Not exact matches
HOUSTON, Feb 5 - Oil
prices settled lower on Monday as rising U.S. output, a
weaker physical market and recent dollar strength added to the pressure from a widespread decline across
equities and commodities markets.
If anything should be clear from the bubbles of recent years, the greatest risks are not when
prices are depressed, the economy is
weak, and investors are frightened, but rather when
prices are elevated and an unendingly positive outlook for technology, or housing, or global growth, or private
equity, or emerging markets, or commodities seems all but certain.
Commodities and Natural Resource
Equities were some of the
weaker performers in the first quarter as oil
prices retreated by about 7.5 %.
The SNB's «profit was lifted by a trio of positive forces: Low bond yields preserved the value of its foreign bonds; higher
equity prices raised the value of SNB holdings... and the
weaker Swiss currency made those foreign assets worth more in franc terms.»
Weak Chinese manufacturing data — coupled with plunging commodity
prices — have sent
equity markets around the world into flux.
Investors are now also concerned about softer manufacturing activities and
weaker commodity and Chinese
equity prices.
So, one could say that the
price you pay for greater school choice is
weaker equity.
(ETF Trends: Nov 16, 2015) Tom Lydon of ETF Trends says that with low oil
prices weighing on the energy sector, «investors may turn to a relatively new ex-sector exchange traded fund to track U.S.
equities while excluding exposure to
weaker energy companies.»
In the latter case, both the economy and the market were unarguably
weak in early 2009, but by August, the New Orders Index had ticked above the neutral stance of 50, even with the
equity market's trailing real -
price return down a depressing 22 %.
Oil was
weak Friday despite a stronger
equity market and
weaker dollar, both factors that have lifted crude
prices lately.