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Indeed, although the performance of China’s stock market and that of its real economy has not been closely correlated, a major slowdown is underway.
Barely a year after the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, financial markets have stabilized, stock markets have rebounded, and the economy is showing signs of recovery.
In this context, potential growth may well fall back to the predicted 2.5% annual rate, even though the economy’s capital stock is in good shape.
The adverse wealth effect from the decrease in the value of carbon assets would be small; and, with the capital stock badly out of sync with the new price system, the investment unleashed would be large, unless there were bottlenecks in closing the gap.
Now that a recession is underway, US and global stock markets are beginning to fall: in a typical US recession, the S&P 500 index falls by an average of 28% as corporate revenues and profits sink.
Losses in stock markets have a double effect: they reduce households’ wealth and lead them to spend less; and they cause massive losses to investors who borrowed to invest in stock, thus triggering margin calls and asset fire sales.
After three years of huge, crisis-driven exchange-rate swings, it is useful to take stock both of currency values and of the exchange-rate system as a whole.
Stock Markets’ Fear of FallingNEW HAVEN -- The sharp drop in the world’s stock markets on August 9, after BNP Paribas announced that it would freeze three of its funds, is just one more example of the markets’ recent downward instability or asymmetry.
Daily stock price changes for the 100-business-day period ending August 3 were unusually negatively skewed in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Korea, Mexico, the United States and the United Kingdom.
Nor is the negative skew inconsistent with the fact that world stock markets have been relatively quiet for most of this year.
The February 27 drop in US stock prices was only the 31st biggest one-day drop since 1950.
But all of the other 30 drops occurred at times when stock prices were much more volatile.
Indeed, one of the big puzzles of the US stock market recently has been low price volatility since around 2004, amid the most volatile earnings growth ever seen.
But we have learned time and again that stock markets are driven more by psychology than by reasoning about fundamentals.
The “buy-on-dips stock market confidence index” that we compile at the Yale School of Management has been falling gradually since 2001, and has fallen especially far lately.
Taking stock of “Operation Iraqi Freedom” a decade later, the Financial Times concluded that the US won the war, Iran won the peace, and Turkey won the contracts.
Similarly, just-in-time supply chains – which cut costs by reducing the amount of goods and materials held in stock – have proved vulnerable to natural disasters (like floods) or other disruptions (like worker strikes).
In terms of the huge stock of foreign exchange reserves held worldwide, the public sector holds more US Treasury securities than the private sector.
Apple can use sophisticated techniques to manipulate the location of its corporate income, but individual US citizens who own Apple stock have to report the dividends and capital gains that they earn from it in their worldwide income.
The payoffs are seen in soaring employment, a decade-long stock market boom, and rapid rates of innovation and productivity improvements.
The only important restraints on this managerial freedom are concerns about worker morale and its impact on productivity, profits and stock valuation.
Only when the IMF program is accepted will the currency stabilize, and stock markets pick up.
Sovereign investors, including SWFs, are the largest institutional investors in most Arab stock exchanges, holding over 40% of the total market capitalization in the region.
Thailand’s stock market has fluctuated, and the country has entered a period of uncertainty.
Putin's Neo-Imperial AmbitionsAs Vladimir Putin's re-election approaches on March 14, it is time to take stock of his presidency.
CAMBRIDGE – In a recent commentary, I examined whether increasing pressure from more rapid stock trading is inducing corporate managers to obsess more over quarterly results, impairing their capacity to run their firms for the long term.
For stock markets, the difference may be important.
Consider something not involving stock trading.
For stock markets, consider this possibility: 100 shareholders each hold 100 shares of the XYZ Corporation for three years.
One might be tempted to say that the average duration for holding stock in the XYZ Corporation was only 20 months, while in the good old days it was 36 months.
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