Moreover, these big deals can decrease risk and smooth out earnings by getting companies into new markets.
The additional capital requirements in combination with enhanced risk management standards, in theory should lead to reduced risk of bank failures, and should decrease the interdependence between financial institutions, effectively reducing the risk of future banking crises.
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The AHA says that the best way to maintain a healthy weight and to decrease the risk of heart disease is to eat a healthy diet and to limit added sugar to no more than 100 calories a day for women and 150 for men.
It's now believed, or at least it's believed by some people, that exposure to children with natural disease would keep boosting the immune response of adults, and decrease the risk for shingles breaking out.
When combined with adequate daily intakes of calcium, vitamin D helps build and preserve bone, helps prevent osteoporosis and helps decrease fracture risk.
The researchers determined that kids who attend day care and play groups decrease their risk of developing the most common type of childhood leukemia by 30 percent.
There is also evidence that oral contraceptives decrease the risk of ovarian and endometrial cancer, but that they increase the risk of liver cancer in women who are otherwise considered at low risk for the disease.
The investigators of those studies determined at the time that the differences were not meaningful and did not establish an increased or decrease cardiovascular risk for Celebrex.
Despite the plateau in smoking rates in men in the 1980s and their subsequent decrease, men still have an increased risk of death due to chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.
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In order to meet its main goal and get FDA approval, Provenge will have to decrease the risk of death compared to placebo by 22%.
Women who ate between 9.5 and 15 grams of soy protein saw nearly the same decrease in risk as the women who ate more than 15 grams.
Diversification and regular rebalancing may decrease the impact of market volatility, but the risk of losing money will still exist.
One way to substantially decrease individual stock risk is obviously to diversify among numerous small cap stocks, and the easiest way to accomplish that is via ETFs designed to track with a small stock index.
Global managers "might buy and sell the wrong stocks, but they might also get the allocations wrong among the various global equity sectors, and they might also allocate their portfolios in ways that significantly increase or decrease my risk level, " Mr. Curtis says.
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