Sentences with phrase «at a consensus of»

While for Bitcoin it takes a few minutes to arrive at a consensus of the ledger (while the full nodes validate the ledger), Ripple guarantees consensus in just a few seconds.

They can look at the consensus of authorities on the subject.

But why look at a consensus of people?

Why not look at a consensus of evidence.

Not exact matches

But Low points out that, in the type of negotiations she studies at least — ones where failing to reach a consensus means everyone goes home with nothing — more aggressive negotiating meant worse negotiating.

The situation is analogous to health care policy in the years before Obamacare, when, in the absence of a federal consensus, Massachusetts pioneered its own law aimed at reforming health insurance (which later became a model for the Affordable Care Act).

«That's what brought 43 members together as a block of the Problem Solvers Caucus,» said Reed, who noted that each of these provisions managed to reach consensus among at least 75 % of the group — the threshold necessary to be included in the collective proposal.

While the NRF no longer provides an estimate in dollar amounts of how the key weekend went, the consensus among analysts and economists is that the 2017 holiday season got off to a great start for the retail sector at large.

Compromise and consensus are at the core of democracy, but they have almost nothing to do with creativity or with supporting and promoting the kinds of singular visions and ideas that are most likely to change the world.

And analysts have their consensus at the tippy - top end of eBay's revenue guide, a penny above the EPS guide — $ 3.89 billion in revenue, 64 cents EPS.

Tableau reported revenue at $ 200 million versus an expectation of $ 201 million, according to Thomson Reuters consensus estimates.

That's short of analyst targets, which a FactSet consensus estimate pegged at $ 1.8 billion.

Earnings per share came in at 50 cents, adjusted, topping the Thomson Reuters consensus that called for a profit of 43 cents a share.

Bloomberg surveyed a bunch of oil traders and energy executives at the conference, and the general sense was that oil would trade between $ 50 and $ 60 per barrel, up from an informal consensus of between $ 40 and $ 60 last year.

The Washington Post reported Thursday that PropOrNot and the nonpartisan Foreign Policy Research Institute both attribute the flood of so - called fake news, or hoax and misleading headlines, during the 2016 election to an elaborate Russian propaganda campaign aimed at sowing distrust in the American political system and undermining public consensus.

The U.S. economy grew at an annual rate of 2.9 % in the third quarter of 2016, above the consensus expectations of 2.6 %.

At Business Insider's panel at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, there was a consensus that the majority of investors don't care about much else beyond quarterly earningAt Business Insider's panel at the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, there was a consensus that the majority of investors don't care about much else beyond quarterly earningat the World Economic Forum's annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland, there was a consensus that the majority of investors don't care about much else beyond quarterly earnings.

Rosenberg thinks the Fed should start increasing rates in early 2015, but acknowledges the consensus sees it more likely at the end of next year or early 2016.

Bain claims it now builds consensus at all management levels of a client company and encourages line managers rather than Bain consultants to present reports to the chief executive.

However, the consensus among panelists speaking on the topic of growth and innovation at the Fortune Most Powerful Women summit was that constraints were the key to new and exciting solutions.

Output growth will peak this year at 2.6 percent and slow in each of the next two years to 1.9 percent in 2019, according to a Bloomberg consensus survey.

Indeed, the consensus at the bank might be shifting in favour of doing precisely that.

Doug Getten, a Houston - based partner in the corporate practice at law firm Paul Hastings, said the recent flurry of deals shows parties are able to reach consensus on the outlook for prices.

The market consensus is that the Federal Reserve will start reducing the size of its bonds - buying program at its rate - setting meeting next week (Sept. 17 - 18).

But a total repeal of Obamacare, at least in the near term, is much easier said than done, and full replacement with new comprehensive legislation seems highly unlikely at this point in time, given that 60 Senate votes will be needed to do so, and Democrats and Republicans appear as far apart as ever in coming to a consensus on a bipartisan strategy to move forward.

THE mining industry is in a vicious cycle with little light at the end of the tunnel.This is the general consensus of opinion among leading mining companies and economic analysts.

«Facilitating negotiations, with the aim of reaching consensus — including over difficult issues — is a key theme of Ramaphosa's presidency,» Pat Thaker, editorial director for the Middle East and Africa at the analysis firm Economist Intelligence Unit, told CNBC on Friday.

It describes how Exxon conducted cutting - edge climate research decades ago and then, without revealing all that it had learned, worked at the forefront of climate denial, manufacturing doubt about the scientific consensus that its own scientists had confirmed.

Similarly, looking at it from an enterprise value basis, assuming a free cash flow margin of 25 % for FY18 (consensus estimates are at 24 %) on sales growth of 12 % (in - line with consensus) along with a EV / FCF multiple of 11x (in - line with the peak multiple leading up to the iPhone 6 cycle), we come up with a stock value in the mid $ 160s as well.

Although most analysts at the time considered my forecasts to be shockingly low and wholly implausible, and thought so even two to three years ago, I have always said that before the end of the decade it will have become the consensus.

And finally, they «re hoping that Friday «s jobs report will hit right at or near the consensus of 195,000 jobs created.

I agree with it, for the most part, but as someone who reads a lot of investing articles, the general consensus among the «experts» seems to be that while we are OK now, within the next couple of years the bull market will end [as they always do at some point], and we will suffer a large crash.

Second, market consensus, as judged by commentary just prior to the Fed statements, had already arrived at the same conclusion - specifically, if economic events transpired as projected, Fed «tapering» would begin sometime in the autumn or early winter of 2013.

As investors, we are generally happier when the consensus is worried and we highlighted some concern about this very point at the beginning of the year.

«Investor focus remains on operating income with the view that guidance is likely to fall below sell - side consensus of $ 1.5 bn,» Heath Terry, an analyst at Goldman, said in a note Wednesday.

For the March interim, share net came in at $ 2.73, topping our $ 2.69 estimate and Wall Street's consensus view of $ 2.67, and rising 30 % above the year - earlier tally.

US dollar threatens crucial levels: The US dollar's consensus - defying climb has the currency approaching pivotal levels at the start of a week that could make or break its rally.

According to two officials, Trump's decision to launch a potential trade war was born out of anger at other simmering issues and the result of a broken internal process that has failed to deliver him consensus views that represent the best advice of his team.

However, while the consensus was right on the direction of the dollar, it was wrong on at least one implication of a stronger greenback: small - cap outperformance.

On the prospect of recession, I'm reasonably well - known as one of the only economists who correctly warned in real - time of oncoming recessions in October 2000 and again in November 2007 — both points where the consensus of economic forecasters indicated no expectation of oncoming trouble at all.

The week's most anticipated economic release came out in pre-market trading today, and the US CPI perfectly matched the consensus estimate at a monthly rate of...

After demand for a solution to the proof - of - work problem was expressed at Devcon Shanghai earlier this year, Tendermint stepped in with a minimum modification of GoEthereum that includes Byzantine fault - tolerant consensus.

«What is striking at the moment is the lack of a broader consensus between policy makers about what monetary policy can achieve and what it should do in the current situation,» said Jan Bopp, asset allocation strategist at Bank J Safra Sarasin.

«First quarter results are disappointing across all divisions except investment banking and we do not expect consensus to upgrade but potentially see risks of downgrades,» Kian Abouhossein, an analyst at JPMorgan Chase & Co. said in a note to clients.

A real - time GDP tracker from the Atlanta Fed suggests that the economy only expanded at a 1 percent annualized rate in the third quarter, well below the current consensus estimate of 2.5 percent.

Alan Greenspan was known as adept at gaining consensus among Fed board members on policy issues and for serving during one of the most severe economic crises of the late 20th century, the aftermath of the stock market crash of 1987.

For much of my career I pretty much accepted the consensus, but as I started to think more seriously about the components of the balance of payments, I realized that when Keynes at Bretton Woods argued for a hybrid currency (which he called «bancor») to serve as the global reserve currency, and not the US dollar, he wasn't only expressing his dismay about the transfer of international status from Britain to the US.

Of course, a new consensus that Canada's productivity is actually better than previously estimated shouldn't discourage the adoption of measures in government and industry targeted at improving productivity growtOf course, a new consensus that Canada's productivity is actually better than previously estimated shouldn't discourage the adoption of measures in government and industry targeted at improving productivity growtof measures in government and industry targeted at improving productivity growth.

Denise Morrison, CEO of Campbell Soup, candidly states that innovation was stifled at her company because leadership sought to drive organizational consensus (i.e., «something we can all agree on») instead of rewarding the courage to address the hard problems.

In effect, many of the basic economic and ideological conflicts of the country were built into the commission from the outset, and the process of writing a report inevitably became an effort at consensus building.