In listed markets, India's return on equity spreads (the additional return relative to the global indexes) have narrowed recently, so returns no longer justify the risks in the near term.
Regulation and decimalization decreased equity spreads and made stock trading profitable only in high volume.
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This is one of the ways the equity culture spreading to Europe and Japan will be a great boon to entrepreneurs there.
Mutual funds and equity-linked products will be the hot products of tomorrow, as the equity culture spreads through Germany and across Europe.
If the world's equity culture spreads and public equity valuations remain high, the desire to swap illiquid shares in a family business for cash or liquid shares in a big public company will only mount.
Based in San Francisco, AdvisorTech provides investment tools for financial planners in Japan and Korea in much the same way that Schwab pioneered the business in the U.S. As the equity culture spreads around the globe, opportunities for Schwab abound.
It looks as if the rout in developed equities is spreading to emerging markets, with concerns about slowing growth combining with a rising US dollar.
As the popularity of E.T.F.s has soared — exchange-traded funds now account for a third of all publicly traded equities — the spreads, or margins, have narrowed substantially, making it harder to profit from the difference.
In the firms 2010 outlook, Kantor writes that equities, credit spreads and commodity prices seem reasonably valued, but "there are no screaming buys left".
