In the second scenario, a sudden jump in interest rates, short-term and medium-term bond funds take an immediate hit in their value and then take about two years or more to climb back to their starting value.
Similarly, Africa should see the United States as a role model and shift its policy attention toward industrial development, starting with adding value to agricultural and mineral resources through aggressive industrial policy.
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Medicaid is converted into a block grant whose value grows at the rate of inflation starting in 2013, so its value will fall even further behind projected healthcare costs than Medicare vouchers (producing big savings for the federal government).
Businesses, too, are starting to discover the value of instant messaging.
But despite the sophistication of agile principles in the development space and numerous examples of their successful application in organizations of all shapes and sizes the broader community of business leaders is just starting to understand the value of agile development in solving more general business challenges, including issues around market forces, competitive pressures, company culture and values, technology, process improvement, and others.
He gave examples of how companies are starting to see the business value in sharing previously closely-guarded data.
Thus, it enables to monitor the total flows of goods and services produced, as well as value added, starting from the initial production stage to the final use stage.
The rise to prominence of Mrs Hanson comes at a time when the Australian economy is starting to suffer and the value of the Australian dollar has tumbled amid concern about the impact of the Asian financial crisis (see article).
Based on the fundamentals, we think DryShips may be starting to look attractive to a value investor with a contrarian streak, and we may be inclined to upgrade at Ockham in upcoming weeks.
Their secret to success was value investing and particularly small-cap value when they were just starting out.
Will teams see enough value to dissuade them from starting their own RSNs, as several have already done?
Latin American banks are starting to treat their customers as if they value them.
Lincecum has proven to have significant value to the Giants beyond the starting rotation and it has allowed him to work from a different mindset as a reliever.
Update: A reader pointed out to me that the Affordable Care Act requires employers to start reporting the value of employee health insurance benefits starting in 2012 (for benefits provided in 2011).
In fact, just by asking clients the question, and showing clients that you trust and value their opinion, you are probably starting to increase trust!
The weekly chart shows that the DMK was in a well-established downtrend (line a) starting in 1982, as it was falling in value against the US dollar.
That's the benchmark figure from which a group of economists are starting, when they try to figure out the value of the happiness that can be generated by the Olympics and Paralympic Games this summer.
Bank of America is not a value, it is a falling knife and it is starting to look more and more like it is going to be a redux of 2008 for the financial sector.
The manifesto confirms its ambitions on tax: for a lower 10p starting rate of income tax, for a cut from 8% to 5% in value-added tax on fuel, and for no increase in the 23p basic rate nor the 40p higher rate of income tax.
Starting in January 2011, Sodexo began tracking all the investment options in the plan using the unit value method.
And value capture, an idea long en vogue with economists and policy wonks, is now starting to bleed slowly into City Halls, changing the way we pay for our cities.
The first is the perception that a businessman's value to society lies solely (as opposed to chiefly) in being a good businessman, in starting companies and making better products.
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