Political uncertainty and risk are back across the Eurozone, with yields on peripheral sovereign debt shooting up.
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Geoengineering the climate is an option that is now gaining scientific, policy, and public attention but it involves considerable uncertainty and risk.
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Primary amongst these observations is his approach to uncertainty and risk.
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This increases the level of complexity, uncertainty and risk.
During this session, water management under conditions of uncertainty and risk will be addressed through different perspectives - including water for urban settlements, valuation, pollution and disasters and the need for accurate information - with proper links to sustainable development.
As entrepreneurs, we know that this does not mean to take failure lightly if it were to happen, but that it is OK, and in fact necessary to step into uncertainty and risk if we are to find our full potential.
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Cognizant of the need for water managers, government leaders, civil society and businesses to work together to sustainably manage water under uncertainty and risk in an integrated and coordinated manner, UNESCO is hosting the Future Forum on "Global Water Futures 2050" at UNESCO Headquarters in Paris on 12 April 2012.
If you reduce uncertainty and reduce risk, you almost always reduce the value of your intended outcome.
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The appearance of a crossed NBBO can cause both uncertainty and the risk of a trade being executed at worse than the best available price.
While the global economy remains mired in macroeconomic uncertainty and recessionary risk, positive data on the manufacturing front could be the light at the end of the tunnel.
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Speaking on the Business Scotland programme on BBC Radio Scotland, Mr Naish - who is also a head of real estate at Scottish Widows Investment Partnership in Edinburgh - stressed that the SPF was not against or for independence, but that political and economic uncertainty increases investment risk, and that equates to cost.
This is mainly due to the high levels of risk and uncertainty that come with new tech: private firms would generally rather seek out low-risk, low-cost alternatives (i.e. more efficient internal processes or capital goods) than to invest time and effort into developing high-risk, initially-high cost alternatives (i.e. hydrogen fuel cells).
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With so much geopolitical, economic and ethical uncertainty, advances in compliance for business, and risk management for both the physical and financial protection of businesses and people, will continue their steep trajectories.
"However, from what is available it is clear that girls and young women are at specific risk during periods of economic uncertainty and stress, " the report stated.
The truth of the entrepreneurial life is a tornado of long hours, high risk and uncertainty.
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In 1921, an economist named Frank Knight drew a distinction between risk and uncertainty.
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Risk and uncertainty are really two ends of a single spectrum.
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Similarly, when less risk and uncertainty is perceived, price-earnings ratios rise and investors are willing to pay a much larger amount for a given level of earnings.
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Graduates in recent years, for example, seem to have accepted far too readily the notion that clever financial engineering could somehow abolish risk and uncertainty, when it probably made things worse.
When greater risk and uncertainty in company and market prospects are perceived, price-earnings ratios contract, and consequently, valuations decline as investors are only willing to pay a smaller amount for a given level of earnings.
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Both lengthening or shortening Treasury maturities and over or underweighting stocks subject you to the risk of underperformance, increase uncertainty and expand the range of potential outcomes.
For Pippi's mother, the uncertainty is worth the cost and the risk even if it offers nothing more than further hope.
The bottom line is there is a great deal of headline risk and economic uncertainty still out there, and while we will look for a small bounce the market still feels heavy.
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It is indeed worth having an insurance policy against risk and possibly even uncertainty.
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This strategy has become essential in order to diversify the risk arising from economic uncertainty and changing consumer behavior.
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An honest dialogue should explain clinical uncertainty and that, although the possibility of risk cannot be totally eliminated, it is minimised through research regulation.
He was also worried the contract did not represent value for money, there could be a risk to health and the uncertainty was blighting the local community.
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Uncertainty in global economic and financial conditions poses a risk that consumers and businesses may defer purchases in response to negative financial events, which could negatively affect product demand and other related matters.
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And financial uncertainty, together with sharp shifts in risk appetite, has led to volatile capital flows.
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