His excuse was that rapidly falling oil prices were creating an
unusual high degree of uncertainty for budget planning and that he needed more time to assess the future course of oil prices and their impact on the economy.
One of the issues faced by B2B companies with
the high degree of uncertainty, global economic turbulence, and a rapidly changing buyer driven and social world is figuring out where the from here to there actually leads to.
Combined with the unexpectedly early departure of the Fed's vice chair, Stanley Fischer, and the three pre-existing vacancies out of the seven seats on the Fed's board of governors, there has remained
a high degree of uncertainty about the future composition of the central bank's leadership.
The results of the fourth wave of Bord Bia's Feeling the Pinch survey, completed in late 2010, also shows
a high degree of uncertainty remains among Irish and British consumers.
«We have
a high degree of uncertainty, market turbulence and lack of confidence that governments in other countries have got a sufficient grip on their economies,» she commented.
While the pattern for Central and Western Europe was one of a consistent increase in flood risk, the study also found that flood risk may actually decrease with warmer temperatures in some countries in Eastern Europe, but those results also show
a high degree of uncertainty.
Agenda 21 gives science a critical role in reducing «
the high degree of uncertainty in present information, which inhibits effective management» of the oceans.
Structured expert judgment has been used for decades in fields where scenarios have
high degrees of uncertainty, most notably nuclear - energy generation, Oppenheimer explained.
«There remains
a high degree of uncertainty about the effectiveness of Mats, and there is not yet the evidence to prove that large - scale expansion would significantly improve the school landscape,» says the report.
But Betts said shifting pupils «creates
a high degree of uncertainty», highlighting issues over which uniforms pupils should wear.
Attractively priced stocks with good quality attributes (e.g. higher profitability or balance sheet strength) are allocated higher weights (up to 0.75 %) while stocks with
a higher degree of uncertainty (e.g. lower profitability or less liquidity) are allocated much smaller weights (typically 0.05 %) to reflect their higher risk / return characteristics.
There is
a high degree of uncertainty in model results.
In terms of climate change model predictions, there is
a high degree of uncertainty in both regions as to what comes next in an anthropogenic climate change scenario.
This is the same science that told us temperatures would rise in line with CO2, and can not explain why there has been no rise for 15 years; the same science that admits that its models have
high degrees of uncertainty and that they are not fine enough to make regional forecasts.
''... support for the effects of climate change on public health and welfare is limited and typified by
a high degree of uncertainty.»
The authors of both papers caution
that high degrees of uncertainty remain, and future work is required to reduce those uncertainties.
The primary problem for forecasting here is
the high degree of uncertainty regarding the long - term price elasticity of energy demand.
There therefore remains
a high degree of uncertainty regarding the level of protection for British tourists post Brexit.
But I do think an additional, underrated factor might be
a high degree of uncertainty within law departments about what their options actually are.
As Jenny Thomas writes in CIOs Move With Caution On New IT Hiring,» «For the first time since the dot - com bust, Janco's metrics show that hiring by CIOs is at a standstill,» said Victor Janulaitis, CEO of Janco Associates, «there is
a high degree of uncertainty in the economic climate.»»
The reason is that if such clause is exercised at any time by the lender, it will impose on the borrower an extreme burden and, as such, introduces
a high degree of uncertainty in the cash - flow projections for the property that will be used as collateral for such a loan.
«There is
a higher degree of uncertainty among investors, and uncertainty is the enemy of both economic growth and capital market fluidity.