Indeed, forward markets are discounting a cut in short-term interest rates.
If markets were forward-looking, we would expect the benefits of the Olympics to be priced into local equity markets at the time of the announcement.
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Which is that stock valuations are forward looking: this is always true of markets, they are forward looking.
With the markets moving forward, top leadership now must be about growth and innovation.
Uchimoto hopes the SEC will focus on protecting the capital markets going forward.
Nor does the PIMCO boss believe that any policy would be effective enough to make him wrong about his caution about returns in financial markets going forward.
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For markets are forward looking and will discount known information.
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CIB, said the "biggest risk for credit markets going forward is a faster-than-expected U.S. economic recovery, which would likely see an increase in U.S. Treasury yields and a rotation into equities, " resulting in falling bond prices.
Markets have been nervous in recent days in advance of the report, and pundits have had a busy time forecasting what the report would likely reveal, and what it will mean to the economy and markets going forward.
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We believe that increased investment and marketing expenditure in these markets along with concentrated efforts to build emerging market brands such as Complan (India) and Quero (Brazil) will enable the company to maintain impressive growth rates in these markets going forward.
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As a result, investors would be wise to let recent market volatility serve as a reminder to revisit their asset allocation strategies to ensure that they have the depth of asset classes and sectors in their portfolios to provide the diversification necessary to help navigate uncertain, and likely turbulent, markets going forward.
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But others, such as Robert Rubin, a former treasury secretary, warn that the financial markets, looking forward to deficits as far as the eye can see, may take fright.
Stock markets really are forward looking institutions.
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The reason is that markets, stock markets, really are forward looking beasts.
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On September 28th it formally proposed a financial-transactions tax (FTT), otherwise known as a Tobin tax after James Tobin, a Nobel economics laureate who put forward a similar scheme for currency markets in 1972 or a Robin Hood tax by those who want to use the proceeds for aid purposes.
"Going forward, we believe that additional new markets and further penetration in the U.S. consumer marketplace of existing device segments will continue to provide ample sources of growth for Seagate and its peers, " says Mowrey.
When hedge funds are piling into the markets, they will move steadily forward, with relatively low volatility.
We estimate that technology stocks globally trade at 12 times to 13 times forward earnings, a modest premium to broader markets.
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It must be noted that it is not clear how events in the euro zone will develop and so markets are expecting a one step forward one step back dance for the foreseeable future.
If Europe's economies do not drive forward towards a single market, with labour markets that are more flexible (and international), there is a growing risk that some of its members will eventually find the gulf between their economies and their monetary policies too wide to endure.
New, forward-looking investments that would create new domestic markets here, export markets abroad.
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Again, the markets, the investors are not looking forward .
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But despite the drawbacks of the system, the carry forward system was viewed as a lifeline for domestic stock markets.
Looking forward, HSBC continues to put its chips in emerging markets.
This suggests that markets may settle into a pattern of two steps forward, one step back.
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