Sentences with phrase «of financial shocks»

Bonds generated strong returns in their own right, while providing a critical offset to equity risks in times of financial shocks or economic recessions.

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The government would also have less ability to respond swiftly and strongly in the event of a shock to the financial system.

The most optimistic economists assume the turbulence in global financial markets will recede once the initial shock of Brexit passes.

The reality is Canadians would be shocked if they could peer into the private financial lives of many of their closest neighbours and friends.

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.

A study last year by the C.D. Howe Institute suggested that one out of every 10 mortgage - indebted households in Canada was «extremely vulnerable» to an economic or financial shock — a figure that's likely only increased since.

Yet it's still shocking that, according to Sports Illustrated, an amazing 78 percent of NFL players will eventually file for bankruptcy or endure severe financial hardship.

Another reason we might be interested in Soros is that he made much of his fortune trading volatility arising from monetary and financial shocks during the 20 years to 1992.

PARIS Bundesbank Panel discussion with Vice President of the Bundesbank Prof. Dr. Claudia Maria Buch, Title: «Have the main advanced economies become more resilient to real and financial shocks?»

They also fear that at such elevated levels, many Canadian households would be unable to withstand a financial shock such as a loss of income, or a sudden spike in interest rates that raised debt services charges.

The prospect of the first major default connected with the Chinese shadow banking system sent shock waves through the financial markets of emerging economies.

It is shocking that so many vulnerable seniors are falling victim to the growing scourge of elder financial abuse.

In 2016's test, Royal Bank of Scotland, Barclays, and Standard Chartered came up lacking, with RBS forced to submit plans to the PRA — the BoE's regulatory arm — detailing how it would raise capital and boost resilience to financial shocks.

How has this happened, when everybody from the Bank of England to the International Monetary Fund, from Barack Obama to Shinzo Abe, from the Trades Union Congress to the Confederation of British Industry, have all warned of the major financial shocks in the near term and economic decline and geopolitical irrelevance in the long term after a vote for Brexit?

Banks in some countries are particularly exposed to the VAR shock, including Italy, whose financial institutions hold 18 % of their assets in Italian government debt, up from 12 % in 2008.

Young workers in their 20s and 30s face the prospect of an uncertain economy increasingly vulnerable to financial shocks.

While the U.S. and Europe are currently grappling with huge debts, a lot of the developing countries had their financial crises more than a decade ago and are now less vulnerable to shocks.

In the 20th century, the United States endured two world wars and other traumatic and expensive military conflicts; the Depression; a dozen or so recessions and financial panics; oil shocks; a flu epidemic; and the resignation of a disgraced president.

It finds that, despite the significant impact on domestic financial conditions of global shocks, countries retain influence to achieve domestic objectives — specifically, through monetary policy.

One of the shocking realities that is present in many of these «investment opportunities» is a relative absence of pertinent financial information.

If the external shocks seemed to pose financial stability risks, macroprudential measures might be introduced as a complement or backstop to existing regulations and oversight of domestic financial systems.

In the presence of such vulnerabilities, an event such as an adverse macroeconomic shock can stress the financial system or even trigger a crisis.

When you look back on this moment in history, remember that many investors ruled out the possibility of major losses over the completion of the current market cycle because they presumed relationships that could not be established in the data, and assumed the absence of any material economic or financial shock in the coming years.

To conclude, over the past decade and in a very volatile world, Australia has achieved the inflation target, avoided a major economic downturn, seen remarkably little variability in real economic activity in the face of enormous shocks, experienced a fairly low average rate of unemployment, and had a stable financial system as well.

What if, at the start of the year, you had a crystal ball and you knew January and February would see severe stock market declines leading to the worst start of any year, Britain would shock the financial markets by voting to exit the European Union, and Donald Trump would be elected President?

A second reason may be the series of additional negative shocks experienced since the initial phase of the financial crisis.

So with the modest - at - best global recovery after the still front - of - mind global financial crisis trauma from 2008 - 2009, markets are understandably preoccupied with the scope for unpleasant shocks, particularly given that expansion in the developed economies is now approaching a seventh year.

Think of it as the financial equivalent of shock and awe.

Global macro overview for 29/01/2016: The Japanese yen has fallen sharply on Friday after the Bank of Japan shocked financial markets by lowering interest rates into negative territory from 0.10 % to -0.10 %.

His work focuses on financial regulation, corporate law, contracts, and cross-border transactions and disputes, and his most recent article, «Boilerplate Shock: Sovereign Debt Contracts as Incubators of Systemic Risk,» examines the role of financial contracts in the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis.

Yet perhaps the biggest shock of them all was the resilience of financial markets in the aftermath of both the Brexit vote and Donald Trump's U.S. election victory.

It has been five years since the collapse of investment bank Lehman Brothers Holdings, a shock point in an era that saw the takeover or shutdown of many household - name financial institutions and the meltdown of the stock and housing markets.

But we have tried to make our banking system and our financial system more resilient so that no matter what kind of shock might hit, our banking system is today much better able to weather it than it was eight years ago.

The US and global economies are six years into their post-global financial crisis (GFC) recoveries, and growth has proved resilient to a number of shocks.

Many STEM - intensive industries such as the financial services sector still have a shocking under - representation of female employees, especially in asset management and senior leadership roles.

The shocking truth is that less than 10 % of all financial advisors in the United States follow the fiduciary standard — which legally requires financial advisors to put your interests ahead of their own.

Osborne stood his ground on Wednesday, however, insisting there would be no choice but to make extremely tough spending decisions to protect the economy.Cameron backed him and the former Labour chancellor Alistair Darling, at prime minister's questions, saying the financial shock of leaving the EU must not be ignored.

It protected beneficiaries from financial shocks from catastrophic health costs and it increased their peace of mind.

Over the summer, The Advocate investigated the financial dealings of Planned Parenthood and made some shocking discoveries about the clinic - owning «nonprofit.»

In some of these companies the departure of the CEO coincided with a dramatic change in market conditions or some other external shock such as the global financial crisis.

With Winter 2015 transfer window behind us, which didn't offer some huge shocking last - minute deals like we used to see before, the round - up of the top European clubs suggest that many clubs due to bad financial situation decided rather to loan players than to buy them.

It's absolutely shocking how many people graduate from college, saddled in debt, loaded up with specialized knowledge, yet have never been taught financial literacy and the basics of entrepreneurship.

In the OBR's view, the aftermath of this shock continues to weigh on the productivity of the UK economy, with credit rationing and impaired financial markets potentially impeding the expansion of successful firms.

The results show that pension schemes across these countries could face a combined funding shortfall of $ 773bn if confronted with a significant financial shock that triggered a further fall in interest rates and a rise in inflation.

We've just about had everything — from lipstick on a pig all the way to a full - on financial panic, with two ongoing wars and the lingering effects of an oil - price shock playing in the background.

The EU project has proven very vulnerable to external shocks, whether financial, geopolitical or humanitarian, trying to survive amidst a tsunami of crisis.

there is a larger than anticipated impact of our financial crisis and deleveraging on potential output; there has been the global commodity price shocks, exacerbated here by our depreciated exchange rate; and, of course, there is the ongoing uncertainty in the eurozone which is now acknowledged to be having an impact on growth and investment across the world, from the US to China.

In fact, world wars and the accumulated budgetary and political shocks of the interwar period saw low savings rates, collapses in foreign capital and financial chaos.

The political crisis created by the MPs» expenses scandal, the shock of the financial and economic crisis and the erosion of trust in big government has created the conditions for an unexpected revolution.

Twice he emphasised that the FSA's report into the scandal found the worst abuses occurred in the build - up to the financial crisis, under Labour, calling the report «a shocking indictment of culture at banks like Barclays in the run up to financial crisis.»