stockmarkets

Hanging on to the bank until stockmarkets picked up might have sharply diminished its remaining franchise value.

European stockmarkets have slumped and the euro itself fell to its lowest level in a year against the dollar.

Stockmarkets might be able to rise above the problems of the credit markets.

IT HAS been a thoroughly wretched summer in the rich world: weak growth, dismal jobs numbers and plunges in stockmarkets.

And the money Americans might venture in emerging stockmarkets would be an equity investment, creating no obligation to repay.

China's stockmarkets bucked the trend by reaching their highest levels for a year.

Airports and stockmarkets have been closed, but there is an urgent desire to return to normality, to carry on and not be cowed.

So why are global stockmarkets, after a wobbly January, acting as if they had barely heard of the credit crunch?

The speech was a further disappointment for global stockmarkets, which have been declining fairly steadily since early May.

Reflecting the possible dent it could put in profitability, bank shares tumbled, pulling stockmarkets down sharply around the world.

If that process truly kicks off, no one will argue about whether China's stockmarkets are crashing or not.

Stockmarkets in Asia rebounded today as investors welcomed the BoA bail-out, with Japan's Nikkei climbing 2. 6%.

In another turbulent day yesterday on global markets, there were hefty falls in Asian stockmarkets and a fresh fall in the pound.

Stockmarkets around the world succumbed to another tumultuous week, falling steeply in Asia and Europe.

Stockmarkets also seemed to recover from the shock of the sovereign-debt crisis, rallying strongly in the last quarter of 2010.

American stockmarkets gave up gains built up in the hours before the vote.

Stockmarkets began rallying within minutes as traders worked out that the then Conservative government could never sustain such high rates.

Stockmarkets have been rallying since March on anticipation that the global economy would recover.

The figures sent stockmarkets sharply lower and reinforced suggestions that the " green shoots" of economic recovery were wilting.

Stockmarkets are unlikely to be a major force in poor countries in the near future.

Much of the nation's vast wealth has vaporised in plunging stockmarkets and defaults on poorly collateralised loans.

The release hurt stockmarkets worldwide. In a single day the Shanghai Composite index gave up its gains for the year.

Those interventions, by shoring up stockmarkets with cheap money, have made life even more difficult for the bears.

peripheral-government bond yields shot up and stockmarkets sank on fears that Greeks might reject a rescue plan agreed days earlier.

Stockmarkets are down by around a third since the start of the year.

SPRING has arrived, stockmarkets are cheery and even forecasters are feeling a bit sunnier about the economic outlook.

STOCKMARKETS are slumping and banking is troubled, but a Japanese firm hopes to buck both trends.

S&P's decision on Tuesday also to downgrade the debt of Portugal by a couple of notches pushed European and world stockmarkets lower.

Stockmarkets tumbled around the world (though some Asian bourses were closed) and the oil price plummeted to well under $100 a barrel.

The Liv-ex 100 Index, which charts bottled-wine prices, has shrugged off the credit crunch and outperformed global stockmarkets.

As the credit system seized up and stockmarkets panicked, global car sales buckled.

Now, with interest rates up and stockmarkets down, the outlook is different.

Wild gyrations in stockmarkets; banks' share prices falling like stones; politicians stepping in to back-stop lenders for fear of collapse.

Headline writers, and those who are urging stockmarkets to continue rising, will continue to talk of hopes of recovery.

Much household-debt reduction still lies ahead. And there is the risk of a correction in stockmarkets.

The 25% drop in emerging stockmarkets during May and June of this year was a warning.

Metals and energy rose sharply today as the dollar weakened and global stockmarkets moved higher.

Mergers and private equity are booming, as are stockmarkets (the Dow Jones Industrial Average hit another record high on Tuesday).

For months, brokers and even central banks had given warning of an impending crash in the region's stockmarkets.

Yet surprisingly, their shares do not trade at a big discount on stockmarkets.

Both have high levels of share ownership, so tumbling stockmarkets and property prices are depressing consumption.

The correction is now finished and the primary trend of all stockmarkets is now resuming its downtrend.

Stockmarkets around the world have tumbled (see article).

Another European boss says his Chinese suitor struggled to deal with Western stockmarkets.

On Monday morning European stockmarkets enjoyed a rally and yields on two-year Greek government bonds fell by more than half.

Stockmarkets are in a funk. But the main problem remains the credit markets.

Stockmarkets usually advance before a downturn is over, anticipating the recovery in profits to come.

Even so, Mr Smithers argues that central banks should use the valuation data to decide whether stockmarkets are over- extended.

Stockmarkets around the world surged on the back of the news from the G20.

But such changes risk being either ineffectual or interfering with the liquidity of stockmarkets.

Stockmarkets had another rocky week amid more concern over sovereign debt in Europe.

Russian indices have tumbled this month from their previous highs for the year, as have stockmarkets in many emerging economies.

Finally, the rise of African banks and stockmarkets has made public-private partnerships more feasible.

More than 40 public enterprises are already listed on India's stockmarkets, although the government still holds many tight to its chest.

Chinese and Indian manufacturing output rose in April, pushing Asian stockmarkets up sharply.

Global stockmarkets are suffering double-digit losses this year, and credit markets are once again gummed up.

Stockmarkets also tumbled, with nearly $1 trillion wiped off the value of shares worldwide.

This week's tensions have caused reverberations around the region, not just because of weak stockmarkets.

When stockmarkets fell, their capital positions were whacked, forcing many to issue new shares.

Many investors in shares argue that the low levels of bond yields make stockmarkets look cheap.

Stockmarkets took a further battering in the first half of the week. Some indices fell to their lowest levels for many years.

The OFT found that higher fees and discounts were not explained by the risks of jumpy stockmarkets.

Stockmarkets and bond markets rallied substantially in 2009, totally oblivious of the risks.

More than 30 companies on the national stockmarkets have recently failed, says Alan Tang of Grant Thornton, a consultancy.

Stockmarkets are down sharply, commodity prices have tumbled and volatility is up.

The continuing instability in the Middle East caused stockmarkets in the Gulf region to tumble.

But strangely, valuations right now seem highest in murky stockmarkets like China's.

It was a tumultuous week on the world's stockmarkets, after Standard &Poor's downgraded America's credit rating for the first time, to AA .

But the bear market of 2000-02 showed how dangerous it was to rely on stockmarkets alone.

Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton of the London Business School examined their database of 17 national stockmarkets since 1900.

Conventional analysts tend to argue that on the basis of profit forecasts for 2010, stockmarkets are reasonably valued.

The factor pulling stockmarkets in different directions this year has been low interest rates.

In the short term the price could get another boost from rising stockmarkets.

Despite this, stockmarkets devote a lot more time to forecasting and analysing profits than they do to thinking about payouts.

Why then, have most emerging stockmarkets fallen by more than Western ones, particularly in the past month?

The action was greeted warmly on the world's stockmarkets, which rallied on the news.

These are now in doubt, sending tremors through financial markets and causing stockmarkets to fall around the world.

Stockmarkets are still shy of their record peaks in most countries.

The release hurt stockmarkets worldwide.

Spending will be hit, too, by weak stockmarkets and shrinking housing wealth.

The financial quake of the past year has toppled almost all the world's stockmarkets.

As a result, the slumping stockmarkets in both countries are a cause for concern.

Trading was halted at stockmarkets in Russia, Brazil and Peru.

When stockmarkets fall, the assets of all pension funds decline together.

Stockmarkets suffered a setback in the summer of 2011, for example, because economic growth turned out to be weaker than expected.

Stockmarkets have surged in response.

Stockmarkets rallied, but some analysts wondered if yet more action wouldn't be required.

In the meantime Ms Schapiro is turning her attention to the fragmented structure and lightning speed of stockmarkets.

Only 20% of shares traded on stockmarkets are owned by foreign investors.

Stockmarkets stumbled on fears about the impact on the world's third-biggest economy.

Only 20% of shares traded on stockmarkets are owned by foreign investors.

Stockmarkets stumbled on fears about the impact on the world's third-biggest economy.

Global stockmarkets have rallied by 64% since their trough.

A bigger problem is that the best time to issue shares is when stockmarkets are soaring, not languishing.

Many big firms, such as Alliance Boots (a health-and-beauty group) have abandoned public stockmarkets and embraced private equity.

Stockmarkets also rose.

Stockmarkets have slipped from their recent bullish highs.

Stockmarkets rose on news that the world's largest economy grew in the third quarter.

Russian stockmarkets fell further when the World Bank forecast Russia's economy would shrink by 7. 9% this year.

Stockmarkets are tumbling, taking a big chunk of voters' pensions with them.

Stockmarkets are tumbling, taking a big chunk of voters' pensions with them.

Stockmarkets have dropped about 7% in the past week and are now only 6% above October's lows.

Stockmarkets at first welcomed the deal.

Returns were -0. 2% in the first half of 2010 (although stockmarkets fell by much more).

WORRIES about overheating in China usually focus on obvious candidates: property in big cities, mainland stockmarkets and so forth.

In the late 1990s, for example, companies were being forced to pay higher borrowing costs while stockmarkets were enjoying the dotcom boom.

This is even worse than the 12% fall in the MSCI world stockmarkets index in that period.

For much of last year, stockmarkets ignored the bad news from the credit markets, thanks to three assumptions.

The data hit world stockmarkets: the FTSE 100 fell 78. 1 points, or 1. 8%, to 4262. 61 on the back of the news.

Hong Kong's Hang Seng index has dropped by more than 29% so far this year, more than the French and Spanish stockmarkets.

Asian stockmarkets rose overnight, with Tokyo's Nikkei closing up 1. 1% and Hong Kong's Hang Seng ending 2. 07% higher.

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