"The agencies are concerned that rising commercial real estate loan concentrations may expose institutions to unanticipated earnings and capital volatility in the event of adverse changes in commercial real estate markets, " the regulators wrote in a joint statement.
Even countries with healthy budgets could do more to insulate themselves from capital-market volatility.
Smolen at Axion Capital says he expects volatility for the remainder of the month.
Despite considerable volatility, PROSPECT CAPITAL (PSEC, 11) stock has produced an average annual return of 8.2% over the last five years.
He insists that the traditional system of floor-based traders who make markets in assigned stocks and step in and put up their own capital in times of extreme volatility, like Tuesday, will stick around.
Individual investors placed a greater emphasis on return of capital last month because of the volatility in the stock markets.
The Bank of England points out that, in Denmark, which brought in an accounting system akin to fair value some years ago, one result has been that the volatility of banks' capital ratios has risen sharply.
Mr Eichengreen, for instance, wants emerging economies to discourage short-term capital inflows to minimise exchange-rate volatility.
If penny-a-share commissions made us better off, volatility would be low, capital would not be going into stupid startups or bad mortgages and we would all have day-traded our way to early retirement.
"Because of Citigroup's complexity, its significant exposure to the global capital markets, and current illiquidity and volatility of some of those markets, additional marks in its investment bank cannot be ruled out, " said Senior Vice President Sean Jones of Moody's.
That, in turn, could mean more disclosures in SEC filings, more stock volatility, and a higher cost of capital all around.
Diversification provides BLACKROCK KELSO CAPITAL (BKCC, 10) some cushion from volatility.
A-share volatility is exacerbated by erratic inflows of speculative capital.
It was this kind of violent and sudden volatility that caused the highly leveraged Long-Term Capital Management fund to require a bailout by Wall Street institutions in the fall of 1998.
Irrespective of how effective these moves might be, many argue that capital-control measures cannot be part of a long-term solution to volatility.
High debt levels typically make a business unattractive for an acquisition as potential buyers have difficulty raising additional debt against the business, and the associated volatility related to the future cash flows also raises the cost of capital for acquisition.
With a focus on the industrial sector, STAG aims to invest capital for higher returns in second tier markets where there is less occupancy and rent volatility.
This slowdown, along with recent volatility in stockmarkets, has made consumers jittery, believes Julian Callow at Barclays Capital.
Highland Capital said it was shutting down two hedge funds because of what it called unprecedented market volatility.
The "capital asset pricing model" identified one factor, beta, or a stock's volatility relative to the index, as pivotal to the stock's returns.
In terms of capital structure, equity REITs with lower leverage that are less dependent on capital markets for growth or refinancing of capital should be relatively better-positioned to expand balance sheets and weather economic and financial volatility.
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To shield themselves temporarily from the volatility in financial markets, those with weaker financial structures may need some form of capital controls, preferably market-based.
Monday a report from Thomson Reuters and the National Venture Capital Association showed that venture capital firms raised the smallest amount of funding since 2003 as the industry suffered along with the volatility of the broader market.
High yield bond funds like Janus High-Yield (JAHYX) or Fidelity High Income (SPHIX) have consistently performed better than high yield ETFs like SPDR Barclays Capital High Yield ( JNK) and iShares iBoxx High Yield ( HYG) and with less volatility.
While demand data flow continues to show robust readings, it will be important to monitor how the recent spike in market volatility will impact private consumption going forward, wrote Guilherme Loureiro, a Brazil analyst for Barclays Capital.
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Oil's volatility turned south Tuesday, driven on words that banks were selling off their energy assets to raise capital.
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