Sentences with phrase «increasing uncertainty»

«The continued shortage of affordable housing inventory, coupled with prolonged natural disasters concentrated in the nation's most populous Latino states and increasing uncertainty over immigration policy, have created significant hurdles for Latino homeownership and economic saliency,» the report states.

«Increasing uncertainty and apprehension about the future state of the economy and labor market, no doubt a result of the recent slowdown in job growth, are the primary reasons for the sharp reversal in confidence,» said Lynn Franco, director of Conference Board's consumer research center.

With increasing uncertainty about graduate employment prospects, and the average student now graduating with a debt of approximately # 50,000, universities are coming under ever - increased scrutiny over the value for money they provide.

In line with increasing uncertainty in global economies, top talent is likely to be attracted to organisations able to demonstrate strong financial backing, positive management culture, and tangible competitive advantages in their industry.

As North Korea is increasing uncertainty through its nuclear weapon programs and other acts of espionage, not to mention increasing the public's distrust of centralized financial authorities by hacking state banking, people in the region are turning in record numbers to cryptocurrency as an alternate economic system.

With high valuations and increasing uncertainty in the world's stock markets, it is no surprise that investors are looking for stable alternatives for investing their money...

Increasing uncertainty is generally accompanied by a challenging business environment.»

We believe this populism will remain centre - stage in European politics for some time, increasing uncertainty and making life uncomfortable for mainstream policy makers.

A note on precedents - a number of leading jurists in many countries have raised red flags that due to the increase in arbitration over litigation that this is actually stifling the development of the law in common law jurisdictions thereby increasing uncertainty about the law and therefore compliance costs.

The rest term is stochastic of ever increasing uncertainty (variace - > inf).

Thereafter the agreement becomes increasingly less certain and this increasing uncertainty is indicated on the graph by the graduated broken lines.

Attributing the 1900 - 1940 changes in this SST / Global anomaly difference, you need to be wary of the increasing uncertainty in the SST & Global temperature anomalies for earlier parts of the temperature record.

Thus increasing uncertainty rises the tail and increases the likelihood of catastrophic outcome.

In the Weitzman framework, if one strips out the fancy mathematics, what is meant by «increasing uncertainty» is still «increasing the likelihood attributed to catastrophic scenarios» (it is a convention that increasing the spread in the probability distribution of some scalar — in this case, some proxy for «harm» — is called «increasing uncertainty»).

What are the consequences of increasing uncertainty?

Now consider the consequences of increasing uncertainty on damage costs: Although mean sensitivity is the same across both panels, the average expected damage increases with uncertainty — the mean damage in Panel A is lower than in Panel B.

Each new finding is reducing, not increasing uncertainty about that period, and points more consistently at 3C being a pretty solid core estimate for ECS.

Of greater concern, according to the report, is the erosion of investor confidence caused by increasing uncertainty surrounding government support policies for renewables.

Statistical analysis by Lewandowsky et al. finds that, contrary to our intuition, «increasing uncertainty is necessarily associated with greater expected damages from warming, provided the function relating warming to damages is convex.»

However, for all the success of East African tea, producers are now facing increasing uncertainty over their futures.

Increasing Uncertainty How do Lepczyk and his collaborators arrive at these figures?

Increasing uncertainty and apprehension about the future state of the economy and labor market, no doubt a result of the recent slowdown in job growth, are the primary reasons for the sharp reversal in confidence.

When investors today look to the market in times of increasing uncertainty, I often look back to the lessons I've learnt from Chuck & others.

Longer life spans, increasing uncertainty about Social Security, and the decline of pensions all have made retirement harder and more do - it - yourself than at any point in history.

With increasing uncertainty about the election outcome and resulting policies, markets pushed the trading range lower over the last two weeks.

As greed and desperation take control onboard their claustrophobic vessel, the increasing uncertainty of the mission causes the men to turn on each other to fight for their own survival.

«For South Asia, mobile phone usage shows how the informal worker tries to do her best to adapt to increasing uncertainty about both work and wage,» he said.

The Business Council strongly urges the Administration to rethink the proposed «grandfathering» amendments, which impose significant modifications to the current terms and conditions for sites» participation in the BCP, thereby increasing uncertainty and raising a future barrier to entry to the BCP.

This asymmetry of goals translates into mistrust, creating failures and sub-optimality in the market by increasing uncertainty and risk.

Into extra-time and Kelly pulled off a further two stupendous saves, increasing the uncertainty of the fate of a game which Wednesday thoroughly deserved to have already won in the regulated 90 minutes.

Arsenal have made central midfield and central defence their transfer priorities this year amid increasing uncertainty over the future of England midfielder Jack Wilshere.

As the social structure became more complicated, with increasing power in the hands of a few and increasing uncertainty in the status of the many, economic inequality became more, rather than less, pronounced and the slave system was alike more firmly established and more ethically troublesome.

However, the chances of her party gaining significant support in the election tailed off when the Tokyo governor confirmed her reluctance to stand for parliament herself, increasing uncertainty about the opposition's strategy.

Increasing uncertainty about growth prospects for China and other emerging - market economies, in contrast, is raising questions about the pace of the global recovery.

But for most middle - and even upper - middle - income earners, the prospect of making one's savings stretch into what seems like an endless retirement is a daunting one, increasing the uncertainty around how to invest, how to pay for medical care, and whether you can leave a legacy behind for the kids or your community.

French bond yields widened their gap against German bunds on Tuesday morning as opinion polls showed increased uncertainty regarding who will become the next president of France.

That increases the uncertainty about future subscriber levels.

This undoubtedly increased uncertainty about the sustainability of the dollar's appreciation.

Moody's Investors Service said Thursday it may cut Barclay's A2 credit rating, and cited increased uncertainty for the business in the wake of the departure of its three top executives.

«Actively managed funds must increase uncertainty by their very nature — they can and usually do underperform.»

As history has taught us, inflation distorts decision - making in the economy, discourages saving, and increases uncertainty about the future.

Indeed, because the Trump proposal would redistribute after - tax income towards those most likely to save it, push up long - term interest rates because of debt pressures, increase uncertainty and the advantages of overseas production, it is as likely to retard growth as to accelerate it.

In this environment of increased uncertainty, I predict that minimum volatility strategies will re-enter the spotlight as a way for investors to maintain equity exposure while seeking less risk.

In the face of increased uncertainty about underlying productivity growth, many economists now argue that a central bank should not try to restrain an expansion until there is visible evidence that inflation is rising.

At the time, I wrote that «the chief effect of Wednesday's action and accompanying statement is to once again increase uncertainty in financial markets» (O'Driscoll 2015).

The increased uncertainty and risk will make it harder for Russian companies to borrow abroad and reduce the amount of inward investment, said Tim Ash at BlueBay Asset Management.

The pull back to 3 % is driven by increased uncertainty in the markets in the last 20 years.

Third, Brexit will undermine confidence and increase uncertainty.

The increasingly strident rhetoric from both sides and absence of consensus among major powers on how to respond to North Korea's actions increased uncertainty, and by early September benchmark Treasury yields had fallen to their lowest level so far this year.

If this is indeed the case then we can expect a great deal of legal wrangling in the future, along with increased uncertainty.