The Japanese equity market (Nikkei 225) closed up 2.4% for May. Key drivers were indications of sustained us economic growth and higher dividends without higher inflation.
There was fresh evidence that confidence was returning to China's equity market yesterday as investors brushed aside an early scare from strong domestic inflation data.
He points out that the historical difference between the returns on cash and government bonds is very low, but cash is a lot less volatile and thus a better hedge against the equity market.
And the decline of the Shanghai and Shenzhen equity markets.
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Risk aversion was the central theme as equity markets across Asia fell sharply as economic worries intensify.
Real-time quotes, including the Shanghai and Shenzhen, the Hong Kong equity market delay;
Other employers are paying less into their funds and taking a gamble that the equity market will deliver the rest.
But experts say China's equity market has less to do with economic growth and more to do with government policy, market manipulation and the creation of retail investor bubbles.
Having first taken an interest in the Chinese equity market several years ago, there is no question in my mind that Mr Bolton's enthusiasm for the stock picking opportunities in China is genuine.
When equity markets go up, investors feel good and want to invest more in equities.
In the Asian session, EURUSD has traded within a 1.3741-1.3815 range, and equity markets have been well-supported.
China Securities Journal news, the hot private equity market since a year age has attracted a lot of private equity institutions adding weight to the layout of equity funds.
Despite bad news from the housing market and warnings from the Treasury secretary, America's equity markets are still higher than they were in May.
Meanwhile, the bank's own research shows that the ratio of equity market capitalisation relative to GDP in the Brics countries has jumped from about 20 per cent a decade ago to nearer 70 per cent now.
During the run up in the equity markets two weeks ago, semi-conductor stocks lead the charge higher.
In its latest "equity Gilt Study", Barclays Capital tested the outlook for the American equity market against a number of population variables.
One of the bulls' hopes for the equity market is that American investors simply get tired of earning virtually zero on the estimated $13 trillion they hold in money-market mutual funds.
It has been clear for some time that global equity markets are bubbling again.
A higher risk premium for the equity market has already been priced in.
This is very much at odds with the fears that have been expressed in many quarters that China's equity market implosion portends a hard landing for the world's second largest economy.
Global equity markets fell sharply and then trimmed some of their losses after the White House made clear its intentions.
There seems to be a lack of buyers in the equity market and I think that'll stay in place through the end of the quarter.
More worrying is the lengthy shadow that a crash could cast over the development of China's equity markets.
For the time being, Asian equity markets are deeply lower, meanwhile European equity futures are pointing to a sharply lower open.
Our empirical results from historical data of 19 countries in 25 years (1975-2000) show that the return differential of equity market has good prediction power for currency crises.
Merger-arbitrage funds benefit from lower exposure to volatile equity markets than many of their peers.
Facing a growing private equity market, the Chinese government must solve the urgent problem that whether it is necessary to give some regulation to PE Funds or not.
He argued that acquisitions tended to be pro-cyclical and relied on the strength of the equity market.
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