The Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) said the aircraft, by modern standards, had "low stability and power margins and poor flight instrumentation".
The main attractions are low taxes, stability and a reputation for discretion.
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The financial world craves the stability of low debt encumbered countries no matter how small.
However, Microsoft is said to be interested, as are a number of other companies, attracted by Malaysia's high growth, low cost, political stability and strategic location.
The benefits of price stability, low and stable interest rates, an increase in high paying jobs and the spread of prosperity would redound to the benefit of all.
Speaking to the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee on 4 October 2011 he said that economic and monetary union had provided stability and low inflation for over a decade.
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The euro has certainly delivered price stability - with low inflation in much of the 11-country eurozone.
Our budget deficit is very low, our foreign debt is very low, and our financial stability is great.
In addition to low fiscal debt and political stability, the country's exports grew 17% in 2011 compared with a year earlier.
Thanks to the dollar's stability, liquidity and low transaction costs, the U.S. has an edge in attracting capital inflows to finance the current account deficit.
As emerging economies push the prices of commodities up and those of manufactured goods down, consumer-price inflation is no longer a reflection of domestic monetary conditions, nor is low inflation a guarantor of economic stability.
Dr Wilson suspects that the liberal package of individualism and confrontation is the appropriate response to survival in a stable environment in which there is leisure for learning and reflection, and the consequences for a group's stability of such dissent are low.
The European economists say that inflation has become less persistent over time, as monetary policy has become concentrated on price stability and on keeping inflationary expectations low.
He said that Labour's ambition for a second term was to entrench a long-term culture of stability in the economy, with low inflation and stable growth the priority.
The ready availability of money, low interest rates, the imbalance, confidence in price stability, confidence in a strong dollar--all that contributed to the excesses and the imbalances to set the stage for these unfortunate events.
And sustained low interest rates and QE can themselves create distortions and financial stability risks.
The fund suggests the low volatility of recent years may be owing to greater economic stability, improved central-bank credibility or the better dispersion of risks around the financial system.
Markets fell hard and wide Tuesday, as a combination of bad news and low volume reminded Wall Street of the uncertainty plaguing investors, despite the relative stability of the past few days.
The government-engineered stability helped the economy grow 8% year after year on the back of low-cost exports.
With monetary stability assured by the gold standard system, bond yields fell everywhere to very low levels.
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Just as Asia's interests are better served by stronger demand in Japan than by a policy to defend the yen, so they are better served by economic stability in the United States than by a concern to keep American interest rates low.
In a semiannual report to Congress, Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke told politicians that commodity-price inflation, and oil prices more specifically, could pose a threat to economic growth and price stability if sustained at high levels, while at the same time reassuring markets and politicians that inflation remained low and expectations stable.
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