Also, the jump in energy shares has driven up the sector's valuations, though
some strategists say levels are not worrisome yet.
Not exact matches
«Provided the Fed conveys a steady - as - she - goes approach and it isn't seen to be back tracking - and there is no reason from the data why it should - the dollar should be consolidating and pushing on from this
level,»
said Bank of New York Mellon senior currency
strategist Neil Mellor.
While the BoJ has argued that central bank asset purchases would not work in the absence of structural reforms,
strategists said that high government debt
levels will constrain fiscal expansion.
«Among
strategists, concern is at an all - caps
level,»
said one Republican
strategist who is close to Senate leaders.
Bitcoin failed to break above a resistance
level around $ 11,765 on Monday, «and has been in corrective phase since,»
said Robert Sluymer, technical
strategist at Fundstrat Global Advisors.
«Rates and inflation, even though they have ticked up, are still at very low
levels relative to history, monetary policy is still easy,
said Michael Arone, chief investment
strategist at State Street Global Advisors in Boston.
Canaccord Genuity
strategist Tony Dwyer, who called for a rough patch before the downturn began,
says, «The two - month intermediate - term correction has been driven by correcting a historical
level of optimism rather than a significant change in our positive fundamental thesis.»
Bitcoin is a risky investment that could easily plunge 50 percent next week to
levels seen only last month,
said a former hedge fund
strategist who is now a digital currency investor.
«While everyone is focused on valuation and bubbles (to some degree rightfully so), the fact remains that the last few years have been supported by a low
level of net equity issuance that has, all else equal, supported prices,»
says Dan Greenhaus, chief global
strategist at BTIG.
Yes, the Swiss National Bank's euro purchases have increased its reserves, but the
levels are manageable, the
strategists say.
«The history of currency pegs is that they are susceptible to changes in economic fundamentals that warrant a completely different
level in the exchange rate,»
said Neil MacKinnon, global macro
strategist at VTB Capital.
And now that the time for revisionist history has arrived, and
strategists no longer have to serve a political agenda and scare investors and traders into voting with their wallets, the research reports calling for precisely the outcome that we expected are coming in fast and furious, starting with none other than Goldman, whose chief
strategist David Kostin issued a note overnight in which he
says that «the equity market response to the election result will be limited» and adds that «our year - end 2016 price target for the S&P 500 remains 2100, roughly 2 % below the current
level of 2140.»
In a note this week, Deutsche Bank
strategists said they would lift their 2018 European earnings growth forecast to seven percent from 4.5 percent should the euro fade back to end - 2017
levels.
David Dietze, chief investment
strategist at Point View Wealth Management, nonetheless
said «we remain cautious» with stock prices at current
levels.
For investors, the plot thickens: Across the globe, «returns across asset classes have been unusually high relative to their
levels of volatility,»
says Morgan Stanley Global
Strategist Andrew Sheets.
«The Shanghai Composite in aggregate is now trading back well below average global equity valuations at the headline index
level,»
says Jonathan Garner, Morgan Stanley's Chief Asia and Emerging Market Equity
Strategist.
«As the first county in New York to go paperless in its District Attorney's office, Oneida County demonstrates how digital government can increase productivity at every
level,»
said Katie Burke, Government Program
Strategist at Laserfiche.
«It's clear that there's more energy at the grass - roots
level than I've seen in my lifetime, any election cycle — midterm or presidential,»
said strategist Joe Trippi, who managed the 2004 Howard Dean presidential campaign that's widely seen as the first such bid to begin harnessing online fundraising tools.
«We wanted to extend our reach and give teachers more feedback at a classroom
level without always having to send in a large team of people,»
said Karla Oakley, senior
strategist with The New Teacher Project (TNTP), a nonprofit that started offering virtual coaching in 2013, augmenting the in - school support services they have provided for nearly two decades.
«There are a lot of factors conspiring to push the yield down to unprecedented
levels,»
said David Joy, chief markets
strategist at Ameriprise Financial.
«We're taking it to an entirely new
level,»
says Infinity Ward creative
strategist Robert Bowling, displaying the customary games industry hyperbole.
One of the challenges in - house counsel may face is that they don't have visibility at the executive
level,
says ACC vice president and chief legal
strategist Amar Sarwal, and cybersecurity, much like a company's customer information and intellectual property, is diffused throughout the organization.
The truth: «Too many of the executive job seekers I speak with have neglected their network for years, while they were securely employed,»
says Meg Guiseppi, a C -
level career
strategist.
«The story in these markets is the apartment story writ large: the high
levels of apartment construction are not enough to house the 1.2 million or so new households formed each year without increased single - family construction,»
says John Affleck, research
strategist with the CoStar Group.