For most emerging economies, however, intervention is more about coping with volatile capital flows.
And financial uncertainty, together with sharp shifts in risk appetite, has led to volatile capital flows.
The regulators' intention had been that the law would force the two banks to move away from volatile capital-markets activity to concentrate on the more stable wealth-management services that Swiss banks are famous for.
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PUNE--India's biggest economic concern is the current account deficit, because the government has to rely on volatile capital inflows to make up the shortfall, the chief economic adviser to the finance ministry said Tuesday.
While most residential-mortgage-loan servicing is concentrated among a few banks, Nationstar is a nonbank servicer, and has said it believes the industry is shifting toward nonbank servicers as banks seek to exit from the business, which can be volatile and capital-intensive.
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We at the Centre for Research into Economics and Finance in Southern Africa, at the London School of Economics, and External Finance for Africa are involved in projects in more than 15 African countries aimed at enhancing their ability to monitor and to manage volatile international capital flows.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) is less volatile than speculative capital inflows.
The challenges posed by volatile cross-border capital flows make institution-building a top priority in all of these countries.
This in turn makes the economy more volatile, because that capital can flee as quickly as it arrives.
Individual income taxes as well as corporate taxes are now far more rooted in the shifting sands of volatile business income and capital profits rather than in the terra firma of wage income that stabilizes payroll taxes.
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The softer demand for these bonds have kept bond prices less volatile, and therefore the capital gains on these bonds have proven to be below that of U.S. Treasury bonds even though emerging debt is considered more speculative.
This is because the biggest impediment to a global capital market is not volatile exchange rates, nor timid investors, nor even the present Asian crisis.
The arrival of more Chinese buyers, though, could make the property market more volatile by creating unpredictable flows of capital subject in part to the whims of the Chinese government.
The deaths follow a volatile Sunday in Iraq's capital, when fighting and attacks killed at least 45 people, including 38 insurgents during battles in the eastern sector of the city.
India is financing its current-account deficit with volatile foreign fund inflows into the capital markets rather than foreign direct investment, which is a matter of concern, Mr. Subbarao said at an event in Mumbai.
This yield is usually volatile and strongly dependent on the debt capital markets globally.
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Yet capital gains are much more volatile than wages, and cannot be guaranteed in future.
Instead, most hope that controls on short-term capital flows might make them less volatile.
Despite falling 1.3% due to the volatile aerospace sector, there were strong increases in capital goods.
Business customers will shift their fundraising towards capital markets, forcing lenders to build volatile investment banks.
In a volatile atmosphere like the present you should think of capital structure as a variable that can greatly influence the success or failure of a business enterprise.
Volatile swings in demand aren't good for a capital-intensive industry like automobile manufacturing.
Economists pay close attention to so-called core capital goods orders because they strip out more volatile defense and aircraft orders.
And foreign capital inflows into India are much more of the volatile-portfolio nature than the fdi inflows that go into China.
After all, China does not have the capital-market expertise or mechanisms to successfully manage a volatile currency.
Consciously or not, it has built a tax system that is not only incomprehensible to its citizens but unusually volatile, relying disproportionately on income taxes, and especially on the capital-gains taxes of its wealthiest residents.
Joel Smolen of Axion Capital, a San Rafael, Calif. hedge fund, expects a volatile month.
As we witnessed over the earnings season, the retail operations for these banks are incredibly important due to their stability, and the capital markets related businesses such as trading and investment banking have been extremely volatile given the macro headwinds.
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To prevent volatile currency swings, he argues, governments should impose a tax on short-term capital flows especially short-term bank loans.
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