Mr Ging said humanitarian organisations were deeply frustrated as they were ready to deploy with large stocks of food and medicine.
The biggest losers if planning controls were relaxed would be existing home owners in the green areas and developers with large stocks of land.
Though long-term Treasuries have historically had low correlation coefficients with large-cap stocks, intermediate-term Treasuries are even less correlated with large-cap stocks.
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Small-cap stocks, for instance, have a long-term correlation of 0.72 with large-cap stocks, according to the Ibbotson SBBI 2011 Classic Yearbook.
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Sometimes investors overreact, particularly with large or popular stocks, because bad news is replayed continuously via every news outlet.
Combining long-term Treasuries with large-cap stocks does provide diversification benefits.
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Their data show that large value stocks have returned 10.8% per annum compared with 8.7% for large growth stocks, and small value stocks have returned 13.9% versus 9% for small growth stocks.
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When looking for value stocks, I tend to stick with mid- to large-cap stocks, or sometimes ETFs.
Back then, investors were attracted to large cap stocks with a dominant market position, strong brand recognition and dividend history.
Yes, but over the past 20 years their returns are just moving back to even with those of large-company stocks.
Think of the Running of the Bulls in Pamplona, with perhaps a few overly bearish investors certainly ones with the temerity to short large stocks getting gored in the Street.
ETF, you basically own large-cap stocks with no strong bias toward value or growth.
For example, there are large-cap stocks with a good 52-week performance, lackluster four-week returns and comparatively attractive valuations.
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Moreover, companies with increasing dividends have outperformed other large cap stocks over the past year.
Their small size, combined with the extreme liquidity of large cap tech stocks, means that these funds have no problem getting in and out of positions.
Anyone who owns stocks in banks with relatively large MBS exposure is not investing, they are gambling that the losses will not be more than management is telling them.
Even if financial stocks are excluded, the earnings picture for large-cap stocks still looks pretty good, with all but three sectors consumer staples, health care and utilities projected to report double-digit share-weighted profit growth.
Keep an eye on bellwether stocks companies with a large, encompassing business.
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Institutional demand for these stocks is much less than those with large capitalizations, so small, local investors are much more important.
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By the end of 2010, high net worth individuals held about 33% of their assets in stocks, with emerging markets being a large part of their investments.
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Not only that, the gain in stocks was fairly broad-based with large-caps, mid-caps and small-caps all showing strong moves, and virtually all sectors up in double digits.
The SEC, recognizing continued problems with persistent and large trade failures in a few hundred stocks, is currently gathering comments about proposed amendments that would close some loopholes.
She invested in the same personal account with Joe, an indexed portfolio of 90% large-cap stocks and 10% small-cap stocks, earning the exact returns reported each year since 1965.
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Apple is a poster child with its recent bounce, but Setrakian says plenty of large-cap stocks had good earnings and got swept up in the plunge, including the likes of Honeywell and Target.
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It targets large firms with solid cash flows and strong yields when looking for value stocks.
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This is potentially very good news for Japanese stocks, particularly for large exporters and especially for those with big China exposure.
Berman, who focuses on owning undervalued blue-chip stocks, recommends ADP to his subscribers, along with other large-caps like Pfizer ( PFE), Alcoa ( AA) and Wal-Mart ( WMT).
Columbo advises "to stick with what's working, " and for now, large-cap value stocks have held up in 2005, despite the market's sharp pullback in the month of April.
There is ample justification for heightened risk aversion toward equities: over the past decade, U.S. treasuries have returned 8.4% a year, compared to 1.5% for domestic large-cap stocks, as small-caps have kept pace with bonds.
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The trouble with all this is that investors would benefit greatly from adding foreign stocks to their large home-based holdings.
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