What are the risks associated with trading stocks?
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What kind of risks do investments carry, and what is the best way to implement risk management?
Andia Rispah Igobwa
Wednesday, November 10, 2021
All stocks face the following five major risks.
- Commodity Price Risk: Commodity price risk is the chance that a change in commodity prices will negatively impact a company. When commodities prices rise, companies that trade them benefit, but those that rely on them financially suffer.
- Headline Risk: The risk of news stories harming a firm's business is known as headline risk. No company is immune to headline risk, with the constant deluge of news pouring over the globe.
- Rating Risk: When a business is assigned a target score or position, the danger of loss occurs. Every business has a vital number in terms of its credit rating.
- Obsolescence Risk: The risk of obsolescence is the prospect that a company's business will become extinct. Very few companies survive to 100 years old, and none of them do so by sticking to the same operations they had at the outset.
- Detection Risk: The risk that the auditor, compliance program, regulator, or other authority will miss the bodies hidden in the backyard until too late is known as detection failure.
- Legislative Risk: The tentative connection between government and business is known as legislative risk.
- Inflationary Risk and Interest Rate Risk: These two risks can be independent or linked. In this case, interest rate risk refers to the difficulties that a rising interest rate causes for firms needing money.
- Model Risk: The risk that the underlying assumptions of economic and company models in the economy are incorrect is called model risk. When models go wrong, companies that rely on them being correct to suffer.
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