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One part of the answer is that rising monopoly power increased corporate profits and sharply boosted stock prices, which produced gains that were enjoyed by a small population of stockholders and corporate management.
Additionally, “proof of concept” studies are typically inexpensive for software innovations (except in pharmaceuticals); with modest capital, IT innovators can test ideas without surrendering a major share of their stock.
Nor is it clear why investors should stock up on gold if the global economy dips into recession again and concerns about a near depression and rampant deflation rise sharply.
If you truly fear a global economic meltdown, you should stock up on guns, canned food, and other commodities that you can actually use in your log cabin.
In 2017, they will need to reappraise how the global economy works, and recalibrate accordingly their assessment of every stock or bond on sale, because even if some market fundamentals remain the same, many others have clearly changed.
This was one reason to take stock of how we would adjust the global poverty line, estimate new poverty numbers, and publish them in our Global Monitoring Report, which was released in October.
Confronting FearWASHINGTON, DC – Even as the squeeze in interbank lending has started to ease after the rescue of financial systems across the advanced countries, falling economic indicators have sent stock markets tumbling.
Nevertheless, in the near future, China also will build 500,000 MW of coal-fired power plants (more than the entire existing US stock), at great risk to the global atmosphere and environment.
As a result, its stock market is frothy, and it is experiencing an alarming property boom.
Send in the ClownsNEW YORK – When too many Italians voted late last month for either a louche and discredited business tycoon or a comedian, European stock markets plummeted.
Judging by low stock prices and high capital outflows, investors were already betting against high growth rates.
QUESTION: But the stock markets are apparently in good condition.
And Voltaire, who was no great friend to the Jews, once remarked about the London stock exchange: “Here Jew, Mohammedan, and Christian deal with each other as though they were all of the same faith, and only apply the word infidel to people who go bankrupt...”Capitalism, as we know, transcends borders.
Some stock prices are normally relatively uncorrelated with the market.
But stock prices tend to move much more closely together at times of market dislocation.
That fear, in turn, has been an important factor driving down the Chinese stock market.
On the contrary, said the followers of Milton Friedman, it must keep the velocity-adjusted rate of growth of the money stock stable.
The Treasury and Federal Reserve are adding preferred stock to the balance sheets of the US mortgage giants Fannie Mae and FHLBC and the insurance giant AIG in the hope of shoring up their capital cushions and lowering their borrowing costs so that they can buy more mortgages.
Stock markets were caught off guard, and immediately fell by around 1.5%.
Today’s capital markets raise money for governments, corporate clients, and individual customers, manage pension funds’ investments, and bet on the level of interest rates or the stock market.
The Saudi stock market index is up by 78% since the start of the year, hugely out-performing the main US and European indices - and this in a region plagued by conflict, nuclear tensions, terrorism, and acute political challenges.
The underlying assumption is that more investment is always better, because it increases the capital stock and thus output.
An ever-increasing capital stock relative to output, however, means ever-lower returns to capital and thus ever more non-performing loans in the banking sector over time.
The stock markets in the U.S. and Europe could easily suffer a sharp contraction if the Asian crisis intensifies.
This announcement led to a strong rally of the Asian currency and stock markets.
But none of those reasons has much to do with the stock market.
At first, the slowdown actually contributed indirectly to a rise in stock prices, by spurring the People’s Bank of China to begin cutting interest rates in November 2014.
As Shang-Jin Wei, the chief economist of the Asian Development Bank points out, progress on these reforms – not what happens in the stock market – is what will determine the fate of China’s economy.
Various forms of profit-sharing – including grants of options and restricted stock, annual profit-based bonuses, and employee stockownership plans – have been growing as a share of labor compensation since the 1960s.
But most workers are not covered by such plans, and the biggest beneficiaries have been CEOs and top managers, a significant fraction of whose pay is tied to productivity, as reflected in profits and stock performance.
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