Michael Milken argues persuasively that today's low-quality bond is tomorrow's prime risk and vice versa.
Could Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the Turkish prime minister, risk that?
Inking a productive veteran to a long-term contract that figures to take him past his prime is a risk many clubs have taken under pressure to win (though some showed signs of reining in the practice during the 2009 recession--the Yankees bidding adieu to 36-year-old Johnny Damon, for instance).
Providian lent extensively to sub-prime (high-risk) consumers and has been bitten by extraordinarily high charge-offs and delinquent loans.
But the prime minister, a risk-averse politician, made one of his rare political mistakes when he clumsily trimmed arts funding, likening recipients of arts grants to corporate fat cats.
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But the greatest risk the prime minister faced was from the one cabinet minister who went, the leader of the House of Commons and former foreign secretary, Robin Cook.
And prime rate would clearly be the wrong interest rate to use for Apple cannot lend money out, risk free, at the prime rate.
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Alt A loans are somewhat in-between prime and subprime mortgages on the risk scale.
In order to make this book accessible to nonspecialists, I have taken the risk of disregarding that prime directive.
Ratings overall held steady, but prime-time ratings were at risk.
The prime minister and his business secretary today risk sounding like an irritable couple arguing over what route to follow.
How big a risk of Brexit depends largely on Prime Minister David Cameron.
When hedge funds did have some issues with risk, they yelled at their prime brokers to do something about it.
The impact of misrepresenting or miscalculating risk was felt in the sub-prime market and cascading global financial meltdown.
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Mortgage-backed securities were used in some cases to mask the risk of default inherent within sub-prime loans, and contributed to the real estate crash and recession.
Mr. Gaffney warned each of the addressee firms that they may be exposed to reputational risk and price risk if they are invested in or have prime broker relationships with banks engaged in Shariah-Compliant Finance.
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When he announced his plans to the nation on Saturday night, he said Israel would be spared the potential risk of holding general elections for both the prime ministership and Knesset at a time of national emergency.
Credit risk was once an afterthought, but has taken on prime importance in a post-Lehman-bankruptcy world.
Russian President Vladimir Putin's tough line was also endorsed by the UK's prime minister on Monday who said there were "no easy, risk-free, safe solutions" in such a situation.
Yes that means taking credit risk, but it also means making loans tied to the prime rate and therefore, loans which adjust with the coming inflation.
That mood was tempered Friday by comments from the Greek prime minister, who reiterated his view that there was "absolutely no risk" of default on Greece's government debt and added that there was no possibility of Greece leaving the European Monetary Union.
French banks have suffered from a bout of risk aversion from U.S. money market funds, a prime source of short-term dollar funding.
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The ground-breaking ceremony was attended by Singapore Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, who said the project was "not without risk" but "the right way forward" for higher education in Singapore.
But a group of Tory MPs - including several former cabinet ministers - have circulated a letter warning the prime minister that talk of renegotiation and referendums was putting the single market at risk.
The prime minister will tell the TUC congress that public sector jobs would be at greater risk under the Conservatives.
In practice, prime ministers have often used referendums to force through controversial policies or to limit the risk of party splits.
Morgan Stanley's own website lists 20 pages of available jobs in its North American institutional securities division, including many technical and risk management posts but also positions in equity research, in derivatives and in prime brokerage.
Opening the meeting, Prime Minister Gordon Brown warned that any such scaling back would be a "serious mistake" and could risk causing another "downward lurch" in the global economy.
The record levels of risk undertaken by financial institutions, home-buyers, and investors, particularly in sub-prime mortgages and other forms of creative financing, made for a collapse of crisis proportions when the bubble burst.
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