Sentences with phrase «largely at the mercy»

An interesting interview that Chairman and CEO of Interactive Brokers, Thomas Peterffy, had with CNBC pointed to a storm brewing as traders look to unwind bets and are largely at the mercy of the market to do so.

Not exact matches

Whereas ancient man felt himself to be at the mercy of capricious forces seated beyond his control in an unseen world, Israel came to recognize that man himself has been given power and responsibility to act decisively, and that it is on his own moral decisions that his life and destiny largely depend.
That's largely because as a lone, online writer you're pretty much at the mercy of the publicity gods in terms of who you're going to meet up with and you never know who that's going to be.
Although we're not totally at the market's mercy — we can decide how much to put in stocks vs. bonds and how we react when the market sizzles or fizzles — we largely must settle for the returns the markets deliver.
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