Sentences with phrase «uncertainty about its future as»

Amidst deep uncertainty about its future as a public company, BlackBerry is launching a new flagship smartphone.

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The magnitude of the decline in home prices acted as a «shock» to household balance sheets, said Marple, tightening the credit available to homeowners and creating a sense of general uncertainty about the future.

As a report from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) observes, «Uncertainty about future exchange rates and GDP growth reduces flows into equities.»

As history has taught us, inflation distorts decision - making in the economy, discourages saving, and increases uncertainty about the future.

The U.S. inflation numbers were much as expected but all the DEBT futures markets rallied as it seems the shorts in the markets are nervous about new uncertainties in the Middle East.

Most likely, the near future for a company might not look quite as bright as the recent past or there's a great deal of uncertainty about the company for one reason or another.

These bonds are viewed by the market as riskier than other corporate bonds since there is lot of uncertainty about their future, and these companies will not be able to guarantee repayment of the bond.

After raising interest rates twice this summer, The Bank of Canada has decided to hold its key overnight lending rate steady at 1 %, as it grapples with uncertainty about the future prospects of the country's economy.

Yet at the same time there is an ever - growing hunger for Christ as people search for meaning and stability in the midst ofgrowing uncertainty about the future.

They also address issues such as the unequal distribution of harm and benefit of applications among social actors; the control over technology and its administration; and the uncertainty about the future impacts of technology.

So it looks like the uncertainty about Arsene Wenger's future at Arsenal is going to go right to the end of the season, as Kroenke and the Directors are going to stand by the Frenchman until the end of the season at least, especially as Silent Stan is not so bothered about winning trophies as long as the «business» is profitable.

Manchester United are widely reported to be lining up a swoop for the French international striker, because of the ongoing uncertainty about Wayne Rooney's future, but also because of the lack of goals — the latter of which has been a major concern as of late.

«As employers of more than a million New Yorkers, we urge you to act now to end uncertainty about the future governance of our city schools and extend the current law for at least three years,» reads the letter, which was released by the Partnership for New York City.

Private business surveys cited uncertainty about future demand and the outcome of the EU negotiations as weighing on activity and investment.»

Yet, beneath the surface, there is growing uncertainty about the party's electoral future and about what one MP describes as «an identity crisis».

As employers of more than a million New Yorkers, we urge you to act now to end the uncertainty about the future governance of our city schools and extend the current mayoral control law as well as expanding the number of charter schoolAs employers of more than a million New Yorkers, we urge you to act now to end the uncertainty about the future governance of our city schools and extend the current mayoral control law as well as expanding the number of charter schoolas well as expanding the number of charter schoolas expanding the number of charter schools.

Uncertainty about the party's future direction following the election of Ed Miliband as the party's leader is constraining senior figures in the party from speaking out.

As uncertainty about the plant's future grows, a new campaign to keep FitzPatrick open is putting a face on the issue.

«As a result, millions of public sector workers, many of them women, such as classroom assistants, health visitors, and nursery nurses are in the firing line and face complete uncertainty about their future pensioAs a result, millions of public sector workers, many of them women, such as classroom assistants, health visitors, and nursery nurses are in the firing line and face complete uncertainty about their future pensioas classroom assistants, health visitors, and nursery nurses are in the firing line and face complete uncertainty about their future pension.

Because the Kyoto protocol only runs until the end of 2012 and, as yet, there is no replacement deal, there is a lot of uncertainty about the future of the industry.

As can be seen your graph, our climate models make a wide range of predictions (perhaps 0.5 - 5 degC, a 10-fold uncertainty) about how much «committed warming» will occur in the future under any stabilization scenario, so we don't seem to have a decent understanding of these processes.

Oppenheimer and his co-authors use a technique known as «structured expert judgment» to put an actual value on the uncertainty that scientists studying climate change have about a particular model's prediction of future events such as sea - level rise.

The researchers found that student - athletes reported feeling uncertain in three areas: personal uncertainty, such as uncertainty about balancing school work and sports; social uncertainty, such as uncertainty related to who their «real» friends are; and future uncertainty, such as uncertainty concerning their post-collegiate careers and whether the time they spend pursuing athletics will hurt their career prospects.

As part of this dynamic, we also aim to better understanding the payer perspective to direct future research in ways that can reduce uncertainties and improve their decision making about reimbursement.

We can often do this quite simply, as we only need to reduce the uncertainty about the future for the person who is actually making the decision.

Schools Week revealed in February how Rodillian was one of several «unviable trusts» — those flagged by auditors as having uncertainty about its future viability.

These students often «are dealing with many of the same issues» of uncertainty and fear about their futures as undocumented students and DREAMERs, Martinez said.

Against a background of war, terrorism, disease and unbearable uncertainty about the future, this story of how a foreign correspondent and his wife fought to adopt a Zimbabwean baby emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love and dogged determination can sometimes achieve.

Against a background of war, terrorism, disease, and unbearable uncertainty about the future, Chipo's story emerges as an inspiring testament to the miracles that love — and dogged determination — can sometimes achieve.

While Warburg has made affirmative statements about the transaction, both publicly as well as privately, to surplus note buyers and the media, we believe there continues to be transaction closure risk for both the initial stock purchase and future rights offering, with the rights offering having greater uncertainty.

These bonds are viewed by the market as riskier than other corporate bonds since there is lot of uncertainty about their future, and these companies will not be able to guarantee repayment of the bond.

The data looks at historical and current information, not future projections For - profit education stocks have a cloud of uncertainty weighing on their share prices as investors worry about the potential for litigation and additional regulation (STRA also appeared in one my recent Seeking Alpha article here where I discussed its recent performance).

As a result, if investors want to stop worrying about the uncertainty underlying a company's future, they should consistently use trailing P / E ratios to screen stocks.

A steep yield curve generally means that inflation expectations are rising or there is great uncertainty of the future, as it implies that people are either (1) reluctant to buy longer term bonds, or (2) are are keeping their funds liquid because they feel uncertain about the future.

However, as with any medium, it does come with its drawbacks, including but not limited to, uncertainty about the future.

As discussed above, the biggest uncertainties about the future are the economics, technology and rate of development going forward.

But current climate research indicates uncertainty (never mind that we're speaking about probability) in the future, and as an economist he will know that uncertainty is bad for business.

Another Nobel laureate in economics, Thomas Schelling, wrote recently that «In responding to such uncertainty [about future warming and sea level rises], we should neither wait until the uncertainty has been completely resolved before we take action nor act as if it's certain until we have assurance that there's no danger.»

«Uncertainty about feedback mechanisms is one reason why the ultimate goal of climate modeling — forecasting reliably the future of key variables such as temperature and rainfall patterns — is not realizable.»

Which as I said is subject to considerable uncertainties about future CO2 and methane.

They wrote (as quoted by you): «But given how little is known about either the climate's sensitivity to greenhouse - gas emissions or about future emissions levels,...» The use of the word «either» makes it very clear that The Economist knows that uncertainty about climate sensitivity is * not * the same thing as (or «equal to») uncertainty about emissions.

Uncertainty about important feedback mechanisms is one reason why the ultimate goal of climate modeling — the forecasting reliably the futures key variables such as temperature and rainfall patterns — is not realizable.

When the adaptation challenge is reframed as implications for near - term decisions, uncertainty about the distant future becomes less problematic and adaptation responses can be better integrated into existing decision - making processes and early warning systems.

There is new information that lack of sea ice causes storms to produce larger waves and more coastal erosion.5 An additional contributing factor is that coastal bluffs that were «cemented» by permafrost are beginning to thaw in response to warmer air and ocean waters, and are therefore more vulnerable to erosion.22 Standard defensive adaptation strategies to protect coastal communities from erosion such as use of rock walls, sandbags, and riprap have been largely unsuccessful.23 There remains considerable uncertainty, however, about the spatial patterns of future coastal erosion.

But a lack of demand from carbon markets and uncertainty about how many credits could be used as part of future global emissions cuts has scared off many private sector investors.

However, Lawrence and Vandecar acknowledge there remains considerable uncertainty about impacts so far as well as future forecasts, especially in Africa and Asia.

As has been amply documented in the IPCC reports and elsewhere, there remains a large number of uncertainties about Earth's past climate, climate dynamics, and forecasts of future climate.

The uncertainties about future precipitation make it difficult for decision - makers to plan, particularly in arid regions such as the Sahel in Africa and southwestern North America.

Firstly, there is uncertainty about the future levels of greenhouse gas emissions driving climate change [34] and considerable uncertainty in modeling how this will affect other aspects of climate such as local rainfall or temperatures.

However, uncertainty about the current state of Himalayan glaciers (4) and the future state of the climate, as well as an incomplete understanding of the processes affecting Himalayan glaciers under the current climate, make any projections of climate change's impact on glaciers uncertain as well (2, 23, 17, 39).