More diversified and hedged energy companies like ExxonMobil are better able to withstand such a problem.
This company is more diversified as it builds single-family detached homes and condos in 28 states.
The new firms are mostly smaller and are certainly more diversified than in the past.
Immelt has spent the past decade trying to make GE industrial businesses more diversified and less volatile.
"However, it is possible that actual policies are more nuanced or more diversified in their impact, " she said.
That changed the nature of the business from primarily an oil sands operation to a more diversified company.
MLPs each have their own areas of specialization, though some are more diversified.
Large funds tend to be more diversified across exposures to security types, market sectors, investment regions, counterparties and service providers.
Nobody expects that to change, and transmission companies in the Southwest tend to sell at a discount to more diversified utilities.
But until Africa's economies become more diversified, they will be over-exposed to changeable weather, fickle aid flows and volatile commodity prices.
Sharkansky had sold his Internet software company in 1995 and signed up with an online broker, but wanted to be more diversified.
High risk does not always equal high returns, and according to a report by Vanguard, women tend to hold more diversified portfolios.
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With portfolios that are more explicitly defense-oriented than Boeing, both Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman have outperformed their larger, more diversified rival.
Pooling maximizes returns for all participants by allowing managers to invest in a more diversified portfolio and over a longer investment horizon.
Yes, say both resident goldbugs and more diversified gurus tracking the metal.
Also, once you reach a certain size, you develop more sophisticated management systems that can support even larger and more diversified operations.
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Very few of Africa's economies have been able to transform themselves from colonial-era mineral extraction and agriculture to a more diversified industrial base.
This process has not only made banks more diversified and stable, but it has also allowed them to strip out masses of overlapping costs.
This may be why, in some parts of the world, conglomerates are becoming even more diversified: witness Samsung Electronics, which is moving into pharmaceuticals.
The same forces that have pushed financial firms to grow bigger and more diversified are also raising the level of competition in the industry.
The 300 Delegates are more diversified and evenly balanced among foundation trustees and executives, social investors, innovative nonprofit leaders, policy thought leaders and social entrepreneurs.
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This has allowed us to realize a more diversified revenue stream.
Our cooperation with the U.S.A. is growing stronger and more diversified.
Its focus on the mass consumer market fits with DBS's goal of becoming a leading Asian bank with a more diversified revenue mix across some markets.
Recently they have selectively introduced in Germany some fancy foods like lox, lobsters, champagne and other gourmet items in order to attract a more diversified clientele.
The state pension fund now holds 19 hedge funds, but these were all specifically chosen to create a broader more diversified total portfolio with less total risk.
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Dell remains a better gauge of the health of U.S. corporate technology spending than its bigger, more diversified competitor Hewlett-Packard, which beat earnings expectations earlier this month.
Its larger peers can take comfort in being more diversified, but they too are largely at the mercy of short-term funding markets and the confidence of counterparties.
Allen has been selling off shares of the software maker he started with Bill Gates and investing in a more diversified basket of media, energy and tech stocks.
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