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- Pension Accounting and Personal Saving
- According to the U.S. Department of Commerce, the personal saving rate in the United States has declined dramatically, from 10.6% of disposable personal income in 1984 to a low of 2.3% in 2001, before climbing to 3.9% in 2002. Debate rages over the reasons for this decline, The principal sources...
- White papers 2003-09-01
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- Idiosyncratic Volatility, Stock Market Volatility, And Expected Stock Returns
- "Theories suggest that both stock market risk and idiosyncratic risk are important determinants of the equity premium but empirical evidence is inconclusive. This paper shows that the (value-weighted) idiosyncratic stock volatility in conjunction with aggregate stock market volatility exhibits strong predictive abilities for excess stock market returns. Consistent with the...
- White papers 2003-09-01
- Time-Variation in the Covariance Between Stock Returns and Consumption Growth
- The conditional covariance between aggregate stock returns and aggregate consumption growth varies substantially over time. When stock market wealth is high relative to consumption, both the conditional covariance and correlation are high. This pattern is consistent with the composition effect, where agents' consumption growth is more closely tied to stock...
- White papers 2004-08-18
- Understanding the Risk-Return Tradeoff in the Stock Market
- The article finds that past stock market variance forecasts excess stock market returns and that its predictive ability is greatly enhanced if the consumption-wealth ratio is also included in the forecasting equation. While the risk-return tradeoff is found negative if the latter is used as the instrumental variable for the...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- The Wilshire 5000 Total Market Index The Logistics Behind Managing The U.S. Stock Market
- The broad diversification, low turnover, low cost and excellent tax efficiency of total stock market funds have become increasingly popular with both institutional and retail investors. As the only index representing the entire stock market, and by definition containing the broadest possible diversification and lowest turnover, the Wilshire 5000 is...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Stock market helps push up household wealth
- WASHINGTON AP -- Thanks to a good economy and a booming stock market, the typical American family saw a huge 17.6 percent jump in family wealth in the mid-1990s, according to a new government survey released Tuesday. The Federal Reserve reported that the typical family's net worth...
- Research articles 2000-01-19
- Stock market helps push up household wealth
- By MARTIN CRUTSINGER The Associated Press WASHINGTON --- Thanks to a good economy and a booming stock market, the typical American family saw a huge 17.6 percent jump in family wealth in the mid-1990s, according to a new government survey released Tuesday. The Federal...
- Research articles 2000-01-19
- Watch the Stock Market.(building industry effected by stock market)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- Builders should keep a sharp eye on the major stock price indexes reported daily in the media. Not only has the stock market been a major force behind the performance of housing and the economy, it is also one of the key indicators being watched by the...
- Research articles 1999-12-01
- Why the Stock Market Is Not Necessarily the Answer: The Answer Is…
- Like millions of others wondering where one can attain the greatest and safest return on the money in the shortest period of time. Finding the right investment vehicle can be very difficult to say the least. The stock market can give stable long term appreciation potential if one diversity and...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- On the Out-of-Sample Predictability of Stock Market Returns
- This paper provides new evidence of the out-of-sample predictability of stock returns. In particular, it finds that the consumption-wealth ratio in conjunction with a measure of aggregate stock market volatility exhibits substantial out-of-sample forecasting power for excess stock market returns. In addition, simple trading strategies based on the documented predictability...
- White papers 2003-10-01
- Elevated Volatility's Permanent Impact on Stock Market Valuations
- Benjamin Mackovak submits: Surely the stock market collapse of 2008 should present amazing buying opportunities for those fortunate enough to have hidden a pile of cash under a mattress at the beginning of the year…right? Certainly this bear market has caused tremendous wealth destruction, and based on the most recent...
- External links 2008-12-02
- Fed's Greenspan should just ignore stock market
- Federal Reserve Board Chairman Alan Greenspan recently gave another speech in which he warned of a stock market bubble. Although he acknowledged that technology is fundamentally transforming the American economy for the better, the rise in the stock market is creating imbalances that are unsustainable. Says Greenspan, "Through the.so-called wealth...
- Research articles 2000-02-11
- Is The Stock Market Too High?
- Is the stock market too high? If so, what--if anything--should the Federal Reserve do about it? The stakes for investors are enormous. The current value of publicly traded stocks on U.S. markets is about $7 trillion. If those stocks are overvalued by, say, a third, more than $2 trillion of...
- White papers 1996-12-22
- Investors with $1 Million Bullish on Stock Market; Citi Smith Barney Working Wealth Investor Poll July 2007
- NEW YORK -- Citi Smith Barney has announced the results of its latest monthly poll of affluent investors. The faith in the stock market that investors have shown since the April polling has continued. Seven in ten believe that now is a good time to invest in the market; one-third...
- Research articles 2007-07-20
- Tally Ho Ventures, Inc. Retains Cozen O'Connor to Assist with the Nasdaq Stock Market Listing
- GLENDALE, Calif. -- Tally-Ho Ventures, Inc., a Delaware corporation and an international wealth management firm (TLYH.OB), announced today that it retained the legal services of the law firm of Cozen O'Connor to assist the Company in connection with applying for initial listing of the Company's securities on The Nasdaq Stock...
- Research articles 2005-11-02
- Wall Street's bum steer on options: Errant broker advice misled clients on stock investments.
- As the stock market sizzled through the 1990s, Wall Street firms touted their ability to protect client wealth, a sizable chunk of which was in stock options. But in some cases, they apparently failed to deliver. In ad and marketing campaigns...
- Research articles 2002-03-12
- Housing Wealth, Financial Wealth, and Consumption: New Evidence From Micro Data
- Fluctuations in the stock market and in house values over the course of recent years have led to renewed economic policy debate as regards the effects of financial and housing wealth in the determination of household consumption patterns. This research assembles a unique matched data sample from the Survey of...
- White papers 2003-12-01
- Analysts: spending should remain strong with stocks
- SAN FRANCISCO Bloomberg -- Consumer spending, which kept the U.S. economy unexpectedly buoyant last year, will stay strong as long as stock values are high, analysts say. "It all comes down to the stock market," said Greg Jones, chief economist at Briefing.com in Jackson, Wyo. Consumer spending "is...
- Research articles 1999-02-17
- Equity Participation and the Wealth Effect of Strategic Alliances: Evidence From Taiwan
- This paper presents international evidence by examining the wealth effect of minority equity participation in strategic alliances by Taiwanese firms. Consistent with United States evidence, it has been found that announcements of strategic alliances by Taiwanese firms are, on average, associated with significantly positive abnormal stock returns. It has also...
- White papers 2001-09-23
- Feeling poor? Try Losing 96 Percent Of Your Wealth.
- Feeling poor? Try walking a long New Mexico mile in John McAfee's shoes. He lost 96 percent of his wealth in the recent bust, and is now selling off his real estate at pennies on the dollar. McAfee is, of course, the founder of...
- Blog posts 2009-08-21
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