The weak stock market and uncertain exchange rates are driving at least part of the pursuit from Europe and America.
The Wall Street bailout was a disaster in many ways, most notably as measured by the weak stock market and economic volatility.
The won is weak, the stock market volatile and big business is reeling from large debts.
After a weak open, the stock market regained its footing late Thursday morning.
In a weak economy and with the stock market down 58%, the Japanese government last year stupidly raised taxes.
The Japanese stock market is weak, and foreign investors have turned from being net buyers to net sellers of Japanese equities.
This would be in sync with a weak economy, with the stock market weakening and with the potential that I see for military conflict.
If the stock market is weak heading into the jobs report, stocks could form a panic low, as many high-yielding stocks are now reaching attractive levels.
Many companies, and their investment bankers, are also quick to wait when stock market conditions get weak.
Recently, Vanguard has begun urging people to contribute 12% to 15%, including the employer contribution, because of the stock market's weak returns and uncertainty about the future of Social Security and Medicare.
Another is that the dollar's strength, even when it's weak--as it was after the stock market collapsed in 2000--gives U.S. industry an advantage overseas.
That sets up a counterintuitive situation in which the stock market might react more favorably to weak September jobs data than to a strong report, which would lessen the odds of additional monetary easing.
The latest weak eurozone services sector data did little to improve stock market sentiment, already hit by the indication overnight that the US Federal Reserve is not considering a further round of quantitative easing (QE) to help boost the American economy.
Given the lack of conviction seen in individual stock breakouts and weak rally attempts lately, the next market rally needs to prove itself, in a big way.
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Crude oil prices traded sharply lower Thursday on the EU debt woes, the fresh, weak U.S. economic data and the slumping U.S. stock market.
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This has indicated that fewer and fewer stocks were pushing the stock market to new highs and was a sign of a technically weak market.
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Prices took support from the weak Asian stock markets overnight, which boosted gold's appeal as a hedge against wider market insecurity.
The stock has gradually recovered more than 20% after the market punished it for the weak Q3 results.
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The prospects of a weak yen, coupled with further stimulus boost, has also had a positive impact on the stock market.
Over the past few years, an implicit weak dollar policy by the Federal Reserve has stimulated enormous growth in the U.S. stock market.
Perhaps a devastating flight from the dollar--the kind that precipitated the 1987 stock market crash--is needed to shake the White House out of its damaging weak-dollar rut.
The Fed's statement appeared to cause little response in the stock market, which fell sharply on signs of a slowdown in hiring and manufacturing and weak earnings reports from some major companies.
In the US, he said, the economy is weak, with a 7.6% unemployment rate and millions of people on food stamps, but the stock market is strong.
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To be sure, the weak state of the euro-zone economy and the lingering debt crisis in southern Europe may still derail the stock-market recovery, said Jerome Vinerier, a Brussels-based market analyst at IG Markets.
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