Some analysts predicted equity markets would soon change their tune to focus on the upsides of falling oil prices, particularly for the US and Europe.
Hometrack predicts equity-rich households that do not depend on getting big mortgages to buy homes could continue to put upward pressure on prices in localised markets in 2010, after pushing up prices in southern England in particular this year.
Bernd Laux, a research analyst with Cheuvreux in Frankfurt, said the price tag was "fair," and called the deal "smart and well-timed," but predicted "the equity market will give Infineon only very brief credit for the disposal".
Financial analysts predict the private equity firms will eventually treble their initial investment by the time they sell all their shares - a process they have begun with Bain and KKR selling $2.5bn worth of stock in March.
At the beginning of the year, pundits were predicting that equities would race up.
But can sustained flows into money markets actually predict impending declines in equity investment?
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