Sentences with phrase «than safe havens»

In the weeks following the attacks, many of us came to consider the places we visit, work, and sleep each day as less than safe havens.

Jim vows to win Chrissie's heart in his absence, but the war makes high school less than a safe haven and gives a young man's emotions a grown man's gravity.

More than a safe haven for adoptable pets, the SF SPCA is also a veterinary hospital, behavior and training resource, and support agency.

Your marriage becomes unhappy - a source of stress and discomfort - rather than your safe haven.

Not exact matches

They don't want to be a safe haven any more than the Swiss do,» said Lynn.

Daniel Feldman, a special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan under Obama, said the Obama administration found it more effective to pressure Islamabad over safe havens «in private than in public, and to keep the long - standing Indo - Pak rivalry from playing out in Afghanistan».

Safe - haven investments suffered: in the metal markets, silver prices tumbled more than 6 %, marking their biggest loss since late 2008, and gold fell more than 2 %, off a record high.

In my view, the explanation for share - price gains that are stronger than the economic outlook justifies is that hot money fleeing Europe is looking for safe havens — one of which is the U.S. stock market.

A weaker than expected number after disappointing retail sales this week would lead to a safe haven bid.

Gold performed as expected during the quarter, serving as a safe haven and delivering positive returns, while the price of oil surged more than 5 percent on U.S. dollar weakness and news that OPEC and Russia could be cooperating to limit output for a long period.

Elsewhere the Japanese Yen slipped 0.06 % to ¥ 109.11 against the Dollar at the time of writing, easing geo - political risk and better than expected PMI numbers out of China supporting market risk appetite through the session, leading to a pullback in demand for the safe havens.

Prices are sharply lower than all - time highs above $ 1,900 in 2011, when a worsening debt crisis in Europe sparked buying of safe haven assets.

Better - than - expected U.S. jobs data on Friday boosted the dollar and dampened safe - haven demand for gold, pushing prices to $ 1,183.46 on Monday.

But in the last few episodes of sharp stock market drops, bonds went up (US government bonds are a safe haven asset and appreciate in crisis periods) so the only thing better than 3 months worth of expenses in a money market fund is having 3 + x months worth of expenses in the bond portfolio due to higher bond yields and negative correlation between bonds and stocks.

Gold performed as expected during the quarter, serving as a safe haven and delivering positive returns, while the price of oil surged more than 5 % on U.S. dollar weakness and news that OPEC and Russia could be cooperating to limit output for a long period.

Issuance of investment - grade corporate bonds picked up in early March in a receptive market, as investors sought higher yields than were available on safe - haven Treasury bonds.

Are other precious metals more effective than gold as safe havens from turmoil in stock and bond markets?

Sweden may be one of the most secular countries in Europe, but it still is a safer haven for immigrant converts to Christianity than their home countries in the Middle East.

While the Champions League is a safe haven of victory for its Bundesliga representatives, the Europa League has provided more difficult than expected for Borussia Mönchengladbach and Wolfsburg.

The rest of us, the parents who introduce and reintroduce broccoli the recommended 15 times — with less than stellar results — will find safe haven here.

Those qualities flourish in the context of a secure attachment to a parent, a sure knowledge that a safe haven, gentle guidance, and unfailing support are no more than a stone's throw away.

If planning your delivery is stressing you hard (i.e. more than you think it should), a center can be a safe haven and bring a sense of peace to the birth experience.

Shedd Aquarium has been a safe haven for endangered species for more than 40 years.

There is nowhere you would leave your baby alone and unattended other than in the crib, that crib must be a safe haven.

Now we are seen as one of the safe havens — able to borrow money at lower interest rates than at any time in our history.

Webster Green Apartments is a forward - looking state - of - the - art sustainable development that expands affordable housing opportunities for the Bronx and will help more than 80 New Yorkers find a safe haven they can call home.»

The de Blasio administration has dramatically increased funding for services for unsheltered homeless people, increasing funding by 250 percent since 2013 according to DHS figures, which allowed the contracted providers to more than double their outreach staff to 387, and has added 250 new Safe Haven shelter beds, which are designed for unsheltered homeless people, since December 2015.

According to a new study, the Windy City is a safe haven for migrating Canada geese, which are twice as likely to survive the winter there than geese that forage in nearby rural areas.

Think about like the engine of a car that in a safe haven would be in a nice, slow, idle, not stressed at all versus in your garage a car where there's somebody who has their foot all the way down on the gas pedal and so that engine is just accelerated at much higher speed than it ought to be for a car that's parked in a garage.

But to be honest, it is so much more than simply a play space: it is a safe haven to -LSB-...]

Safe Haven is a good movie, and it's better than the Nicholas Sparks movie of the last year (The Lucky One).

The captors eventually find safe haven in Entebbe, Uganda under the regime of His Excellency General Idi Amin Dada (Nonso Anozie, supplying more comic relief than menace).

Brazilian director José Padilha and writer Gregory Burke are less interested in the rescue's military precision than the mindset of the terrorists who hijacked an airliner and forced it to the ostensibly safe haven of Uganda.

There's no better indicator of how much the film industry is changing than the fact that a Scorsese gangster film starring De Niro, Pacino, and Pesci seems risky, and Netflix is the safe haven to make the big - budget picture of your dreams.

Few kinds of films get my blood pumping faster than one where the supposed safe haven is turned against it's inhabitants.

«I've been a nurse since 1971 and have worked in an intensive care unit and an emergency room — and I felt safer there than in a school,» said Donna Kosiorowski, the supervisor of school health services for the West Haven (Connecticut) Public Schools.»

Though the full budget allocated was provided in the bid, Safe Havens bid more than $ 60,000 below the budget amount and was selected for the project in 2009.

With a bid that cost less than half of the next lowest bidder, Safe Havens was selected by competitive bid process to assist the district in training an internal team to conduct annual school safety, security and emergency preparedness assessments for the 1,700 school facilities it operates in 2009.

But Trump's victory in the U.S. presidential race raises more questions than confidence — which was reflected in the greenback's dip early this morning while safe - haven sovereign bonds and gold shot higher.

For example, since 1987, on average when the HSI was negative in a month, it fell 5.6 % but during those months, crude oil was basically flat, only dropping 0.2 % and that's not much worse than gold, the one considered the safe haven.

Bonds did remarkably well over the last decade and they're seen as safer havens than stocks, particularly government bonds.

Fed officials also believe that some better - than - expected economic data recently has encouraged investors to believe there is less need for the safe - haven of government bonds and more risk of inflation.

This ETF's resilience was on display during the bear market of 2007 - 09, when the XLP produced a total return of -28.5 % — far better than the -55.2 % from the S&P 500 and the -42.5 % from safe - haven peer Utilities Select Sector SPDR Fund (XLU).

On the flip - side, what many consider traditional safe - havens — real - estate investment trusts and utilities — rose more than half a percent.

Gold futures, another safe - haven buy, rose more than 2 % to top $ 745 an ounce in New York, to levels not seen since 1980.

Rather than rush to a safe haven when markets become volatile, consider maintaining a portfolio that has an acceptable amount of volatility through all market conditions.

Bonds have had an average annual return greater than 7 %, and they have been a safe haven during times of crisis.

And then he pushed me to be 100 % invested in the market - related mutual funds during this huge downturn (rather than, say, directing at least some of the funds to a safe haven like money market fund or bond fund or whatever).

Another important takeaway from the Callan table is the value of holding a portion of your nest egg in a safe haven like investment - grade bonds (as opposed to high - yield, or junk, bonds, which are more volatile and tend to move more in synch with stocks than bonds).

Every stock sector with the exception of consumer stables and utilities - safer haven assets less tied to economic cycles - is down more than the 20 % bear market demarcation line.