Sentences with phrase «world debt stocks»

Record - high world debt stocks make various economic actors more vulnerable, motivating greater savings as a buffer against future shocks.

Not exact matches

His deep - value philosophy can be boiled down to four points: he's looking for high - quality stocks that protect against the downside; he wants businesses where short - term issues have caused investors to abandon the company; he wants to wait until valuations are «out - of - this - world» cheap, and he tries not to pay attention to macro issues like eurozone debt or Chinese growth.

We begin with an analysis of the continuing bailout of insurance giant AIG and Monday's stock market selloff; price and debt deflation; the two sectors of the economy; two definitions of «free markets»; the classical economists; revolution from the right and the former Soviet states; the threat of war; IMF / World Bank resurgence; the dollar versus the euro; analogies to Rome, neo-feudalism.

What is to stop U.S. banks and their customers from creating $ 1 trillion, $ 10 trillion or even $ 50 trillion on their computer keyboards to buy up all the bonds and stocks in the world, along with all the land and other assets for sale, in the hope of making capital gains and pocketing the arbitrage spreads by debt leveraging at less than 1 % interest cost?

-- Goethe What is to stop U.S. banks and their customers from creating $ 1 trillion, $ 10 trillion or even $ 50 trillion on their computer keyboards to buy up all the bonds and stocks in the world, along with all the land and other assets for sale, in the hope of making capital gains and pocketing the arbitrage spreads by debt leveraging at less than 1 % interest cost?

In the letter, Conway attributes the continued rise of world stock markets to a glut of liquidity in the world financial system, which he describes as «the availability of enormous amounts of cheap debt.»

World stock markets fell Wednesday, with Japan's Nikkei closing at a three - month low, as political turmoil in Greece pushed the debt - crippled country closer to financial disaster.

Here's a letter to the board of Biglari Holdings re: executive compensation [Noise Free Investing] & then more thoughts on Biglari's compensation agreement [My Investing Notebook] Where things stand in the market [Bespoke Investment Group] A list of stocks Nasdaq is canceling trades in from yesterday's madness [Business Insider] The best interest rate chart in the world [Trader's Narrative] A great macro overview from Barry Ritholtz [The Big Picture] A look at John Paulson's possible ownership of Bear Stearns CDOs [Zero Hedge] John Mauldin on the future of public debt [Advisor Perspectives] Top buys & sells from Morningstar's ultimate stock pickers [Morningstar] The truth about «Sell in May & Go Away» [WSJ] An interview with hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry [Investment Week] Bill Ackman: Let's have a public registry for stock opinion [Barron's] Hedge fund Harbinger hires ex-Orange chief for wireless plan [Dealbook] & Deutsche Telekom has been in talks with Harbinger [FT] Hedge funds begin to restructure fee system [FT]

Stocks have gained a lot of ground this year on a combination of reasons, including hopes over the U.S. economy, a seeming easing in Europe's debt crisis and continued support by the world's leading central banks.

World stock markets climbed again Friday, continuing to be buoyed by a European deal aimed at slashing Greece's massive debt and preventing the crisis from engulfing «too big to bailout» countries such as Italy.

World stock markets ran into resistance Tuesday as investors sought safety ahead of critical events this week that will test Europe's willingness to unite to deal with a major debt crisis.

World stock markets perked up Wednesday, as a meeting of the European Central Bank raised hopes for some type of action to ease the continent's debt and banking crisis.

For more views on this and Europe too see also Entering the Debt Dimension from Phil's Picks on the Phil's Stock World Blog.

Bill «The Bond King» Gross, founder of PIMCO says that the long run of stocks outperforming the overall economy is done and that the only policy option left for the «advanced» economies in the world is inflating their way out of debt.

Simply put, Buffett has sold long - dated insurance against the debt of specific companies (credit default obligations or CDSs, expiring between 2009 and 2013) and against declines in the world's major stock market indices (equity index put options, with the first expiration in 2019 and average maturity of 13.5 years).

Indeed, the rest of the world's central banks are purchasing assets (e.g., government debt, investment grade corporate bonds, higher - yielding junk corporates, stocks, etc.) with QE «funny money» in the hopes that it will boost economic growth.

Relative strength for utilities and REITs in the stock world, as well as relative strength for investment grade debt in the bond universe, suggest that the Fed will barely bump overnight lending rates, if at all.

Which reflects a similar two - tier attitude to risk: In the real world, investors remain risk - averse towards the majority of companies / stocks in the developed world, which face a world beset by surplus capacity & high costs, fragile & uncertain economic growth, an intractable welfare class & an over-stretched and disillusioned middle class, and governments over-burdened by massive debt & future entitlements.

Munich - based Allianz, one of the world's largest insurers, bought $ 2.5 billion in Hartford stock and debt, along with warrants to purchase up to 20 percent of The Hartford, as the company struggled with losses stemming from mortgage - backed securities and tight credit markets.

In the REIT world, falling stock prices have caused debt ratios to skyrocket to unprecedented levels.

The world seems like a volatile and risky place with the massive daily swings in the stock market, rising energy prices, approaching fiscal cliff, slump in commodities, ongoing European Union debt crisis and omnipresent geopolitical risks flaming up and pushing already weak U.S. and global economies into recession once again.