Sentences with phrase «stock market peaked more»

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Think about it; if you were unlucky enough to buy into the stock market at the peak in 2008, just before the financial crisis hit full force, your gains (excluding dividends) wouldn't buy you much more than two loaves of price - fixed bread at Loblaws and a bag of President's Choice sour grapes.

Anticipating the 2000 stock market bust and 2007 credit bust, Rodriguez maintained cash levels averaging more than 25 % in his FPA Capital Fund and peaking at 45 % in 2007, compared to 1 % to 3 % levels in the 14 years in investment management leading up to 1998.

Generally, a bear market happens when major indexes like the S&P 500, which tracks the performance of 500 companies» stocks, and the Dow Jones industrial average, which follows 30 of the largest stocks, drop by 20 percent or more from a peak and stay that low for at least two months.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

A market correction is defined by the value of the stocks as a whole drop 10 % or more from a recent peak.

U.S. dividend stock valuations have come down since peaking in late July amid investors» search for yield, and they are now more in line with those of the broader market.

During the tech bubble growth stocks became more expensive, pushing the value discount to more than 70 % at the market peak in 2000.

Hence, to capitalize on the final blow off, investors must let their stock market holdings ride until the precise moment the market peaks — and not a moment more.

a speculative bubble covering roughly 1995 — 2000 (with a climax on March 10, 2000 with the NASDAQ peaking at 5132.52 in intraday trading before closing at 5048.62) during which stock markets in industrialized nations saw their equity value rise rapidly from growth in the more recent Internet sector and related fields.

During the tech bubble growth stocks became more expensive, pushing the value discount to more than 70 % at the market peak in 2000.

Reason being, while the US declined ~ 50 % from its peak, many emerging market stock exchanges declined 75 % or more.

The evidence for this alert of underwhelming importance was that even though broad market indices like the Standard & Poor's 500 hadn't dropped 20 % from their previous peak, many small stocks as well as the small - cap Russell 2000 index were off more than 20 % from their peaks.

Or, to put it another way, it would be a huge mistake to stay 100 % in stocks on the theory that «you can handle it» only to find that the reality of owning an all - equity portfolio during a market meltdown like the 50 % - plus downturn from late 2007 to early 2009 is more financially and emotionally unsettling than it seemed when stock prices were at or near a peak.

A bear market is typically defined as a 20 % reduction or more in stock prices from their most recent peak.