Sentences with phrase «be at a larger risk»

Theft is a big problem in North Carolina as well as in every other state in the country, and people who are renting are going to be at a larger risk of theft than others.

This protection is very important, as you have most likely invested thousands of dollars into your things, and they may be at a larger risk that you understand.

Not exact matches

That liberty can be difficult to come by at large corporations where the name of the game is to not rock the boat or do anything that might put existing revenue streams at risk.

Both large and small companies are at risk.

NEI filed shareholder resolutions last year with five of the largest Canadian banks calling for them to consider vertical ratios and assess the risks of horizontal benchmarking — setting salaries by comparing what CEOs at rival banks are paid, a practice that some shareholders argue has led to skyrocketing compensation packages.

Just this month, as part of the first large - scale clinical trial of its kind, researchers working in rural India found that newborns who were given a synbiotic were at a substantially lower risk of developing sepsis, a potentially fatal condition characterized by severe infection.

Construction work and other businesses that would have catered to the world's largest online retailer could be at risk too.

So with one group of shareholders essentially writing a very large check to the government for all shareholders to reap the benefits of lower corporate income taxes in the future, it begs the question: Are the shareholders who are most at risk in an inversion scenario even aware of this disadvantaAre the shareholders who are most at risk in an inversion scenario even aware of this disadvantaare most at risk in an inversion scenario even aware of this disadvantage?

iBwave knew the Canadian market wasn't large enough, so, in 2004, the firm's management decided to risk $ 15,000 on a booth at a small Miami trade show that drew mobile carriers and equipment suppliers.

However, the decline in GDP growth was much larger at 4pp (to -1.1 % y / y from 3.1 % prior to the increase in the VAT), implying significant downside risk to our estimates.»

After all, without risk there is no business,» writes Leigh Buchanan, editor - at - large for Inc..

With Fox selling ad space at more than $ 5 million for each 30 - second spot, companies seeking brand visibility on the world's largest stage are risking an expensive disappointment if their commercials fall flat.

In 2007 and 2008, we could do the calculations of how much that had to be paid by whom, and we can see that that wasn't going to happen, and that we were going to have a financial bust... By and large, economically we are at the part of the cycle that is not too hot and not too cold, and assets have the right risk premiums, and so on.

Our employees are free to take positive risks knowing that they will not solely be judged on a company's profit margin, but also on factors that all of us at Virgin value, like raising awareness of the brand, creating happy and loyal customers or making a positive impact on the larger community.

Even if regulators sign off on the deals, there are risks to execution for both Walmart and CVS, as they try to integrate health insurance, pharmacy, and primary care services at such a large scale.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

One reason for looking at junk bonds is that the firms that issue junk bonds are closer on the risk continuum to a large mass of firms that are too small and too weak to issue bonds at all, and that rely on banks or the informal capital market for funds.

Your personal finances are at risk Unless you have a large, established business — and even sometimes if you do — the bank may require you to personally guarantee your credit card.

That said, I actually think this is less likely; insurance operates best at more scale, not less: first and foremost, the larger the pool, the more risk can be spread, as well as obvious efficiency gains in administration.

At a briefing on Thursday in Beijing, Mr. Liu, deputy head of the commission's prudential regulation bureau, said that his agency was looking into «systemic risk of some large enterprises,» according to numerous media accounts, and that the risk could spread to other institutions.

A swing trade is simply any trade where the reward is at least twice as large as the risk.

A similar risk is at large today in a world where many countries are unprepared to meet their demographics future in the form of the retirement needs of an aging population.

Because small businesses are considered higher risk than their larger cousins, the SBA loan guarantee helps banks offer more flexible loan terms, meaning borrowers can be approved even if they have fewer assets than what would be required with a traditional term loan at the bank.

The fact that this ratio is now at the bottom band for most broadly defined stock indices suggests that the risk of continued underperformance by the broad market - versus large - cap indices - is substantially less than it was on April 5th, or even June 30th, when the most recent downdraft started.

Students who rack up a large amount of debt and begin their careers in an entry - level position can be particularly at risk, especially if they owe larger monthly payments on high - interest debt, such as private student loans.

«In terms of liquidity, not only do our largest firms now have the right kind and amount of liquidity calibrated to their funding needs and to their likely run risk in stressed conditions, but they also are required to know where it is at all times and to ensure it is positioned or readily accessible where it is most likely to be needed in resolution.»

The largest living generation, millennials appear to be much less at risk from the effects of the anchoring bias than baby boomers.

This is known as «dollar - cost averaging» and can reduce the risk of buying a large quantity of gold at a high price.

Ramp up took longer for Luke then he thought it would and he's concerned that if he doesn't close a large deal or beef up his pipeline he will be at risk of losing his position.

In addition, the risk of fiscal slippage has also diminished given the government's large fiscal adjustment over 2015 - 2016, suggesting a transition to the B3 rating level in coming years is unlikely at this point.

Axel Threlfall, Reuters Editor - at - Large, chats with David Craig, President of Financial & Risk at Thomson Reuters, and Peter Smith, CEO of Blockchain, about the impact blockchain is having and will have on the financial services industry.

But if this risk is too great at the moment, an attractive place to be could be in domestic - focused, small - and mid-cap stocks, which have limited exposure to international trade compared to their large - cap siblings.

Specifically, Defendants made false and / or misleading statements and / or failed to disclose that: (i) the Company was engaged in predatory lending practices that saddled subprime borrowers and / or those with poor or limited credit histories with high - interest rate debt that they could not repay; (ii) many of the Company's customers were using Qudian - provided loans to repay their existing loans, thereby inflating the Company's revenues and active borrower numbers and increasing the likelihood of defaults; (iii) the Company was providing online loans to college students despite a governmental ban on the practice; (iv) the Company was engaged overly aggressive and improper collection practices; (v) the Company had understated the number of its non-performing loans in the Registration Statement and Prospectus; (vi) because of the Company's improper lending, underwriting and collection practices it was subject to a heightened risk of adverse actions by Chinese regulators; (vii) the Company's largest sales platform and strategic partner, Alipay, and Ant Financial, could unilaterally cap the APR for loans provided by Qudian; (viii) the Company had failed to implement necessary safeguards to protect customer data; (ix) data for nearly one million Company customers had been leaked for sale to the black market, including names, addresses, phone numbers, loan information, accounts and, in some cases, passwords to CHIS, the state - backed higher - education qualification verification institution in China, subjecting the Company to undisclosed risks of penalties and financial and reputational harm; and (x) as a result of the foregoing, Qudian's public statements were materially false and misleading at all relevant times.

This is an incredibly large number and that is why even the relatively small percentage decline in prices last year has put the entire economy at risk.

Charts that have violent up and down swings are not considered to have solid chart structure as I like to place my stops at 10 - day highs or 10 - day lows and if the charts have a tight pattern that will allow the trader to minimize risk which is what trading is all about and if the chart has big swings your stop will be further away allowing the possibility of larger monetary loss.

In our view, gold is exceptionally cheap at the moment because the radical monetary policies practiced by the world's leading central banks have led to an egregious mispricing of risk by investors at large.

The plumbing and mechanics of the synthetic gold market, in our opinion, are symptomatic of a more generalized preoccupation in the financial markets at large for risk mitigation, and a quest for greater leverage during a market phase where returns have been compressed by an excess of capital.

At the time of the merger, Willis was the third - largest insurance broker in the world, operating in approximately 120 countries, while Towers Watson was a leading provider of risk management and consulting services.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Canada's housing market is 10 % overvalued, with the biggest risks in condominium overbuilding and uncertainty over how many investors are buying, but the risk of a U.S. - style collapse is low, a top executive at Canada's second largest bank said on Monday.

The presence of Merrill Lynch in the mix is neutral factor for the organization from a risk perspective, but BAC as a whole does not compare that well to its large bank peers looking at the Y - 9 performance report published by federal regulators.

So let's assume a free market in which, on average, mortgages are risk - weighted at 40 %, lending to large international firms at 50 % and to SMEs at 70 %.

While the average indicator rate on large business variable - rate loans, at 8.0 per cent, is now higher than the corresponding rate for small businesses, the all - up borrowing cost to large business remains lower than for small businesses since customer risk margins for the former are, on average, finer than those for the latter.

In California, the risk capital test considers whether there is attempt by an issuer to (1) raise funds for a business venture or enterprise (2) through an indiscriminate offering to the public at large, (3) where the investor is in a passive position to affect the success of the enterprise, and (4) the investor's money is substantially at risk because it is inadequately secured.

Looking a the chart, investors and traders may conclude that shares are attractive, although this may come at a large risk.

These are not because the maximum risk a typical household faces during its life cycle is larger than it formerly was, but because many more households are now staying at or near their maximum risk position for a longer period.

One of our largest trading relationships has been put at risk by the perceived snub offered to Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in Vietnam in November when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau missed a scheduled press conference intended to announce that Canada, Japan and nine other Trans - Pacific Partnership countries had reached agreement in principle on a revised trade pact.

However, large catholic families are at risk because she targets pastoral implementation of a doctrine that she herself, the thought being at the core realist aristotelian, would not object to.

Without conceptually clarified boundaries, any religious tradition risks being dissolved into culture at large and thereby loses its critical edge vis - a-vis the social and political environment.

But famine, like a plague, spreads, and, «In reality it's a very large food security crisis involving a number of countries and millions at risk,» said Golden, referring to the crisis situation in vast regions of east Africa.