We are much more prone to try to avoid losses than to take risks on a potential benefit in the future.
The agreement, made in September, changed the minimum cushion of capital that a bank must keep to avoid losses on their loans.
Mr. Liang allegedly bought stock for profit before positive announcements, bet on shares falling after negatives ones and sold shares to avoid losses.
In seconds, Allston's traders complied, getting out of their positions and canceling their offers to buy and sell to avoid losses from an extreme market swing.
Yet in its zeal to protect taxpayers, Congress has made the resolution process so similar to bankruptcy that counterparties and lenders may still choose to abandon a troubled firm to avoid losses.
When participating in such a volatile market like this one, you must have a plan and you must execute your plan quickly in order to avoid losses if you hope to preserve enough capital to wind up making money.
Assuming the possibility that the short-seller's bearishness is unwarranted--which is a lot of the time--the seller, seeking to avoid losses on shares sold short, must re-enter the market in order to buy back the shares at a loss so that they can be returned.
Many local and provincial governments also are determined to keep their hometown favorites afloat to avoid job losses and to avoid making payments on loan guarantees, he said.
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Momentum is the only one of these factors that can be tweaked to avoid large losses.
Others are selling Venezuelan debt to avoid further losses in the wake of the Dubai financial crisis.
But Roubini sees a way to avoid major losses, via a type of extend and pretend system.
Lenders have also reportedly been allowed to avoid booking losses on loans to Air India, a state-owned zombie.
President Vladimir Putin said on Monday he was certain the U.S. was doing everything possible to avoid civilian losses in Afghanistan.
In investing, resilience comes from strategies that seek to avoid massive losses.
Sure, it would have been better leadership to avoid the losses.
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Hewlett-Packard's managers recently took a temporary cut to avoid job losses.
Unlike other venture firms that suffered from the market collapse, NEA managed to avoid huge losses in its public portfolio companies by staying clear of dot-com retailers and focusing on communications services and optical components.
Careful consideration must be made now of the potential impacts of this, and other dams being considered for the 3-S River Basin, to avoid serious losses and to form a positive solution for the people of the lower Mekong, their energy needs and the environment on which they depend.
Managers at the Northcliffe Media-owned title said everything was being done to avoid compulsory job losses.
For many years loose accounting rules made it easy to avoid recognizing these losses.
The council hoped Hargreaves Services would find "a positive way forward" to avoid any job losses, the spokesman said.
However, Acas noted that this may have helped to avoid more job losses, saying that only 14% of workplaces had seen compulsory redundancies.
According to a disclosure of his investments on Tuesday, Federal Reserve chairman Alan Greenspan has managed to avoid the hefty losses endured by millions of Americans.
Japanese companies, which have been net sellers of equities for the past six years or so, are still selling them in order to avoid further unrealised losses on their equity portfolios.
Both Soros and Paulson have read economic signs and traded at just the right times to reap profits and avoid losses on gold in the past, adding significance to their recent decision.
Aiden Thomas, chief executive of the trust, said after the meeting that he hoped "to avoid any compulsory job losses".
Amos Tversky and Nobel Prize winner Daniel Kahneman showed how humans consistently overweight the probability of outcomes they like and avoid losses to an irrational level.
The money required to get private bondholders to take losses cannot be delayed if Greece is to avoid default.
If confiscatory taxation limits the gains needed to offset losses, fewer people will be willing to help others avoid risks.
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But there are concerns that banks are keeping these no-hope companies alive in order to avoid taking further, potentially significant losses - and this, in turn, could be holding them back from new lending, which is needed to boost the economy.
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