Sentences with phrase «long term fluctuations»

I must confess that I struggled with that key posing by Isaac, it simply never occurred to me that the long term fluctuations, (longer than ENSO) could be considered to be totally internally funded.

Seeing charts from 1880 on or just charts from the satellite era on wont give perspective of long term fluctuations.

I eliminated AMO from any fit when I found that the LOD as described by the Stadium Wave paper is the underlying factor describing the long term fluctuations.

If you are experiencing consistent long term fluctuations in weight without having changed your diet in any significant way, then you probably have a gluten problem.

And while there are long term fluctuations in the Atlantic Ocean's temperature, there has been a distinct upward trend since 1970.

Whether any of this applies to longer term fluctuations such as the PDO is something I'm unaware of, although I did cite a reference above suggesting that the PDO may not be completely unforced.

Not exact matches

Western Australian exporters expect a tough three months ahead as business adjusts to the impact of higher oil prices and exchange rate fluctuations, but the longer - term outlook remains strong.

The high income households have nice broad, diversified safety nets that can allow them to withstand shocks (oil prices, housing prices, employment fluctuations, unexpected illness) by shifting through short, medium and long - term forms of saving.

To make sense of what's really behind the fluctuations in the market, we are joined by economist Michael Hudson, president of the Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends, a Wall Street financial analyst and author...

Deferred variable annuities are long - term vehicles designed for retirement purposes and contain underlying investment portfolios that are subject to market fluctuation, investment risk, and possible loss of principal.

Over the long - term currency fluctuations between the various countries tend to balance out.

The value - conscious, historically - informed, risk - managed, full - cycle discipline of the Funds is intended to achieve long - term investment returns, while reducing sensitivity to general market fluctuations in conditions that have historically been associated with weak or negative market return / risk profiles.

The Fund is appropriate for investors who are seeking long - term capital appreciation by investing primarily in equity securities of U.S. small - cap companies, are looking to hold their investments for the long term and can tolerate considerable fluctuations in their portfolio.

Thus fluctuations in interest rates will cause the total return on bonds to fluctuate, with long - term bonds fluctuating more than short - term bonds.

A 200 - day moving average is slow to react to market fluctuations; it filters out of a lot of the «noise» and shows traders visually the long - term market trend.

Longer - term traders or investors don't want as many trade signals; therefore, a simple moving average that is slow to react to short - term price fluctuations is generally preferred.

4Variable annuities are long - term investments suitable for retirement funding and are subject to market fluctuations and investment risk.

And as longer - term graphs show (such as the one all the way at the start of this article), at most times, stocks have handily out - performed bonds over wide ranges of inflation conditions and rates of fluctuation.

Yet despite extensive and ongoing research and historical testing, I still have not identified considerations that would have allowed us to substantially increase our exposure to market fluctuations last year, without also resulting in a large increase in historical losses, and generally a deterioration in overall long - term performance.

The long - term investment horizons of these investors allowed them to ride out the cyclical and seasonal fluctuations that have made agriculture such a volatile and risky proposition.

This has created a sizeable exodus from intermediate and long duration securities into shorter - term debt with more minimal price fluctuations.

In light of the above, you have to make sure you can survive the short term fluctuations to achieve high long - term returns.

For example, a moving average is just a simple noise - reduction technique, where very short - term fluctuations («high frequency components») are averaged away, leaving the smoother influence of longer - term fluctuations.

It is the central premise behind inflation targeting, and central bankers — essentially without exception — assert that they have the capacity to affect or even determine inflation in the long term, but that they do not have the capacity to affect the average level of output, much less its growth rate over time, even though they may have the capacity to affect the amplitude of cyclical fluctuations.

Bond prices fall when rates rise, but short - term munis are less sensitive to rate fluctuations than longer - term bonds.

These conditions are sufficient to warrant a moderate exposure to fluctuations in long - term interest rates.

But there is no material long - term relationship between the size or growth rate of the monetary base and stock market fluctuations.

Variable annuities are long - term investments designed for retirement purposes and may be subject to market fluctuations, investment risk and possible loss of principal.

But from the standpoint of a long - term investor, it's useful to look over the past 7 + years of profitless excitement in the stock market and ask whether tracking every fluctuation in the market - even participating in periodic, marginal new highs - is a necessary objective.

«Stocks are for long - term goals, and investors should try not to focus on short - term fluctuations,» said Michael Guillemette, assistant professor of personal financial planning at Texas Tech University, who echoed Stein's advice on diversifying your holdings.

Bonds often experience short term fluctuations but usually generate higher long term returns.

Active managers argue they can outperform the overall market through security selection, but data have repeatedly demonstrated that few can achieve this feat over the long term, although there are short - term fluctuations, as during the recent market pullback.

Suppose we measure valuation by comparing price P to some measure of earnings E that isn't distorted by cyclical economic fluctuations, and can be used as a reliable, representative, «sufficient statistic» for long - term cash flows.

Five - year targets are better able to absorb annual fluctuations caused by changing fuel prices, freak weather and so forth while still committing the UK to a long - term downwards trend.

«Fortunately, we're long - term investors and remain well - funded as we navigate ongoing market fluctuations.»

The second part of that quote --» we're long - term investors and remain well - funded as we navigate ongoing market fluctuations» — is familiar boilerplate.

The industry employs hundreds of thousands of individuals in Scotland; the cut in the PRT and supplementary charge signals that the Government has taken a long - term view to protect the industry in recognising that its role is to mitigate as best it can against the natural fluctuation of the oil and gas commodity prices.»

The study appears in the current issue of the journal Nature, and provides important information on the predictability of long - term climate fluctuations.

Because the El Niño / La Niña climate cycle generates large fluctuations in ocean temperatures around the Galápagos and in the eastern tropical Pacific, long - term changes can be hard to spot.

«Deciphering the air - sea communication: Ocean significantly affects long - term climate fluctuations.»

Vantablack also has other useful qualities: It withstands the stress from launching a rocket into space, long - term vibrations and extreme temperature fluctuations.

Shifting winds may explain why long - term fluctuations in North Atlantic sea surface temperatures have no apparent influence on Europe's wintertime temperatures.

While the atmosphere is mainly causing climate variations on shorter time scales, from months to years, the longer - term fluctuations, such as those on decadal time scales, are primarily determined by the ocean.

Depending on the initial prevalence of each strategy, the game can fall into different long - term behaviors — such as a stable state in which a third of players use each strategy, or wild fluctuations in which one strategy nearly disappears and then rebounds at the expense of the others.

To determine the true toll, the Three Gorges Dam is taking on animal and plant species, Liu says, long - term data is needed, so that decreases in population totals can be compared with natural species fluctuation.

«The key is to account for large year - to - year fluctuations that have obscured a gradual increase in the long - term evolution of ozone,» says atmospheric scientist Murry Sal

Fluctuations in these cycles reflect trees» responses to annual variability in climate, and hint at how they will fare in the face of long - term climate change.

It could be, for example, that fluctuations in calcium levels in plant cells leave imprints of stress in a way that's similar to how long - term memories are formed in animals.

Teich and his colleagues attribute their success to the technique's ability to pick up both short - term and long - term fluctuations in heart rhythms, as opposed to previous methods, which focused either on neighboring heartbeats or on long - term changes.

While 2014 temperatures continue the planet's long - term warming trend, scientists still expect to see year - to - year fluctuations in average global temperature caused by phenomena such as El Niño or La Niña.