Firms investing in industries or countries whose economic cycles are highly correlated may lower the overall volatility in their consolidated earnings and cash flows.
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Investors in segmented markets will bear a lower level of risk by holding a disproportionately large share of their investments in their local market as opposed to the level of risk if they invested in a globally diversified portfolio.
Arbitrage should drive the prices in different markets to be the same, as investors sell those assets that are undervalued to buy those that are overvalued.
Like globally integrated capital markets, segmented capital markets exhibit different bond and equity prices in different geographic areas for different assets in terms of risk and maturity.
Factors contributing to the integration of global capital markets include the reduction in trade barriers, removal of capital controls, the growing disparity in tax rates among countries, floating exchange rates, and the free convertibility of currencies.