The European Union sovereign debt crisis appears to have stabilized this week, and that has been a bullish factor for the gold market, which has been acting like a risk asset the past few weeks.
When comfortably-off cultural types from the West stray into areas which journalists like to keep for themselves they risk being portrayed as dilettantes.
The gold market this week is acting more like a safe-haven asset and less like a risk asset, which is frustrating the yellow metal bulls.
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What changes do you think could be made so that police officers in situations like that, which are very high risk and chaotic, have the support they need to do all of these other things they're asked to do?
This suggests fresh flight-to-safety buying by investors (including into gold), which will pull way demand for risk assets like stocks.
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Continental Europe, by contrast, runs the risk of ending up like Japan, which has spent two decades struggling to grow in the face of its debt burden and ageing population.
There have been no major, fresh developments coming out of the European Union debt crisis recently, which has given traders and investors some more confidence, which has in turn boosted the so-called risk assets like stocks and commodities.
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Leading stocks, especially in tech, had been breaking down the hardest during this multi-week correction, which is a sign of diminished risk appetite that traders do not like to see.
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They are thus becoming more like American insurers, which hardly invest in equities and take more credit risk.
Studies have found handwashing to cut risk of diseases like diarrhea and pneumonia by half, which otherwise kill a combined two million children a year.
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The market place is a bit more stable this week, which has been bullish for the gold market as it is behaving like a risk asset and following other commodity markets at present.
The VA researchers looked at a database of tens of thousands of patients and found that the statins, which include bestsellers like Lipitor, Zocor and Pravachol, seemed to cut the risk of several cancers in half.
McCoy peppered the agent with questions in an attempt to show the government had little hard evidence, but Grant said lives were at risk and it wasn't like a fraud investigation in which authorities could gather more evidence before making an arrest.
OpenGamma provides risk management tools for sophisticated trading operations, like hedge funds, which make extensive use of derivatives.
But the Fed just felt like they couldn't take the risk of having Bear Stearns, which has hooks in so many corners of the financial market, not just go bankrupt but go bankrupt so quickly.
By offering insurance on mortgages, the FHA is taking some of the financial risk off of the shoulder of a mortgage lender like Deutsche Bank which might not want to offer loan to just anyone.
In the U.S., the fiscal cliff debacle promises to take its toll on markets, much like the debt ceiling debate which resulted in a credit rating downgrade and a massive risk asset correction last year.
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The problem is that for many large firms, systemic risk is a matter of exogenous events, sort of like comets which originate outside the normal operations of the solar system, suddenly appearing, flashing across the sky and then disappearing.
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She backs tougher international standards like Basel III, which would, among other things, illuminate off-balance sheet risk.
Without treatment, sleep disorders -- like sleep apnea, which affects about 25% of transportation workers -- worsen accident risk.
The market place is also more stable so far this week, which is also a bullish factor for the gold market as the yellow metal is acting like a risk asset recently.
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Before the piracy boom, marine insurers like Lloyd's had no reason to levy premiums to cover war risk (under which piracy falls), kidnapping and ransom.
The operator should use an independent risk evaluator for weather and other environmental conditions like volcanic ash or even heavy pollutants which can effect helicopter operation and pilot visibility.
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If Internet service providers had the same level of control, even big companies like Netflix and Skype, which offer services that complete with those of the ISPs, would be at risk of slower speeds and lower-quality service.
For not all bonds are created equal, and investors may be unwittingly increasing their exposure to equity risk by allocating portions of their fixed income exposure to high-yield bonds, which behave much like equities.
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Like Goldman Sachs, with which it has a close business relationship, it is a partnership with an aggressive, risk-taking culture.
Another major bearish factor for the gold and silver markets in recent weeks has been rallying stock markets worldwide, which shows investor risk appetite is on the upswing at the expense of demand for safe-haven assets like gold and to a lesser degree silver.
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