More than 100, 000 have five or more numbers, and according to consumer risk-management firm ID Analytics, only 15-20% of those cases are related to fraud.
Undercooked food also leaves the consumer at risk of infection.
But they are a good indicator of a company's ability to assess consumer creditworthiness and risk.
The consumer's risk is reduced because it is distributed over many sites, and the sites get a proportional cut of the subscriptions.
Without seller ratings that are trustworthy and valid reputations hard earned, we risk damaging consumer confidence.
Tightening labor markets, and rising global energy and food prices, pose a risk to consumer price stability.
In some industries, like the consumer-reliant retail sector, the default risk is directly tied to reduced consumer spending.
To maintain that momentum, Google will need to address the Android security flaws or risk losing consumer trust.
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Luigi Speranza, an economist at BNP Paribas, called the data "bad news" and went on to say that "future consumer demand is at risk".
Becoming a Benefit Corporation builds on that foundation of trust, and it mitigates the risk of consumer-fan (not to mention employee) disappointment and desertion post-sale.
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This is another consumer-oriented, risk-free buying opportunity.
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"There's not a huge risk for the consumer except to maybe have to cancel a credit card, " he said.
Yabuki is pushing his quants to come up with a more accurate system for assessing the risk of one consumer compared with another.
While utilities, industrials, technology and telecomm are indicating strength, for a broad sector bet, consumer staples and consumer discretionary may offer less risk.
In much of the world outside America, the risk of falling consumer prices (ie, deflation) is at its greatest since the 1930s (see article) .
These are that eating a diet which is low in fat and high in starch reduces the risk to the consumer of developing heart disease and cancer, and also promotes weight loss.
In the wake of the financial crisis, some say the market is now too free - that we give too much power to the consumer, and pile too much risk onto the individual.
Thanks to easily available credit, these may have replaced consumer-price surges as the main risk of excessively loose monetary supply.
Charlie Cole, VP Online Marketing at Lucky Brand, illustrates the importance of respecting your consumer relationship by being careful not to risk a long-term relationship by overly pushing short-term sales opportunities.
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After the world's economic powers meet at several summits in the coming weeks, they're more likely to issue a broad set of principles about risk management, oversight and consumer protection than to make sweeping regulatory suggestions.
Through the market for mortgage-backed securities, bad practices in the consumer financial market put our entire system at risk.
In the state-federal partnership model, the federal government will operate everything from consumer eligibility and enrollment to financial management and risk corridors.
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Additionally, eBay pointed to Bill Me Later's credit risk analysis, which has outperformed the consumer credit industry average.
This strategy has become essential in order to diversify the risk arising from economic uncertainty and changing consumer behavior.
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This means that vendors typically ship big during the quarter, which raises the risk of a sudden inventory spike if consumer demand weakens.
The government also gets new authority to take over and unwind foundering companies deemed a systemic risk, and new authority to monitor consumer protections.
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Under the auspices of the Financial Stability Board, more than 30 recommendations have been set out as part of a massive and far-reaching G-20 financial regulatory reform package to ostensibly minimize risk in the financial system and maximize consumer protection.
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The resulting publications would then reflect the independent findings, effacing risk of bias (and possibly building up consumer trust).
The rise of consumer gadgets such as smartphones and tablets also carries the risk of introducing unknown security holes inside corporate networks.
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