When investors are uncertain (risk-averse), they have a preference for holding cash and the price of shares falls.
Now, we may have a preference for higher incomes for working people, but this is an entirely separate issue.
We adjusted after a few days and didn't have a preference for either the old or new design in that respect.
The results of these studies have led researchers to believe that the monkeys have a preference for symmetry just as humans do.
"Since 1999 we have seen a preference for bilateral relations between ministers and officials, " he said.
People who go to Princeton or another elite university have a revealed preference for education and intellectual development.
Somewhat surprisingly, Larson says that more than half of buyers have shown a preference for the more expensive Pro version.
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When trading up from features phones to smartphones Americans have a slight preference for Windows over the iOS or Android.
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Employees have a clear preference for Dropbox with 87% of IT pros stating this is the vendor their employees are using on their own.
People like apps, and have a vast preference for using apps.
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Students with lower-than-average SAT scores tended to have a stronger preference for schools known for athletic success, while students with higher SAT scores preferred institutions with greater academic quality.
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Or she could make a portfolio sale to a large scale institution like TIAA-Cref or an endowment like Harvard, which are known to have a modest preference for farmland.
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But Americans have a strong preference for divided government.
And Internet banks have discovered that customers have a stubbornly persistent preference for buying long-term savings products face-to-face.
Options players have shown a stubborn preference for calls on BTU, as well.
Private employers have such a strong preference for foreigners that many resort to creating pretend jobs for Saudis to meet increasingly tough quotas.
Instead of advertising, many Chinese production companies have shown a strong preference for product placement in TV programs, movies and online videos.
Part of Rio's problem is that voters have long shown a preference for charm over administrative skills when it comes to choosing their politicians.
The RWCL board have indicated a strong preference for all future World Cups to be staged in just one country "unless compelling reasons can be presented".
Researchers have seen signs of a similar brain preference for sweet and fatty foods in humans.
Forecasts of a shortage of skilled and unskilled workers had led to an international recruiting drive, but have more recently given way to a preference for local labor.
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Of those who have expressed a preference, roughly 47% are going for each candidate and the rest are undecided.
The presumption in most quarters seems to be that the Russian military, its supporting industrial complex and the intelligence community have backed Yeltsin over the parliament out of a preference for democracy and free market reform with which the President has generally been associated.
The United States and Britain, while expressing a preference for a diplomatic solution, have already threatened the use of military action.
Brady did allow that his district's preference for Obama would have what he called "a major influence" on his vote as a superdelegate.
Ralph Rosenberg, head of the real-estate group, has a preference for shopping beyond major metro areas where prices have been getting quite high.
With lightning-fast deadlines and a preference for putting matters before a jury, the judges there have created a patent plaintiff's paradise.
America's ambassador and its secretary of commerce, Carlos Gutierrez, have both said that a victory for Mr Ortega would be bad for Nicaragua and made clear their preference for Mr Montealegre.
There have been instances of poor oversight, for example, of its preference programs intended to carve out a percentage of federal contracts for small and disadvantaged businesses.
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