Share prices, many argue, adjust quickly to reflect new information, and new information cannot be predicted.
"The unexpectedness and the inability of people to adjust quickly caused problems, " says Huntington.
There will be some new winners among the retailers who can adjust quickly.
If such servers ran the Nasdaq stock market, for instance, they could instantly detect a sharp upsurge in stock trading, then adjust quickly to the higher demand.
But he is hopeful that the players will adjust quickly to the prevailing situation and ensure the country hold onto their leadership in Group Two of World Cup qualifying.
These costs stem from unexpected changes that require the company to adjust quickly, says Steven Tadelis, an Associate Professor at the University of California Berkeley Haas School of Business.
The sugar people complain that, although the price of ethanol rises and falls with world sugar demand, petrol prices in Brazil do not adjust quickly to changes in the oil price.
According to Ethan Harris, an economist at Lehman Brothers, the spread of profit-related pay and flexible working hours has enabled firms to adjust quickly to slowing demand with far fewer lay-offs than would have occurred in past downturns.
This background will enable you to adjust more quickly than if you were an outsider.
"We need to adjust as quickly as possible, " Grant told BBC Sport.
You can get out there and start learning and get engaged in the market quickly and adjust (and even get out) quickly if need be.
Secondly Zynga uses data and metrics on its large audience to adjust its games quickly.
All the actors with a stake in Libya should quickly adjust their expectations accordingly.
In theory businesses and workers should quickly adjust to a deflationary shock, by slashing their prices and wages.
It will need to be flexible, agile, able to quickly adjust to market developments, and ruthless in reallocating resources to new opportunities.
The camera also features full manual control options and an intuitive user interface, making it easy for photographers to adjust all settings quickly and easily.
This time, China, which has been accumulating these surpluses, now finds it cannot adjust its economy quickly enough to make up for the sharp decline in exports.
On the bright side, still photos are no longer over-sharpened and over-saturated as done by previous builds, although it would've been handy if we were able to use tap-to-focus to quickly adjust exposure, especially for outdoor shots.
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Some economists have argued that just-in-time methods of inventory control, which allow firms to adjust production more quickly to changes in sales, should help to prevent an unwanted build-up of stocks and so smooth out the economic cycle.
The question is how much and how quickly factors adjust to the tax.
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The technology market changes so quickly that any company which fails to adjust will get pushed out.
That allowed them to quickly reconfigure machines to more popular formats and adjust inventory.
He would also ease taxpayers into higher tax brackets more quickly by using a smaller measure of inflation to adjust the brackets.
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At the start of the season there were questions over how quickly Heggs' newly assembled squad would be able to adjust, but Appiah says they have had little trouble in recent weeks.
Because most American Bitcoin vendors automatically adjust their prices to the current dollar-Bitcoin exchange rate, Bitcoin-denominated prices would quickly fall to reflect the new, higher Bitcoin price.
For example, it greatly affects the ability of market participants to quickly determine their own positions and exposures, including exposures to key counterparties, and to adjust their positions as necessary.
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