The move has been driven by their growing involvement in Singapore's expanding ADR market as well
as confidence in the future of Singapore as the preferred arbitral seat in the Asia - Pacific Region.
Not exact matches
The larger stake, now 27.8 million shares, shows the billionaire's
confidence in the newspaper's
future — at least from a financial perspective — even
as readers and marketers have flocked to the Internet where content is largely free and ad rates are cheaper.
In a dramatic shift in sentiment, fewer than half of retirees believe the value of future Social Security benefits will be at least as high as what today's recipients get right now, according to the just - released 2018 Retirement Confidence Survey [opens PDF] from the Employee Benefit Research Institut
In a dramatic shift
in sentiment, fewer than half of retirees believe the value of future Social Security benefits will be at least as high as what today's recipients get right now, according to the just - released 2018 Retirement Confidence Survey [opens PDF] from the Employee Benefit Research Institut
in sentiment, fewer than half of retirees believe the value of
future Social Security benefits will be at least
as high
as what today's recipients get right now, according to the just - released 2018 Retirement
Confidence Survey [opens PDF] from the Employee Benefit Research Institute.
But recovering from a shock like the global financial crisis can be a long drawn - out process — just
as it was
in the 1930s —
as consumers and businesses repair their balance sheets and rebuild their
confidence in the
future.
Factors affecting the level of consumer spending for such discretionary items include general economic conditions, and other factors, such
as consumer
confidence in future economic conditions, fears of recession, the availability and cost of consumer credit, levels of unemployment, and tax rates.
As a result of our limited
confidence in how the Living Goods and BRAC programs are monitored, we do not know how much we will be able to learn about the success of the programs
in the
future.
Factors affecting the level of spending for such discretionary items include general economic conditions and other factors such
as consumer
confidence in future economic conditions, fears of recession, the availability of consumer credit, levels of unemployment, tax rates and the cost of consumer credit.
Italian consumer
confidence tumbled to its lowest level since 1996
in June,
as residents
in the euro zone's third - largest economy fretted about their
future in the wake of tax increases and austerity measures.
«These developments, together with market concerns about the
future performance of the Chinese economy, are having spillovers to other economies through trade channels and weaker commodity prices,
as well
as through diminishing
confidence and increasing volatility
in financial markets.»
Meanwhile, XLM has managed to capture support from its community with investor
confidence peaking
in anticipation of
future developments
as the currency wants to facilitate cross-border remittances for mostly the unbanked.
Back
in the United States, an abstention of direct investment
in the flexible office industry from a global real estate leader such
as Blackstone coincides with a lack of of
confidence for the country's political and economic
future.
Given the need to make a whole lot of assumptions and my lack of
confidence in my own forecasting abilities, I tend to use the DCF more
as a tool to figure out what the market is implying the cash flows to be
in the
future assuming a certain discount rate and terminal growth.
Examples of these risks, uncertainties and other factors include, but are not limited to the impact of: adverse general economic and related factors, such
as fluctuating or increasing levels of unemployment, underemployment and the volatility of fuel prices, declines
in the securities and real estate markets, and perceptions of these conditions that decrease the level of disposable income of consumers or consumer
confidence; adverse events impacting the security of travel, such
as terrorist acts, armed conflict and threats thereof, acts of piracy, and other international events; the risks and increased costs associated with operating internationally; our expansion into and investments
in new markets; breaches
in data security or other disturbances to our information technology and other networks; the spread of epidemics and viral outbreaks; adverse incidents involving cruise ships; changes
in fuel prices and / or other cruise operating costs; any impairment of our tradenames or goodwill; our hedging strategies; our inability to obtain adequate insurance coverage; our substantial indebtedness, including the ability to raise additional capital to fund our operations, and to generate the necessary amount of cash to service our existing debt; restrictions
in the agreements governing our indebtedness that limit our flexibility
in operating our business; the significant portion of our assets pledged
as collateral under our existing debt agreements and the ability of our creditors to accelerate the repayment of our indebtedness; volatility and disruptions
in the global credit and financial markets, which may adversely affect our ability to borrow and could increase our counterparty credit risks, including those under our credit facilities, derivatives, contingent obligations, insurance contracts and new ship progress payment guarantees; fluctuations
in foreign currency exchange rates; overcapacity
in key markets or globally; our inability to recruit or retain qualified personnel or the loss of key personnel;
future changes relating to how external distribution channels sell and market our cruises; our reliance on third parties to provide hotel management services to certain ships and certain other services; delays
in our shipbuilding program and ship repairs, maintenance and refurbishments;
future increases
in the price of, or major changes or reduction
in, commercial airline services; seasonal variations
in passenger fare rates and occupancy levels at different times of the year; our ability to keep pace with developments
in technology; amendments to our collective bargaining agreements for crew members and other employee relation issues; the continued availability of attractive port destinations; pending or threatened litigation, investigations and enforcement actions; changes involving the tax and environmental regulatory regimes
in which we operate; and other factors set forth under «Risk Factors»
in our most recently filed Annual Report on Form 10 - K and subsequent filings by the Company with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
The final words of the book apply to all campaigners
as well
as to Denis and Valerie themselves: «We face the uncertainties of the
future with
confidence,
in the knowledge that God will provide us with the grace and strength we may need.»
obligation
in relation to each public moral issue
as it arises; a word of the retrieval of the culture's most creative ideals and institutions; a world of judgment on the culture's present and potential sins; a word of forgiveness whenever it is repentant; a word of promise and so of
confidence (
in God, if not
in itself) for the
future.
As Christmas and Easter are commonly celebrated by perhaps the majority of celebrants, any latter - day «prophet» might be constrained to cry out, «Thus says the Lord, «I hate, I repudiate your feasts...»» It is perfectly clear, however, that the articulation and, indeed, the very preservation of Christian faith requires the cultic enactment of birth and death and resurrection — this appropriation of the past for the present and the consequent faithful union of time
in hope and
confidence in the
future.
Some research has even suggested that viewing traumatic images
in the news can cause PTSD - like symptoms, such
as panic attacks, anxiety, worrying about
future harm, and reducing our self -
confidence.
Further, the experience of the present is a guarantee of the
future,
as the parables we discussed earlier
in this chapter show,
in that they challenge men to learn from their experience
in the present to have
confidence in the
future.
But the BFG announced that this would be his last season
as a player and we expected him to kept
as a reserve while he learned his
future coaching duties, but due to injuries and
confidence issues with both Rob Holding and Calum Chambers, Wenger has had no choice but to keep Mertesacker
in the first Starting XI, while Mo Elneny has had to cover
in central defence for the reserves.
The 24 - year - old is currently sidelined with a meniscus injury and so will have to work to get back to full fitness
in the new year having yet to feature for Barcelona this season, and reports that he is on the market will undoubtedly be a blow to his
confidence as his
future could lie elsewhere.
I believe if he keeps up the great attitude and performances, he will be our next captain after Arteta
as he has exactly the right temperament and
confidence needed to lead our squad
in the near
future.
Play Wilshere, he needs this for
confidence, he's the
future of arsenal and England... a gunner at heart, may be substituted or come
in as a substitute.
After promising Theo Walcott that his
future lies
as a main striker
in an effort to get the Englishman to sign a new contract extension, Le Prof could give Theo a big vote of
confidence by starting him
in this crucial match, but will he rely once again on Giroud proving that he can bounce back once again?
But the way we have to think about that is not too much how big they are - for our pride and for our
confidence, for our
future as a team, even
in the Europa League, you want to win the games.»
In future updates, for dichotomous data, we will present results
as summary risk ratios with 95 %
confidence intervals.
Overall
confidence in the economic
future is strong, but less
in New York than the country
as a whole.
The governor, who also promised to engage some of them
in future as a means of giving them
confidence that they had been fully integrated into the PDP, added, «I believe strongly that within the next one year, the PDP family will be completely together».
If you ask someone the question «if there were an election tomorrow, who would you vote for», this is not the same
as calculating the expected value of their
future answer
in 2015, for the simple reason that there is not an election tomorrow, nor will there be, barring the «political lightning» of an unexpected no -
confidence vote.
Day and Meyers both said they had no
confidence the county was rectifying the spending side of the budget problems
as things currently stood, and feared new deficits
in the near
future.
Such thinking gradually erodes your sense of self - worth
as well
as self -
confidence especially when one gets rejected, which
in fact hurts your
future chances of securing jobs, which then further damages self -
confidence, eventually locking the person into a vicious cycle of defeat.
«This quantitative attribution of human and natural climate influences on the IPWP expansion increases our
confidence in the understanding of the causes of past changes
as well
as for projections of
future changes under further greenhouse warming,» commented Seung - Ki Min, a professor with POSTECH's School of Environmental Science and Engineering.
Physicists now have increased
confidence that the techniques used to reduce ELMs
in current fusion machines will be able to reduce ELMs
in larger machines
in the
future,
as long
as they are designed to be compatible with lithium.
Confidence is defined
as: «the quality of being certain of your abilities or of having trust
in people, plans, or the
future.»
Although the company itself has assured us there is a
future in console games for them, reports like this don't inspire much
confidence,
as the decisions they have been making,
as lamented by gamers
as they are, seem to have struck gold from a business perspective.
This year's results on the Index will provide baseline data
as we continue to track
confidence in educational technology
in future reports.
It can also help to build students
confidence and skills
in science,
as one student described the change that participating
in CREST had made to their
future plans: «CREST gave me the
confidence to think that I could actually achieve a career
in science and be the first one
in my family to go to university.»
With this information
in hand, we can breakdown the
future model lineup with relative
confidence, filling
in the gaps
as we go.
As a result he will have more
confidence in organizing his ideas on his own for
future projects.
I think what she saw
in Scott was at first what she dreamt would be his
future, due to unearthing his own desire to succeed
as a writer, and inside that moment, she saw herself gaining the
confidence to dare to be something more than what she was originally expected to become... a child bearing housewife with a full social calendar.
As authors today can decide which path they want to choose with increasing
confidence, we'll probably see a rise
in hybrid authors
in the
future.
Given the need to make a whole lot of assumptions and my lack of
confidence in my own forecasting abilities, I tend to use the DCF more
as a tool to figure out what the market is implying the cash flows to be
in the
future assuming a certain discount rate and terminal growth.
Some possible areas for improvement (beyond changing the value criteria, which I have written about previously and will continue to feature different criteria
in the
future) would be to focus on each individual company's technical trend using moving averages, trendlines, use of proprietary trend trading services like Trend TV, or other trend strategies such
as those discussed
in Trend Trading for a Living: Learn the Skills and Gain the
Confidence to Trade for a Living (a book I recently reviewed for Seeking Alpha).
Gold mining company reserves
in the ground should gain appreciation
as the market loses
confidence in «paper gold» assets
as the physical gold market tightens with increased investment flows and the ratio of gold
futures contracts to warehouse inventories rises punctuates the scarcity of physical gold to the amount derivative gold instruments traded on a daily basis.
Managed to get into a couple of great matches while maintaining Sweet Tooth.You guy's would do wonders if included either of the following below
as future DLC.Apologize on behalf of my selfish needs of this highly anticipated title, but it will definitely boost my
confidence in pre ordering.thanks again S - Kill, Omar, daT ClackWerk n all SuperBot ent Staff for your hard work.
Like Broken Age, it's another softly - spoken point and click adventure, but here, it's so aesthetically brazen — especially
as their own
confidence in their methods has increased from release to release — that it's accompanied by this sense that its developers are from a far -
future, and have time travelled back to now, dropped this on our laps, and humbly said «this is how storytelling
in videogames will eventually work
in a few centuries».
Through Amy's clear communication and descriptions of these scary money topics, I can now say
in confidence that I can hold a long, financially sound
future as -LSB-...]
Through Amy's clear communication and descriptions of these scary money topics, I can now say
in confidence that I can hold a long, financially sound
future as a professional artist.»
Mark — What are your thoughts about the analysis by Ramanathan and Feng (PNAS, Sept 17,2008: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0803838105),
in which they calculate the committed warming of cumulative emissions since the pre-industrial era
as in the region of 2.4 °C (with a
confidence interval of 1.4 °C to 4.3 °C), based on calculating the equilibrium temperature if GHG concentrations are held at 2005 levels into the
future.
Despite an oversupply of credits and waning
confidence in the CDM from both market players and civil society watchdogs, the report presented an optimistic and biased view of the CDM and its
future while failing to recommend concrete solutions to address some of its fundamental flaws, such
as additionality testing.
With respect to
confidence in the
future based on hindcasts of the past, I would only say that even with The Perfect Model (tm) the hindcasts can only be
as good
as the data they are given.