I don't think we're through with it yet. The action is so sloppy. ... The wild swings in volatility show that there's no conviction in the marketplace yet, and while there's no conviction, you're probably going to have increased volatility with a downward bias.
Quotes about volatility (16 Quotes)
Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.
Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way.
Volatility of words is carelessness in actions words are the wings of actions.
A buy-the-dip mentality remains very strong in the minds of the market. Technology stocks are where all the action is, where all the volatility resides, where all the big gains come into play. These are the darlings of the market.
We're back to the wonderful world of optimism. You have to be cautious what you do here. The question is 'Are we getting ahead of ourselves'. Will we see some volatility You bet.
It makes a lot of sense for the authorities to allow for more volatility and faster appreciation. This is consistent with what the authorities have been saying, that they will allow more flexibility in the currency, especially in light of economic and political pressure from the U. S. and European Union.
There's a little volatility on the downside ahead of the long weekend, so we're seeing money flowing out of the Dow and selectively going into the tech arena. Industrial stocks are not doing so well.
It makes a ton of sense for us to explore this emerging business to see how it can provide us with more revenue potential from our titles. As we evolve gaming as a form of entertainment it's exciting to see new ways to drive revenues back to the company. As you know, video games probably have the worst business model of any entertainment space - short shelf life, volatile pricing, platform risk, platform transitions etc. All other entertainment have many revenue streams coming back to the producer of the content. Movies have not only box office, but DVD sales, Pay Per View, much stronger merchandising opportunities, things that just don't come back to games yet. Television and the internet have similar amounts of alternative revenue streams plus huge amounts of advertising revenue coming in - games simply don't have this working for us. It's retail and that's it. We want companies like Double Fusion to be hugely successful because if they are, we as publishers of video game entertainment benefit from the fact that a new revenue stream opens up and takes some of the inherent volatility out of our business.
At the time the volatility of your innate short temper was exacerbated by the aftermath of your abuse of illicit drugs,
Briefly speaking, our conclusion is that stochastic volatility does not make a huge difference as far as the pricing is concerned if you get the average volatility right. It makes a big difference as far as hedging is concerned.
People are unwilling to take positions. There is concern about the Australian dollar because of its connection to rates, but also because everybody gets nervous around such volatility.
We enter 1999 confident in our strength to withstand further volatility and in our ability to build on the strength of the group to deliver further value to shareholders.
Relatively moderate weather, ample supplies and an escalation in the dispute over Iran's nuclear program should make for another week of high volatility. Absent geopolitical uncertainty, prices should be moving lower.
The action in equities has been impressive in the face of the uncertainty in the Middle East and surging energy and commodity prices. And even the mixed earnings news we've gotten so far has not derailed the train. But look out, because volatility is back.
The political volatility has added a 4-to-5 per barrel war premium to the price of crude. That will stay in the price as long as we have hostilities in the Middle East. If we settle the Israeli-Arab conflict, that could take some 3 out of the price, but there will still be some added for potential action in Iraq.