Of course, with the stock market rising, investors come out of their foxholes and start tossing money into the market with reckless abandon.
With a climbing stock market and rising home prices, Romney faces a tough battle.
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Even with the banking bailouts, mortgage crisis, a plummeting stock market and rising unemployment, the thinking goes, we can at least be grateful that we're not Mexico.
And yet the stock market kept rising in part because companies were improving their productivity with new enterprise software and keeping their labor expenses low by not hiring much.
The tactics of Yorkville Advisors have been the subject of several Forbes articles, which noted that one Yorkville fund, YA Global Investment Fund I, never had a down month from February 2001 to July 2008 until a stunning reversal saw it report a drop of 33% in 2010, most of it in the single month of December 2010, suggesting a big mark-to-market adjustment while the stock market was rising.
Yes, I realize one may argue that the stock market is not an accurate measure of the economy but the wealth effect is powerful and a rising stock market has definitely improved the general mood of the investing public thereby allowing them to put some of their new found savings to work.
In the past a rising stock market had some relationship to an improving economy.
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Another Schwab investor, Omar, said he is buying shares in anticipation of a rising stock market.
Americans last month seemed buoyed by improved home prices and a rising stock market.
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In the 1990s, says Brophy, it was relatively easy to make money during the boom times of rising stock market valuations.
For example, in America green is a color usually associated with positive things, such as money and a rising stock market.
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"The cold reality is that for the vast majority of households, (a rising stock market) has not increased their wealth much, " Vitner said.
Meanwhile, investors are pouring into assets in search of a return for their loose cash, which takes us back to the rising stock market.
Investors came to believe what they were told by Wall Street marketers and eventually seized the opportunity to participate in a seemingly ever-rising stock market.
He believes that "everything is in place" for an economic recovery and a rising stock market, which he believes we'll see in the second half of 2003.
The reason for this is that when the capital gains rate was cut, more taxpayers sold their capital and realized their gains, and a rising stock market produced more gains.
Most major companies are still beating earnings and profit estimates and that is the best sign of all for a long-term rising stock market, Dietrich said in press release Monday.
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They point to a rising stock market as a sign that Americans are shrugging off the sequester's effects, and accuse the White House of preparing to manipulate the cuts to gain political leverage.
It began a year ago in China, which had over-stimulated its economy the most, and was the first to see the danger signs, with potential real estate and stock market bubbles, and rising inflation.
We want an economy where our stock market is not only rising again but our businesses are hiring again, and people's incomes are going up again. (Applause.) We're not going to rest until we get there.
Given the higher share of the tax burden borne by the wealthy, a rising stock market tends to send gushers of funds into state coffers, particularly when Silicon Valley is enjoying one of its periodic bubbles.
Perhaps more people will come to realize that the minor spending-growth restraint entailed in the sequester not only entails no disaster, but is a positive development fully consistent with a steadily-rising stock market and more robust job gains.
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But on paper Ben Bernanke, cheap debt, and a rising stock market have rescued private equity from suffering a complete disaster from the buyout boom of 2005 to 2008, when private equity firms raised and invested unprecedented sums of cash.
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Even though the IPOs may not happen until the summer, the companies are moving quickly towards a public offering to take advantage of the current IPO window that has been kicked wide open by the excitement over Facebook's filing and a rising stock market.
Increased stock market volatility pushes the pendulum toward fear while rising stock values and reduced volatility push sentiment toward greed.
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Since Mr Abe's election, Japan's stock market has taken off, rising by 30% in the last three months.
The rising Japanese stock market is another sign that economic expectations are starting to shift and animal spirits to stir.
Oddly, the stock market seemed to like this report, rising steadily after its release.
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Investing in property seems an attractive alternative when faced with an environment of rising inflation and a stock market caught in the doldrums.
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