Sentences with phrase «level of a crisis»

Twelve years on, does the rise of Isis in Iraq match up to this level of crisis?

New York City is no stranger to calamity, be it natural or man - made, and many city agencies have emergency response plans for varying levels of crisis.

These problems will not remain confined to certain parts of the world; they are going to become global problems that could rise to the level of a crisis.

«US opioid epidemic reaches new level of crisis in overdoses, hospitalizations and cost: New study conducted by Ben - Gurion University, Harvard and University of Chicago researchers.»

«Stark increase in opioid - related admissions, deaths in nation's ICUs: Data show opioid - epidemic has reached «new level of crisis,» researchers say.»

Public attention on gender inequality in Hollywood has elevated the issue to a level of crisis within the industry, even as inequality persists.

Ponsoldt's last two films, Smashed and its spiritual prequel The Spectacular Now, feature characters in varying levels of crisis struggling to articulate their true feelings.

The important thing for fixed income investors is to evaluate the level of crisis that any protective structure / covenant might protect against, and how likely that crisis might be.

At some level of crisis, war is not impossible, improbable as that may be.

This level of crisis can be highly destabilizing for the lawyer's team, as the lawyer's frustration can spill over to the judge and jury.

«As we age, usually our medical or long - term care expenses increase, sometimes depleting our assets to a level of crisis,» says financial advisor Jake Lowrey, president of Lowrey Financial Group.

Not exact matches

On a macro level, I left right at the beginning of the cataclysmic financial crisis, and Starbucks had a very difficult time navigating through that.

The Fed's decision to edge off of a crisis - level rate policy was long anticipated and experts say this first rate hike in nearly a decade might not have much of an impact overall.

Yet with global growth declining, oil inventory at record levels, and momentum on the side of increasingly cost - competitive renewable energy technologies, there remains a high possibility the energy sector will face another existential crisis in the near future.

The banking system has been weak for years as most institutions have failed to deal with the high level of bad debt in the wake of the financial crisis.

I would encourage you to remember that the current low levels of interest rates, while in the first instance a reflection of the Federal Reserve's monetary policy, are in a larger sense the result of the recent financial crisis, the worst shock to this nation's financial system since the 1930s.

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.

Although Spain's borrowing costs have fallen over the past two months on the back of the ECB's new rescue plan, the Spanish 10 - year yield is still hovering just below 6 percent - a level that has been seen as unsustainable since the crisis escalated in 2011.

Additionally, prices for its major commodity exports - crude oil and palm oil - have dropped sharply and its currency, the ringgit, is trading close to its lowest levels since the Asian financial crisis of the late 1990s.

But over a career at the highest levels in corporate finance, Porat has been equally unflappable, navigating physical obstacles and fighting great metaphorical discomfort — the race - the - clock stress of the financial crisis, the tension of negotiations among big - ego executives, and now the culture clash of imposing financial discipline at tech's biggest idea factory.

In the midst of the worst financial crisis of our generation and record high joblessness levels, we must retain these entrepreneurs.

While that level certainly has declined, the nearly 6 percent drop to 7.9 million as of March 2014 could have been much worse considering the way Wall Street banks cut jobs en masse during the crisis.

«The first few minutes at the office can be the most stressful because there's a level of anxiety about what you may face: a sudden onslaught of urgent emails, last minute crises or meetings, a call to stop by the boss's office, a cranky co-worker, and so on.

But analysts say more still needs to be done on structural reforms to rein in ballooning corporate debt, which has reached levels that the IMF and others have warned sharply raises the risks of a financial crisis.

All levels of government, hurting from the toll the public health crisis has had on budgets, are taking action, from municipalities (Kermit, WV; Chicago, Il, Everett, WA) to counties (Mingo in WV; Nassau in NY; Orange in California) to states (Mississippi, Ohio, New Mexico).

Though we all hope a crisis never befalls our company, it's a good idea to build up a bank of goodwill — acting honorably and transparently, communicating a sense of your values and the benefits you offer your employees, customers and other key audiences, and showing a level of responsiveness on the small stuff.

The Italian banking system has been a problem for the third - largest euro zone economy since the financial crisis due to the high level of bad loans across all institutions.

Personal consumption rose 4.2 % in the second quarter of the year, the best reading since the fourth quarter of 2014 and near the best level we've seen since before the financial crisis.

The different level of popular support that these parties have in each country, and the particular characteristics of each electoral system, makes it difficult to predict whether nationalist parties will become more prominent fixtures in European politics as the economic crisis plays out.

The ringgit has lost a quarter of its value against the U.S. dollar this year and fallen to its lowest levels since the Asian financial crisis 17 years ago.

Its holdings are nearing $ 4 trillion, more than four times their level before the financial crisis struck in the fall of 2008.

The sequels of the crisis are still there: At the end of the last reserve reporting period in mid-April, distress borrowing at the Fed stood at twice the «normal» levels observed during the time preceding the onset of the 2008 crisis.

While Carney's move to drastically cut interest rates in Canada at the beginning of the financial crisis was prophetic, Philip Aldrick of the Telegraph likens the situation to Canada being an innocent bystander to a horrendous car crash with the U.K. economy at the wheel: the enormity and complexity of the economic problems Carney will face are on a whole different level.

(The Bank of Canada estimates that the nominal neutral interest rate, or the rate at which the level of interest is neither stimulative or contractionary, is between 2.75 % and 3.75 %, compared with 4.5 % and 5.5 % before the crisis.)

No company has dug out deeper since the financial crisis, turned back to health with solid earnings, and has accumulated record levels of capital and liquidity - also to the benefit of our shareholders.

And counter to what many believe, this doesn't change when your company is doing well — every moment of glory is fleeting, quickly swept away by the next looming crisis and the need to reach the next level of success.

After both previous major crises — when private and public debt levels were relatively high — slower debt growth, selective debt re-structuring and a long period of reflation have been the solution.

Yet the challenge for launching new bank ventures remains high, and some say the level of regulatory scrutiny following the crisis is still burdensome for applicants.

While credit spreads and leading indicators appear to be fairly well behaved, many have noted the sinister looking shape of the yield curve, near its flattest level since before the global financial crisis (see the chart below).

Beyond these concerns, of course, we still need to fix problems that have been with us for some time during the crisis: unacceptably high unemployment, especially among young people; high levels of debt in many countries; and the need to complete the financial reform agenda.

China certainly has a high absolute level of debt, with levels much higher than those seen in other emerging market (EM) countries who experienced debt crises, according to Bloomberg data.

Canada's mergers and acquisition markets were on fire in 2014, hitting some of the highest levels since the financial crisis.

Canadian energy company shares are trading at levels not seen since the depths of the 2008 crisis, levels that can only be justified if the global economy falls into another recession and oil prices drop by half.

But easy money also encourages risk - taking and temporarily pushes the prices of safe investments up to unsustainable levels, thereby creating the potential for future financial crises.

Investors hedging against a sharp fall in equity markets in the coming 12 weeks has also reached its highest level since the onset of the global financial crisis, the bank said.

I suppose it matters what level of debt one considers sustainable, such as in the face of possible future crises that might require borrowing.

In fact there is a regular pattern that we see when debt levels rise in a country to the point at which either we suffer from a debt crisis or from a lost decade of difficult adjustment.

Over the course of 2010, absent very clear (i.e. crisis - level) additional credit strains, our weighting toward «post-war» criteria will increase in an approximately linear way.

Since the financial crisis, regulators have intensely focused on capital and now require higher levels for all financial institutions; increasing our capital and capital distribution is a tangible sign of our financial strength.

The policy response by inflation - targeting central banks has been very rapid as the crisis has unfolded, notwithstanding the fact that in some cases, the current level of inflation was above the target range.