As these big emerging markets become less risky, the risk spread between them and US Treasurys is tightening.
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Despite positive fundamentals, gold speculators sought liquidity and other safe havens as concerns of contagion risk spread to France and Italy, said TD Securities.
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Dr. PHILOMENA McANDREW (Oncologist): Part of the reason is that we don't have specific targeted therapy that we can use in addition to the chemotherapy, the general chemotherapy that will act to further reduce the risk of spread overtime as well as reduce the risk of a new breast cancer in the other breast.
This year, the team looked at aspirin's effect on the spread of cancer, and found it reduced the risk of secondary spread to the lungs, liver and the brain by "about half".
There's rate risk in this spread (short-term rates could shoot up) but no credit risk.
And if you are spreading your investment risk with gold, why not also spread your geographical risk by owning some gold overseas as well?
The stakes lock up a company's capital and it is hard to claim they spread risk.
Each vehicle seems to be dedicated to a single country, so risk is not spread.
The family recommends diversifying investments as much as possible to spread risk.
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One advantage of lending to a bank is that because it can spread risk over thousands of loans, it can guarantee individual deposits.
To minimize the risk of disease spread by aircraft, regulations requiring HEPA filters for any aircraft that uses recirculated air should be seriously considered.
Take, for example, one indicator of the market's appetite for risk, the spread between swaps of fixed- and floating-rate interest payments (see chart).
To make matters worse, regulators wrongly believed that the use of derivatives, and the bundling of property loans into securities, had spread risk evenly throughout the system.
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As the circle of lenders and borrowers grew, financial transactions were able to muster larger sums and to spread risk, even as promises became harder to enforce.
This lowers the costs of borrowing and helps spread risk.
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His Air Traffic Control report cites a Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation study, which asserted that privatization would transfer and spread risk, while introducing more efficiencies into the system.
Between 10, 000 and 15, 000 angels are believed to belong to angel groups in the U.S., which spread risk around by syndicating deals between members, according to the Angel Capital Association.
The whole point of insurance is to spread risk.
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The new emphasis on quality and efficiency may encourage even more consolidation among hospitals bigger hospitals can spread risk across patients, invest in information technology and create standardised procedures that can easily be replicated.
The shift from collectivisation to a market economy, Mr Sneath argues, was in many ways a far more wrenching change, one that undermined or destroyed institutions that had long sustained nomadic pastoralism, particularly ones that spread risk and reaped economies of scale.
Most benefits firms continue to see their costs rise 8 to 10 percent a year and shift more onto their workers, particularly in the bad economy where companies have reduced the number of their employees and therefore have fewer premium dollars to spread risk and pay claims.
To spread the risk and keep some of the kingdom's coffers for other commercial developments.
"At this point the risk for international disease spread is considered low, " the consulate said.
Capital markets have developed since then to spread the risk among many more borrowers.
Whalen says there is a risk the contagion will spread further and create more credit quality problems for banks.
Foreign banks have a far wider spread of risk, and can call on head office to help if need be.
That way, individuals can spread their risk in a way they could not afford if they were acting on their own.
But don't count on oil companies building more refineries across the country to spread the risk from hurricanes and other natural disasters.
Since both funds are country-specific, Brown advises that a decent way to spread the risk and capture returns may be to buy T.
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