Ultimately, economic fundamentals not the promises of central banks will determine the prices of stocks and bonds.
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So, you have a buyout premium built into the prices of stocks that are not likely to get bought out anytime soon.
The Fed's efforts to pump trillions of dollars into the financial markets are helping lift prices of stocks and keep a cap on bond yields.
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Accordingly, prices of stocks (and bonds, and commodities, and currencies) fully discount whatever is the aggregate sentiment of the consensus about how attractive (or unattractive) investing conditions are at that moment.
With the prices of stocks, emerging markets, and commodities (ALL commodities) tied to the movement in the dollar, well, the computers had already been prepped on what to do when the buck bagan to rise.
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The story is entirely different in the expectations game, the market in which buyers and sellers of stocks imagine the future and, on the basis of those expectations, determine the prices of stocks, bonds and other investments.
Under the policies, the Federal Reserve has purchased large volumes of financial assets, and the increase in demand for these assets from the Fed has lowered long-term interest rates and put upward pressure on the prices of stocks and bonds.
While there was plenty of news for traders to seize on Wednesday as a reason to bid up prices of stocks and other riskier investments, the scope of the gains in stocks likely reflected the degree to which many in the market had become negative in recent weeks.
The trouble is that prices of oil stocks do not correlate very well with the price of oil.
Gates discussed Google, said that he sees IBM as Microsoft's biggest competitor, and addressed the prices of technology stocks as well as his role in and outside of Microsoft.
Gates discussed Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ), said that he sees IBM (nyse: IBM - news - people ) as Microsoft's (nasdaq: MSFT - news - people ) biggest competitor, and addressed the prices of technology stocks as well as his role in and outside of Microsoft.
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The low expectations in the stock prices of these stocks provide investors attractive downside protection and upside potential.
Prices of European stocks and government bonds immediately rose after Mr. Draghi's comments.
The high expectations in the prices of these stocks expose investors to lots of downside risk and little upside potential.
The recent bounce in the prices of bank stocks and gold has, at least for the time being, stopped the bleeding.
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Typically fund investors get hosed during a "recon"--the prices of entering stocks get pushed higher while exiting stocks sell on the cheap.
It says it is investigating to determine if dark pool activity detracts from the quality of publicly quoted prices of the stocks involved.
The increase in bullish sentiment, however, shows that some individual investors believe that the selling pressure has made the prices of certain stocks attractive.
Willi says investors need to be selective because the stock prices of many of these stocks have already priced in a sunnier-than-predicted forecast for world growth.
That is why whenever they see the prices of those stocks dropping they will come out and issue a few more hyping notes to pop the prices up.
If we look at some of the sectors that have really moved up in the last week, we can see where market optimism may have affected the prices of some stocks.
In 2000, White led the prosecution of more than 100 people including members of all five New York Mafia families accused of strong-arming brokers and manipulating prices of penny stocks.
And yet investors, perhaps too optimistically, have seized on the SIA's predictions and the few signs of a revival in the market to push up the prices of semiconductor stocks around the world.
Also look at prices of Indian stocks.
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As well, the share prices of gold mining stocks have been seriously lagging the price of bullion.
Mr. Land's fund is exposed to silver prices through stocks of silver miners.
By the way, the prices of home builder stocks have doubled.
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You might conclude that the direction of prices and some stocks are easy to predict.
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The market prices of more than 150 stocks were quickly affected.
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