The greatest risk in the carry trade, however, is a sudden increase in long term interest rates.
The system gave utilities an incentive to spend money on scrubbers to reduce emissions without exposing ratepayers to a sudden increase in electricity costs.
But of course, it stresses, all such guidelines would be discarded in the event of war or even a sudden increase in peacekeeping demands on more than one front.
The most persuasive evidence that Voyager 1 has crossed the termination shock is its measurement of a sudden increase in the strength of the magnetic field carried by the solar wind, combined with an inferred decrease in its speed.
Regulation (such as the robo-signing sparked foreclosure moratorium) has helped to slow distressed sales, while vast number of underwater mortgages and size of the shadow inventory suggests housing markets can face a sudden increase in the number of distressed properties.
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Also, mortgages have a duration (a calculation of the time it takes to get paid back) that is a variable, hypothetical duration that varies with prepayment speeds, so a short duration mortgage portfolio is not protection against a sudden increase in interest rates, because if interest rates rise the duration will rise which hurts the value of the bond.
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Unfortunately, the execution has been handicapped in the U.K., where a sudden tax increase and a ban on smoking in the past year have hurt Genting International, which includes the group's casinos outside of Malaysia.
Separately, Bloomberg reports that the Maestro himself, Alan Greenspan, is so concerned about a sudden sharp increase in interest rates that every day he checks the rate of the 10-year note and 30-year bond calling them the critical Achilles heel of the economy.
The emergence of high-definition video formats could also provide a new market for the technology, as television-production companies and broadcasters grapple with a sudden and dramatic increase in their storage requirements.
If a sudden spike triggers an increase in production and one supplier is unable to keep pace, another can quickly be brought online.
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It does not make sense that in August, all of a sudden we saw the volatility increase in equities because of these leveraged ETFs.
When asked to explain his sudden increase in wealth at a press conference soon after our annual billionaire rankings were published, he reportedly said, "The stock market goes up ... and down, " and noted that his fortune could quickly drop.
It can be caused by a number of factors, including a rapid increase in the frequency of training, sudden increase in the intensity of training, transition from one training method to another, genetic abnormalities of the knee joint and poor base strength of the quadriceps.
Cotton is a key input material for apparel retailers like Aeropostale and its sudden increase has led to margin compression.
Research has show that second-hand smoke can increase the risk of a range of conditions, including sudden infant death syndrome and asthma, as well as impairing lung function.
But, it was the sudden increase in visits by Millennial women that baffled Build-A-Bear staffers.
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The group (whose UK co-chair is the former Defence and Foreign Secretary Sir Malcolm Rifkind) also argues that removing them from combat bases would greatly increase early warning and decision time, and therefore reduce any remaining concern of a sudden nuclear attack.
This is key because if you carry a balance on a business card you could all of a sudden find yourself having to make higher monthly credit card payments simply because your credit card company suddenly chose to increase profitability with a surprise interest rate adjustment.
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