Traders simply couldn't have piled on the stock with such effect without it, the reasoning goes.
You could go in and out of other commodities or the stock market to great effect.
The trillion-dollar debts of Japan's banks, for example, have had no effect on stock markets further afield than Tokyo.
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If the incentive effects of performance-related pay for ordinary folk are unproven, the effect of stock options is even harder to demonstrate.
Nonetheless, one of his nine, Mr Navellier, does offer what may be a timely caution about a strong dollar's effect on stock prices.
Dividend income may not be the only benefit: According to research from ING Bank, there appears to be a healthy dividend effect on stock outperformance in emerging Europe.
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Public companies and their lawyers are ruminating about whether to disclose to investors the risk of the fiscal cliff to their businesses and the likely effect on stock prices.
Jan Hatzius of Goldman Sachs expects America to grow at an annual pace of 1.5% for the remainder of the year, because that is how fast it has grown since the middle of last year if you ignore the effect of stock building.
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For U.S. investors who own foreign stocks or stock funds, they are, in effect placing two bets: One on the stock itself and one on currency.
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Yes, I realize one may argue that the stock market is not an accurate measure of the economy but the wealth effect is powerful and a rising stock market has definitely improved the general mood of the investing public thereby allowing them to put some of their new found savings to work.
The Eric Schmidt selling news had no effect on the stock, it was just a buying opportunity.
Private consumption is picking up and will continue as the wealth effect of a stock-market bull run kicks in.
The foregoing has no effect on Apple stock in the short-term, but I will be revising our model for the long-term with a negative implication.
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It is my genuine belief that any announcement of QE3 this month will not have more than a very limited effect upon the stock market beyond a week-long rally.
The Fed justified its second round of quantitative easing partly on grounds that the wealth effect of rising stock prices would stimulate consumer spending and, by extension, boost output and reduce unemployment.
And year after year, the effect on domestic capital stock would be cumulative.
In Silicon Valley, stock options have had a powerful effect: they lower the barriers between small firms and large.
On the one hand the Federal Reserve wants to boost stock prices to create a wealth effect that boosts the economy.
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But the main reason why so many people have such trouble reconciling improving or deteriorating economic data and stock market conditions is the Recency Effect.
The January effect is also a stock market phenomenon that occurs at the end of the year as investors begin to fret over taxes.
It was just taken public in a blind pool offering that allows companies, in effect, to sell stock without making the usual disclosures about their business operations.
What's really more likely to happen is that if these bond insurers get down-graded by the rating agencies from their triple-A rating, that would cause all the holders of the bonds to also have down-grades, which would mean yet more billions of write-offs, yet more losses, yet more problems for the stock market and yet more ripple effect on the rest of the economy.
So the true effect of this treatment of stock options is not to reduce the amount of tax paid at all.
The accounting switch and the confusion surrounding it has had more of an effect on ACCL's stock price than anything else.
Navistar, the latest stock to instantly shine from the Icahn effect, is a major global manufacturer of commercial trucks and military vehicles.
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In effect, the bank s stock served as an index fund for the regional economy, which at that time was dominated by the cyclical technology industry.
And in either case the effect, except in a stock trading at a very high multiple of earnings, is to increase earnings per share.
The wealth effect, aided by rising stock, bond, and home prices from the March 2009 lows provide further salve for the wounds of the past.
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