The headlines coming out of Russia these days are hardly likely to give investors confidence.
For the solar energy industry to truly mature, it needs a performance model that can offer investors confidence and predictability in their return on investment.
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The level of subsidy companies receive up to 2017 is secure, the MPs say - but longer-term clarity is needed in order to give investors confidence.
Second, a resolution of fiscal issues in the U.S. and Europe will give investors confidence to assume more risk pushing money back into the equity markets and out of Treasuries.
And we set up rules of the road that made the market work for everybody, and gave consumers confidence that they weren't going to be bilked, and gave investors confidence that if you're a small investor, you're not some insider, you still have a chance buying a stock.
The Dow's push above 15000 comes as investors' confidence in the economic recovery grows.
Signs of slowing growth and concerns about the outlook for Europe had checked investors' confidence.
Ultimately they will have to earn investors' confidence by performing consistently through this market downturn.
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That, however, will not be enough unless rates fall, which means that investors' confidence must rise.
With the fear of calamity diminished, a vicious cycle would become virtuous as investors' confidence recovered.
Just as corrosive to investors' confidence has been the bad news from the banking sector.
"The stock market is only one small measure of investors' confidence in a country, " contends the president.
This may prove to be the missing link that gives entrepreneurs more capability and investors more confidence.
His view is that as the market becomes more complex, that leads to abuses, and investors lose confidence.
"We must have - as investors - confidence that markets are functioning properly, " Mr Baker told the BBC.
The rule of law gives responsible entrepreneurs and investors the confidence to invest and create jobs in our nation.
The uncertainty caused by the muddle-through approach is draining investors' confidence and increasing the risk of a euro disaster.
That would not force Peru to suspend debt payments, but it would damage investors' confidence, already battered by political uncertainty.
And without a framework for common financing, investors' confidence will not return.
If investors lose confidence in a country's fiscal prospects, their fear can become self-fulfilling by pushing up bond yields to unsustainable levels.
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The second huge casualty of the past days is foreign investors' confidence.
Encouraging retail data for early holiday shopping could help to close the gap should investors gain confidence in a resurgence of retail spending.
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Insurance companies will have to do more than scoot out of equities, sell peripheral businesses and change bosses to win back investors' confidence.
Nevertheless, Wall Street's collective losses from the IPO, and the blow it dealt to investors' confidence, have colored the perception of Nasdaq's potential costs.
Too bad that among emerging-market investors, confidence is in short supply.
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Investors lose confidence when the markets do not function well.
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Still, investors' confidence may be tested by changeable trade data.
Investors' confidence can hardly have been enhanced by the performance of Moody's and other rating services as the Chinese begin to experience widespread effects from the global financial crisis.
And in a confused transaction that gives potential investors little confidence, the government leased land to Hutchison that was also needed by the Panama Railroad and the local airport authority.
The insider-trading probe is having "an overwhelmingly negative impact" on investors' confidence in stock markets, according to results of a survey published in January by investment- and markets-research firm TABB Group.
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