Centuries of emotional conditioning and pent up demand will stimulate the demand for the gold fund as investors hope to participate in the road to riches by owning gold.
Increased investor demand for put options on the fund fueled a 7.8% increase in the overall reading of options implied volatility on the IYT to 20.72%.
The fund holdings of Texas Instruments, Broadcom, Omnivision Technologies and Micron Technology account for almost 21% of the fund and should perform well as the demand for the iPhone grows.
The demand for municipal bonds would diminish, making it more difficult for municipalities to fund their operations.
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Rebel militia groups in Africa are cashing in on demand for elephants, tigers and rhinos to fund civil conflicts, said John Scanlon, secretary general of Cites, the organisation that governs the trade in endangered species.
As regulators demand more capital for riskier activities and companies and fund managers gravitate toward the bigger, more solid banks, some players are dropping out.
It's that demand for a high return that is keeping the fund from investing in wine retailing and distribution in Asia, despite the fact that wine consumption has risen from 0.1 liter per person annually in 1987 to as much as 3 liters today.
The current economic downturn combined with rising demand for higher education places governments under enormous pressure to fund enhancements in higher education and support programs needed to train the next generation of work forces with the new skills necessary for economic recovery.
Corporate bonds have "the potential for price pressure as corporate profit growth cools and investor demand softens, " Gross writes in his quarterly outlook for the fund's investors.
Demand for equities, backed by a surge of new mutual-fund money in America in January alone, has been rising in part because investors can find few other attractive bets.
Demand for longer-dated government bonds has come from other sorts of fund managers too, such as those with portfolios of mortgage-backed securities (bonds secured against lots of mortgages).
Demand for yield will come from pension funds, endowments and individual retirees seeking to fund liabilities and cash flow needs.
By 2010, according to the World Wildlife Fund, China will be able to meet only half of its demand for industrial wood from domestic supplies.
But investors would have made 116% by selling the fund a month earlier, before it plunged on fears of slowing global demand for Brazilian exports.
Besides altering the balance between supply and demand, the influx of insurance company and pension fund money should create more price stability for emerging market bonds.
Today CEOs face no legal requirement to maximize returns for shareholders at the expense of jobs and economic growth in the U.S. Policymakers, lawmakers, pension-fund managers, and others can demand that CEOs deliver performance that creates value for America as a whole.
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Anyone Main Street investor with an E-Trade account thinking that it makes no sense that a fund holding low yielding securities can still clobber a fund holding higher yielding securities need only to consider the political demand around the world for U.S. debt.
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The commodity story of China being the demand force for oil, minerals like iron ore and agricultural commodities is still in play, but savvy fund managers are turning inward along with the Chinese government.
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Although it does not advocate a new referendum now, it will demand concessions from the national government for greater control over social and economic policy, along with the money to fund new projects.
High consumer demand in Brazil, coupled with what the International Monetary Fund said this weekend was excessive loan growth, has prices for real estate and other goods and services on the rise.
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