investor confidence
Financial optimism level
Investor confidence is the degree to which investors feel optimistic about market conditions and willing to commit capital.
High confidence drives buying and risk-taking; low confidence triggers selling and flight to safer assets.
The term appears constantly in financial news as shorthand for market sentiment: The Fed's rate decision shook investor confidence.
Though it sounds measurable, it's largely a narrative device for explaining market movements after the fact.
- interest ratesPrice paid for borrowing
- bull runTwo Virginia battles
- fallDescend under gravity
- optimismTendency to expect good
- riseMove to higher position
trust · market stability · corporate governance · bear market · gain · transparency · inflation · bullishness · market indices · herd mentality · retail investors · market sentiment · stock market · economic forecasts · trading volume · doubt · fiduciary duty · credit rating
- reputationreputation, reputable, bad reputation, repute, disreputable
- bull marketstocks, rally, surge, gains, boom
- economicssupply and demand, inflation, GDP, GNP, gross domestic product
investor confidencerisk aversion
Preference for certainty
investor panic · market panic · panic selling · flight to safety · market jitters
investor confidencepanic selling
Fear-driven mass liquidation
market panic · investor panic · flight to safety · capital flight · financial panic