Keener risk-aversion this week has also limited buying interest in risk assets, including the raw commodities.
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Still, a good deal of the risk-aversion is reflected at the top, where it matters most.
This is rarer in Germany, where company loyalty and risk-aversion has largely kept pharmaceutical managers out of biotech.
Alejandro and I talked about how we need to be more questioning of each other and our innate risk-aversion.
Risk-aversion of this degree is literally insane yet rational, according to the theory.
Why should online firms be immune to the same forces of bureaucratisation and risk-aversion that caused earlier generations to lose their youthful vigour?
German bond yields hit another record low at the latest auctions Wednesday, which is another sign of the keen risk-aversion in the market place.
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Short-rates have been pegged near 0.25% by the Fed since late-2008, but as risk-aversion has increased in 2011 the rates available on 10-year treasuries and the mortgage-backed securities that trade off them have decreased from earlier in the year.
Commodities were in focus once again, as copper and crude-oil prices fell sharply as investors dumped assets across the commodity complex due to broad-based risk aversion and lingering concerns over growth in China.
The greenback has not been a beneficiary of the recent risk aversion and safe-haven moves by investors.
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Woolfolk agrees that once the risk aversion and safe-haven bid dissipate from the U.S. dollar then a bevy of negative factors will take hold of the greenback.
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The risk aversion that has re-entered the market place recently has been bullish for gold, but bearish for other commodity markets, including silver.
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The risk aversion that has re-entered the market place recently had been bullish for gold and bearish for other commodity markets, including silver.
FORBES: Comex Gold, Silver End Down, but Off Daily Lows; Risk Aversion Prompts Selling Pressure
This increasing risk aversion amplifies an initial price decline -- coming from bad earnings news or the huge rise in credit spreads -- into a rout.
Tuesday brings a series of keynotes beginning with Richard Boly, Director of the Office of eDiplomacy in the US State Department talking about how a governmental organization with a history of risk aversion and bureaucracy is moving from a need-to-know culture to a need-to-share one.
Lately, the key influence has been an aversion to risk in other markets and consequent safe-haven demand for gold.
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"It's about risk aversion, " says Kevin Falls, the Emmy-winning writer-producer behind Sports Night, The West Wing and Journeyman, who is currently adapting Argentina's telenovela Lalola for potential series pickup at News Corp.
This will instantly raise people's aversion to risk: they will do instant de-risking of their own portfolios and you may come to a point where one bank refuses to lend to another.
Much of this risk aversion can be traced back to Germany's post-war economic miracle, the Wirtschaftswunder.
Comex gold futures prices are trading sharply lower Monday morning and have hit another fresh 4.5-month low as most markets are under selling pressure on keen risk aversion due to several factors, but namely the heightened European Union debt and financial crisis.
This promise, backed up by thousands of pages of regulations, undermines the natural risk aversion and skepticism of market participants by creating the illusion of a risk-free future.
The World Bank argues in a new report that tighter financial conditions, thanks to tougher regulation and higher risk aversion, could reduce developing countries' trend growth by 0.2-0.7 percentage points over the next five to seven years.
When risk aversion mounts as it surely will again at some point emerging-market borrowers are usually quick to feel the effects.
French banks have suffered from a bout of risk aversion from U.S. money market funds, a prime source of short-term dollar funding.
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It will take a board of directors that can overcome internal schisms, its natural aversion to risk and a focus on the next quarter and similar pressures by short-term investors to put its faith in the kind of leader who can be a positive force for change.
An auction of German 10-year bunds Wednesday produced the lowest yield since last July, which underscored the keener risk aversion in the market place this week.
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But she also pointed out that on days of extreme risk aversion in the markets, investors still shift to Treasury securities which still appear to be the ultimate safe-haven.
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