Both are immersed in corruption scandals, and concerns about probity will spook financial markets.
EU. Even so, big deficits plus any new wave of financial panic could yet spook investors.
One is that the coffinlike confines spook claustrophobes, possibly distorting their reactions to stimuli.
That idea was rejected by European finance ministers because they worried it would spook markets.
But the early-innings experiences of BHP and Freeport could spook others from following suit.
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The weak reception for this deal, in particular, could spook other companies planning to come public early in 2012.
Worries about the effects of slower growth and higher oil prices on corporate profits have started to spook stockmarkets.
Why spook the franchisee base and Wall Street into thinking that his attention is being diverted from burgers and fries?
The recognition in the Birthday Honours Diplomatic List means he now holds the same title as book spook James Bond.
Add it all up, and you have a fragmented universe of 6 million distinct issues that would daunt an NSA spook.
Many pundits still believe we are in for another round of high-stakes brinksmanship in Washington that could spook the markets.
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When Santa leaves, everyone says good bye inside and Santa goes out by himself so as not to spook the reindeer.
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Starr's folks were busy talking to other witnesses, in an apparent design to spook Monica into throwing in her lot with Starr.
Mr. Lee is a retired spook, one of the guys in white hats whose unsung efforts helped the West win the Cold War.
Costly commodities will deter the resurgent American consumer, and may also spook the Federal Reserve into withdrawing monetary support at a faster pace.
Italy and Spain are especially subject to social unrest which, if unleashed, would spook bond holders and reignite fear of the Eurozone splintering.
That is likely to spook lawmakers who already voted in the House of Representatives to make all human cloning, including the therapeutic kind, illegal.
Scotts can't market natural products in a way that will spook gardeners who buy the chemical-soaked stuff that helps them grow football-size tulips and tomatoes.
The ghost of Angelo Mozilo and Countrywide will continue to spook major financials going forward as the housing crisis still weighs on their balance sheets.
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But officials fear that talk of managing failures would spook markets.
The announcements from the EU on their break up will inevitably spook business owners even more and this doesn't bode well for their eventual sale price.
"He is a man who will not spook Western investors because he is a good negotiator who has good external relations, " said Russian political analyst Igor Bunin.
The much awaited jobs report came in with the Goldilocks number: not too high to keep the Fed from cutting rates, but not too low to spook markets.
Russia refused to extradite the main suspect, another former spook.
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Policy makers recoil from radical solutions to problems of burdensome debt and bloated banks because they worry about setting precedents in one country that could spook investors in another.
Many of the companies represented in her delegation have plants and factories in the frontier provinces on the Afghan border, a part of the country that might spook American investors.
Indeed, what if Bush had vetoed Sarbanes-Oxley, a law cruelly foisted on the economy in 2002 after the Enron and Worldcom scandals failed to spook the markets much at all.
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The turkeys' nature is to return to the area from which they were scattered, but hunters must be as still as possible -- even a small movement will spook the birds.
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