Healthy markets have clear leaders and are often led by more risk-driven Nasdaq trade.

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Those who know him say that he is both pragmatic and risk-driven.

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Otherwise, we risk forfeiting the professional and client-driven reputation we worked so hard to earn.

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Then it was famous for its brains, its risk-taking, its focus on derivatives, and its aggressive, sales-driven culture.

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Every Fortune 500 company should take a page from its book or risk becoming irrelevant in the new global women-driven economy.

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While some hedge funds are long-only and others are long-short, OpenGamma has developed software for very quant-driven funds whose strategies use the application of risk to drive their returns, added Wylie.

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But if the value-added figure is driven by a mistaken assessment of risk, a quite different picture emerges.

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With Twitter-driven gaffes a constant threat, campaigns have become extraordinarily risk-averse.

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The report published Wednesday included for the first time in its list of key risks the chance of a shake-out in global markets driven by a "reassessment of risk premia".

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The market had basically held true to its news-driven moniker by falling on bad news relating to the risk of a nuclear catastrophe and then rising when those worries abated in the afternoon.

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The downgrades were "driven by the increased risk of further shocks emanating from the euro-area debt crisis, in combination with the banks' limited loss-absorption capacity, " Moody's said.

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Although the prescription to base your compliance efforts on an assessment of risk is the most basic of common sense axioms, and although it applies generally to your entire compliance program, the Department of Justice has driven the point home and made it clear as well that an anti-corruption risk assessment is an absolute must-do.

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Combine this risk factor with the fact that additional government research is currently underway, and the wisdom of a deadline-driven response from the FDA becomes more questionable.

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