By contrast, the test can also identify those with a smaller than average risk of developing the cancers.
The report also predicted an above-average risk of a major hurricane landfall in the Caribbean and in the Bahamas.
So even in the most favorable scenario, Facebook investors would still have above average risk with a very average return.
The average risk of breast cancer death for an American woman has declined by 30 percent from 1990 to 2007.
The current recommendation for people at average risk of colon cancer is to get regular screening tests starting at age 50.
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The Investment Company Institute found that a smaller percentage of investors under 35 were willing to take above-average risk compared to those age 35-49.
Dr. Robin Morgan, a clinical psychologist and a professor at Indiana University, has discovered that professors, in general, face a higher than average risk of being stalked.
Burglary was down, by 10%, vehicle crime fell by 17%, but the survey shows that residents are exposed to a significantly higher than average risk of household crime.
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The average risk premium on the country's bonds has fallen from a peak of 18 percentage points above the interest rate on United States' Treasury bonds to below six.
For some women, however, the ACS says the jury is still out on whether MRI screening is beneficial, even though they have conditions that do give them a higher-than-average risk of breast cancer.
Table 3 below provides a summary of the annualized standard deviation and returns for each asset class, the weighted average risk and return and the total portfolio risk and return from January 1979 through December 2009.
While a correction to below the average leaves risk, an adverse change in macro is required to take shares to these levels.
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Because the government subsidies to purchasers of health insurance in the small-group market are significantly smaller than those in the individual market, I estimate that another 10 million people, the approximately two-thirds of the market that is low- or average-risk, will see higher insurance bills for 2014.
This seems logical enough: women are indeed, on average, more risk averse than men on average.
The 2005-2010 average difference in risk premiums is 386 bp and the February 10 differential is 264 bp.
The average tier one risk-based capital ratio for U.S. commercial banks at the end of 2009 was 11.43%, according to SNL Financial.
For the Dow Industrial average I show risk to my semiannual and annual pivots at 10, 558 and 10, 379 for the Dow by the end of the year.
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In addition, the team said, there is an above-average major hurricane landfall risk in the Caribbean.
If a doctor determines the overall risk is average or below average, the medical community is divided about the virtues of additional imaging such as sonograms.
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The results were somewhat startling: For every hour of TV the kids watched on an average weeknight, their risk of criminal convictions increased by almost 30%.
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Average participation in completing health risk assessments is 46% with incentives versus 19% without.
Since they saw stock and bond prices as largely random variations from the average, they saw the risk to their portfolios as relatively low.
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If business travelers are more at risk than the average traveler, it is because they are less likely to take the necessary precautions, Kozarsky says.
The federal government and the egg industry agree that about one in 20, 000 eggs is actually contaminated: a figure that would put the average egg-eater at risk only once every 50 years.
Of course some investors make a killing, but on average hedge funds have underperformed even risk-free Treasury bills.
While you may not get the perfect average price, we believe the risk-reward ratio is much more favorable when you wait for consolidation set-ups occur.
Diversification, attention to debt levels, and being aware of the risks in each individual stock will help build a portfolio that pays an above-average dividend yield but also mitigates risk.
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