They talked together about how they view the financial volatility that the euro area and the global economy are facing.
And of course for the euro area, which is experiencing financial volatility, the path to growth is really by dealing decisively with the financial challenges in their sovereign debt markets and in their banking systems.
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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As financialism has come to prevail over the last 25 years or so, the economic condition of the U.S. has in many ways weakened, with middle-class income stagnation, increased income inequality, the exporting of jobs and our manufacturing capacity and increased risks of financial volatility.
Cheung Kong didn't respond to requests for comment, but in his twice-yearly news conference on Tuesday, Mr. Li warned that investors, "definitely shouldn't go into property speculation" at this time because of the financial-market volatility.
Companies hate the standard because it will bring the volatility of financial markets into their earnings.
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.
Hyman Minsky, an American economist who died in 1996, said that the financial cycle led to economic volatility.
Although you'd never know it from market volatility, the financial fever in the U.S. may be about to break.
This is a more risky approach for investors as these types of companies experienced high levels of volatility during the financial crisis.
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After the financial crisis vastly amplified market volatility, CVRs began to play an increasing role in many mergers and acquisitions, especially in the risk-laden biotech and pharmaceutical sectors.
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For now, the idea inside Barclays is that the U.S. will avoid a recession thanks to monetary stimulus, but volatility and deteriorating financial conditions will haunt the global economy for months, if not much of next year.
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If their central goal had been a steady value for the buck, those bubbles would never have reached the sizes they did, and volatility in the financial markets would have been only a fraction of what it is today.
The European debt crisis continues to be the main culprit behind the massive volatility in the financial markets and there is increasing concern about the possibility that it will skip across the ocean and infect U.S. banks because of the relationships between big American and European banks.
Extreme volatility in the financial markets, largely due to the European debt crisis, the downgrade of the U.S. long-term debt rating and persisting unemployment, is expected to drive down trading revenue figures this quarter for large banks including Bank of America, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs.
On Thursday, GE dimmed its full-year earnings expectations and suspended its share buyback program citing "unprecedented weakness and volatility" in the financial markets.
The drop in bullish sentiment occurred as volatility returned to the global financial markets.
For many emerging economies, small financial markets mean that exchange-rate volatility will be a structural, not a temporary problem.
European banks are interconnected with financial markets around the world, so volatility in Europe undermines sentiment here at home.
Over the past decade investors, firms and consumers put far too much faith in the power of information technology, globalisation, financial liberalisation and monetary policy to reduce volatility and risk.
"The volatility and uncertainty in world financial markets and the repaid deterioration in global economic conditions made a 2008 a very challenging year for the banking industry in general, " the bank said.
For example, large cap stocks have historically returned about 9% per annum in the U.S., but due to the new market realities, of slow growth, heightened volatility, punctuated by periodic financial crisis, an annual return estimate of 6% to 8% for a large cap stock portfolio might be more realistic.
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke warned of continued strain on the U.S. economy and noted the negative impact of elevated volatility and risk aversion in the financial market during testimony before a joint committee of Congress Tuesday.
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The reason is that such a document spells out a logical asset allocation given one's financial goals, discusses the historical levels of volatility inherent in the chosen allocation and mentally prepares the investor for the harsh reality that periods of "black swan" events do happen.
There are a number of constructive ideas that are on the table, and so we are hopeful that the international community and the euro area can both come together and take some meaningful actions to accelerate implementation of the comprehensive plan and decisively address the volatility that has been in the financial markets.
The chaos in financial markets--to say nothing of exploding volatility--has been a windfall for exchange operators.
Brazil, Russia, India and China, the BRIC countries, are back to talking about creating a unified financial system where they can avoid euro and dollar volatility.
In a time of occasionally wrenching volatility and low interest rates, ace financial advisor Jeff Rose, the founder of Alliance Wealth Management in Carbondale, Ill.
Moody's said these companies experienced problems with volatility and risk management, while their financial "shock absorbers" are in some cases thinner or less reliable than their peers.
It also can analyze your holdings to show a complete asset allocation and other portfolio characteristics, like its geographic breakdown and volatility, that otherwise would require a financial planner or visits to multiple brokerage accounts to calculate.
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