Kleinschmidt, a self-proclaimed contrarian investor, thinks Wall Street focuses too much on the short term.
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One reason may be accounting changes which make pension-fund managers more focused on the short term.
The Spurs aren't gambling on the short term or clamoring for attention or crowding the couch on Letterman.
It is currently is not providing much insight on the short term trend.
By focusing on the short term, the chance to build a long-lasting infrastructure to benefit the whole country has been missed.
Private equity boss Garry Wilson echoed his concerns, saying that the levels of executive pay showed companies were "focussing yet again on the short term".
Unfortunately, our political leaders tend to focus on the short term (their next election) and avoid the long term (when they will no longer be in office).
Over a period of almost 20 years, banking became too aggressive, too focused on the short term, too disconnected from the needs of our customers and clients, and wider society.
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It was difficult to convince shareholders that change was needed when the firm seemed healthy, particularly in a country where investors focus on the short term and firms have to report earnings every month.
Executives came to use measures of efficiency that focused on the short term, investing in quick wins in sustaining and efficiency innovations instead of funding empowering innovations that pay off in five years, or often even longer.
Say what you wish about Barack Obama, but the man is a subtle thinker who is more focused on the long-term benefits of a decision than he is on the short-term gratification that drives most of our politicians.
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It drives short-term interest rates lower allowing banks to borrow low on the short-term end of the yield curve, and lend high on the long end.
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Furthermore, we think that the market is too focused on the short-term synergies of the merger and has not priced in the long-term benefits.
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The oil trajectory that actually occurs will depend critically both on the short-term evolution of the Loop Current, which feeds into the Gulf Stream, and on the state of the overlying atmosphere.
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But shareholder support group ShareSoc urged Faroe stakeholders to vote against the scheme, claiming it would encourage a focus on the short-term share price instead of the fundamental strength of the business.
On the other hand, private-equity firms, with their long-term perspective, have no obvious claim on the short-term trading skills needed to succeed in the hedge-fund business.
These stark realities have prompted some would-be mediators to worry less about Kosovo's long-term constitutional status and to focus instead on the short-term goal of securing a ceasefire, ideally with dividing lines clear enough for peacekeepers to monitor.
There are articles that provide advice on which investments will be hot depending on who wins the election, so if you are focused on the short-term for your investing, you might want to look for suggestions about what to invest in under a Democratic presidency, but you may not need to.
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But in the short term, the way the Symbian porftolio is being mishandled may have the most profound impact on the company in the short term.
What happens in these cases is that the entrepreneur begins to focus solely on the short-term.
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They will take on the short-term costs of raising their homes or the long-term risk of another devastating storm.
Interest rates, particularly on the short-term side, will go down further.
Investors are more focused on the short-term problems in Europe and a slowing economy in the US. European equity markets closed around 3% lower on average, with Germany down 10% in a week.
We are all impatient with the slow job growth associated with the sluggish recovery, but the proper policy responses are appropriate monetary and fiscal policies, not regulatory interference based on the short-term job count.
But to go back to your question, yes, this will be primarily focused on the short-term need to take measures to grow the economy and create jobs, which is what the current economic situation calls for.
On the short-term list, we already, for example, passed a historic public lands bill that creates many more acres of public space that is environmentally protected -- (applause) -- from logging and from other -- from mining and from other uses.
Game-changing innovation thus lies outside the performance envelope of firms built on hierarchical bureaucracy where the top is focused on short-term gains and the stock price.
Analysis of the news and trade data from yesterday has not changed the potential short position on BlackBerry and continuation of the short-term long trade on Apple.
So these are thought-through proposals that we believe, and we believe others will analyze, have direct positive impact on the economy and on jobs in the short term.
The near- and intermediate-term technical trends are bearish, but the market is overextended on the downside in the very short term, which leaves gold vulnerable to near-term consolidation and or modest upside correction.
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