But the actual trajectory of public support in the campaign was not volatile at all.
This is because the biggest impediment to a global capital market is not volatile exchange rates, nor timid investors, nor even the present Asian crisis.
Not so volatile that finance secretary John Swinney has gone off the idea of getting power over it, of course.
Not unless their volatile ownership situations stabilize pretty soon.
Mario Balotelli is young (22), volatile and not exactly a paragon of consistency and discipline.
If global stocks look to be starting a new bear market, you do not want to own volatile Turkish stocks.
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Problem is, the value on the partnership, which is privately held and completely illiquid, can be extremely volatile and not nearly as safe as promised.
Unusually for a major bank, RBS has virtually zero exposure to Latin America and Asia, and Goodwin says that he's still not attracted to those volatile markets.
The challenges of working in the volatile region would not be new to 75-year-old former Democratic senator from Maine.
While he is taking on a company that has established itself as a major global player, there is growing uncertainty about the times ahead, not least due to a volatile economic environment.
Most people see this as an inevitable and not particularly disturbing fact of our volatile age.
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These periods of calm cannot go on forever especially, not if they belong to a volatile stock.
But it is so volatile that this is not proper accumulation either way.
This gives it an edge over conventional mining companies as it does not incur any operational losses in volatile market conditions.
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And, although it is important not to read too much into volatile quarterly figures, there are some signs that productivity growth may be slowing.
Still 74 percent-owned by the U.S. Treasury, Ally had planned an initial public offering of stock in 2011, but did not pursue it because of a volatile stock market.
Believe it or not, the unexciting, less volatile stocks, for the most part, outperform over long term the more exciting but highly volatile shares, such as the growth plays favored by Wall Street.
And actually there may be less volatility as a result in some of those markets than we can see in the developed world markets, which not only are likely to be volatile, but particularly in the worst scenarios they're going to be all correlated, as we saw with Lehman.
Even in this volatile market, it is not wise to hold all cash or low-earning certificates of deposit.
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"These other taxes tend to be easier and less volatile since they're not dependent on profits, " he added.
Still on a busy day, especially when markets are volatile the settlements office may not find out about the trade until the counterparty calls them days later asking why the deal has not been settled yet.
Abandoning the familiar hedge-fund structure has not liberated GLG from the familiar pitfalls of volatile profits and personalities.
At least, in the financial sector, business activity is so volatile that managements are cagey enough not to give detailed quarterly or annual forecasts.
For a start, Mr Kohl does not get on nearly as well with the volatile Mr Chirac as he did with the more calculating Mr Mitterrand.
Weather forecasters and climatologists around the world point to events that seem to suggest that even if the planet is not getting hotter, it is getting more volatile.
Some neat graphics on the Guardian website recently looked at trends over time and, not including the figure above, revealed a volatile picture in terms of English enthusiasm for the British badge.
Consciously or not, it has built a tax system that is not only incomprehensible to its citizens but unusually volatile, relying disproportionately on income taxes, and especially on the capital-gains taxes of its wealthiest residents.
Owing to the volatile security situation, it has not been possible to assess the extent of the damage to the ancient city of Aleppo and several other World Heritage sites including the Crac des Chevaliers, Palmyra, the Ancient Villages in Northern Syria and Damascus.
They claimed that Minshew was emotionally volatile, prone to outbursts, and not viewed positively by people outside PYP.
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