Sentences with phrase «recent global risks»

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Now, with the relatively recent string of primary dealer failures (Countrywide, Bear Stearns, Lehman, Merrill, and now MF Global), a rational observer might think the NY Fed had moved to beef up surveillance activities designed to protect the financial system from excessive risk taking at primary dealers.

«Tighter global monetary policy is needed in order to contain inflation pressures and ward off financial stability risks,» the Basel - based central bank of central banks warned in its most recent annual report.

Readers are cautioned that these forward - looking statements are only predictions and may differ materially from actual future events or results due a variety of factors, including, among other things, that conditions to the closing of the transaction may not be satisfied, the potential impact on the business of Accompany due to the uncertainty about the acquisition, the retention of employees of Accompany and the ability of Cisco to successfully integrate Accompany and to achieve expected benefits, business and economic conditions and growth trends in the networking industry, customer markets and various geographic regions, global economic conditions and uncertainties in the geopolitical environment and other risk factors set forth in Cisco's most recent reports on Form 10 - K and Form 10 - Q.

More broadly, global trade has slowed and financial stability risks have increased — with the recent market turmoil partly reflecting lower confidence in the effectiveness of policies.

Several Thai politicians who attended the Boao Forum for Asia, a kind of China - centered version of the World Economic Forum in Davos, noted that, in recent years, some of the discussions at Boao had shifted from a kind of general talk of globalization and its impact in Asia to more specific conversations about some of the failings of Western economic models exposed by the global economic crisis, and whether China's type of development might be less prone to such risks.

If anything should be clear from the bubbles of recent years, the greatest risks are not when prices are depressed, the economy is weak, and investors are frightened, but rather when prices are elevated and an unendingly positive outlook for technology, or housing, or global growth, or private equity, or emerging markets, or commodities seems all but certain.

A recent Deloitte survey of 138 global technology, media and telecommunications firms named mobile devices as the top security risk, and three - quarters of the companies surveyed reported information security breaches.

Of course, the Fed's very recent caution has been warranted, given the first quarter's market volatility and economic weakness as well the ongoing risks to global financial stability, particularly out of China.

Upturn in Sentiment Buoys Some Emerging - Market Risk Assets There has been a welcome stabilization in global financial markets in recent weeks, which has been helped by indications from the European Central Bank (ECB) that it stood ready to expand its quantitative easing (QE) program, the possibility that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) might do the same, and a decision by the People's Bank of China (PBOC) to further cut interest rates and relax reserve requirements.

With oil prices in recent months having fluctuated in a range somewhat below their October peak, risks to the global economy from that source appear to have lessened.

Yesterday, Reuters reported that a recent letter from the Financial Stability Board's (FSB) chairman, Mark Carney, to the G20 finance ministers and central bankers echoed Buch's sentiments: «The FSB initial assessment is that crypto - assets do not pose risks to global financial stability at this time.»

The speech starts by setting out three key themes of the Bank's recent communication about Australia's transition from the resources sector boom to more normal economic conditions: that the sheer scale of the boom means that this transition is challenging, and that the broader global environment compounds the challenge; that a reasonably successful transition is possible given our economy's positive fundamentals and flexibility; and that monetary policy is doing what it can to help the transition, but that the chances of success would be boosted by a lift in productivity growth and an increase in the expected risk - adjusted rate of return on investment.

However, as discussed elsewhere in this Statement, the risk of significant under - performance of the global economy has lessened considerably over recent months.

Reflecting the ongoing improvement in investor sentiment and appetite for risk in global debt markets, corporate spreads have continued to fall over recent months.

Over recent months, the downside risks to inflation posed by developments in the global economy have eased considerably.

In time for Mother's Day and National Women's Health Week (May 13 - 19), AICR is highlighting a key finding from its recent report updating the global scientific evidence on breast cancer risk.

Home birth is uncommon in the United Kingdom and uncertainty exists about its safety.1 2 Almost all mortality figures available nationally1 provide merely a single global figure for planned and unplanned home births, though the constituent rates differ greatly.3 The only recent figures for planned home birth in England and Wales relating to 19794 and 19935 provide an inaccurately low estimate of risk because it was not possible to account for those mothers who originally booked to have a home delivery but ended up delivering in hospital.

They reported in the January 2010 edition of the journal Geophysical Research Letters that global warming does increase flood risk significantly, and that large floods have occurred more frequently in recent years than in the past.

«Until recently, only West Antarctica was considered unstable, but now we know that its ten times bigger counterpart in the East might also be at risk,» says Levermann, who is head of PIK's research area Global Adaptation Strategies and a lead - author of the sea - level change chapter of the most recent scientific assessment report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, IPCC.

On the high end, recent work suggests that 4 feet is plausible.23, 3,6,7,8 In the context of risk - based analysis, some decision makers may wish to use a wider range of scenarios, from 8 inches to 6.6 feet by 2100.10,2 In particular, the high end of these scenarios may be useful for decision makers with a low tolerance for risk (see Figure 2.26 on global sea level rise).10, 2 Although scientists can not yet assign likelihood to any particular scenario, in general, higher emissions scenarios that lead to more warming would be expected to lead to higher amounts of sea level rise.

As a recent McKinsey Global Innovation survey found, while 84 % of executives believe innovation is important to growth strategy, and 80 % believe their business models are at risk, only 6 % are satisfied with the outcome of their innovation performance.

You can read a more recent discussion of the role the bark beetle and climate change are playing in burning down and reshaping the West in this National Wildlife Federation report, «Increased Risk of CatastrophicWildfires: Global Warming's Wake - Up Call for the Western United States.»

It should be noted, though, that we as a nation have been relying upon similar high - stakes educational policies since the late 1970s (i.e., for now over 35 years); however, we have literally no research evidence that these high - stakes accountability policies have yielded any of their intended effects, as still perpetually conceptualized (see, for example, Nevada's recent legislative ruling here) and as still advanced via large - and small - scale educational policies (e.g., we are still A Nation At Risk in terms of our global competitiveness).

The global synchronized recovery, which was an important catalyst for risk assets in 2017, has appeared to come into question in recent months as data reflected a slowdown in many parts of Europe.

U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson, European Central Bank President Jean - Claude Trichet and G - 7 counterparts warned after talks in Washington on April 11 that recent «sharp fluctuations» in exchange rates risk hurting the global economy.

The pace of hiring has yet to be disrupted by dramatic global market swings, a recent pickup in inflation or the risk that the could...

(As an aside, the recent moves to make China more integrated with the global economy also make it more subject to financial risks that are global, and not just local, of which it has enough.)

In this edition, we feature a Business Insider summary of a recent Baupost letter, a summary of Guy Spier's approach to using checklists, a video of Tom Russo's talk at Google on «Global Value Investing», a ValueWalk article on Pzena Asset Management, an FT article on Steve Jobs which analyses the start - up conditions at Apple; plus two more videos at the end of this issue — one from Bill Miller on why he thinks now is the perfect time to buy US stocks, the other from London Value Investor Conference speaker Jean - Marie Eveillard who speaks about market cycles and the risks he sees ahead from «valuation problems» brought about by quantitative easing.

«Recent vivid and memorable media coverage of climate change impacts around the world and domestically have brought global warming onto the radar screen of the residents of New York, elevating it to a risk worth worrying about,» said Elke U. Weber, a psychologist and professor of international business who is co-director of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia University.

Global warming is almost surely contributing to drought and heat in ways that exacerbate fire risk, but the prime driver of losses in these recent fires is a heavily subsidized burst of development in zones of implicit fire danger.

Having said that... I remember hearing that analysis of two recent extreme events that affected the UK, [September 2000 floods and 2004 heatwave] shows that these were extreme events an increased risk of which would be consistent with global warming.

al. (Illinois)» Assessing the Risk of a Collapse of the Global Thermohaline Circulation» (sorry, no link), or the recent paper published by Curry et.

The recent dramatic losses of thousands of honey bee colonies due to colony collapse disorder (CCD) and other causes [6], [7] has not only created great concerns in the scientific and agricultural community but has also highlighted the ever increasing risk of future crises in the global food supply due to our sole dependence on single pollinator species [8].

Have you considered that the economic risks of drastic carbon cutting and therefore access to cheap energy for developing economies, not to mention distractions from real and present infrastructure and land - management issues (a very likely factor in the recent Pakistan floods) under the catch - all label of global warming, may in fact represent a blind alley that contributes to a fatality risk for many of the world's poorest people of at least an order of magnitude greater than 1 %?

According to a recent article in the Telegraph, the G20 has asked the Financial Stability Board in Basel to investigate the risks that stranded assets might pose to global financial markets.

Ilan Kelman, a reader in risk, resilience and global health at University College London, co-authored a recent paper which accused the strands of «tribalism» and called for them to be completely integrated as a «subset of wider development and sustainability processes».

Executive summary The recent pause in global surface temperature rise does not materially alter the risks of substantial warming of the Earth by the end of this century.»

«Recent vivid and memorable media coverage of climate change impacts around the world and domestically have brought global warming onto the radar screen of the residents of New York, elevating it to a risk worth worrying about,» said Elke U. Weber, a psychologist and professor of international business who is co-director of the Center for Research on Environmental Decisions at Columbia.

Recent multi model estimates based on different CMIP3 climate scenarios and different dynamic global vegetation models predict a moderate risk of tropical forest reduction in South America and even lower risk for African and Asian tropical forests (see also Section 12.5.5.6)(Gumpenberger et al., 2010; Huntingford et al., 2013).»

As detailed in the most recent installment of our ongoing investigation into how the Exxon Mobil Corporation has characterized risks to its business operations associated with climate change in its annual 10 - K reports to shareholders, year after year, the company has alleged that one of the risks to its operations is the regulation of carbon dioxide emissions as a public policy to mitigate global climate change, but has failed to list climate change itself as a risk when communicating with its shareholders (See previous segments of our investigation here: Part One (1993 - 2000); Part Two (2000 - 2008); Part Three (A)(2009), Part Three (B)(2010), Part Three (C)(2011), and Part Three (D)(2012)-RRB-.

While current empirical and theoretical ecological results suggest that many species could be at risk from global warming, during the recent ice ages surprisingly few species became extinct.

Attention has focused on the West Coast, where the majority of the meltwater has been entering the ocean in recent years, but a new study from Lamont's Marco Tedesco suggests that a greater risk to global climate may actually be coming from the East.

According to a recent presentation by financial planning giant Ernst & Young, the global life insurance industry is focusing on three main issues in the coming year: Government oversight, macro-economic trends, and cyber risk (data security).

With price growth slowing, and even turning negative, in some major housing markets such as UK and the US due to the recent global financial and economic crisis, it is important for property investors aiming at maximizing returns and minimizing risk, to understand the dangers of purchasing a property in order to rent it.