One of the ways the market measures credit risks is by looking at the spreds of credit default swaps, a default insurance derivatives market that measures the risk of buying foreign bonds as compared to buying a comparable maturity from the US Treasury.
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The CHMP was also concerned by liver test results in patients taking Kynamro showing a build-up of fat in the liver and increased enzyme levels, and was not convinced that the company had proposed sufficient measures to prevent the risk of irreversible liver damage.
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Education policy needs to aggressively adopt the same kind of risk adjustment measures, if we hope to identify which high schools are truly doing the best job of educating their students and preparing them for the future.
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The risk with such crude measures is that it is easy to overdo things and cause a more severe contraction than intended.
But though they acknowledge the risk of counter-measures, their calculation is that none of Israel's likely foes is technologically advanced enough to beat them in a contest between lance and shield.
The row over the Beech loophole overshadowed the executive's announcement of a range of measures aimed at reducing the risk from sex offending.
It said it would work with Thames Water and the Environment Agency to review the effectiveness of flood risk reduction measures.
An accompanying article in the same journal questions whether the study accurately measures colon cancer risk.
Tighter control measures to reduce the risk of bovine TB spreading between cattle have been introduced in England.
They argued that the measures are disproportionate, risk fundamental rights and freedoms and that the text is too vague, leaving it too open to interpretation.
And part of any thoughtful preplanning should be identifying incentives that encourage states and localities to put in place measures that mitigate the risk of needless loss of life and property.
To identify the most transparent and trustworthy businesses that trade on American exchanges, Forbes turned to GMI Ratings (GMI), a pioneer in the application of non-traditional risk measures for financial analysis.
According to a survey of industry practices published by the Institute of International Finance (IIF) in March, many banks still fail to use risk-adjusted measures either to calculate the size of their bonus pool or to allocate it.
Forestry Commission (FC) Wales said the affected trees were small and "measures have been put in place to minimise the risk of the disease spreading to the wider environment".
The Bank shall install a monitor for a term of at least two years who will report directly to DFS and who will evaluate the money-laundering risk controls in the New York branch and implementation of appropriate corrective measures.
As the economic news worsens and profits dive, more firms will be at risk of breaching covenants on standard measures such as the ratio of debt to earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation.
Across the country in California, state lawmakers are considering measures that would expand the categories of high-risk people who cannot legally purchase or possess firearms -- including repeat drug and drunk driving offenders and people who violate domestic violence restraining orders.
Yosemite National Park has increased routine measures to reduce the hantavirus risk, according to officials.
Colchester Hospital said it has since taken "extensive measures" to minimise the risk of a tragedy happening again.
Instead of implementing effective, but more general, security measures to reduce the overall risk, we concentrate on making the fearful story go away.
We can only try to convince consumers with the measures we take that the risk from beef is at a low a level as possible.
Anxiety about sovereign-default risk, and the budget-cutting measures to counter it, will further sap the peripheral economies, thus raising the chances of big losses on the loans British banks have made there.
High impact violent events like In Amenas and dramatic military interventions like in Mali do inevitably shift our perspective of risk and require that we recalibrate the measures we take to manage the changing threat.
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Crude oil prices traded sharply higher Wednesday on the better risk appetite in the market place, due to the Greek parliament passage of the austerity measures, and following a bullish weekly DOE liquid energy storage report.
The EU scientific committee for vetinerary measures has warned that all sex hormones used in the US could pose a risk of cancer, genetic problems and brain disease, and claims children are most at risk.
In an article published in the Financial Times newspaper, the head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, warned governments that they must balance spending cuts with measures to support growth to avoid the risk of a double-dip recession.
"While the government will continue to do everything possible to track down and apprehend agents of terrorism in the country, the president has directed that enhanced security measures be put in place immediately for health workers in high-risk areas, " the statement read.
Risk-adjusted measures of compensation work only if risk is being measured properly, for example, and the industry has proved how unsafe an assumption that is.
All of these extra protective measures help save users money by lowering the risk of expensive component repairs.
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