It's a role they historically have played well in draw - downs caused
by economic deterioration and other risk - off periods.
Not exact matches
Despite a years - long political and
economic deterioration and months of violence, Maduro has maintained about 20 % support among Venezuelans, but his constituent assembly has been rejected
by an overwhelming majority of the country and drawn international rebuke.
Using the sensitivity analysis provided
by the Department of Finance in the April Budget, a reduction in real
economic growth of 0.6 percentage point would result in
deterioration in the budget balance of approximately $ 2.5 billion in 2015 - 16.
With the S&P 500 within about 8 % of its highest level in history, with historically reliable valuation measures at obscene levels, implying near - zero 10 - 12 year S&P 500 nominal total returns; with an extended period of extreme overvalued, overbought, overbullish conditions replaced
by deterioration in market internals that signal a clear shift toward risk - aversion among investors; with credit spreads on low - grade debt blowing out to multi-year highs; and with leading
economic measures deteriorating rapidly, we continue to classify market conditions within the most hostile return / risk profile we identify — a classification that has been observed in only about 9 % of history.
It has to be recognized that the
deterioration of conditions and the process of mass marginalization produced
by the globalization of the
economic model is producing a certain amount of demoralization in certain Third World areas and that some too sanguine expectations of the Sixties and Seventies have to be reassessed.
This patience, which is complemented
by a gritty determination to see real legal and
economic reforms take hold, is all the more striking in that Ukraine must confront daily the cultural and social
deterioration created
by the sad reality of Homo Sovieticus: men and women who grew up under a brutal political system that was built on falsehoods, that maintained itself through terror, and that taught everyone that trust in another human being can be very costly.
Child Abuse Declines Nationally in Spite of
Economic Deterioration Child abuse declined nationally in 2008 compared to 2007, according to a new report
by the Crimes against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire.
The
economic theory on which this plan is based is highly - contentious and given the continuance of the
deterioration in the nation's (and Europe's) finances, it is being challenged
by the alternative strategies like never before.
Some argued that the ancients were felled
by a wave of foreign invaders or a
deterioration of trade routes that led to
economic failure.
The Brazil that was immune to the effects of the global crisis of 2008 shows at present signs of
economic deterioration characterized
by low GDP growth and the return of inflation, which could mean the existence of a process of
economic stagnation with inflation (stagflation).
Credit ratings and pricing of the Company's investments can be negatively affected
by liquidity, credit
deterioration, financial results,
economic risk, political risk, sovereign risk or other factors.
Overall, my impression is that the near - term dynamics of the market are likely to be dominated
by this sort of speculative trend following activity - primarily because it will probably still take another 4 - 8 weeks until sensitive coincident
economic measures (such as ISM figures and new claims for unemployment) begin to predictably reflect the
deterioration we've seen in various composites of leading indicators.
The 2007 bear market and 1987 crash were preceded
by clear signs of
economic deterioration, particularly in the housing market (Housing Starts, New Home Sales, Existing Home Sales, Pending Sales).
«If we have not succeeded
by 2030,» says Lester Brown, president of Worldwatch, «environmental
deterioration and
economic decline will be feeding on each other, causing social structures to disintegrate.»
Further, the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) defines land degradation as a reduction or loss in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas of the biological or
economic productivity and complexity of rain - fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, forest and woodlands resulting from land uses or from a process or combination of processes, including those arising from human activities and habitation patterns, such as: (i) soil erosion caused
by wind and / or water; (ii)
deterioration of the physical, chemical, and biological or
economic properties of soil; and (iii) long - term loss of natural vegetation.
The United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification defines land degradation as a reduction or loss in arid, semi-arid, and dry sub-humid areas, of the biological or
economic productivity and complexity of rain - fed cropland, irrigated cropland, or range, pasture, forest, and woodlands resulting from land uses or from a process or combination of processes, including processes arising from human activities and habitation patterns, such as (i) soil erosion caused
by wind and / or water; (ii)
deterioration of the physical, chemical and biological or
economic properties of soil; and (iii) long - term loss of natural vegetation.