Of course no one can know for sure what the future holds, but we do know that bond markets, like stock markets, do change over time, and what works in one market environment may not work in future markets.
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Morningstar's "long-short" mutual-fund category includes market-neutral and absolute-return funds, which are designed to generate returns in any market environment, and arbitrage funds, which try to exploit market inefficiencies.
Even with alternative investments and other portfolio hedging techniques, bonds are a traditional asset class that can play a useful role in diversifying a portfolio and mitigating risk in any market environment.
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There are opportunities out there in any market environment to build wealth and if you can pair up your skills and talents with what you love to do, you can actually build wealth by having fun.
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While some traders may find that even the mere idea of looking for shorts in this market environment is a dangerous pursuit, I would argue that this tape is indeed ripe for a pullback from these levels.
But since it is downright dangerous to use a weekly approach in this market environment, we marry our weekly model with a Daily Decision Model, whose job is to keep us in tune with the trend in between weekly signals.
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If an investor is to succeed in the current market environment, they must no longer participate in market celebrations induced by government promises that are not backed by reality.
"Infineon continued to improve its business performance and gained market share in an ongoing difficult market environment, " said chairman Ulrich Schumacher.
In the current market environment with equity values down sharply, that perception seems far less likely.
The top performing funds and ETFs are best positioned in the current market environment.
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It means that in a negative market environment, they can go short the market.
The company said that it was bracing itself for "increasingly stiff competition in a challenging market environment".
They also tend to trade like a bond in a weak market environment or when company fundamentals are weak.
Competitive advantage, the way companies differentiate themselves from their competitors, is what it takes to survive and thrive in a competitive market environment.
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In a poor market environment like we are experiencing right now, the price depreciation of dividend-paying stocks can completely displace the gains made from the dividends.
At the same time we are laying the foundations for keeping the Group and its brands on their successful course even in a difficult market environment.
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This happens in a poor market environment because institutional investors finally take their profits or start to shift their vast portfolios into more defensive stocks, such as utilities, food, etc.
This was helped by revenue increases in asset management and global transaction banking, while the investment bank saw a 4% decline in revenue, which the bank attributed to reduced client activity in a weaker market environment.
Rather, in my opinion, investors with a primary objective of income should continue to look for income producing strategies that attempt to maximize income potential in a given market environment consistent with their tolerance for risk and investment timeframe.
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The market is fresh off five consecutive up days which, in a mean-reverting market environment, suggests an increased risk of a downside move as technical traders take profits around resistance levels.
"Intervention is a dysfunction in a free-market environment, " says Reliance National's Cron.
But then again, it takes lower levels of fear to carve out a short-term bottom in a bull-market environment relative to a bear-market environment.
In an environment where market returns are limited and plan sponsor or taxpayer ability to fund pensions is increasingly strained, the cost of this corruption is unacceptable.
While it's difficult to call a market bottom in this environment, bargain hunters should take the opportunity to look at some of the companies that are looking increasingly undervalued.
"The auction came in a very difficult market environment, with the issue of US debt ceiling still unresolved", and speculation about the future of Italian finance minister Giulio Tremonti, analysts at Unicredit said.
In other words, a historically low stock market in an adverse economic policy environment temporarily propped up by easy money can still be a bubble.
In a market economy, firms that adopt high-cost technologies in service to the environment typically have one of three things: a set of consumers whose interest in the environment makes them willing to pay more than market prices, a set of workers willing to sacrifice wages in exchange for environmental friendliness, or a set of investors willing to take below normal returns.
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On the other hand, strong equity market rallies frequently occur in the midst of a prolonged bear market environment, such as we have experienced since 2000.
Analysts are more fearful now of issuing buy recommendations as a result in a less than robust market environment.
This is the basics of market-timing in an environment that it is difficult, and some say impossible to buy at the lows and to sell at the highs.
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