By holding assets to maturity, the government could benefit if they rise in value.
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Other reasons given for the rise in value include the popularity of gambling websites accepting the currency.
During periods of rapid inflation, Gold tends to rise in value, keeping up with or even outpacing inflation.
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And you don't even have to be a dead rock icon for your artistic output to rise in value.
In the most fundamental sense, this is really the only reason why an ounce of gold will rise in value.
Bank of China's move comes at a time of U.S. pressure on China to let its currency rise in value.
In step one, you buy assets that rise in value without producing cash, such as growth stocks or real estate.
The investment, which also included a basket of currencies, worked on the thesis that the stocks would rise in value.
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Nasdaq is coming off an 86% rise in value in 1999 -- and a four-fold increase over the past four years.
Generally, inside traders profit by buying stocks of acquisition targets before deals are announced and selling after the targets' shares rise in value.
To limit the risk, Dalio wrote that jewellers should purchase gold-futures contracts designed to rise in value when the price of gold falls.
In normal circumstances, one could help protect a portfolio by owning more long-term Treasury bonds, which often rise in value when stocks fall.
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Value investing, on the other hand, means buying companies when they're down-and-out in the belief that they will turn things around and rise in value.
This is in marked contrast to previous years - 2010 saw a 9% rise, while 2009 saw stocks rise in value by 22% during the year.
The money will be used to fund special payments to shareholders who, after years of seeing their shares rise in value, have become frustrated in recent months.
Indeed, Fifty is a fund to get into if, like Muresianu, you foresee rough times ahead for the U.S. economy while gold and oil rise in value.
Their operating profits will widen, their land holdings will rise in value, and they will sell their new homes much more quickly, saving on capital costs, he argues.
Carlyle is putting less emphasis on pricing shares high at the IPO, instead hoping they rise in value once they are traded, according to people familiar with the matter.
It is not hard to see demand growth being dragged down at the start of next year by a planned rise in value-added tax in Germany and budgetary tightening in Italy.
The longer-term bond will rise in value over time.
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Indeed, given the speed of the rise in value it looks a great deal more like a bubble: something that private currencies and unregulated financial markets are prone too, as we know.
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Last year saw a 1% rise in value and a 5% drop by volume, much of that explained by sharp declines in France and Spain, which are in the top four export markets.
Speyer's net worth is up a bit since the 2012 Forbes 400 list thanks to the rise in value of his firm's most prized property, Rockefeller Center, co-owned with the family of Lester Crown.
Real estate offered a golden opportunity, according to the European Renaissance Fund, not because it would rise in value any time soon, but rather because "a lot of existing portfolios will be offloaded by distressed investors".
Likewise, Soros, like others, has studied the fate of the dollar in our deficit-ridden, debt-laden economy and decided that the price of gold was going to rise in value as the globe lost more and more faith in the dollar.
On the other hand, when dollar policy tilts toward strength, as it did in the 1980s and 1990s, the income streams investors are purchasing rise in value, thus serving as a lure for investment capital that will be better protected by virtue of sound dollar policy.
In a dismantling of the eurozone, the losses on German credit extended to weaker eurozone economies would be huge, while German industry and employment would be hurt both by a rise in the value of a new German currency and by an inevitable recession in much of Europe.
This in turn has caused a rise in the value of government-backed bonds and bills.
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The tax hikes include a rise in the value-added tax and a (risk-adjusted) levy on bank profits.
Meanwhile, the rise in the value of collateral, such as property, increases the willingness of banks to lend.
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