In periods of stress, knowing that others understand and support you makes all the difference.
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In periods of extreme stress, however, the quality of the financial infrastructure may prove critical.
In periods of heightened economic and political risk, investors demand higher risk premiums to hold stocks.
Find alternatives outside of stocks that tend to do better in periods of uncertainty.
The spread compensated them for the risk of being landed with unwanted inventory in periods of turbulence.
If these intermediaries are legislated to the sidelines they will be missed in periods of exceptional volatility.
However, the qualities that have served Australia so admirably when times were tough are less useful in periods of prosperity.
Maybe Ben Bernanke, student of liquidity in periods of deleveraging, will get room to make this desperate maneuver in 2010-11.
For borrowers such as these, the failure of the banks will not be measured in periods of a few dramatic months.
JPMorgan and the most recent Economist Buttonwood column emphasize that stocks have not really performed all the well in periods of rock-bottom interest rates.
By purchasing calls on the VIX, which rises in periods of market fear or decline, one can hedge long index, ETF, or stock positions.
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Gold typically performs well in periods of economic uncertainty, and while confidence is building in the recovery, major questions remain about reducing that debt and government spending.
This can't be ignored: History tells us that in periods of dollar weakness money tends to flow away from the innovative economy and into non-productive, hard assets.
Worse still, equities perform badly in periods of high inflation, and governments will need quite a lot of inflation if they are really to erode their debt burdens.
Like my COO friend, as I point to companies who have not only survived, but also thrived in periods of rapid change, the one common denominator is seldom a grand strategic vision.
Arsenal paid the price for their failure to take the chances they created in periods of domination at Stamford Bridge - and for their continuing inability to contain Drogba as Carlo Ancelotti's champions stretched out a four-point lead over their title rivals.
Moreover, the independent movement of global markets, which react to factors such as different domestic monetary and fiscal policy cycles, has historically provided considerable diversification benefits when held in combination with US investments (though correlations tend to converge on 1 in periods of financial crisis).
Up to 500 people were killed or disappeared during this time in Brazil, a far lower number than in shorter periods of military rule in neighbouring Argentina and Chile.
Within that 20% of the periods, about 1 in 4 (24%) of the thirty-year periods resulted in the retiree running out of money before the end of the period.
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But the wild swings common in previous periods of currency turbulence have been absent, until now.
Over the years, I have found Bollinger bands to be very helpful in identifying periods of low volatility.
As we have demonstrated in other periods of economic uncertainty at these levels we expect to maintain industry leading profitability.
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The pipeline system in certain keys areas became constrained, and in brief periods of crazy demand prices can go up by an order of magnitude.
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Circumventing that fact, as history has repeatedly shown (for instance, in past periods of economic growth despite high taxes), leads only to artificial booms canceled out by subsequent credit collapses.
The disorder is characterized by frequent episodes of overeating in a short periods of time.
War among the great powers was a common, if not constant, occurrence in the long periods of multipolarity from the 16th to the 18th centuries, culminating in the series of enormously destructive Europe-wide wars that followed the French Revolution and ended with Napoleon's defeat in 1815.
"The team in Norway spent long periods of time in specific sites to identify complete family groups, ensuring that none are left behind, " he said.
We remember the Bretton Woods era as one of the most successful and prosperous periods in all of U.S. history.
The Chicago Blackhawks chased the Los Angeles Kings' standout goalie during an impressive display in the opening two periods of a 4-2 victory Sunday night in Game 2 of the Western Conference finals.
We are again in one of those periods in which Americans doubt whether our economy can adjust prosperously to ever- increasing global competition.
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