Changing Times, Changing Values: A Historical Analysis of Sectors within the US Stock Market 1872-2013. NBER Workin Paper no. 20370 .Bunn, Oliver D., and Robert J. Shiller, 2014, "Changing Times, Changing Values: A Historical Analysis of Sectors within the US Stock Market 1872-2013," ...
If the stock market were a house, sectors would be the rooms. Just as each room has specific types of furniture, each sector has certain types of stocks. You wouldn’t put a dining room table in the bathroom, and you wouldn’t lump energy giant ExxonMobil (XOM) in with a bunch of ...
Likewise, the performance of different types of stocks has varied widely. In order to distinguish one type of stock from another, stocks are classified into sectors by region, country, style, industry, and so on. This chapter studies how the stock market works and changes at the meso-level ...
“The banks are just getting back to where they were before the Bush and Obama administrations forced [them to issue] that ton of equity during the great recession,” Cramer said. “In fact, the banks are now overcapitalized and they’ve got a much larger share of the lending pie than ...
Stock Market Sectors Stock market sector simply refers to groups of stocks that are engaged in a similar business or industry. This is important to understand because various sectors can rise and fall depending upon the current market and demand (or lack thereof) for their products....
The Bottom Line The stock market typically moves upward over time in small increments. Any deviation in the price of a stock from this expected pattern, either up or down, is the volatility factor. Volatility often frightens investors. The prudent investor prefers a stable, predictable market in...
The hedging effectiveness of global sectors in emerging and developed stock marketsCountry ETFsSector ETFsHedging effectivenessDeveloped marketsEmerging marketsBRIC marketsThis paper investigates whether global sectors could act as effective hedges for emerging and developed market equities. By comparing the ...
If we are in abear market–when the market indexes are declining–there will still be winners as well as losers. Chart Multiple Time Frames Before choosing a sector or stock, investors should identify a trend using multiple time frames within charts. Investors can use charts to define the tre...
STOCK markets like to price in recovery prospects and there are no sectors fund managers would like to see recover more than their favourite three of telecoms, media and technology. Their Christmas letters to Santa asked, even begged, for a return to those halcyon days when any announcement on...
The final results, however, matter more for specific sectors than for the whole S&P 500. While it’s easy to let politics get in the way of successful investing, it’s important to remember that the stock market generally goes up, no matter who wins the election. “I wouldn’t h...