Bonds are also attractive as a safe haven in stock market corrections, and many important global stock markets, including China, Brazil, Hong Kong, and India, topped out in November and have been down 12% to 17% in corrections since.
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Bonds are bought as a safe haven when global stock markets are in corrections.
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When the stock dropped in July 2008, he called the broker, and the broker had reassured him by saying the government had an implicit obligation to stand behind Fannie Mae, and the preferred stock was thus safe.
If you are anywhere near the East Coast, I hope by now you are in a safe place and have a good stock of drinking water and flashlights and batteries and whatever else people who know about such things advise you to have.
Firmer U.S. stock indexes Wednesday did somewhat limiting investor and trader demand for the safe-haven precious metals, as the stronger U.S. stock market suggests better risk appetite is presently in the market place.
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Stronger U.S. stock indexes Wednesday morning are somewhat limiting investor and trader demand for the safe-haven precious metals, as the stronger U.S. stock market suggests better risk appetite is presently in the market place.
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The investment giant BlackRock is telling clients to stock up on cash and safe-haven bonds and treasury bonds even though this is not the best strategy in the long run since it provides negative returns when you factor in inflation.
But if you want to keep your money safe until Fall, Google could be the stock for you.
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Weaker U.S. and European stock markets are also adding some safe-haven investment demand for the precious metals early Tuesday.
So as long as you have the stomach for it, ignore sales pitches touting safe, steady returns and hang onto that stock.
Investing in Treasury securities may offer lower returns than the stock market but they offer a safe haven during times of market volatility.
More than enough reasons to pile into gold, as a safe haven in a slowing economy and tumbling stock market, and as a hedge against inflation.
When he is listing a gold trust in his top ten stock picks, it is probably safe to say Cramer is going through one of his own more bearish streaks.
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At least that's what I tell myself every year about this time -- that September, October and November will make the multiplexes, and the nation's dwindling stock of independent theaters, reasonably safe for sentient adults.
The bearish forces of a firmer U.S. dollar index and lower crude oil prices trumped safe-haven investor demand due to weaker world stock markets Tuesday.
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However, gains are being limited as higher European and U.S. stock markets pull some investment demand away from safe-haven gold.
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In Asia, the Japanese stock market fell as the yen rallied on safe-haven investor demand due to the resurfacing of the EU debt crisis.
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Uncertainty over the timeline for a resolution in Europe and falling levels in the stock market have also helped drive investors into safe-haven assets like U.S. Treasuries, which has left the 10-year bond today yielding 2.11% and the 30-year long-term bond yielding 3.13%.
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So is it safe to make a long-term investment in a utility stock now?
But his broker had sometimes recommended preferred stock, and if my client thought it sounded safe, he would agree to buy it.
Yes, the investors who were probably nervous with the volatility of the stock market and chose to invest in this seemingly safe product.
An increase in investor risk appetite saw solid rallies in the U.S. stock indexes Wednesday, which worked to pull way safe-haven demand for gold that surfaced Tuesday.
That news helped to pressure European stock markets Monday and may have prompted some scant fresh safe-haven demand for gold.
Gold acted as a safe haven in the sense that it did tend to rise when stock markets fell sharply.
The euro crisis has spread to Italy, the world's third-largest bond market, which means the stock of rich-world government debt that is considered safe has shrunk dramatically.
Influences contributing to the decline include soft Chinese economic data overnight, worries that any selling of Cypriot gold to help fund a bailout will create a domino effect in which other debt-plagued European nations have to sell as well, plus a strong U.S. stock market so far this year that has taken away safe-haven demand for gold.
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U.S. stock indexes traded weaker Thursday, which also added to some safe-haven buying interest in the precious metals.
Encouraging for the gold market bulls is that gold prices rallied late Tuesday on fresh safe-haven buying interest as the U.S. and European stock markets sold off.
If you want to play it safe, one smart choice would be to buy the Vanguard Total World Stock Index Fund, which, as the name implies, tracks an index of the global stock market.
This stockpile of cash wants to seek higher returns in the stock market but is waiting for a sign that the water is safe.
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