They can also run what-if scenarios to see the impact of accepting a tender, for example.
"A very cumbersome, manual process is now very efficient, and we can do what-if scenarios for the first time, " says Alan S. Davis, a Southwest vice president.
Risk measurement entails complex correlation analyses and what-if scenarios, and there is a trend among financial services firms to outsource this work, says Morningstar analyst Swami Shanmugasundaram.
We'll have open discussion on potential trades, and a lot of them may be our own what-if scenarios, but we'll explore all avenues to try to better our roster, to increase the competition on our roster.
Since those what-if scenarios were never considered, and especially since it took so long for BP to identify a way to stop the leak, the green reputation BP tried to build over the years cracked and sunk along with the rig.
Frenzied headlines in newspapers -- and maps displaying a variety of "what-if" scenarios.
But Moser estimated that 6 million jobs could be created if certain scenarios, such as an increase in Chinese wages, continue.
"We think in the end, we'll be on the right side of the law and we will never get to the 'what-if' scenarios, " Smith said.
Broken patterns can be the most painful trading scenarios if you let them get out of control.
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Lin recommends taking some money out of risky assets if one of these scenarios becomes likely.
If you think these scenarios are futuristic, think about Twitter.
Choosing stocks from both sectors I think enables a portfolio to deliver good returns in a wider variety of future scenarios that if you invested solely in energy or telecom stocks.
The Fed each year gives banks hypothetical scenarios and determines if banks could withstand another crisis.
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If the economy avoids downside scenarios in the second half of the year, a PC upgrade cycle in 2013 should help to maintain this momentum.
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In a 401(k) world, investment risk is no longer borne by the employer, who has trained, professional money managers at his disposal to diversify, create a huge portfolio and do actuarial scenarios to see if the money in the pool will last a long time.
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It is Republican leaders in Tallahassee and Washington, not Democratic ones, who weave lurid scenarios of legislative intervention if they don't get their way.
Analytic leaders will conduct dozens, if not hundreds, of hypotheses and scenarios to improve the analytical intelligence of their organization.
But in all these scenarios, it seems as if there is an extremely small system that intends to learn a large amount, by trial and error.
These potential scenarios would be made immeasurably worse if Greece were to leave the euro.
If spending on defences remains limited, and the scenarios for sea-level rise through climate change prove correct, conservation of the marshes may acquire more urgency.
The bots have yet to be used in real-world scenarios, however we'd hope that if one fell into a crevice, another one would come to its rescue.
Equally worrying scenarios are predicted for freshwater ecosystems and coral reefs if currents levels of pollution are not reduced.
However, if you read my piece here last week on the possible scenarios going forward, you know it does not mean there will be no football.
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If mediocrity and maddening inconsistency have any benefit, it is that they produce scenarios nobody could have imagined.
Through elaborate scenarios, it can help managers imagine how their industry would evolve if they were not part of it.
"I am not thinking about all the different scenarios, I am just going out to race and to win if I can, " pledged Hamilton, who played it safe last time out by picking up six points in Singapore while Massa failed to score.
If mediocrity and maddening inconsistency have any benefits, it's that they produce scenarios nobody has ever imagined.
There are scenarios in which the companies might approve a potential buyer, for example if the buyer could provide certain strategic advantages or significant resources, one of the people said.
If you are willing to make some changes in the software you use on the device based on if you are using the convertible in laptop or tablet-mode, many usage scenarios will work very well.
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Because it is so important, both in the present and for the future, that we pursue this all-of-the-above approach to our energy challenges, because if we don't, we're going to see these kinds of scenarios year after year, where prices go up, politicians say, well, I've got a plan -- especially in an election year -- to lower the prices at the pump.
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