At my firm, The MDE Group, we take a two-pronged approach to managing stock volatility.
That, in turn, could mean more disclosures in SEC filings, more stock volatility, and a higher cost of capital all around.
Increased stock market volatility pushes the pendulum toward fear while rising stock values and reduced volatility push sentiment toward greed.
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But not the U.S equity market, with the VIX (the Volatility Index, a measure gauging future anticipated stock market volatility) trading at an astonishingly low level.
Stock market volatility has been a little higher than average over the past few years, but not extraordinarily so.
My goal is to capture a portion of stock specific volatility with buy rated longs and sell rated shorts.
Smaller-cap stocks will be hurt more by stock market volatility and economic uncertainty.
In recent days, the VIX Index, a measure of expected stock market volatility has been double the historic norm.
One of the simplest and most effective ways to manage daily stock market volatility is to have an allocation to fixed-income.
This is our second principal strategy for dealing with stock market volatility.
Those negotiations could be protracted and increase stock market volatility, said Cecilia.
Between 1997 and 2005 REITs had a beta, or propensity to swing in synch with stocks, of around 0.35, meaning they provided a nice hedge against stock market volatility.
Mrs Knight said in the light of the continuing eurozone debt crisis and stock market volatility, the focus for banks should be on the recovery, not on dealing with more regulation.
This is done by extrapolating a company's earnings out five years, then weighing its expected earnings and dividend streams against its historical stock price volatility (reflecting risk) and the AAA bond yield (reflecting opportunity cost).
Jim O'Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, suggested this weekend's meeting in Washington could mark the beginning of concerted action to tackle the debt crisis in Europe which is the cause of so much stock market volatility.
But importantly, in these days of stock market volatility, it could also be in cash, fixed interest or property depending on the way your pension is set up and how much investment risk you are prepared to take.
The return of stock market volatility after some relatively calm months may be exciting for some traders on Wall Street, but it new data shows that the individual investor is content to take some chips off the table here.
The "capital asset pricing model" identified one factor, beta, or a stock's volatility relative to the index, as pivotal to the stock's returns.
Stock-market volatility and increased economic uncertainty took its toll on respondents across many districts, the Fed reported.
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Stock Options are dependent on six assumption but stock price, volatility, and expected term are typically the most important.
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Other studies have identified factors that are less agreed upon, such as a stock's volatility and its sensitivity to gross domestic product.
Users can program the system to flag sudden shifts in default probabilities, then break them down to see if they result from changes in leverage, stock prices or stock-price volatility.
One low-volatility stock is Fortune Brands (nyse: FO - news - people ), which has a 52-week beta of 0.52 and a Barra Risk Factor of only 5.
Although the U.S. showed the greatest gains in the quarter, Europe also surprised market observers because expectations for activity were so low given stock markets' volatility in much of 2011, largely the result of concern about the euro-zone debt crisis.
Options implied volatility on the stock is slightly elevated ahead of earnings, with volatility currently up 2.4% to arrive at 22.79% as of 3:20pm in New York.
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Now they have the same risk, so now I can look at 500 stocks that represent the large-cap market, all making money, and every single stock in there has the weighting based on their volatility, so every stock is equalized in terms of risk.
The stock market's volatility has tapered off somewhat in December, a historically strong month for the market.
With so much of the stock market's volatility based on expectations (emotions) rather than business (economics), what else could we expect?
The Wall Street bailout was a disaster in many ways, most notably as measured by the weak stock market and economic volatility.
The volatility in stock prices, recent drop in commodity prices and continued high cost of gasoline have taken their toll on investor confidence.
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