The ongoing volatility in the market continues to affect individual investor sentiment.
Cash in 2013 is not a bad place to be, given the unresolved tax and budget issues and renewed volatility in the market.
When Bryan Hopkins, president of Hopkins Wealth Management Group, noticed all the volatility in the market, he encouraged his clients to harvest their losses multiple times a year.
The price volatility in this market and the dependance of it now for electricity production will severely hamper the economy as natural gas prices rise due to increased costs of electricity.
Hopkins anticipates the volatility in the market to continue through at least the first half of 2010, and unless there is an unforeseen major change to the markets, he anticipates continuing to have several harvests.
The volatility in the value of the dollar has led to volatility in the oil market.
Given the super-low-volatility uptrend in the market this past week, an added dose of volatility would support the case for a trend reversal.
Ding added the firm has been "clever and swift" in taking advantage of the volatility in the mortgage market by making short bets to generate profits to offset losses in other areas.
He noted that the market downturn drove some investors away from using options, because when volatility increases in the market so does risk.
Ongoing volatility in the stock market reduced some of the cautious optimism that we have been seeing.
"We have had movement away from public equities because of volatility in the stock market, " fund chief investment officer Vicki Fuller said.
But some Barclays shareholders said they would not oppose a retreat from the Dutch bank if volatility in the stock market persists.
The Middle East tensions are prompting higher volatility in crude oil market.
Some fund managers, meanwhile, are shadowing their benchmark indices, hoping to hold on to their jobs amid record volatility in the stock market.
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They see the volatility in the stock market, and when they get their 401(k) statements, they see that that value has gone down.
Hemlock prepared for the potentially negative volatility in the solar market by requiring strong and firm contracts with customers and getting customer pre-payments against these contracts.
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This phenomenon, in concert with the ongoing and possibly deepening global credit crisis, could also result in unprecedented volatility in the stock market, not to mention currency crises and related economic dislocation.
The VIX An options-based measure of the forecast for volatility in the stock market, the VIX fell to a relatively low of 15 in April of 2010 and 2011, suggesting that investors may have become too complacent and risk being surprised by a negative event.
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The gain in the market and decline in volatility is somewhat perplexing, given the large macro risks that continue to pervade the global economy and the relatively weak earnings outlook offered by a number of bellwether firms such as FedEx and Hewlett-Packard.
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The debt also can be used to limit volatility in the emerging-market portion of a portfolio, Mr. Harting says.
He also drummed up some white papers both for, and against ETFs and how they play a role in market volatility.
Watts said there is volatility and instability in the market and that hearings should look at conservation, production, and environmental concerns.
The bigger part is the tremendous leap in volatility amid a market plunge driven by worries over U.S. deficits and European debts.
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The rise in market volatility, in our opinion, is a function of digitalisation, which is exaggerating human mood swings by the unprecedented dissemination of information via the internet.
The uptick in market volatility this week represents a blip compared to what may occur when markets are forced to deal head on with a serious stimulus reduction.
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Since the spike in market volatility that started in the middle of July, the correlation between ICON and a diversified synthetic index of retailers that we put together has soared.
While demand data flow continues to show robust readings, it will be important to monitor how the recent spike in market volatility will impact private consumption going forward, wrote Guilherme Loureiro, a Brazil analyst for Barclays Capital.
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The statement said that ANZ had withdrawn funding for Whitehaven's proposed Maules Creek mine due to "reputational risks and analysis of the returns on this mine in the current climate of high volatility in the coal export market".
As individual investors sat on the sidelines amid market volatility in the third quarter, online brokerage firms like Charles Schwab (nyse: SCH - news - people ) got crunched, reporting a 51% year-over-year decline in earnings.
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