Yet despite this tempered outlook for speculative real estate ventures, many, including Mr. Casagrande believe that Americans and other foreigners can and will benefit from the economic and political integration of Western Europe and from the new economic freedoms taking hold in the East.
Heightened political, staff retention and commercial real estate refinancing risks make us cautious on earnings and sentiment near-term, but we have reduced our risk rating to high from speculative on the grounds that the UK economic outlook has stabilised significantly in recent months.
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And while high-yield and other distressed lending sectors should be fine, their risk outlook continues to worsen, making them a relatively speculative and unattractive investment at this stage.
The difference between the two is driven by the change in valuation (which Mr Bogle dubs the "speculative return") as investors become more or less optimistic about the outlook.In any given year, the market return and the investment return can be a long way apart: the gap for American equities was over five percentage points in 105 out of 125 years of trading.
Mr. Christodoulou said 97 percent of the bonds in the issue sold on Thursday were allocated to what he called "real money investors" — institutions with a long-term outlook, like pension funds and insurance companies — and not to more speculative investors like hedge funds, which have drawn criticism for their aggressive trading in the market for credit-default swaps.
This bleak outlook also worries those investors who thought Eurobonds a safer bet than speculative asset, threatening debt financing not only in Greece, but across the eurozone as sovereign CDS spreads widen.
Moody's said late Thursday that it was cutting Hungary to a speculative rating of Ba1 from Baa3, its lowest investment grade, and was maintaining a negative outlook on the debt.
Alderson said it would be speculative to interpret Niese's deal as a sign of the Mets' new positive financial outlook after the teams' owners settled with the trustee representing the victims of Bernard L. Madoff and finished the sale of minority ownerships shares.
Because of an improving outlook for the economy and corporate earnings, money has rotated into the most aggressive and speculative stocks.
But despite new worries over a gloomy outlook for long-term supply estimates, the latest jump on Thursday was very much in keeping with the speculative rush to invest in black gold.
