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Unfortunately, I graduated in the middle of the global financial crisis which was a tough time for design in general and an even tougher time for a graduate.

Based on the statistics above, what we notice most is how much better the NOBL index has done since inception, now this is somewhat biased as the SDY index has been in existence for longer and this includes during the global financial crisis which significantly impacts its results since inception.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the international legal obligation assumed by states in the area of economic, social and cultural rights (ESCR), and to what extent these obligations can be modified in response to the global financial crisis which has engulfed the world economy since August 2008.

The global financial crisis which occurred about a decade ago is credited with inspiring the invention of Bitcoin (BTC).

«True, there are encouraging signs of economic recovery in those advanced economies most affected by the global financial crisis which erupted in 2008... [but] the report finds that those economic improvements will not be sufficient to absorb the major labor market imbalances that built up in recent years.»

Not exact matches

«In the financial industry, there's been a lot of debate, post — financial crisis, around different approaches to risk and gender difference,» says Brenda Trenowden, global head of funds at ANZ Banking Group in London and a member of the steering committee of the 30 % Club, which works to get more women on corporate boards.

In 2010, in the wake of the financial crisis, the Fed and its global counterparts signed the so - called «Basel III» accords, under which all countries agreed to raise the minimum level of capital banks must hold to 8 % of their risk - adjusted assets.

«Confidence» was the theme of Poloz's opening statement before the House of Commons Finance Committee, which identified a need to restore the faith of Canadians in pursuing business opportunities following the shake - up of the global financial crisis.

It was the first time the portfolio had declined since 2009, which was during the global financial crisis.

GIC, one of the first sovereign funds to invest in Western banks during the global financial crisis, retains the other major investment made at the time, a stake in Citigroup which is profitable at current prices.

Having put off the building of the hotel complex for a number of years after the global financial crisis, construction of the 307 - room DreamMore, which will be is next door to Dollywood, started over two years ago.

During the 2008 - 09 slide, it was the other way around; then, as soon as the global financial crisis was contained and energy traders could see the level at which global demand would bottom out, the price trend reversed itself.

The Caribbean economy has been in a slump for several years, affected by the global financial crisis, which caused a slowdown in tourist visits to regions like the Cayman Islands, Barbados and the Bahamas.

Oil is currently trading at about US$ 45 / bbl, which in current dollars puts it below where it was at the end of 2008, back when global markets were still in the thick of the financial crisis.

«Their caution is a learned behaviour from (quite rightly) protecting themselves during the onslaught of the global financial crisis, which rapidly destroyed human and physical capital,» he added.

It was only a few years later, while I was reading Charles Kindleberger's A Financial History of Western Europe that I learned that the 1873 crisis actually «began» with a stock market crash in Vienna in May, four months before the New York markets fell, which spread to Germany, England and other countries, and the subsequent depression was perhaps the first «global» panic and depression in history.

Ford reclaimed control of its blue oval logo last year after using it and other assets as collateral to borrow $ 23.4 billion in 2006 which allowed the company to weather the global financial crisis.

Notably, the National Financial Work Conference has been the stage for: forming agencies to regulate the insurance and securities industries and bank bailout strategies in 1997, creating banking regulators and listing state - owned banks on exchanges abroad in 2002, creating the sovereign wealth fund, establishing the China Investment Corporation in 2007, which currently has assets of $ 813.5 billion, and developing methodologies for dealing with the global financial crisisFinancial Work Conference has been the stage for: forming agencies to regulate the insurance and securities industries and bank bailout strategies in 1997, creating banking regulators and listing state - owned banks on exchanges abroad in 2002, creating the sovereign wealth fund, establishing the China Investment Corporation in 2007, which currently has assets of $ 813.5 billion, and developing methodologies for dealing with the global financial crisisfinancial crisis of 2008.

This pales in comparison to credit default swaps, which had a notional value that was 100 % of global GDP prior to the 2008 financial crisis.

Another part lies in dealers» risk tolerance, which has declined in many jurisdictions since the global financial crisis.

Australian banks, which were less exposed to the global financial crisis, have been raising their domestic government bond inventories since 2008 and cutting those of corporate bonds since 2010 (Graph 3, centre panel).

After the financial crisis, global bank regulatory bodies established a number of new banking regulations which are having important effects on the credit machine.

(This is the lesson we learned during the recession of 1981 - 82, which for Canada was even more severe than the global financial crisis of 2008 - 09).

The near 9 percent slump in Chinese stocks was their worst performance since the depths of the global financial crisis in 2007 and wiped out what was left of the 2015 gains, which in June has been more than 50 percent.

These reforms are a hangover from the 2008 global financial crisis, which highlighted some vulnerabilities in MMFs — particularly if there were a large number of redemptions.

In addition, a widely used measure of future inflation based on US Treasury Inflation - Protected Securities, which had mirrored the slump in the price of oil and had fallen to its lowest level since the global financial crisis by early February, rebounded in line with the pickup in oil prices.

It has been over 10 years since the start of the global financial crisis, which means we are overdue another one.

Fed signals it's ready to cut balance sheet soon In a statement released after Wednesday's Federal Open Market Committee meeting, the Fed indicated it is ready to begin trimming its balance sheet, which mushroomed in the wake of the global financial crisis.

Regulators responded to the global financial crisis with sweeping changes for both dealers and investors, including constraints on Fed - regulated banks, Dodd - Frank and the Volcker Rule, which prohibits proprietary trading.

The global hunt for yield post — financial crisis has altered the high - yield investor base and broadened the array of vehicles used to gain exposure to the asset class, neither of which enhance the stickiness of exposures.

China's credit rating was downgraded one notch to A + by ratings agency Standard & Poor's (S&P), which cited increased economic and financial risks, following the significant rise in the country's debt levels since the global financial crisis.

«Since the financial crisis there's been a question about whether the value - add from an intermediary fund is worth the cost,» said Ashby Monk, executive director of the Global Projects Center at Stanford University, which studies the movement of financial assets globally.

The US policy response to the global financial crisis was early and aggressive, which is at least partially why its economy bounced back so much more quickly than other major developed markets.

But beyond all debates about what caused the 2008 financial crisis, even during the prosperous years of the aughties a sense of unease was growing, a feeling that if this society was what triumph of global capitalism entailed, in which the small towns shriveled and most manufacturing went overseas, then maybe it wasn't a good thing.

It was owned from 2006 to 2011 by Pacific Equity Partners and Unitas Capital, which geared it up with high debt levels just before the global financial crisis.

The same Chancellor who still tries to claim that a global financial and banking crisis, which began in the USA and echoed round the world, was somehow caused by or made worse by levels of public spending here in Britain — when as Shadow Chancellor, before the crash, he had pledged to match Labour's spending plans.

The global financial crisis has led to a swift resumption in the war over which party has the best...

there is a larger than anticipated impact of our financial crisis and deleveraging on potential output; there has been the global commodity price shocks, exacerbated here by our depreciated exchange rate; and, of course, there is the ongoing uncertainty in the eurozone which is now acknowledged to be having an impact on growth and investment across the world, from the US to China.

The monetary theory that best stood up to the global financial crisis suggests it is fundamentally impossible to close a fiscal deficit when the private sector is paying down debts and the current account is in deficit, which was the UK situation for most of 2010 - 2015.

The collapse of US banking giant Lehman Brothers in September 2008 precipitated a worldwide financial crisis which by 2009 had developed into a serious global economic downturn.

The global financial crisis has led to a swift resumption in the war over which party has the best policies for business.

The global financial crisis of 2008 would be seen as a turning point on par with the winter of discontent of 1978 (after which Margaret Thatcher persuaded Britain that «the state and the trade unions had grown too powerful and that markets needed to be given free reign») and on a par with the establishment of the welfare state in 1948.

According to editor Tiffany Godoy, who is a veteran of the Tokyo fashion industry, a lot of it had to do with the global financial crisis in 2011, followed by the Tōhoku and Fukushima catastrophes, which hurt consumer confidence and saw the world's third - largest economy to fall into years of tepid growth and deflation.

Fairly quickly, the small team become a unit, bordering on family — which is only interrupted when the global financial crisis strikes, robbing Rita of the sub-primed house she foolishly purchased through her latest squeeze, the suitably slick - dick realtor Vic (Mark Consuelos).

Honda CEO Takanobu Ito explained that the 2012 model was developed during the height of the global financial crisis, which led the company to believe that consumers would be willing to forego upscale content and quality in new vehicles so long as they were fuel efficient and affordable.

The US policy response to the global financial crisis was early and aggressive, which is at least partially why its economy bounced back so much more quickly than other major developed markets.

Example include McDonald's, which many believe bears responsibility for the obesity epidemic in this country (see Fast Food Nation and Super Size Me), and Goldman Sachs, which many blame for the global financial crisis (see The Great American Bubble Machine).

As many investors know, the recovery of equity markets since the global financial crisis in 2009 has been dramatically uneven — particularly when comparing the S&P 500 Index to the MSCI ACWI ex USA Index, which boasts 172 % cumulative outperformance since March 2009.

This has proved to be a poor acquisition for the Group, and we acknowledge it, largely due to taking excessive credit risk, the impacts of which came to a head in the 2008 global financial crisis.

We believe many emerging - market countries, most of which reformed their economic and monetary policies after the global financial crisis, appear well positioned for continued growth.