US consumer confidence hits 17 - year high The Conference Board's consumer confidence index rose to the highest levels since December 2000, spurred by
surging equity prices and tight labor markets.
Not exact matches
Gold - mining stocks certainly fared better than the broader
equity market during the first four days of this week as mining shares that trade in North America
surged on higher precious - metals
prices.
In
surging, gold blurted out the Deep State Central Planners» strategy for dealing with the Great Financial Crisis: the hyperinflation of bond,
equities and real estate
prices via the hyperinflation of both official and totally clandestine, off - the - books money supply, in order to create the hyperinflation of tax revenues desperately required by the government to forestall its fiscal collapse.
This morning's Wall Street Journal informs us that the growth of exchange - traded funds has «propelled» this year's
surge in
equity prices.
The
price of options to protect against losses on
equities from China to India and Brazil has
surged to its highest since 2009 relative to U.S. contracts.
Treasury Wine, which downgraded earnings in January, rejected an approach from private
equity but it has benefited from a
surge in its share
price.
This morning's Wall Street Journal informs us that the growth of exchange - traded funds has «propelled» this year's
surge in
equity prices.
«
Surging home
prices this spring and summer, lower levels of inventory, and declining REO sale shares are all contributing to the nascent housing recovery and declining negative
equity.»