Stock market volatility has been a little higher than average over the past few years, but not extraordinarily so.
Smaller-cap stocks will be hurt more by stock market volatility and economic uncertainty.
In recent days, the VIX Index, a measure of expected stock market volatility has been double the historic norm.
Increased stock market volatility pushes the pendulum toward fear while rising stock values and reduced volatility push sentiment toward greed.
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One of the simplest and most effective ways to manage daily stock market volatility is to have an allocation to fixed-income.
This is our second principal strategy for dealing with stock market volatility.
Those negotiations could be protracted and increase stock market volatility, said Cecilia.
But not the U.S equity market, with the VIX (the Volatility Index, a measure gauging future anticipated stock market volatility) trading at an astonishingly low level.
Between 1997 and 2005 REITs had a beta, or propensity to swing in synch with stocks, of around 0.35, meaning they provided a nice hedge against stock market volatility.
Mrs Knight said in the light of the continuing eurozone debt crisis and stock market volatility, the focus for banks should be on the recovery, not on dealing with more regulation.
Jim O'Neill, chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management, suggested this weekend's meeting in Washington could mark the beginning of concerted action to tackle the debt crisis in Europe which is the cause of so much stock market volatility.
But importantly, in these days of stock market volatility, it could also be in cash, fixed interest or property depending on the way your pension is set up and how much investment risk you are prepared to take.
The return of stock market volatility after some relatively calm months may be exciting for some traders on Wall Street, but it new data shows that the individual investor is content to take some chips off the table here.
Stock-market volatility and increased economic uncertainty took its toll on respondents across many districts, the Fed reported.
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Despite this small economic and demographic footprint, Cyprus has dominated the headlines for the past couple of weeks while being the scapegoat for down days in the stock market and recent market volatility.
The stock market's volatility has tapered off somewhat in December, a historically strong month for the market.
With so much of the stock market's volatility based on expectations (emotions) rather than business (economics), what else could we expect?
The Wall Street bailout was a disaster in many ways, most notably as measured by the weak stock market and economic volatility.
Add to the equation the high correlation in the stock market and high volatility, and suddenly the rule of thumb of investing 60% of your money in stocks and 40% in bonds no longer provides the returns they once did.
It could have made a panic low with the stock market, but the volatility is likely to keep many out of this market.
Since 2003 bottom, the stock market has had tremendous volatility, he said, whereas the gold price has had a relatively orderly, linear advance that has shown no signs of excess.
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Investing in Treasury securities may offer lower returns than the stock market but they offer a safe haven during times of market volatility.
Ongoing volatility in the stock market reduced some of the cautious optimism that we have been seeing.
Bonds serve as a shock absorber for the volatility of the stock market.
"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.
Yes, the investors who were probably nervous with the volatility of the stock market and chose to invest in this seemingly safe product.
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.
Despite the epic volatility of the stock market last year, settlements in class-action securities cases actually fell more than 50% to the lowest levels since 2003.
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