The Q ratio serves as one measure of the financial bubble, as it compares the
market value of the stock market (or real estate market, or other asset prices) to their book value or replacement - cost value.
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.
The health of an economy is not measured by the profits of corporations headquartered within it or
the value of its stock market.
A lot of people don't think about this, but
the value of the stock market (most commonly referring to the S&P 500 index) drops a lot.
• James Hall in the Daily Telegraph says the government is considering a plan to allow people to protect their pension savings from falls in
the value of the stock market.
Warren Buffett has compared
the value of the stock market to U.S. GNP to determine whether the market is overvalued.
Typically in finance we are talking about a stock market index, which is an indicator of
the value of the stock market (or a subset of it).
One can make more profit during a bull market, when
the value of stock markets is high, and less profit during the season of the bear market, when the value of stock markets decline.
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But if you have a broadly diversified portfolio of stocks, mutual funds or ETFs that mostly reflects
the value of the stock market overall (as you should), then the portion of your money invested in small shares is likely very small, perhaps 10 % or so.
If
the value of the stock market does not increase, you may receive no interest.
«To have a portfolio that increases in value, you need a run up in shares and
the value of the stock market, which is what we've had, and you need the CRA to be scrutinizing it,» said the lawyer.
You receive the percentage increase in
the value of the stock market over a period of time.
-LSB-...] a deep value blog, had a recent piece on
the value of stock market sentiment.
As for getting back into stocks after the bear market, consider that the market had fallen for roughly two - and - a-half years through October 2002, erasing almost half of
the value of the stock market.
Another value of stock market valuation which is less commonly used than many of the above methods are the Tobins Q. Tobins Q is currently about.86.
I developed the Money Commando True Wealth Index (MCTWI) to more accurately measure and track
the value of stock market investments.
The MCTWI provides in a more stable estimate of
the value of stock market investments by adjusting for changes in valuation.
Check the accelerated increase in
the value of the stock market when capital gains taxes were reduced in the mid 1990's.
This ratio measures
the value of the stock market compared to the economy.
These two factors have united to push down
the values of stock markets, and have muted the potential compensatory returns from bonds.
With the market at this height, analysts aren't ruling out a «correction» — a major drop in
the value of the stock market.