"The economics are telling us to burn coal rather than gas, " says Andrew Horstead, risk analyst at Utilyx, an energy consultancy.
"It doesn't take the pressure off the government, " Seema Desai, India analyst for the risk-advisory firm Eurasia Group, said of IKEA's investment proposal.
"I think this us a sign of underlying structural issues which you have seen in South Africa for a long time, " said Mark Rosenberg, an Africa analyst with the risk research firm Eurasia Group.
"The impact of Hezbollah on the conflict should not be underestimated, " said Torbjorn Soltvedt, senior analyst at the British risk analysis firm Maplecroft.
"It will vary according to the mineral group and project life cycle but we are likely to see investors looking elsewhere in the region ... particularly if the South African government doesn't come out quite strongly and say what its plans for the sector are going forward, " says Simiso Velempini, South Africa analyst for global business risk consultancy Control Risks.
"The reality is that space tourism is just not cost-effective right now--it's a limited market, and it's fraught with risk, " says aerospace-industry analyst Howard Rubel of Jefferies and Co.
The U.S. GDP report has meant improved risk sentiment, said Robin Bhar, metals analyst with Societe Generale.
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"IT managers need to deploy now or take the risk, " said Michael Silver, an analyst at Gartner.
Exxon s stock was in the penalty box for five years because of un-quantified risk, said Fadel Gheit, an analyst at Oppenheimer.
The deal would be "a way in which Bear could have a local partner without extended capital risk, " wrote David Trone, an analyst at Fox-Pitt Kelton, in a research note Monday.
While smaller companies may be primarily at fault for privacy breaches lately, data exposures at Web sites run by larger companies also can happen and when they do they can pose an even greater risk, according to Ari Schwartz, policy analyst at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington, D.
For that matter, anything that cuts college costs reduces investment risk, says Jennifer Ma, a College Board analyst.
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"It's been a tough transition for Trinidad and Tobago, " said Leslie Palti-Guzman, an energy analyst at the Eurasia Group, a risk consultancy.
"With 'European fatigue' now having engulfed the market, investors are treading cautiously when it comes to their exposure to risk assets and risk currencies, " Stan Shamu, a market analyst at IG Markets, wrote in a note to clients.
Chenxi Wang is Vice President, Principal Analyst at Forrester Research, serving security and risk professionals.
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The real risk on the sentiment front for IGT is from the analyst community.
For some reason, most investors know not to take analyst equity ratings as absolute guarantees of future risk.
James Adams is a Senior Analyst at Sageworks, a leading provider of credit risk management, loan loss reserve and stress testing software to financial institutions.
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There also seems to be less nervousness about holding risk assets, said Sterling Smith, commodity trading adviser and market analyst with Country Hedging.
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While the moves are legal and disclosed in regulatory filings, "there are certainly some fairly serious red flags in terms of behavior that are raised there, " said Paul Hodgson, chief research analyst for GMI Ratings, a corporate-governance and risk-management research firm.
However, energy analyst Joe Conlan from Inenco warned that there was still a risk that customers might be asked to rein in their gas use next week.
He said there has been speculation swirling around Oracle over the last couple of days after analyst notes have been released saying management's guidance is at risk.
"Clearly this force is not yet organized enough, or have any identifiable leadership that can easily be accessed by foreign powers, " said Ayham Kamel, a Syria analyst at the Eurasia Group, a New York-based political risk consultancy.
Her decision "relieves House GOP leadership of an unflattering distraction who not only perennially put an otherwise safe GOP seat at risk but damaged the party's brand nationally, " David Wasserman, analyst of House elections for the Cook Political Report, wrote Tuesday.
Analysts expect a win there, but analyst Timothy Anderson at Prudential Securities recently issued a note arguing that the risk to Lilly's Zyprexa patent may be higher than many analysts expect.
The downgrade to Italian debt was a signal that worry over Greece leaving the EU is mounting within the analyst community, and the economies most exposed to Greek debt are at risk.
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"Whenever you're working with a vaccine, specifically a novel therapeutic like this, you run the risk of all sorts of difficult types of responses, " Robert Hazlett, an analyst at Robertson Stephens, said last week.
"There is systemic risk, " says Eileen Fahey, managing director at Fitch Ratings and head bank credit analyst.
Smaller analyst firms usually make the highest market forecasts, since they have less to risk (reputation-wise) and more to gain (in attention) from a boldly bullish call.
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