Translation of "Risky assets" in German

This is boosting the prices of other risky assets such as equities and credit.

Invest your money in a basket of risky and non risky assets.

Interest-rate spreads between safe and risky assets are natural to functioning credit markets.

HSH Nordbank furthermore again achieved evident successes in winding down risky legacy assets.

Some recent rises in the prices of equities, commodities, and other risky assets is clearly liquidity-driven.

ING will also sell or reduce exposure to other risky businesses and assets.

On the other hand, these rates are the benchmark that risky assets are valued against and that discount models rely on.

The British pound might especially suffer, but all risky assets might get under pressure.

While this development was partly the result of high volatility in financial markets, which heightened investors' preference for short-term liquid and less risky financial assets, it also reflected the relatively low interest rates in the euro area in 2002.

The consequences – sharp capital-flow reversals that are now hitting all risky emerging-market assets – have not been pretty.

Whether the correction in risky assets is temporary or the start of a bear market will depend on several factors.

Moreover, in a “risk-off" environment, when investors are risk-averse or when equities and other risky assets are subject to market and/or credit uncertainty, it may be better to hold negative-yielding bonds than riskier and more volatile assets.

Indeed, investment banks like Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital are already inventing new types of securities to reduce the capital cost of holding risky assets.

Almost everything that they have done – spending increases, tax cuts, bank recapitalization, purchases of risky assets, open-market operations, and other money-supply expansions – has followed a policy path that is nearly 200 years old, dating back to the earliest days of the Industrial Revolution, and thus to the first stirrings of the business cycle.

The aim was to reduce private credit spreads (the difference between yields on private assets and those on government bonds of similar maturity) and to boost, directly and indirectly, the price of other risky assets such as equities and real estate.

The public guarantees that rich countries’ governments have extended to their financial sectors have exposed more clearly the critical line of demarcation between “safe” and “risky” assets, with emerging markets clearly in the latter category.

Then, with the immediate default risk removed, money stormed out of risky assets into Treasuries to wait out the economic bad news – mainly feeble and declining growth, employment stagnation, and falling equity prices.

It may be too soon to say that many risky assets have reached bubble levels, and that leverage and risk-taking in financial markets is becoming excessive.

They can guarantee the debt of private-sector entities, thus transforming now-risky leaden assets back into golden ones.

The second development was that the carry trade appeared to perform strongly when other risky assets also did well, and vice versa.

And, by involving the Treasury, the purchase of risky assets could be financed by issuing debt, rather than by printing more money, thereby attenuating inflationary fears.

I am heartened by calls for this in the UK, and that the talk is now turning to the purchase of risky assets, such as corporate bonds or bundles of loans to the private sector, as opposed to long-term government securities.