Peter Mandelson Quotes

Markets don't like instability, investors shy away from uncertainty, and consumer confidence goes down in difficult times.

As discomfiting as it is to both market optimists and policy activists, a certain amount of instability is inherent to the economy.

There is no safe haven in today's markets.

The reality is that financial markets are self-destabilizing; occasionally they tend toward disequilibrium, not equilibrium.

As long as there's political uncertainty around the energy space, stock prices will come down.

Listen to market strategists, and a word that comes up a lot these days is 'volatility.'

The consumer is going through a period around the world of uncertainty - whether geopolitical uncertainty, economic uncertainty - and that makes them a little nervous as well.

Uncertainty is bad for business.

Anything can happen anytime in markets. And no advisor, economist, or TV commentator-and definitely not Charlie nor I-can tell you when chaos will occur. Market forecasters will fill your ear but will never fill your wallet.

The Mexican debt crisis, Latin American debt crisis, the crises of the 1990s, the Wall Street stock market crash, and other events should have reminded us, and did remind us, that financial instability remains a concern, remains a problem.

We live in an age of great jitteriness in the financial markets. And there's no doubt at all, I think, that the volume of computer-traded stocks has helped contribute to that.

We are facing extreme volatility.

I put forward a pretty general theory that financial markets are intrinsically unstable. That we really have a false picture when we think about markets tending towards equilibrium.

Investors don't like uncertainty.

Uncertainty is killing this economy.

I would say that financial markets are very inefficient, and capable of extremes of being completely dysfunctional.

Around the district, I've talked to more local bankers who are scared to death.

Unregulated derivatives like credit default swaps threaten our regulated markets, or indeed our economy without any Federal agency knowing about it.

Markets shouldn't be moving in a straight line.

Some things never change - there will be another crisis, and its impact will be felt by the financial markets.

The lack of a consistent policy from major economies is the main source of volatility.

There is little room for complacency, and it is important to guard against sporadic volatility in financial markets.

Calling bitcoin volatile - it's a non-statement. Unregulated assets with unclear regulatory landscapes are always going to be volatile. That's what unregulated assets do.

In nine companies out of ten the factor of fluctuation has been a more dominant and important consideration in the matter of investment than has the factor of long-term growth or decline

Market risk is like taking a plunge into a cool pool ... a lot of people are finding out right now what their risk tolerance is.