However, he said that the chances of this particular prank being foreseen were "very low indeed".
So, big trading houses made very large bets believing their risks to be very low.
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Our expectations for the quarter are very low, and weak results should pressure near-term share performance.
Inflation-linked bonds also offer protection but their current real yields are very low or even negative.
"Even though the odds are very low, the investment is very small, " he said.
These results led the researchers to conclude that lorcaserin had very low abuse potential.
You see very high - the highest are high, but the lows are very low.
Conversely, we see the very low GDP growth countries on the right with very low returns.
But he argued that limiting ultrawideband gadgets to very low power would minimize interference.
With colon cancer, you see, screening tests save lives at very low risk of harm.
Savings accounts have been paying very low rates for many years for exactly this reason.
Many of these companies are trading at very high free cashflow yields, very low valuation.
Both companies have been trading consistently at very low multiples, and both offer reasonable dividends.
Many of these exporters are operating at a very low margin of 5% or less.
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And it's very low, probably rises 12 to 14 foot out of the water is all.
Morale among Americans and local staff is very low, and stress levels are high.
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It seems the number of childless women interested in parenting her children would be very low.
"It's an instant form of payment, and there's very low cost transfer fees, " said Mr More.
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That means the fans are very low down, which allows for more vents, and so on.
The FT article cited the remarkable fact of very low book-to-value valuations in the Japanese market.
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But our revenues are very low partly because so many people are out of work.
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However, by historical happenstance the MLR provisions were set when investment returns were already very low.
There is this "other" economy with high unemployment and a very low and still-declining employment-to-population ratio.
Real take-home pay faces a sharp squeeze and the savings ratio is already very low.
Yet the recent improvement is from a very low base, especially at the grandest stores.
Finally, it is impossible to verify a ban that extends to very low yields.
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Israel's intelligence operations have also been stepped up, albeit from a very low base.
Since then 40 million people have migrated to the United States, most of them very low-skilled.
The company saw increased loan growth in most categories, albeit at very low rates.
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Members of the military have long paid very low, subsidized prices for their cigarettes.
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