Sentences with phrase «risk move at»

The vision and foresight and confidence Jim France had in doing that... well, it was definitely seen as a high - risk move at the time.

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The biggest risk to Canadian investors may not be the default rate at all, but rather currency moves.

In over his head but unwilling to tap out and risk people knowing he was floundering, he says he made a series of «dumb moves» at Moz that involved everything from a failed hiring incentive to a bungled software release.

«Given (new CEO Christian Sewing's) background in credit risk and commercial banking it could be seen as a signal of a move from investment banking,» Colin McLean, managing director at SVM Asset Management, told CNBC in an email.

It's not clear who at Goldman Sachs had chief responsibility for originating and structuring the loan to Banco Espirito Santo, though such a commitment typically has to move through the firmwide capital committee, which includes senior executives like Chief Financial Officer Harvey Schwartz and Chief Risk Officer Craig Broderick.

The «old fashioned» risk - off environment that we witnessed at the start of the week — with stocks and bonds moving in opposite directions — seems to have subsided.

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.

So in practice, if you are young software developer or entrepreneur in San Francisco, you can choose to work at a start - up that will have a more than 50 percent chance of going out of business in the next 18 months without risking the embarrassment of running out of money and having to move back in with your parents.

In July, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty moved to tighten mortgage rules for the fourth time in as many years in order to discourage those most at risk of becoming over-leveraged.

«Following the U.K. election, the relative risk investors saw in European bonds came back and as the situation in Greece develops, risks will hopefully unwind and as we move into a certain environment, we can expect bond markets to continue to normalize,» Thomas Buckingham, portfolio manager of the European Equity Group at JP Morgan Asset Management, told CNBC on Monday.

At least four states have moved to imposed some form of departmental cybersecurity rules on businesses, led by New York, which now requires financial companies to certify that they've addressed, among other things, third - party risks.

With the economy already at full employment and more and more signs of higher wage and unit labor cost inflation, the risks are rising that it will be PCE moving up to CPI.

«We will have moved away from the old style boxes, like growth, value, large cap and so forth, and see these replaced by a series of risk factor - related products, like interest - rate sensitive products,» said Celia Dallas, chief investment strategist at investment consultant Cambridge Associates.

Elsewhere in the interview, he made clear that United Technologies intended to keep engineering jobs in the US and that these higher - skilled jobs were not at risk of being moved overseas.

Having multiple things going on at once helps you to constantly move rather than get stuck, and helps mitigate risks.

That move, in fact, put the directors» jobs at risk.

«If we're not in the first tranche of countries moving ahead, we are at risk of losing the first movers» advantage.»

Data that is safely locked away on premise or at a hosting provider still carries a certain degree of risk, but data that is moving beyond the firewall introduces a whole new set of elements into the equation that can be difficult, if not impossible, to control.

WASHINGTON (AP)-- CIA Director Mike Pompeo said Tuesday that North Korea is moving «ever closer» to putting Americans at risk and that he believes leader Kim Jong Un won't rest until he's able to threaten multiple nuclear attacks against the US at the same time.

«I've been given really great advice from sponsors and mentors at the bank who helped me when it was time to make a move or take a risk.

«In our fast - moving tech start - up world, we are witnessing the premature launch of businesses that provide crowdfunding - like services of questionable legality, putting both investors and companies at risk.

THE INSURANCE Council of Australia has hit back at claims the general insurance industry was moving too slowly towards online business and risked losing out to new and aggressive electronic commerce providers.

Adam Seifer, co-founder and former CEO of Fotolog.com, one of the oldest and most popular photo sharing sites on the net, said: «I frequently find myself trying to convince partners, advisees, etc., that one of the biggest risks a start - up has is to not launch anything at all — to get so caught up in talking about what you're going to launch and so fixated on details that it feels like you're making progress when instead what you're really doing is moving asymptotically closer to something that doesn't ultimately matter as much as you think it does.»

«Each company is moving forward with some assumption of risk but a presumption of the U.S. government coming through with frameworks that allow that to happen,» Dr. Richards said in October during a visit at his company's Florida headquarters.

I stuck it out in a crazy business that has robbed me of any normal social life (constantly moving around the country), worked my tail off and risked it all and was fortunate enough to be in a good place at the right time and take advantage of an opportunity with every bit of energy I could muster.

According to Reuters «ideas about binding commitments to extend the Toronto debt reduction goals at a summit hosted by Canada in 2010, sought by Germany first and foremost, have been abandoned» Mr. Harper and Mr. Flaherty would appear to be still living in the Toronto Summit, while the rest of the G - 20, except perhaps Germany, has moved on to confront more pressing issues, including the growing risks of global instability and the need to strengthen growth and job creation.

In the same way, I like GSK to be a diversified conglomerate because it reduces the risk as the various business units move through good times and bad at different times.

The result has been the closure of dozens of boutique dealers across Canada, and a move to a management portfolio model that emphasizes funds and senior equity investments, and discourages investment in early stage and risk investments at any level.

At the August peak (see Looking Ahead to a Bullish Outlook, and What Will Define It), I noted that the position of the S&P 500 relative to its 200 - day moving average is not what defines favorable market action or our overall market return / risk classification.

Prices move inversely proportional to economic uncertainty so that expected returns at a specified level of risk can remain essentially constant, resulting in a fair price.

To assist tenants at risk of displacement, the report details strategies to regulate the landlord / tenant relationship as well as strategies to provide assistance for households that move.

Orange juice is trading right at their 20 - day moving average, but still below their 100 - day as the chart structure remains solid therefore the monetary risk is relatively low for such a historically volatile commodity so look to play this to the upside.

We have a saying that «when the CBOE Volatility Index1 (VIX Index) is low it's time to go» — the VIX is often referred to as the fear index or fear gauge, and when it's at low levels, we think it could be a prudent time to move a little more out of risk assets.

Moreover, core inflation moved ahead of its level of 6 months ago, and leading economic measures continued to slip (though we don't see them as being indicative of recession risk at present).

It is worth pointing out that the move to make bitcoin illegal can also put Colombia's economy at risk, considering the fact that the digital currency is growing in both value and popularity, thus creating a strong market that Colombia will have no access to unless they give up on their decisions.

The Financial Services Authority (OJK) said it was considering setting a cap on interest rates and the size of loans offered by fintech firms, in a move aimed at minimizing the risk of defaults.

«When you look at the size of the moves there is certainly a big big wave of risk off,» said Vasileios Gkionakis, Global Head of FX Strategy at UniCredit in London.

But given the complexity of the business processes involved, and corporate concerns about cybercrime and risk, the digital transformation of corporate treasury and cash management has not moved at the same pace as in the consumer banking space, where the advent of peer - to - peer lending and instant payments via mobile and other «smart» devices is rapidly transforming how consumers interact with financial services.

In particular, the organization raised concerns about leveraged trading of cryptocurrencies, though it acknowledged that the low correlation between cryptocurrencies and other assets «suggests that the risk of spillovers from idiosyncratic price moves in crypto assets to the wider market may be limited at this point.»

«Tankers moving through the Salish Sea means risk for the Salish Sea, whether you put a terminal at Point A or Point B.»

But I am concerned that late - cycle entrants into risk assets like stocks and high - yield bonds are taking a leap of faith at a time when there is less room for markets to move up and growing risks of them falling back.

The decision to enter the solar panel market was met with great fanfare in the Canadian business press and was hailed as another bold move in the company's risk - loving history — although even some observers wondered about the move at the time.

It moved above 20 in October 2007 at 1550 and reached extreme risk levels in May 2008 at 1400.

The moves risk further isolating the United States at a delicate geopolitical moment by inflaming key allies, as well as China.

Unions, working with employers, have come along way to making these workplaces safer over the past 30 years, but there's much more work to be done - particularly as we discover the toll these types of jobs take on workers mental health and as the Conservative government moves closer and closer to total industry self - regulation (something that puts all Canadians at risk).

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If the price action fails to hold at the 10 - week moving average («A»), then a touch of the uptrend line («B») would also be a very low - risk entry because the prior swing lows are likely to hold.

Black survivors of the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, say that the gun control debate that has been raging since the tragedy has largely overlooked them — and argue that recent moves to increase school safety by increasing security would actually put them more at risk.

But Goldman Sachs, perhaps the most storied name in finance, is bucking the risks and moving ahead with plans to set up what appears to be the first Bitcoin trading operation at a Wall...

The latest in a series of moves aimed at tackling financial risk, the new rules will try to rein in verbal repo agreements