World trade has stalled. And China s economic slowdown and market turmoil this summer have created further uncertainty.

The economic costs implied by this uncertainty could be reduced if there were a market for growth risk.

Biased views and misconceptions among market participants introduce uncertainty and unpredictability not only into market prices, but also into the fundamentals that those prices are supposed to reflect.

In fact, the slide has been long in coming, and recent market uncertainty has merely been a wake up call.

Uncertainty.

This heightens uncertainty.

Portugal and Ireland have recently seen their bonds downgraded to junk status. Spain could still lose market access as political uncertainty adds to its fiscal and financial woes.

The uncertainty values have been grouped into five sets of uncertainty bands, with corresponding conservativeness factors, by assigning a given uncertainty values to a given band.

The uncertainty values have been grouped into five sets of uncertainty bands, with corresponding conservativeness factors, by assigning a given uncertainty value to a given band.

Arab States of Uncertainty

Uncertainty Shifts to China

The uncertainty values were then mapped into the appropriate uncertainty band, to yield a conservativeness factor.

Play is one of the only human endeavors where uncertainty is actually celebrated. Uncertainty is what makes play fun.

Shifting geopolitical power also breeds uncertainty.

We ought to reduce the uncertainty.

While proponents argue that investment treaties reduce uncertainty, the ambiguities and conflicting interpretations of these agreements provisions have increased uncertainty.

The result has been to expose Western economies to ever more experimental measures, with considerable uncertainty about the longer term impact of operating sophisticated market based systems on the basis of artificial constructs.

Here is the moment of strategic uncertainty.

Amidst so much uncertainty, anything is possible.

In monkeys, the level of dopaminergic activity is highly correlated with the level of uncertainty such that the activity increases with uncertainty.

There is indeed reason to be worried, but not because the rupee s value has declined. In fact, the slide has been long in coming, and recent market uncertainty has merely been a wake up call.

Indeed, businesses cite uncertainty about the strength of demand, not uncertainty about regulation or taxation, as the main factor holding back job creation.

In the face of such uncertainty, markets froze.

Uncertainty is a reality, and judgment is required.

Political polarization has become another source of uncertainty.

Lebanon has since been beset by political uncertainty.

Another complexity is uncertainty over who will rule Russia.

But, of course, we cannot overcome long run uncertainty.

1. massive uncertainty about the size of the losses.

Imposing controls also spawns uncertainty about a country s policies.

The year ahead will be challenging and rife with uncertainty.

The only uncertainty is how much warmer that will be.

The abolition of uncertainty abolishes the need for moral rules.

Uncertainty about jobs breeds anxiety, and anxiety stokes protectionist sentiments.

The first two sources of uncertainty have already affected markets.

They are lost in a limbo of uncertainty and disappointment.

Uncertainty ensures that even optimal policies will lead to mistakes.

In the meantime, Chávez is striving to minimize the uncertainty.

Security challenges continue to create worldwide havoc, fear and uncertainty.

Such a regime would be a source of legal uncertainty.

We acknowledged the widespread fear and uncertainty generated by terrorism.

As was done for the other IPCC inventory sectors, the conservativeness factors for LULUCF have primarily been derived using the uncertainty values and parameters provided in the IPCC good practice guidance for LULUCF, or a combined uncertainty range calculated from the uncertainty ranges for the input parameters.

Moreover, in a risk off environment, when investors are risk averse or when equities and other risky assets are subject to market and or credit uncertainty, it may be better to hold negative yielding bonds than riskier and more volatile assets.

And yet much of the current uncertainty is set to dissipate.

Statism has been a characteristically twentieth century response to new uncertainty.