You may have all U.S. large-cap stocks, the most common out-of-balance portfolio.
Meanwhile, corporations will hire consultants to generate artificial grass-roots e-mail in support of their own positions, to balance out the e-mail that congressmen receive from green citizens.
Our preoccupation with short-term, self-interest is causing us to be out of balance in our giving and receiving with each other.
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And while this dude takes high dudgeon douchery to a new level, I see plenty of entry-level peers who struggle to strike a balance when it comes to figuring out how much of their on-the-job interactions to take personally and how much to write off as typical professional white noise.
In 1991 the Indian government sold similar bonds to expatriates to claw its way out of a balance-of-payments crisis.
But these days, in the aftermath of Sarbanes-Oxley, the balance is out of whack.
With snowfall reasonably constant over the period, it appears that melt as a result of the 1-2-degree rise in air temperatures has tipped the ice out of balance.
It is more likely that cycling combined with the dehydrating effects of a ten-hour plane trip plus a heat wave threw his electrolytes out of balance and triggered an event.
And if the balance stays out of whack--if every company wants to be private and none public--that will be bad for the future of American democratic capitalism.
But with 2, 000 verses on the poor in the Bible, the so-called prosperity gospel is way out of balance.
Some moonlight in their new venture while holding down a traditional corporate gig, or use larger and longer freelance projects where the work might be ho-hum to balance out a growing portfolio of smaller, more exciting clients.
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These banks would suddenly be shut out of the capital-raising business to shore up their broken balance sheets because global liquidity would instantly freeze (recall the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy and its aftermath whereby financial institutions could not readily access capital).
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The balance of that money flows to out-of-state suppliers, or back to the parent corporation.
The costs are significant and we are going to have to have a discussion about over the medium and long term how do we match up our spending with our revenues -- because right now they are way out of balance.
As Noah Poponak of Goldman Sachs points out, most have strong balance-sheets and cashflow, and the geopolitical landscape is no less threatening.
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However, as the cycle has bottomed, I would expect market rotation into out-of-favor sectors, companies with dominant market positions, cash rich balance sheets, and growing end markets.
But Barth, who started as an industrial engineer at Hoover and later rose through the ranks at Johnson Controls, wanted to balance out the three legs of the company--interiors, batteries and building controls.
The weekly on-balance volume (OBV) has also broken out of its trading range (lines f and g).
Recently, Caldeira and colleagues at Carnegie and Stanford set out to examine whether the techniques of solar-radiation management would disrupt the sensitive agricultural balance on which the earth depends.
In general, shifting the balance of fluids underground -- whether taking more out of the ground than is put back in or vice versa -- is likely to trigger seismic activity, the report concludes.
In the past, the premiums they paid into a central emergency-fund for bailing out troubled banks were crudely linked to the size of their balance sheets.
The employee uses part of the money to purchase high-deductible, catastrophic coverage for his family and the balance to cover co-pays, deductibles and other out-of-pocket medical expenses.
When announcing its proposals the department said it had to strike a balance between what was paid out and the long-term funding of that level of benefits.
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Or you could go to Personalfund, plug in your current holdings and get back a list of investments that should--based on historical patterns--balance out your portfolio and reduce the risk that it will underperform the market.
Even though Wall Street created this financial debacle, the firms have been forcing the brokers they employ to agree to dramatic reductions of paid-out compensation from generally 38%- 42% to 20%-25% to balance their books.
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If a client had 80% of their assets in growth equities adding Netflix, Apple, Google, Microsoft or even Wal-Mart Stores or would not be appropriate since the portfolio is already grossly out of balance.
Part of the reason is that a strong capital base and a liquid balance sheet--HSBC has one of the strongest Tier 1 ratios out of the big banks--is something the company has never parted from, Green says.
FirstBuy has a similar aim for first-time buyers, but instead of paying rent, owners take out an equity loan to finance the balance.
But less remembered is the pre-scandal year of 1997, when the president and Newt Gingrich's Republicans hammered out an agreement to balance the budget for the first time in three decades.
Ali Rodriguez Araque, OPEC's secretary-general, has pointed out that the change in price is not the result of any change in the balance of supply and demand for oil, and he also said that OPEC has no intention of manipulating the price or supply of oil for political reasons.
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