As the war in Afghanistan winds down, advocates are pushing for changes to prevent the misuse of money spent on efforts to help transform volatile nations into stable countries.

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Bond prices should remain stable, though volatile so long as there is political fighting about the debt limit.

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The deadly violence in Kenya, which had been a stable country in an otherwise volatile region, has sparked international outrage and concern.

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Italy is in a volatile mood, facing months without a stable government.

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One way to use the indexes proactively is to stress test portfolios, State Street says, noting that institutional investors can work to construct allocation models that can be resilient in volatile times and still capture upside in more stable periods.

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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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Firms may also keep prices stable because they are providing insurance to customers who dislike volatile prices, especially when buying expensive things.

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The company has maintained modest but stable profits which can be hard to find in a smaller, volatile mining stock, and we believe that speaks well to competent management.

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This would be harder to do if workers in more stable sectors were no longer subsidising those in industries where employment is more volatile.

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