{"id":252760,"date":"2022-05-23T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T14:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/finance.inform.click\/?p=252760"},"modified":"2022-05-23T17:17:33","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T14:17:33","slug":"investments-depending-on-the-phase-of-the-economic-cycle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/finance.inform.click\/en\/investments-depending-on-the-phase-of-the-economic-cycle\/","title":{"rendered":"Investments depending on the phase of the economic cycle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The choice of instruments for investment is influenced by the stages of the economy.<br \/>\nHistorically, the market over time undergoes crisis states, when markets fall in a certain period of time, and, conversely, there are periods when the markets are completely positive and grow up. All this is connected with the economic cycles of the economy.<\/p>\n<p>The economic cycles of an economy are recurring ups and downs in an economy.<br \/>\nIn the classical sense, the economic cycle includes the following phases: peak, recession, crisis, recovery.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/finance.inform.click\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/18c7d70228fe7bdb963833f2b057ff31-1.webp\" data-rel=\"lightbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"SDStudio-light-box-enable SDStudio-editor-tools-md-imp\" src=\"https:\/\/finance.inform.click\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/18c7d70228fe7bdb963833f2b057ff31-1.webp\" alt=\"Investments depending on the phase of the economic cycle\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Phases of the business cycle<\/p>\n<p><strong>Peak<\/strong> &#8211; the most favorable period of time, characterized by high business activity in all areas of activity, a minimum level of unemployment, low interest rates.<\/p>\n<p>Most industries on the market feel good and are growing, especially <strong>IT<\/strong>, <strong>consumer services<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Recession (or in other words &quot;recession&quot;)<\/strong> &#8211; a reduction in business activity, production volumes, an increase in unemployment over a period of three months. At this level, a transition to depression in the markets is predicted, enterprises begin to close.<\/p>\n<p>At this stage, it is advisable to start preparing for a crisis and acquire protective instruments, such as <strong>gold<\/strong> and <strong>the dollar, short-term bonds<\/strong> in order to have cash on the so-called sales on the market. Some shares are also classified as defensive by analysts, for example, <strong>Surgutneftegaz (preferred)<\/strong>, <strong>Next Era Energy<\/strong> (the company is engaged in the production of green energy).<\/p>\n<p><strong>The crisis<\/strong> is the bottom of the economic cycle, which characterizes the fall in the standard of living, GDP, the growth of refinancing rates.<\/p>\n<p>The crisis has a positive effect on industries that are essential for the population, such as <strong>health care<\/strong>, <strong>essential goods<\/strong> and <strong>utilities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that the period of crisis is the best time to enter the stock market for young people who have just completed their studies. And, on the contrary, the most unfavorable period of fixing positions on financial instruments.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Rise<\/strong> &#8211; the revival of business activity, the positive mood of the markets, the restoration of the level of the economy for the pre-crisis period and above. Refinancing rates are falling, which spurs production to increase activity.<\/p>\n<p>The industries that typically benefit the most from low interest rates are growing the most: <strong>finance<\/strong>, <strong>real estate<\/strong>.<br \/>\nAlso growing are industries that typically benefit from increased borrowing, including: <strong>automobiles<\/strong>, <strong>consumer goods.<\/strong><br \/>\nSensitive sectors such as <strong>industry<\/strong> and <strong>IT<\/strong> also have a positive impact .<br \/>\nAt the same time, industries that are waiting for the recovery of the economy are growing: <strong>transport<\/strong><br \/>\nLagging behind in the recovery phase are <strong>communications services<\/strong> and <strong>utilities<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Then the peak stage of the economy begins again. Markets swell and overheat, the economic cycle ends and a new one begins.<\/p>\n<p>The duration of one cycle rarely occurs at regular intervals, it can be either a short or a long period. Therefore, according to the duration, the cycles are divided into the following:<\/p>\n<p>1 Kitchin cycles (3\u20134 years old)<br \/>\n2 Zhuglyar cycles (6\u201313 years old)<br \/>\n3 Kuznets rhythms (15\u201320 years old)<br \/>\n4 Kondratiev waves (40\u201360 years old).<\/p>\n<p>Although business cycles are individual, an investment analysis approach that identifies key phases in the economy can provide guidance to investors when choosing investment vehicles.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The choice of instruments for investment is influenced by the stages of the economy.Historically, the market has undergone crisis states over time, when markets at a certain point&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":180519,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[910],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-252760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-investment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/finance.inform.click\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/finance.inform.click\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/finance.inform.click\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finance.inform.click\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finance.inform.click\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/finance.inform.click\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finance.inform.click\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/finance.inform.click\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finance.inform.click\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/finance.inform.click\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}