To achieve "attractive" yields in typical yield-bearing instruments (i.e. fixed income) in today's environment, one must generally take on a level of credit risk that essentially shifts the risk profile of that investment more toward the equity spectrum.

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On the flip-side, the nice thing about seismic shifts is that they help level the playing field.

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Many factors must be considered to understand how shifts at the individual or species level might ripple through an entire ecosystem and affect ocean services and resources.

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We estimate that a relatively low level of disparity in replacement rates will result in smaller market-share shifts in the future.

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In a paper presented to the conference, they showed that those sectors and demographic groups that contributed most to the rise in unemployment in 2007-09 also contributed most to its decline in 2009-12, which suggests that shifts in relative demand for workers could not explain the high level of unemployment.

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George Alogoskoufis, an economist at the Athens School of Economics, and Richard Portes, of the London Business School, argue that shifts in portfolios could push the euro temporarily above its long-run equilibrium level.

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As lower costs encourage firms to produce more at any given price (ie, the supply curve shifts from S1 to S2 in the chart), the long-term equilibrium level of output will rise and the price level will fall.

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Phase Shifts regardless of physical makeup follow some patterns, and are basically a change from one level of order to another.

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He says that these street level traders are one of the drivers helping to reshape the global economy as the center of gravity shifts away from the West toward the East.

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