This case, in Dr Cole's view, casts serious, and for the first time quantitative, doubt on the reliability of fingerprints.
The Yankees now employ five full-time quantitative analysts along with several interns.
There will be less of a need for folks to spend their time writing purely quantitative pieces, but that should be liberating.
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Giustra, whose gold positions increase in value every time Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke institutes quantitative easing, does not think this option will be successful in pump priming the US economy.
That was long-time ago before anyone had heard about Quantitative Easing.
We believe that is the first time that the welcome factor has been measured in a quantitative way beyond self-reporting.
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Absent substantial growth in our economy it is likely the Federal Reserve will hold this debt (and perhaps additional debt from another infusion through Quantitative Easing) for an indefinite period of time.
Add eye-movement tracking, hinting at which display ads were overlooked and which were studied for any period of time, and the approach offers precisely the sort of quantitative data brand managers yearn for.
To some, quantitative analysts are overeducated nerds who spend too much time playing with fancy calculators and not enough looking company bosses in the eye.
The two-10-year spread also flattened hugely with the gradient of the curve falling below 200 basis points (2%) for the first time since October and ahead of the expected second round of quantitative easing.
The U.S. Dollar Index is near an all-time low, and the Federal Reserve is preparing another round of quantitative easing, flooding the world with even more greenbacks.
Delivering a new round of quantitative easing boosted equity markets, which hit all-time highs, and brought back the housing market, with companies like KB Home and Lennar surging.
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Importantly, the market place has at least initially perceived the FOMC statement as suggesting there will not be a fresh round of quantitative monetary policy easing measures coming from the Fed any time soon.
But there too, the members of the MPC had a piece of insider information last week that we did not have at the time: They knew that the Treasury was about to do some quantitative easing of its own.
Analysts who use quantitative analysis (aka computer modeling) tend to perform better over time.
Investors have shunned these markets all year because of inflation, and a new round of quantitative easing could keep investors at bay in the BRICs for some time.
With murmurs at the FOMC growing louder every time the Fed Chairman and his acolytes express support for ultra-loose monetary policy and continued quantitative easing, Ben Bernanke faced the Senate Banking Committee where he once again defended his tenure as central bank chief.
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This time around it seems the Fed had it right last spring when it ended its first round of quantitative easing in March, earlier than scheduled.
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"The fundamental issue is that quantitative technologies in finance will survive, and will grow, and will continue to evolve over time, " he says.
He urged ministers to press the Bank of England to deliver another round of quantitative easing, and to ensure that the money is "put to productive ends" this time instead of boosting bank profits.
Given the weak jobs report released in early September, there is a strong likelihood another round of quantitative easing is imminent and the Federal Reserve could elect to purchase long-term mortgage securities this time around.
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Given the current landscape, with central banks in the U.S., Europe, the U.K. and now Japan executing various methods of quantitative easing, Koester warns that companies need to be more mindful than ever of the real-time impact of foreign exchange fluctuations on their bottom line.
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