Sentences with phrase «world of low interest rates»

Complicating things further is that in today's world of low interest rates, robo - advisors and tax - free savings accounts (TFSAs), decades - old savings rules are no longer applicable.

Not exact matches

NEW YORK, May 2 (Reuters)- The U.S. dollar rose to four - month highs against a basket of major currencies and world stock indexes mostly edged lower on Wednesday as investors awaited the outcome of a Federal Reserve meeting and possible indications on the interest rate outlook.

Its central bank has been one of the most aggressive practitioners of quantitative easing — in January, it lowered interest rates below zero — which has helped fuel demand in gold around the world.

Mired in a world of low growth, low inflation and low interest rates, officials from the Federal Reserve, Bank of Japan and the European Central Bank said their efforts to bolster the economy through monetary policy may falter unless elected leaders stepped forward with bold measures.

Record - low interest rates also have caused some big institutional investors to search for returns in the high - risk, high - reward world of venture capital.

We find historical comparisons less useful in a world of structurally lower interest rates — and believe it's important to rethink returns.

The reason Keynesianism got such a boost post-crisis was not for any real - world examples of its success — the list of its failures, by contrast, is lengthy — but because of the assertion, accepted far too quickly with far too little evidence, that monetary policy, at the fabled Zero Lower Bound (interest rates of near zero) had lost its effectiveness.

«For 2012, in the face of a delevering zero - bound interest rate world, investors must lower return expectations,» Gross concludes.

World growth will remain low on average but negative in the UK and Europe; price inflation will remain sufficiently subdued for a while longer so as to impose no constraint on monetary expansion; central banks will sustain a regime of negative real interest rates and rapid monetary expansion; the risk of a eurozone collapse is off the table for now; finally, stock markets should continue to perform better than expected, even though the four - year old cyclical bull market is long by historical standards.

Third, in a world where interest rates over horizons of more than a generation are far lower than even pessimistic projections of growth, traditional thinking about debt sustainability needs to be discarded.

As long as he doesn't see any consumer price inflation that you're not going to have in a world where people are still coming out of the rice patties to take a job at $ 0.70 an hour, then he's going to keep the interest rates artificially low, totally medicated and rigged, and that will encourage speculators to just keep going, and going, and going until the next bubble.

Japan flooded its economy with credit, lowering interest rates and fueling the world's largest real estate bubble of the 1980s.

By LEWIS JOHNSON — Co-Chief Investment Officer August 25, 2016 Regular readers of this publication are well aware of our contention that our over-indebted world is likely to experience disappointing real growth and its counterpart, low real interest rates, for a long time.

Recently, the Bank of International Settlements (BIS), the principal bank to the world's central banks, hinted at the need for microeconomic reform when it warned that central banks were «overburdened» and called for policies other than monetary stimulus and low interest rates to tackle the issue of slow global growth.

Implied volatilities gradually declined around the world in the second half of 2003, as it became clearer that the easing cycle was drawing to a close, with some central banks beginning to tighten monetary policy after a prolonged period of relatively low and stable interest rates.

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At the end of World War II, the Treasury pressured the Fed to keep interest rates artificially low to minimize the government's interest costs on its ballooning debt.

The investment world is skewed by the latest round of monetary policy experimentation by the Fed, including years of artificially low interest rates and trillions of dollars in «massive asset purchases,» to paraphrase former Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke.

Today's low - to - negative interest rate world has sent investors searching far flung corners of the market for yield, driving flows into a range of once obscure, high - yielding asset classes.

Seven years after the great financial crisis of 2008, the world economy remains at high risk of a new slump despite continued ultra low interest rates.

The most recent and thorough of these, by Lukasz Rachel and Thomas Smith at the Bank of England, concluded that for the industrial world, neutral real interest rates have declined by about 4.5 percentage points over the last 30 years and are likely to stay low in the future.

Here's an interesting Bloomberg piece on what bond guru Bill Gross is calling «financial repression», but what you can just call «low interest rates» The big story is that the world is still crawling out of a near - depression, and there is not a central banker in the developed world who would dare dream of pushing interest rates to anything above a number you could count out on the fingers of one hand (and seriously, in most countries you could leave out the thumb and index finger as well).

Translation of my translation: The U.S. and Canada are going to enjoy lower interest rates, all things being equal, in the post-crisis world than they did in the pre-crisis world

First, because of a weaker dollar — but also due to: low U.S. interest rates; loose financial conditions; and greater margin of safety compared to valuations for most of the developed world.

Among the explanations that have been put forward are the increased credibility of central banks in controlling inflation (inflation rates remain below 3 per cent across the developed world), the low level of official interest rates in the major economies reflecting low inflation and the continuing weakness in some economies, a glut of savings on world markets particularly sourced from the Asian region, and changes to pension fund rules in some countries which are seen as biasing investments away from equities towards bonds.

Over time, the stock market has reached new records, powered by economic and earnings growth.2 We expect both to continue: The domestic economy is picking up a little speed, helped by improving growth in the rest of the world, and company earnings have benefited from better sales, the weaker dollar and still - low interest rates.

Russ Koesterich does an excellent job of explaining the unique challenges that investors face in the current environment, namely balancing risk and reward in a low interest rate world.

In the low - interest - rate, income - starved world of the past several years, those high yielders drew a lot of interest — and assets — so much so that they are now quite expensive.

As I write in a recent paper, «Brave New World: Investing for Longer Retirements,» this rule is likely to prove less effective in today's environment of longer lives, fewer traditional pensions and low interest rates, where many people haven't saved enough to finance a multi-decade retirement.

It is interesting to note that Japan has the lowest rate of SIDS in the world (James McKenna, PhD).»

As I write in a recent paper, «Brave New World: Investing for Longer Retirements,» this rule is likely to prove less effective in today's environment of longer lives, fewer traditional pensions and low interest rates, where many people haven't saved enough to finance a multi-decade retirement.

Thanks to lackluster global growth, and rock - bottom interest rates in the United States — and even negative rates in other parts of the world — investors face the choice of either accepting lower income or increasing risk in their bond portfolios in the search for yield.

Low interest rates and inflation can be blamed on government, by which I mean the world's central banks (including Bank of Canada) that dance to the tune of the mighty U.S. Federal Reserve.

«Much like the laws of physics change from the world of Newtonian large objects to the world of quantum Einsteinian dynamics, so too might low interest rates at the zero - bound reorient previously held models that justified the stimulative effects of lower and lower yields on asset prices and the real economy.»

The compression of interest rates across the developed world to virtually zero has wiped out the so - called «carry trade», where investors borrow a low - yielding currency and sell it to buy a higher - yielding one.

And that was over a period where interest rates hovered near historic lows, the stock market crashed twice and the world experienced a financial crisis almost as severe as the Great Depression of the 1930s.

Historically low interest rates in recent years that has led Canadian investors to increasingly venture into the world of private mortgage investment corporations or MICs.

Today's low - to - negative interest rate world has sent investors searching far flung corners of the market for yield, driving flows into a range of once obscure, high - yielding asset classes.

In the low - interest - rate, income - starved world of the past several years, those high yielders drew a lot of interest — and assets — so much so that they are now quite expensive.

The drawback, however, is that because U.S. government bonds are regarded as the world's safest fixed - income investments, the interest rates they pay investors are lower than those of corporate bonds.

On this episode of Money Matters, Wes Moss discusses income investing and finding income in a world with lower interest rates...

Bill Gross» summary: «For 2012, in the face of a delevering zero - bound interest rate world, investors must lower return expectations.

We think most people have recognised that the period of artificially low interest rates seen around the world is not a permanent state of affairs.

And we all know that the phenomenon of «financial repression» practiced by the world's central banks has conspired to keep interest rates low for the foreseeable future, which makes counting on highly taxed interest income from fixed - income investments equally dodgy.

The serious part of this debt orgy is that most of it's been taken out when interest rates were at historic lows and the world's biggest economy had a zero - rate policy.

Hybrid ARM (3/1 ARM, 5/1 ARM, 7/1 ARM) These increasingly popular ARMS — also called 3/1, 5/1 or 7/1 — can offer the best of both worlds: lower interest rates (like ARMs) and a fixed payment for a longer period of time than most adjustable rate loans.

The bounce higher in world interest rates off of all - time summer lows may have been concerning to monetary policy leaders outside of the United States.

If we take that number and divide it by our purchase price of $ 240,000, it gives us a 7.7 % cap rate, which is extremely attractive in today's low interest rate world.

That is probably the predominant way of looking at the world during periods of low interest rates.

It's basically a waste of money and in today's world where expectations of investment growth are low (I would seriously challenge 8 % returns when the 10 year treasury is so low) paying off a 5 % interest rate is almost a no brainer.