligence, looking out for phenomenon such as value traps, viewing both the individual stocks you hold in your portfolio, and your portfolio as a whole, through this lens can help you avoid getting swept away in bubbles, manias, and panicAs long as you do your due diligence, looking out for phenomenon such as value traps, viewing both the individual stocks you hold in your portfolio, and your portfolio as a whole, through this lens can help you avoid getting swept away in bubbles, manias, and panicas you do your due diligence, looking out for phenomenon such as value traps, viewing both the individual stocks you hold in your portfolio, and your portfolio as a whole, through this lens can help you avoid getting swept away in bubbles, manias, and panicas value traps, viewing both the individual stocks you hold in your portfolio, and your portfolio as a whole, through this lens can help you avoid getting swept away in bubbles, manias, and panicas a whole, through this lens can help you avoid getting swept away in bubbles, manias, and panics.

For instance, Dean Baker, a liberal economist, sees the stock market rise as a double - edged sword, leading to the bursting of the bubble in 2001 and perhaps helping shape a subsequent decade of only modest job growth.

That made it the best year on Wall Street since 1995, and it would take more than some short - term declines in stock prices as investors convert theoretical profits to the folding - money kind or even the inevitable downward market correction (the bursting of the proverbial bubble) to take the bloom of this particular rose.

We stopped feeling sorry for ourselves after realizing we could make just as much money buying puts, shorting stocks, and investing in the real estate bubble.

As the tech bubble gained momentum, it was obvious that fewer and fewer stocks were participating in the rally.

Gundlach believes commodities are as cheap relative to stocks as they were in the 1970s and during the dot - com bubble of the 1990s, periods that were followed by strong outperformance by commodities.

Before he became president, he railed against the state of the economy, decrying the loss of manufacturing jobs and dismissing the steadily rising stock market as a «big fat, ugly bubble.»

This may be good news for stock market and real estate speculators as savings are used to inflate the stock market and real estate bubble.

At Berkshire Hathaway's recent annual shareholders meeting, an investor asked Buffett about the relevance of two popular measures of stock market value: 1) market cap - to - GDP, which Buffett once heralded as «probably the best single measure of where valuations stand at any given moment» and 2) the cyclically - adjusted price - earnings ratio (CAPE), which was made famous by Nobel prize winner Robert Shiller and was seen as accurately predicting the dot - com bubble and the housing bubble.

Advice: CNBC was criticized for its coverage of the dot com bubble during the late 90's because it took more of a cheerleader role than as an objective news source.Now, the network is required to report whether analysts it has on its shows do banking business with the stocks they're talking about.

This contrasts sharply with past valuation / earnings divergences, such as during the Dot - Com Bubble, when valuations for technology stocks disconnected from earnings and reality.

Technology stocks involved in a bubble may be confined to a particular industry (such as internet software or fuel cells), or cover the entire technology sector as a whole, depending on the strength and depth of investor demand.

Many market analysts and investors have called the recent melt - up in technology stocks as the equivalent of a Tech Bubble 2.0.

A bubble may end with a crash, or simply deflate as investors slowly lose interest and sales pressure pushes stock valuations back to normalized levels.

Low interest rates helped fuel the real estate and stock market bubble by making the debt side of the balance sheet less expensive, creating a «wealth effect» as people came to believe that rising property and stock - market prices would be able to pay off their obligations.

Aside from acceptable «basis» risk between the stocks we hold long and the indices we use to hedge, and perhaps 1 % of assets in option time - premium at any given time as a result of staggering our strikes to provide a stronger defense, we don't consider various speculative bubbles as threats to our own returns.

One of Buffett's most controversial bets — a bubble - era wager on the long - term value of stock market indexes, using tools he once scorned as «weapons of financial mass destruction» — started to pay off in the fourth quarter.

Stocks aren't as expensive right now as they were ahead of the tech bubble bursting.

Over the past two years, the behavior of the stock market can be described less as an ongoing bull market than as the extended topping phase of what is now the third financial bubble since 2000.

About the author: JS Kim is the Managing Director and Founder of SmartKnowledgeU, a fiercely independent research, consulting and education firm that focuses on gold and silver asset investment strategies as a means of countering the damaging effects of rapidly devaluing fiat currencies worldwide and price - distorted stock market and asset bubbles created by Central Bankers.

When this becomes extreme, as was the case during the technology bubble, the resultant bust can turn growth stocks into value stocks almost overnight» Marathon Asset Management

On Thursday, October 24th 1929, a spate of panic selling occurred as investors began to realize that the stock boom was actually an over-inflated speculative bubble.

Perhaps the greatest speculative mania of all time was Kuwait's Souk al - Manakh stock bubble in the early 1980s, which is as fascinating as it was devastating.

As a U.S. company, its pay vote is advisory, not binding; moreover the company's share class structure means that approval is effectively assured, with founders» Class B shares carrying ten times the voting power of ordinary Class A. Nonetheless, opposition has been bubbling up, with an amendment to the company's stock plan generating a 28 % against vote at the 2016 AGM.

As interest rates rose, the massive real estate / mortgage bubble popped, and the stock market again crashed.

Finally the real New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as a percentage of US GDP rose to new highs — going over the previous high set on March 2000, more than 15 years ago when the dot - com bubble was at peak!

As big as previous real estate and stock market bubbles have been, the current global bubble in government debt dwarfs them alAs big as previous real estate and stock market bubbles have been, the current global bubble in government debt dwarfs them alas previous real estate and stock market bubbles have been, the current global bubble in government debt dwarfs them all.

(In the internet bubble, for example, as internet stocks went up in price, market cap - weighted indexes became too heavily concentrated in this overpriced sector and too underweighted in the stocks of established companies in less exciting industries.)

Once the inflow of new employee contributions slows, the rise in stock prices will collapse, just as the mortgage bubble collapsed.

As the market valuation of the total stock of bitcoins approached US$ 1 billion, some commentators called bitcoin prices a bubble.

«This recovery has been fueled by a housing bubble, just as the late 90s cycle was fueled by a stock bubble,» said Baker.

Jon Hilsenrath noted the seeming irony: «In August 1999, as the tech - stock bubble was worsening, Alan Greenspan stood before central - banking colleagues in Jackson Hole, Wyo., and argued it wasn't the central bank's job to prevent asset bubbles.

Outgoing Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen, whose last day in the post was Friday, in her final interview as chair told CBS News that stock prices are «high,» though she declined to define it as a bubble.

I said earlier this summer that I don't believe the stock market as a whole is in a bubble.

So the Fed's real goal is to re-inflate the real estate bubble (while spurring a stock market bubble as well, if it can).

Bears will point to SNA's rising finance and contract receivables as reason to believe the stock is in bubble territory and set for a crash.

The Sage Policy Group CEO pointed to possible real estate and stock market bubbles, lagging wages and rising business costs associated with employee benefits and health care as factors that could slow growth in 2020 and beyond.

US DOW, NAS, etc stocks are helium filled bubbles overvalued as per EPS etc a Canadian oil, copper, will trade 5or6 EPS while a US doing the same will trade 20,30 plus times EPS.

They then address gold as an investment as follows: portfolio diversification with gold; gold as a safe haven; gold in comparison to other precious metals; relationships between gold and currencies; mining stocks and exchange - traded funds (ETF) as gold substitutes; interaction of gold and oil; gold market efficiency; gold price bubbles, interactions of gold with inflation and interest rates; and, behavioral aspects of gold investing.

Admittedly the heads of the world economy are also becoming worried as they take stock of the situation, and face up particularly to the presence of the Asian tigers, the irrational growth of the financial bubble and the extreme poverty in the world.