Sentences with phrase «interest environment which»

While Red Dead Redemption gets repetitive at times, it still offers fun gameplay mixed with a solid story and interesting environment which, overall, leads to a very solid game.

Not exact matches

To me, this was interesting enough to include in my own 2008 - 2010 research, From Startup to Maturity, in which I interviewed employees who worked in both startup and established company environments.

In the later stages of an expansion — where we are now — basic materials are a good play, as are financials in this rising interest - rate environment, which creates lucrative spreads for banks and financial services companies.

A number of factors — such as rising US interest rates, the recurrence of big fluctuations in global currencies, and the widening dispersion of equity returns across sectors and regions — may have helped to create an increasingly conducive environment for hedge - fund strategies, which have seen a positive turnaround in performance in recent quarters.

The TopRank team works really well together, bringing to each team meeting various areas of expertise and interest, which makes for a well - rounded environment here in our Lake Minnetonka office.

The threshold, target, and maximum percentage business line goals shown for the named executives listed in the table above were derived using certain assumptions for 2008 with respect to the general economic, interest rate, credit, and regulatory environment in which we operate and certain assumptions as to the outlook for the businesses each of them managed.

B.C.'s new NDP government is trying to block expansion of the Trans Mountain in court by arguing that Ottawa failed to evaluate the project's risks to the marine environment, which B.C. says is a breach of its obligation to consider the national interest.

Investments in asset backed and mortgage backed securities are subject to prepayment risk which can limit the potential for gain during a declining interest rate environment and increases the potential for loss in a rising interest rate environment.

Given the absence of a public trading market of our common stock, and in accordance with the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Accounting and Valuation Guide, Valuation of Privately - Held Company Equity Securities Issued as Compensation, our board of directors exercised reasonable judgment and considered numerous and subjective factors to determine the best estimate of fair value of our common stock, including independent third - party valuations of our common stock; the prices at which we sold shares of our convertible preferred stock to outside investors in arms - length transactions; the rights, preferences, and privileges of our convertible preferred stock relative to those of our common stock; our operating results, financial position, and capital resources; current business conditions and projections; the lack of marketability of our common stock; the hiring of key personnel and the experience of our management; the introduction of new products; our stage of development and material risks related to our business; the fact that the option grants involve illiquid securities in a private company; the likelihood of achieving a liquidity event, such as an initial public offering or a sale of our company given the prevailing market conditions and the nature and history of our business; industry trends and competitive environment; trends in consumer spending, including consumer confidence; and overall economic indicators, including gross domestic product, employment, inflation and interest rates, and the general economic outlook.

[24] We can not fail to praise the commitment of international agencies and civil society organizations which draw public attention to these issues and offer critical cooperation, employing legitimate means of pressure, to ensure that each government carries out its proper and inalienable responsibility to preserve its country's environment and natural resources, without capitulating to spurious local or international interests.

This could make market liquidity more fragile in the short term, especially in the current low interest rate environment, in which new - issue volume and the participation of interest rate - sensitive investors have increased.

Investments in mortgage - backed securities are subject to prepayment risk, which can limit the potential for gain during a declining interest rate environment and increase the potential for loss in a rising interest rate environment.

HSBC Armenia's net profit in the 12 months to December 31, 2009, was 1.6 billion drams ($ 4 million), which was down from 2008 levels but perhaps reflects a difficult operating environment in 2009, with slight declines in net interest and fee and commission income compared to the same 12 - month period in 2008.

An inverted yield curve is an interest rate environment in which long - term debt instruments have a lower yield than short - term debt instruments of the same credit quality.

It is interesting that you are skewing towards a larger bond portfolio in a rising interest rate environment which is not what most advisors would recommend.

«An environment where interest rates are kept below levels which most people would consider being normal.»

We are witnessing a replay of the 1970's era inflation as oil and interest rates (which track each other) rise in a shrinking economic environment.

To me it looks like that in the short term and in the current yield starved environment, investors seem to prefer the dividend yield compared to the ecoenomically better share buy backs which I find very interesting.

I've recently noticed a significant amount of mania - like behavior in which investors simply ignore valuations and it does feel like we're in the euphoric stage of the bull market in which everyone can make money from stocks and the low interest - rate environment has helped perpetuate it.

In the present environment of ultra-low interest rates which will no doubt head back up at some point, interest rate risk is certainly top of mind.

As of last week, tax - exempt government bonds hit a four year high, with many investors believing that the recent tax reform and an expected rising interest environment will push bond pricing even higher, offering a very attractive economic option for yield starved investors — many of which in recent years have had to increase risk capital allocations to generate reasonable outcomes.

This also means that triple net lease REITs, which are often used by yield - hungry investors in a low interest rate environment as bond alternatives, can be thought of as very long - term duration bond proxies.

Not only do Wall Street and investors look to faster growing stocks to lead the stock market higher during bull markets, but the current low interest rate environment remains conducive to borrowing, which should allow high - growth stocks to outpace their competition.

With duration in mind, which bond segments should investors consider in a potentially rising interest rate environment?

When you put that up against an urban environment, which also has its own set of rhythms and its own heartbeat in a way, you can start to draw out a lot of interesting comparisons there — how urban and rural rhythms can match up at some times and, in other times, they're drastically different.

Given this confinement, they have had little direct access to the great social questions of the day... [They are] encouraging nostalgic attachments to former ways of life... and abandoning the victims of social dislocation in rapidly changing urban environments... They appear more interested in maintaining secure spaces which can sustain them in their attempts to cope with the daily problems of living.»

As our understanding of both the feminist and environmental concerns grows, we find that women are more interested in the restoration of the environment, which provides the family with its basic needs, than their cash - hungry men.

The great issues of our time are moral: the uses of power; wealth and poverty; human rights; the moral quality and character of society; loss of the sense of the common good in tandem with the pampering of private interests; domestic violence; outrageous legal and medical costs in a system of maldistributed services; unprecedented developments in biotechnologies which portend good but risk evil; the violation of public trust by high elected officials and their appointees; the growing militarization of many societies; continued racism; the persistence of hunger and malnutrition; a still exploding population in societies hard put to increase jobs and resources; abortion; euthanasia; care for the environment; the claims of future generations.

The persecution environment is being created by the globalist media which has been bullying and demonizing on this issue - for the interest of the new world order for their masters

They are even less interested in the wellbeing of workers, the contribution of the business to the communities in which it operates, or its effects on its natural environment.

b. Society, embracing the individuals which comprise it, must in its own interest be so constituted that it tends to create the most favorable environment for the full development (physical and spiritual) of what is special to each of them.

The concept of «orthoselection» stresses organic - environment interaction of sufficient duration to reveal trends which follow environmental shifts — a neo-Darwinian blending of the Darwinian and Lamarcking approaches which obviates the need for the historical anachronism of «orthogenesis,» which is still of interest only to «literary intellectuals and religious philosophers» intent on discerning the working of higher purposes in the evolutionary process.

In process there is continual introduction of novelty, which in the interest of survival can be responded to in one of two manners: one may reduce the event to irrelevance by «blocking out unwelcome detail» (negative prehension) or «by an initiative in conceptual prehensions, i.e., in appetition its subjective aim originates novelty to match the novelty of the environment... through thinking.»

He described the planning and scheming, the various competing and conflicting interests, the ulterior motives that operated behind verbal exchanges, the mixture of trust and mistrust, all of which provided, according to him, an unpromising environment for anyone who wanted to practice Christian love.

Hartshorne furnishes a similarly interesting reply to the converse objection that the entire universe could not be one organism, since it has no environment («There is nowhere to go from the universe») 39 His neat reply to this difficulty is that, although the universe has no neighbors to which it may respond, it may still respond to its own «internal environment» or the various internal organs of which it is composed.

Mr. George H. Pruette, Jr. (Director of Public Affairs, Advertising, for General Motors) says that «General Motors believes that positioning our advertisements in an environment of exploitative sex and gratuitous violence which violate the accepted standards of a community is not in the best interests of either the Corporation or to the sale of its products.»

In other words — considered from the perspective of the feeling occasion — in the interest of expanding its own room for development, its relative actual world, and its capacity for feeling, the occasion which is in the process of concretion will give privilege to those occasions in its environment which embody a high integration of the world and thus an order as complex as possible.

What is interesting is that sales of organic products have increased markedly as a result of recent food scares88, suggesting that new consumers are concerned about the product itself as well as, or perhaps rather than, the environment in which it is produced.

For those interested in Chef Malarkey's favorite aspects of the eatery, he boasts about «how bright, light, and open the space has become as well as all the different environments in which you can eat, relax, and entertain in.»

part of that is an owner and board who put their profits way above the performance of the team but it is also a manager who conforms to the wishes of the board (and for all I know may have an ownership stake as well) by putting their short term interests above the long term performance of the team as a result the team itself has become corrupted by the regime through insufficient investment in upgrading the team (all the more damaging as the environment in which the team operates has become increasingly competitive) with ocassional panic acquisitions to meet minimal (but ever diminishing) performance targets to keep fans on board the result is a massively unbalanced team of overpaid compliant players who have been around for too long, inexperienced (and also overpaid) young players who have not cost the club much (or anything) and small islands of quality players..

Within this framework, our faculty come from a diverse background of interests and education, which creates a rich and lively learning environment.

A evening packed with solid practical advice for parents of children from toddlers to teenagers, that shows how to utilize the very stuff of family life — chores, mealtime, sibling rivalry, toilet training, bedtime, allowances and more — to create a home environment in which children can become self - disciplined, compassionate, responsible, resourceful, resilient human beings who can act in their own best interest, stand up for themselves and exercise their own rights while respecting the rights and legitimate needs of others.

My college degree was in Cultural Anthropology, which I think is very helpful for my work, and I also was very interested in the environment, art and design, writing and photography.

The interest in glass was triggered largely by a California Environment Research and Policy Center report that warns about the dangers of BPA, which can leach from certain bottles into breast milk or formula.

Since its inception over two decades ago, we have seen maternity wards transform from places historically infused with enormous influence from formula companies and default maternity care and infant feeding practices that undermined breastfeeding, to environments in which evidenced - based care is provided, education is free from commercial interests, and mothers are supported in reaching their infant feeding goals.

The case, which was brought by the Public Interest Law Unit (PILU) and North East London Migrant Action (NELMA), is one of several legal battles against Theresa May's «hostile environment».

The only flaw is that this analysis is done in isolation, but an event that would lead to Chinese divestment of U.S. Treasuries would only happen in a geopolitical environment in which the events causing the divestment would have confounding effects including a probable stock market crash, increased militarization, etc. which might lead to a flight to safety that could mitigate this effect on interest rates, or exacerbate the effect.

Threat to elections is defined as any activity, event or actions that are intended to have adverse effect on election staff, facilities or equipment as opposed to security risk, defined as those events or circumstances which exist in the operational environment but are not purposely directed towards election interests.

While it is hard to prove a causal relationship between low school funding and academic performance, parents are of course interested in giving their children the best possible environment to grow up in, which results in some trying everything they can to get their children into a better funded school district.

On Thursday, March 1st at 5:00 PM, interested organizations are encouraged to attend an applicant briefing during which time the Erie County Department of Environment and Planning will provide an overview of the online application and answer questions about it.