Sentences with phrase «business cycle risk»

This comes back to the business cycle risk we talked about earlier wherein the U.S. doesn't always perform well when Germany's performing well, which doesn't always perform well when Japan's performing well.

The preliminary economic profile for the US in February continued to reflect healthy momentum and this week's issue of the US Business Cycle Risk Report confirmed that the numbers overall continued to skew positive, based on data published through the end of March.

Business cycle risk High yield issuers typically have riskier business strategies and more leveraged balance sheets, exposing them to greater risk of default at times of a downturn in business conditions.

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Not exact matches

In the U.S. market, business leaders count on predictable electoral cycles and domestic peace when they calculate risk - reward ratios.

These risks include, in no particular order, the following: the trends toward more high - definition, on - demand and anytime, anywhere video will not continue to develop at its current pace or will expire; the possibility that our products will not generate sales that are commensurate with our expectations or that our cost of revenue or operating expenses may exceed our expectations; the mix of products and services sold in various geographies and the effect it has on gross margins; delays or decreases in capital spending in the cable, satellite, telco, broadcast and media industries; customer concentration and consolidation; the impact of general economic conditions on our sales and operations; our ability to develop new and enhanced products in a timely manner and market acceptance of our new or existing products; losses of one or more key customers; risks associated with our international operations; exchange rate fluctuations of the currencies in which we conduct business; risks associated with our CableOS ™ and VOS ™ product solutions; dependence on market acceptance of various types of broadband services, on the adoption of new broadband technologies and on broadband industry trends; inventory management; the lack of timely availability of parts or raw materials necessary to produce our products; the impact of increases in the prices of raw materials and oil; the effect of competition, on both revenue and gross margins; difficulties associated with rapid technological changes in our markets; risks associated with unpredictable sales cycles; our dependence on contract manufacturers and sole or limited source suppliers; and the effect on our business of natural disasters.

But shorter technology and product cycles, persistent de-regulation and fiercer global competition also keep adding risks to the business environment and to company fundamentals.

Factors that could cause or contribute to actual results differing from our forward - looking statements include risks relating to: failure of DBRS to rate the Notes at the anticipated ratings levels, which is a closing condition, or at all; changes in the financial markets, including changes in credit markets, interest rates, securitization markets generally and our proposed securitization in particular; the willingness of investors to buy the Notes; adverse developments regarding OnDeck, its business or the online or broader marketplace lending industry generally, any of which could impact what credit ratings, if any, are issued with respect to the Notes; the extended settlement cycle for the scheduled closing on April 17, 2018, which may exacerbate the foregoing risks; and other risks, including those described in our Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the year ended December 31, 2017 and in other documents that we file with the Securities and Exchange Commission from time to time which are or will be available on the Commission's website at www.sec.gov.

Gold: We typically see commodities outperform stocks and other risk assets in the late stages of a business cycle.

Yet, with key economies in different stages of the business cycle, «the risk of the global economy, or any of its major constituents, running too hot over the next 12 months is contained,» says Elga Bartsch, Co-Head of Global Economics.

They include high levels of labor mobility, high levels of capital mobility, a system of transfers that shares risks across the region, and coordinated business cycles.

If there is a danger that monetary policy will be seen as «too difficult», there is also a risk that too much will be expected of it or, at least, that its success or failure will be judged against an impossibly - high standard: it can't cure the business cycle; it can't reduce inflation costlessly; and it can't be operated with surgical precision.

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What does the ratio of unemployment claims tell us about where we are in the business cycle and our current recession risk?

Many factors could cause BlackBerry's actual results, performance or achievements to differ materially from those expressed or implied by the forward - looking statements, including, without limitation: BlackBerry's ability to enhance its current products and services, or develop new products and services in a timely manner or at competitive prices, including risks related to new product introductions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to mitigate the impact of the anticipated decline in BlackBerry's infrastructure access fees on its consolidated revenue by developing an integrated services and software offering; intense competition, rapid change and significant strategic alliances within BlackBerry's industry; BlackBerry's reliance on carrier partners and distributors; risks associated with BlackBerry's foreign operations, including risks related to recent political and economic developments in Venezuela and the impact of foreign currency restrictions; risks relating to network disruptions and other business interruptions, including costs, potential liabilities, lost revenues and reputational damage associated with service interruptions; risks related to BlackBerry's ability to implement and to realize the anticipated benefits of its CORE program; BlackBerry's ability to maintain or increase its cash balance; security risks; BlackBerry's ability to attract and retain key personnel; risks related to intellectual property rights; BlackBerry's ability to expand and manage BlackBerry ® World ™; risks related to the collection, storage, transmission, use and disclosure of confidential and personal information; BlackBerry's ability to manage inventory and asset risk; BlackBerry's reliance on suppliers of functional components for its products and risks relating to its supply chain; BlackBerry's ability to obtain rights to use software or components supplied by third parties; BlackBerry's ability to successfully maintain and enhance its brand; risks related to government regulations, including regulations relating to encryption technology; BlackBerry's ability to continue to adapt to recent board and management changes and headcount reductions; reliance on strategic alliances with third - party network infrastructure developers, software platform vendors and service platform vendors; BlackBerry's reliance on third - party manufacturers; potential defects and vulnerabilities in BlackBerry's products; risks related to litigation, including litigation claims arising from BlackBerry's practice of providing forward - looking guidance; potential charges relating to the impairment of intangible assets recorded on BlackBerry's balance sheet; risks as a result of actions of activist shareholders; government regulation of wireless spectrum and radio frequencies; risks related to economic and geopolitical conditions; risks associated with acquisitions; foreign exchange risks; and difficulties in forecasting BlackBerry's financial results given the rapid technological changes, evolving industry standards, intense competition and short product life cycles that characterize the wireless communications industry.

Taken together, the chart illustrates that, since the 1980s and when mortgages are not at the center of a recession, both the mortgage risk premium and the yield curve settle at historically predictable levels at the end of the business cycle.

Alessio leads GMAG's macro strategy focusing on business cycle dynamics, global macro regimes, and their impact on asset class risks and returns.

The Deloitte study also said that Canadian manufacturers could reduce risk by up to 20 % by exporting, because of the different business cycles and conditions in different countries.

Our Business Cycle Index is a tool to help you gauge recession risk.

Which signals might point to increased risk in the economy and markets as the business cycle matures?

«When you're doing businesses with corporations, you risk dealing with long payment cycles,» says Kendrick.

If you understand business cycle & the risks associated with «Manufacturing» sector, you may stay invested in this fund, else it is better to avoid it.

The Firm seeks to invest in high - quality businesses at low valuations, with the goal of generating outperformance over a full market cycle while managing the level of risk.

Sector fund has high risk profile, invest in it only if you understand the business cycle of that sector and also about sector specific risks.

The best business from both a profit and risk control standpoint, gets written in this phase of the cycle Terms and conditions for insurance are tight.

Our risk assessment for JNJ reflects that its products are largely immune from economic cycles, that it does not rely on any single product category or customer for sustained growth and that it enjoys competitive advantages owing to its substantial financial resources, business scale and global sales capabilities.

This strategy is designed to keep an investor's risk profile aligned with the relative risks of their underlying holdings as the business cycle evolves and their lives change.

Additionally, we tend to take a cautious stance on credit risk in this mature stage of the business cycle given limited spread - tightening potential.

We can quantify this empirically, for instance, because stocks have historically performed better in the first half of the business cycle than they have in the second half of the business cycle when accounting for relative risks and returns.

Our Countercyclical Indexing ™ strategy establishes a portfolio management approach that is more consistent with the way investors actually perceive risk over the course of the business cycle and increases the probability of improving risk adjusted returns.

Throughout the business cycle we are constantly updating our financial models to account for changes in the probability of tail risk events and other inefficiencies that might alter how our clients perceive risk.

This portfolio always overweights the risk of purchasing power loss relative to permanent loss, however, by acting in a countercyclical manner the portfolio counterbalances the average investor's tendency to be overweight stocks when they are riskiest late in the business cycle as well as the tendency to be underweight stocks early in the business cycle when stocks become less risky.

This means most investors are overweight risk late in the business cycle and underweight risk early in the cycle.

This helps to keep the investor's risk profile better aligned with the portfolio's exposure to changing asset class risks over the course of the business cycle.

This adaptive approach helps us keep the risk profiles of our clients better aligned with our portfolio management style as the business cycle evolves.

This approach helps to create parity between your actual risk profile and its exposure to asset classes at times in the business cycle.

Our approach is designed to maintain parity between your risk profile and its underlying asset holdings over the course of the changes in the business cycle.

Your actual performance will depend on your personal needs and which strategy we implement for you, but this approach helps to align the client's perception of risk with that of the underlying portfolio over the course of the changing business cycle.

Over the course of the business cycle, however, we hope to generate a risk adjusted return that is superior to a benchmark portfolio.

This portfolio invests in a globally diversified set of low fee index funds that are designed to be overweight stocks during the business cycle's expansion phases with a reduced overweight to stock market risk during the contraction phase of the business cycle.

But this procyclical or static portfolio allocation will expose investors to high levels of risk at the riskiest points in the business cycle because a 60/40 stock / bond portfolio is actually less risky early in the cycle and more risky late in the business cycle.

That is, while your risk profile will remain the same over the course of the business cycle, the risk exposure will actually change as various asset classes change in price and expose you to different degrees of risk.

In other words, the risk of the 60/40 is not the same in the early part of the business cycle as it is in the latter portion of the business cycle.

Orcam Financial Group specializes in constructing diversified, low fee, tax efficient portfolios that match an investor's risk profile with the cyclical changes in the markets as the business cycle evolves.

Most importantly, Countercyclical Indexing is a low fee and tax efficient form of asset allocation that tries to capture the market return given an appropriate level of risk over the course of the business cycle.

Therefore, it is logical to rebalance portfolios over the course of the business cycle to account for these changing risks.

In other words, traditional portfolio theory does not account for the dynamism of the business cycle which results in portfolios that do not properly account for changing risks during the course of the cycle.

But this linear or static portfolio allocation will expose investors to high levels of risk at the riskiest points in the business cycle because a 60/40 stock / bond portfolio is actually less risky early in the cycle and more risky late in the business cycle.

The low beta, or relative risk and performance to the market, will show that these stocks tend to either perform better - or at least not as poorly - as cyclical stocks in bad times and will usually not be most investors» focal points during the boom part of the business cycle when investors are busy chasing technology stocks and high - growth companies.

Generally speaking the longer the term of a bond the greater the sensitivity that bond will have to the movement in interest rates, changes in the credit quality of a company or company risks associated with the business cycle of a specific company, sector or economy.