If they are off-shore sourcing, you have to be concerned about quality and safety stock.
As a result, the practice of safety stock and holding inventory against commodity price fluctuation and supply chain disruption will provide relief from the fragility of the supply chain.
While the focus around Hurricane Sandy rightly remains on safety, stock-watchers will also be keeping an eye on companies that will either benefit from aiding recovery efforts or be hurt by the impact of the storm.
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As their currencies weaken against the dollar in the mad rush to safety, that means lower stock value for their ADRs.
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We think that long term investors may have an opportunity to buy this game maker because, according to our methodology, the stock has a decent margin of safety.
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Yet with the risks still high, investors should focus their stock purchases on areas that provide relative safety, some strategists say.
Even so, the stock price offers more than a sufficient margin of safety.
As stock prices plunged, there was a rush to safety as the yield on the ten-year Treasury dropped below 3% for the first time since last December.
Last month, facing sharp drops in their stock prices, Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs sought the safety of bank holding company status, and got injections of capital from Japan's Mitsubishi UFJ and Warren Buffett, respectively.
In short, the margin of safety in price-to-book is good enough to give the stock a closer look.
Whenever stock markets around the world crater, investors scramble to find safety in so-called defensive stocks such as consumer goods companies.
So when it comes to stock holdings and the pursuit of higher returns, there is no safety in large numbers.
Earlier a statement from Occupy London Stock Exchange said the camp had been reorganised in order to meet fire safety concerns.
U.S. equity markets closed mostly lower Thursday as national safety issues surrounding bioterrorism concerns and weak corporate results put pressure on blue-chip stock investors.
Thursday's stock-market slump had driven traders around the world to flee equities for the safety of fixed income investments.
Trillions of dollars have entered into the bond market through mutual funds over the past decade, as investors sought safety after the equity bear markets of 2000-2002, and fueled further by the broad stock market collapse in 2008.
AstraZeneca stock fell 7% and the company went so far as to issue a statement defending the safety of its drug.
Uncertainty about the direction of the bond and stock markets and a lack of buyers in the credit markets is creating a stampede to the safety of U.S. government bonds.
The Office is developing, through multi-disciplinary consultations, a training manual to offer a glossary of key concepts and best journalistic practices, as well as to take stock of government normative actions, such as the up-coming China National Plan for Food Safety and Nutrition 2011-2020.
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