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The advanced countries are collectively responsible for much of the current stock of carbon in the atmosphere, as well as for a significant (though declining) share of the world’s annual emissions.
The cumulative stock of FDI has reached close to $10 trillion, making it the most important mechanism for delivery of goods and services to foreign markets: sales by foreign affiliates total roughly $19 trillion, compared to world exports of $11 trillion.
One questions that is often raised, of course, concerns the possible withdrawal of investment from Hong Kong after the handover, although the Hong Kong stock market has been rising in the past year.
In the United Kingdom, for example, wages have grown by only 13% since 2008, but the stock market is up by 115%.
The Elixir of GrowthCAMBRIDGE: Southeast Asia's financial crisis -- leapfrogging from Thailand to Malaysia to the Philippines and Indonesia -- is far more than a serious regional difficulty, as stock market sell-offs from Hong Kong to Frankfurt to New York demonstrate.
Despite the recent stock market jitters, the constellation of institutional and political factors for this giant experiment to succeed has never been so favorable, as exemplified by the spread of democracy and the rule of law in this decade.
New arrangements for monitoring member states’ budget balances have been introduced, but they can do nothing about the stock of debt outstanding.
Now that the bubble is bursting, US stock markets are down and the dollar is weakening relative to the Euro.
The value of the stock of bills and coins held outside banks has fallen from about $150 per capita in 2012 to less than $6 at the beginning of this month.
The coalition should undertake contingency planning to secure Syria’s stock of chemical weapons after the collapse of Assad’s regime, and prevent any further chemical-weapon deployment.
Leadership change also creates a natural moment for organizations to take stock and ask basic questions.
Overhauling ChinaLONDON – Pessimism about China has become pervasive in recent months, with fear of a “China meltdown” sending shock waves through stock markets worldwide since the beginning of the year.
In an era in which stock and housing prices are soaring, the central banks of Japan and China are holding almost two trillion dollars worth of low-interest bonds.
As a result, stock markets have started to rally in the US and around the world.
Given this outlook for the real economy and financial institutions, the latest rally in US and global stock markets has to be interpreted as a bear-market rally.
Economists usually joke that the stock market has predicted 12 out of the last nine recessions, as markets often fall sharply without an ensuing recession.
But, in the last two years, the stock market has predicted six out of the last zero economic recoveries – that is, six bear market rallies that eventually fizzled and led to new lows.
The stock market’s latest “dead cat bounce” may last a while longer, but three factors will, in due course, lead it to turn south again.
The UK would have to accept EU product standards and regulations lock, stock and barrel, with no say in their design – and would be in a far weaker position when negotiating market-access agreements with non-EU partners like China.
The same is true with stock prices.
An increase in the stock price of steel manufacturers suggests an increase in the demand for steel, which induces entrepreneurs to start more steel plants and investors to provide them with the money.
Conversely, a decrease in the stock price of steel manufacturers leads entrepreneurs to liquidate existing plants and dissuades investors from committing more resources to the sector.
Pension funds, mutual funds, and investment banks are all long in the stock market.
Shorting a stock is difficult and risky: it is difficult because borrowing stocks is hard to do, and it is risky because shorting has limited upside but infinite downside.
At the same time, the EU should help to address the cause of extraordinary heating costs: the woeful energy inefficiency of most of the existing housing stock.
But the stock market does not guarantee returns; it does not even guarantee that the stock values will keep up with inflation – and there have been periods in which they have not.
But these limited kinds of choices – for example, a T-bill fund with 90% in T-bills and 10% in an indexed stock fund – could easily be introduced into the public social security system.
But if one really thinks that free lunches exist, there is still no reason to privatize: government could get the additional returns by investing in the stock market itself.
Unlike common stock, bonds, and real estate, the value of gold does not reflect underlying earnings.
Admati and her colleagues recommend requirements that force financial firms to generate equity funding either through retained earnings or, in the case of publicly traded firms, through stock issuance.
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