The Uptick s Downside

There is little downside risk.

It's like tapered to the downside.

But there are downside and upside risks to this scenario.

SEOUL Emerging economies are facing significant uncertainty and serious downside risks.

Such politically expedient language has a strategic downside.

New ways to borrow and to spread risk seemed to have little downside.

So far, the downside and upside risks for the world economy are balanced.

The economic crisis has exacerbated the perceived downside of globalization.

The United States represents another downside risk for global growth.

So, that's the upside. The circular mill is the downside.

It's the downside correlation of their fortunes that will become more and more possible.

But the downside of this aspirational language and philosophy can be a perpetual, personal restlessness.

Requiring managers to apprise investors of downside exposure would help even more.

There may sometimes be a downside in trying to woo your opponents.

Bankers get the upside and taxpayers (and people laid off as credit is disrupted) get the downside.

In any case, downside risks are high, and room on the upside is essentially non existent.

The IMF is absolutely right to remind ministers each April of downside risks.

But they cannot rule out the downside risk of a synchronized global downturn.

As 2013 begins, the downside risks to the global economy are gathering force.

Economic globalization, which has potential benefits as well as downside risks, including marginalization

The downside is that you have to wear a headset like a nerd.

The downside of this convenience is that there's a high cost to this.

And even a tiny probability of catastrophe is unacceptable when the downside could be of global consequence.

The big downside of the currency peg for Europe is supposed to be exports.

Without dismissing the downside risks, I remain cautiously optimistic about the global economy s prospects.

Increasing leverage boosts returns on the upside but is very risky on the downside.

Fortunately, the Fed is finally facing up to the downside of its grandiose experiment.

Then, in early 1980s, when Dr. Frank Sortino developed formal definition of downside risk as a better measure of investment risk than standard deviation, downside risk has become the industry standard for risk management.

The rise in food prices has exposed the downside of economic interdependence without global transfer and compensation schemes.

By encouraging industrial production directly, it is possible to have the upside without the downside.

The downside is that some momentum has been lost, especially at the G 20 level.

Nevertheless, there remain downside risks in this respect, particularly the uncertainties surrounding stabilization in Iraq.

The collateral limits the lenders downside risk, and the fear of losing the pledged assets encourages borrowers to act prudently.

One downside to China s rapid growth is its rising demand for energy and the increased CO2 emissions that accompany it.

Most of the downside risk to this scenario lies in the systemically important economies of Europe, the US, and China.

The downside is that housing busts last equally long, because houses are such a durable good.

Big banks get a big taxpayer subsidy in the form of downside protection for their creditors.

This will constrain the ability of central banks to respond to the downside risks to growth.

This is not the only, or even the most important, downside risk facing the global economy.

The downside of such labour flexibility was often lower wages, the possible loss of formal contracts, social security and other benefits.

These institutions, attracted by the high rates of return that were promised, invariably neglected the downside risks.

The only downside is that it requires you to know how to text send a text message.

On the downside, confidence among consumers and investors alike has taken a hit, mainly owing to fears about radiation leakages and power shortages.

Heavy borrowing also encourages owners and managers to go for broke, because it s the creditors who bear most of the downside risk.