Sentences with phrase «uncertainty over recent»

The cryptocurrency world has been held in a state of perpetual uncertainty over recent months, as a series of controversial forks have threatened to split the community and network's value.

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On Wednesday a board member of the Bank of Japan said that the central bank should stick with its ultra-easy monetary policy, despite recent signs of economic recovery, because uncertainty remains over how fast inflation will rise.

Such risks and uncertainties include, but are not limited to: our ability to achieve our financial, strategic and operational plans or initiatives; our ability to predict and manage medical costs and price effectively and develop and maintain good relationships with physicians, hospitals and other health care providers; the impact of modifications to our operations and processes; our ability to identify potential strategic acquisitions or transactions and realize the expected benefits of such transactions, including with respect to the Merger; the substantial level of government regulation over our business and the potential effects of new laws or regulations or changes in existing laws or regulations; the outcome of litigation, regulatory audits, investigations, actions and / or guaranty fund assessments; uncertainties surrounding participation in government - sponsored programs such as Medicare; the effectiveness and security of our information technology and other business systems; unfavorable industry, economic or political conditions, including foreign currency movements; acts of war, terrorism, natural disasters or pandemics; our ability to obtain shareholder or regulatory approvals required for the Merger or the requirement to accept conditions that could reduce the anticipated benefits of the Merger as a condition to obtaining regulatory approvals; a longer time than anticipated to consummate the proposed Merger; problems regarding the successful integration of the businesses of Express Scripts and Cigna; unexpected costs regarding the proposed Merger; diversion of management's attention from ongoing business operations and opportunities during the pendency of the Merger; potential litigation associated with the proposed Merger; the ability to retain key personnel; the availability of financing, including relating to the proposed Merger; effects on the businesses as a result of uncertainty surrounding the proposed Merger; as well as more specific risks and uncertainties discussed in our most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.cigna.com as well as on Express Scripts» most recent report on Form 10 - K and subsequent reports on Forms 10 - Q and 8 - K available on the Investor Relations section of www.express-scripts.com.

The day's trading was driven by uncertainty over how to interpret the Federal Reserve's recent policy statement as well as worries over talks in Beijing designed to avert a full - blown U.S. - China trade war.

The president went on to announce that the broad - based economic expansion in the eurozone accelerated more than expected in the first half of 2017; however, recent exchange - rate volatility could lead to uncertainty in price stability over the medium - term.

While the bulls got a boost from a rosy Consumer Confidence Survey reading, today's directionless movement underscored the recent uncertainty that has characterized trading over the past several weeks.

Attack is likely to be a priority for Arsenal, with Olivier Giroud out of favour and with some uncertainties over Theo Walcott, despite his recent improvement in form.

As it was, the uncertainty over Sanchez and Ozil has disrupted the team and Sanchez has definately not been the same player as in recent seasons.

The ongoing reappraisal of the diagnostic criteria for the autistic spectrum of disorders over recent decades has led to substantial uncertainty over whether a true increase in incidence exists or whether such diagnostic shifts represent an artifactual increase.

If anything, given what's happened in recent days in the markets in New York and London — and with continuing uncertainty over Greece — David Cameron wants to get on with the cuts as quickly as possible.

But the Ministry of Health in recent times, is laying claims to the facility, leading to uncertainties over who has the responsibility to manage the centre.

As the major areas of contention become clear, some remain from recent years, while others are new, and questions loom over the city budget cycle due to uncertainty in Washington, D.C., state funding shifts being proposed by Gov. Andrew Cuomo, and a slowing city economy.

Recent expressions of concern and interest over the ominous uncertainty of the future of the Buhari Presidency in particular and the sustainability of the northern entitlement beyond 2019 in general provide pointers to the positive potentials of capturing the political composition and nationalistic disposition that characterized the National Assembly under Speaker Aminu Waziri Tambuwal as the preferred template for kick - starting the proposed NEW DEAL for pan-Nigerian consensus and endorsement of the imperilled northern entitlement for a second term.

Global mean temperatures averaged over land and ocean surfaces, from three different estimates, each of which has been independently adjusted for various homogeneity issues, are consistent within uncertainty estimates over the period 1901 to 2005 and show similar rates of increase in recent decades.

A battle over the future of Colorado's Cesar Chavez Schools Network, plagued by recent management problems and financial scandal, has created uncertainty in one of the state's most successful charter school groups.

Salt Lake City — Political uncertainty in the federal policy arena hung heavy over the recent ASU / GSV Summit here, an annual event that draws thousands of educational technology executives, developers, and investors, as well as educators.

For Bitcoin, the recent volatility has been driven, not only by the exponential gains this year but also over the likelihood of hard forks in the coming months that raises a degree of uncertainty over Bitcoin's future.

Despite recent signs of trade tensions with China and uncertainty over NAFTA negotiations, a potential elongation in the economic cycle could provide reason for economic growth.

This approach was famously codified by critic Harold Rosenberg in his seminal article «The American Action Painters,» which was published in ARTnews in December 1952 and became a hot topic of conversation in New York art circles the following year.19 Rosenberg identified a revolution in recent approaches to painting that conceptualized works of art as the result of a process that was begun in complete uncertainty and unfolded over time.

Of course, on a timescale of one decade the noise in the temperature signal from internal variability and measurement uncertainty is quite large, so this might be hard to determine, though tamino showed that five year means show a monotonic increase over recent decades, and one might not unreasonably expect this to cease for a decade in a grand solar minimum scenario.

Because of the uncertainties in projected sea level rise over the remainder of this century, Sasmito and his co-authors use both the low and the high sea level rise scenario from the most recent International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report (AR5).

Nevertheless, temperatures in recent decades exceed the uncertainty range over the past 400 years.

This can also be seen in the final figure from Morice et al 2012 (detail here), in which HadCRUT4 is at the top of the pack over recent years, although GISTEMP and NCDC both lie within the uncertainty range.

A recent paper I reviewed at The Cryosphere by Brown and Robinson (2010) examines the March and April snowcover record «Northern Hemisphere spring snow cover variability and change over 1922 — 2010 including an assessment of uncertainty».

• Poles to tropics temperature gradient, average temp of tropics over past 540 Ma; and arguably warming may be net - beneficial overall • Quotes from IPCC AR4 WG1 showing that warming would be beneficial for life, not damaging • Quotes from IPCC AR5 WG3 stating (in effect) that the damage functions used for estimating damages are not supported by evidence • Richard Tol's breakdown of economic impacts of GW by sector • Economic damages of climate change — about the IAMs • McKitrick — Social Cost of Carbon much lower than commonly stated • Bias on impacts of GHG emissions — Figure 1 is a chart showing 15 recent estimates of SCC — Lewis and Curry, 2015, has the lowest uncertainty range.

No such complete meta - data are available, so in this analysis the same value for urbanisation uncertainty is used as in the previous analysis [Folland et al., GRL 2001]; that is, a 1 sigma value of 0.0055 deg C / decade, starting in 1900... The same value is used over the whole land surface, and it is one - sided: recent temperatures may be too high due to urbanisation, but they will not be too low.

Because of that uncertainty, the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)-- the international body that reviews and assesses the most recent peer - reviewed climate research from around the world — assumed in 2007 that the rate of ice loss from the poles wouldn't change much over the next century.

They are perhaps the largest uncertainty in our understanding of climate change, owing to disagreement among climate models and observational datasets over what cloud changes have occurred during recent decades and will occur in response to global warming2, 3.

The models, note, only over estimate recent temperature trends by 18 %, half the expansion of the uncertainty range - and that overestimation has been eliminated from the attribution by scaling in any event.

Hallegatte [8] notes that these sources of uncertainty will not go away in the foreseeable future: social uncertainties will play out over decades, and recent experiences of improving scientific understanding have often led to more uncertainty about the future rather than less [10], as the implications of unappreciated processes such as ice - sheet dynamics become clearer.

But when I look at the single figure in Kevin Trenberth's recent Science paper («Uncertainty in Hurricanes and Global Warming», vol 308, 1753 - 54) the mean SSTA averaged over the tropical Atlantic («10 N to 20 N excluding the Caribbean west of 80 W») sure doesn't indicate recent cooling.

About this performance mark, Lightsource CEO Nick Boyle said, «Despite the cloud of uncertainty hanging over the industry in recent months, we've seen a great many successes in 2015 and this latest round of connections is a great way for us to end the year.»

Recent work includes successfully defending a complicated clinical negligence claim involving two defendants where each party had instructed three experts to consider the extremely complex causation case and the uncertainty over the cause of death.

In recent days, bitcoin prices in China dipped lower than they did in other markets, reflecting uncertainty over the ban, said Charles Hayter, chief executive of CryptoCompare.

With continuing uncertainty in Greece, anxiety over the recent spam attack on bitcoin, and an unfolding litecoin ponzi scheme, the price of bitcoin may be at the center of an almost «perfect storm».

Over the last several years of the worst recession in recent history, employees were overwhelmingly hit with job loss and uncertainty in employment, which caused many employees to stay put, even in jobs that left them unsatisfied.

Uncertainty in the CDO market has sidelined CDO issuers, and securitizations have dropped sharply over the last several months, notes Jim Shanahan, a senior analyst of specialty and mortgage finance for Wachovia Capital Markets in a recent research report.