The Uptick s Downside

There is little downside risk.

Such politically expedient language has a strategic downside.

The economic crisis has exacerbated the perceived downside of globalization.

But there are downside and upside risks to this scenario.

The United States represents another downside risk for global growth.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Sound pressure level Sound pressure is the difference, in a given medium, between average local pressure and the pressure in the sound wave.

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

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

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

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

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 pressure gradient between this region and the ambient pressure will propel matter toward the low pressure area.

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

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

By being perceived as too big to fail, their banks benefit from a government backstop or downside guarantee.

The bankers get the upside when things go well, while the downside risks are largely someone else s problem.

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

The airspeed is derived from the difference between the ram air pressure from the pitot tube, or stagnation pressure, and the static pressure.

Measurement and units Vapor pressure is measured in the standard units of pressure.

Diplomatic pressure needed

For a vapor bubble to expand, the temperature must be high enough that the vapor pressure exceeds the ambient pressure (the atmospheric pressure, primarily).

Similarly, humans tend to accept large downside risks in order to avoid small certain losses, such as insurance premiums.

While upside risks would be turned into dividends, downside risks would be limited to the stock of equity invested.

As such, this what if is a cautiously optimistic assessment of the downside risks stemming from weak external demand.

Domestic pressure could very well bring down the regime, but international pressure will not.

Compressed air is air kept under a pressure that is greater than atmospheric pressure.

To prevent housing prices from overshooting on the downside, the number of foreclosures has to be kept to a minimum.