It was no surprise to see the AUD wobble, despite global risk on the uptick.
Finally, another factor, which will be key for the Treasury market in 2012, is so-called global risk appetite.
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Their Global Risk Assessment Indicator (GRAI) shows strong convinction for a broad market decline in the days ahead.
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Even with global risk sentiment becoming less of an issue, dollar and yen rate differentials are expected to favor the greenback.
The next couple of weeks could make it or break it for the European Union and for the global risk rally.
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Global Risk Strategies was a two-man team until the invasion of Afghanistan.
We know all this because Accenture recently completed a global risk management study, for which we contacted nearly 400 risk professionals across 10 industries.
And in the U.S., the extended and unresolved fiscal crisis and now the debt ceiling will impact global risk appetite for corporate and portfolio investors.
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Hardest hit by global risk aversion are countries with external deficits.
Mitsui has a larger appetite for global risk than many other Japanese real-estate companies, partly because, unlike others, it didn't abandon these markets in the 1990s.
The project was supported by the United Nations Development Programme, whose primary focus is poverty, and Swiss Re, a reinsurance giant devoted to managing global risk.
As the founder of the Monthly Barometer and the Global Risk Network at the World Economic Forum, Thierry has made a career out of connecting dots.
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The integration of in-depth global risk analysis, traveler tracking, and real time incident alerts can provide predictive intelligence to management and those responsible for the safety and security of employees.
The World Economic Forum probably did not achieve its goal of catalysing a full, global risk response mechanism but relationships and shared intents have been forged that will begin the journey.
We recently completed a global risk analytics study, capturing insights from over 450 analytics professionals in three industries (including the chemicals industry) to see how companies are using analytics to tackle industry challenges and market volatility.
Finally, another bout of higher global risk aversion or unexpectedly rapid increases in U.S. interest rates could lead to a sharp reversal in capital flows, although the experience during the recent turmoil in the euro area periphery suggests that such disruptions are unlikely to be overwhelming.
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All this may indicate that global systemic risk is now coming to the fore, as well it should.
At the direction of Congress, we have established the Office of Global Security Risk within the Division of Corporation Finance.
"China has powerful controls over content going out and coming in at every gateway, " says Jody Westby, chief executive of security consultancy Global Cyber Risk.
If, as seems likely, the Global Security Risk Monitor becomes an emerging hot issue as Nell Minow predicts, at a minimum it'll embarrass some major U.S. companies.
Leveraging the SEC's Office of Global Security Risk and its special mandate would likely get the attention of those firms with a significant footprint in the United States.
States like Arizona, Connecticut, Pennsylvania and Florida are also reportedly at various stages -- legislative or otherwise -- of requiring greater disclosure and reporting of global security risk exposure.
CSAG's impartial Global Security Risk Monitor was the research tool utilized in 2004 by the Center for Security Policy to evaluate the portfolios of public pension funds across America.
This office works closely with our Division review staff to monitor whether the documents public companies file with the SEC include disclosure of material information regarding global security risk-related issues.
The new database, called the Global Security Risk Monitor, coupled with possible new legislation, could over time begin to knock the share prices of companies that do business with unsavoury regimes.
The SEC determined as early as May 2001 that publicly-traded firms that have business operations in U.S.-sanctioned countries, such as Iran, are exposed to asymmetric global security risk, even though such activities are legal.
In addition to emphasizing the relevance of such business activity to federal procurement decisions, this process might, at minimum, urge the establishment of global security risk management programs, much like export controls already in force.
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