In the U.S., uncertainty over the near-term, with a looming fiscal cliff and the potentially nefarious effect of a new debt ceiling debate still to come, have kept investors on edge.
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Dark pools, unfortunately a nefarious-sounding moniker, actually have exotic names like H20, Liquidity Ping, Matchpoint, PIN, MS Pool and Liquifi.
Online behavioral tracking, which has been going on for years, is increasingly being seen as a nefarious practice.
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It's not a nefarious plot against America, rather the resultant of global prosperity.
But, while they may be coming under more intense scrutiny, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) should not be seen as a nefarious influence in global markets.
The coalition, an electric industry trade group that is dedicated to open markets, wants to dispel any notion that a nefarious link exists between competition and deregulation.
The main plot consists of fifteen episodes that follow Batman and Robin, and eventually Superman, as they try to stop a nefarious scheme of Lex Luthor and the Joker.
Tintin's official profession may be that of a reporter, but he is just as much an explorer and archaeologist, dashing around the world to chase down ancient artifacts in addition to nefarious villains and a good story.
As NetworkWorld notes, that could lead to some more nefarious folks developing a SMM rootkit, which would be all the more perilous considering that the user of the infected computer would have no way of detecting the attack.
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And though this strain seems to have been programmed by a hacker looking for notoriety, it could have had a more nefarious payload, he says.
The likelihood that dual-use technology is diverted to nefarious purposes is increased when a company, as is the case with Technip, contracts with state-owned companies.
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But while many young Tunisians, Egyptians, and Syrians have fearlessly embraced Twitter and Facebook, few Arab leaders have exploited the power of social media, not in nefarious ways, but as a platform to connect with their increasingly electronically literate people.
However, if you know there is a past record of nefarious actions, either involving the company or its peers, then you should ask whether the risks are simply too high.
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Cybercrime in Russia had long ceased being a "hobby" for hackers, said Mr Ferguson, and had become a way of life for many criminals who were making a good living from their nefarious deeds.
You spend a great deal of time either finding all the objects of a certain type (like cats, a lot of them) or gathering items for a character to achieve whatever nefarious objective they have in mind.
Is it possible that this wasn't nefarious or pejorative, but something that was a bit more benign?
But a lot of what she paints as nefarious activity is simple business sense.
The conduct engaged in by MSSB in this case represents an unfair method of competition in the securities industry precisely because it attempted, either explicitly, implicitly or through nefarious and surreptitious means, to impose upon Fidelity, a non-Protocol firm, rules of commerce by which it never agreed to be bound.
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The conduct engaged in by MSSB in this case represents an unfair method of competition in the securities industry precisely because it attempted, either explicitly, implicitly or through nefarious and surreptitious means, to impose upon Fidelity, a non-Protocol firm, mles of commerce by which it never agreed to be bound.
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All day he raises the example of Brookhaven, a nuclear lab leaking radioactive waste, as evidence of Big Business's nefarious influence.
But there is a category of people who unwittingly offer us reproductions and who are not engaged in nefarious activities.
In a year where stocks have zigzagged, the coming quarter could be marked by the nefarious effects of global economic cooling.
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We do ourselves a disservice when we stop listening to one another and start accusing one another of nefarious activity solely based upon our gender.
The idea is to give users (not to mention nefarious strangers) the impression they have control of the machine, when really they are dealing with a simulacrum created entirely in software.
The story involves a young orphan girl (Dakota Blue Richards) who, with the aid of a magic compass, sets out to find two friends who have been kidnapped, for nefarious reasons, by the Magisterium.
Danny Sullivan, a search industry expert and blogger for Search Engine Land, concurs with Cutts: There's nothing nefarious about Google's protecting its user-focused emphasis on relevant results, he says.
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