On the basis that there's a link between confidence and risk-taking, a speeding index, also because people are in a greater hurry when there's business to be done.
Paul Han, a physician at the Maine Medical Center Research Institute, said telling patients about a confidence interval in risk data introduces ambiguity that prompts many to decide not to make a decision or to decide against a proposed intervention.
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The uncertainty caused by the muddle-through approach is draining investors' confidence and increasing the risk of a euro disaster.
But their confidence and appetite for risk when the markets are falling?
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It takes fearless self confidence to take the risk that our humility will be mistaken for diffidence or a deficiency in competitive fire.
While many Conservatives claim that more borrowing would risk market confidence in the government's economic strategy, Mr Cable says "nobody knows how the markets might respond".
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Second, a resolution of fiscal issues in the U.S. and Europe will give investors confidence to assume more risk pushing money back into the equity markets and out of Treasuries.
From the other side, supporters of the shift to austerity believe it is both essential and appropriate: deficit spending cannot go on for ever, and by boosting firms' and households' confidence and lowering the risk premium on government debt, well-designed fiscal consolidation can actually boost growth.
Without seller ratings that are trustworthy and valid reputations hard earned, we risk damaging consumer confidence.
To keep investors on board, China will have to play by the rules or risk losing investor confidence.
There is a "genuine risk to public confidence" over the way statistics are handled, a group of MPs is warning.
The disparities in data transmissions that Rule 603(a) prohibits can have important consequences that risk undermining investor confidence and interfering with the efficiency of the markets.
And yet, the US space agency has high confidence that the high-risk descent strategy its engineers have devised will deliver an intact vehicle to the surface.
Ongoing high costs are pushing insurance carriers to make better use of capital, but, to do that, they typically want more confidence about their exposure to risk.
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Even before Mr Obama took office, therefore, there was a risk that investor confidence would vanish in the face of a messy transition to an untested president.
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Global markets were shaken out of complacency on Monday as a new episode in the European sovereign debt crisis took a hit at confidence and the reigning positive risk-sentiment of the past few weeks.
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Quoting the FSA report, Mr Osborne said that in failing to observe "proper standards of market conduct", Barclays created the risk that "confidence in, or the stability of, the UK financial system would be threatened".
You have to have the confidence in the big picture or risk losing talent.
Even if a stronger dollar is needed, the Fed cannot risk a collapse of confidence on Wall Street.
During an early, low-risk answer, the confidence could be lower the rising stakes increases the need for greater confidence.
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We seek to strengthen market discipline, mitigate systemic risk, enhance investor confidence and market stability, as well as facilitate stable economic growth.
"While we are in a difficult transition period as markets reassess and re-price risk, I have confidence in our markets, " says Paulson.
Without realistic testing, we can only introduce changes in the components or designs of existing weapons at the risk of further degrading confidence they will work.
But there is a risk that, as confidence in Windows 2000 grows, Sun could find itself pushed out of all but the most sophisticated bits of the market.
"We concluded that we could not broadcast a free-standing appeal, no matter how carefully constructed, without running the risk of reducing public confidence in the BBC's impartiality in its wider coverage of the story, " he wrote Saturday.
Last week, Mr Abbas was warned that should he risk a parliamentary vote of confidence in his government, he would probably lose.
Analysts have welcomed the IMF loan as a vote of confidence in Brazil which would cut the risk of contagion from neighbouring Argentina's economic problems.
Mr Sharif's readiness to take the risk reflects his self-confidence.
The GMC found that Dr Abdullah did not pose a risk to patients and that confidence in the profession had not been undermined as a result of her actions.
Initially the bill did not define a confidence motion and, to avoid the risk of a legal challenge, it was left for the Speaker to "certify" what the Commons had decided.
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