Bernanke also said there is "significant" risk that inflation could become a self-fulfilling prophecy if high headline inflation--which includes volatile energy and food prices--remains high, as people will simply come to expect higher prices.
"People who are investing in the fund understand that it is a high-risk, very volatile fund, " he said on the conference call.
Many of the issues that Ford says caught it by surprise--gas and commodity prices, for example--were high and volatile from the outset.
The Arizona home builder is long on Toronto high-rises at an unusually volatile time for real estate in Canada's biggest city.
Purely looking at the U.S. without the European drama, that is not a situation where you should have this rapid shift back to volatile, high-beta securities.
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Furthermore, it may well be hard for investors to spot the difference between a fund manager who is able to produce a high, but volatile, long-term return and one who is simply erratic and incompetent.
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And although high-frequency trading may make markets less volatile in normal times, it may add to the turbulence at the worst possible moment.
In America, low-tax Nevada is among those trying to lure businesses away from high-tax California (where tax revenues have been extremely volatile).
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In April, headline consumer prices rose by 0.7%, a near-nine-year high, while core inflation, which excludes the volatile categories of food and energy, rose 0.4%, or 2.2% compared with a year earlier.
He says he doesn't have much faith in the current rally because the year's best performers have been health-care and consumer-staple stocks that tend to pay high dividends and are less volatile than the broader market.
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In addition, a recent effort is under way to make use of the many PCIe-based interfaces that are developing as a consequence of the high speed data transfers that are possible using flash memory and future non-volatile memory devices.
Investors who are worried, or who are at a stage in their lives when they simply can't handle another downturn, can always reduce their exposure by selling some of their stocks and mutual funds, or by switching from more-volatile stocks, such as small and midsize companies, to high-quality large-capitalization companies.
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Trading businesses exhibit high reliance on short-term wholesale funding and to varying degrees what Fitch views as more volatile earnings than commercial banking, and with more opaque risk.
There was an all day program on their plans to develop open source programming tools and general standards to make use of the high speed, low latency and other special characteristics of current and future generations of non-volatile solid state storage.
High-profile style bloggers are enjoying a newfound fame these days that's particularly timely considering the volatile stock market and tepid economic recovery.
The technique works by focusing high-powered microwaves on plant-based material, transforming the tough cellulose molecules of the plant matter into volatile gases.
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With markets volatile and corporations scaling back defined-benefit pension plans, those in or near retirement are paying high fees to transform plain old variable annuities into a source of guaranteed income for life.
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