Financial flows are excessively volatile.

Mayhew concluded that it is rather difficult to tell whether derivative markets worsen financial market volatility, because their creation tends to come when existing financial markets already are more volatile, or can be predicted to become so.

And, if financial innovations like derivatives and short term repurchase agreements have made markets more volatile and fragile, a Tobin tax could help to stabilize and strengthen them.

Since then, the international financial system has been highly volatile.

She will govern a country with substantial public debt (60 of GDP), a volatile currency, and high inflation. Nervous financial markets will keep the government on a tight leash.

Indeed, many of these countries remain vulnerable to volatile commodity prices, financial system weaknesses, depressed demand from world markets, and shortfalls in external finance, overseas development assistance, and investment.

But, as the world economy faces renewed uncertainty, the region must find new strategies to reduce the potential impact of volatile financial markets and protracted stagnation in the world s richest economies.

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15. Underlines the importance, for the improved access of developing countries to international financial markets, of considering counter cyclical macroeconomic policies in the face of volatile capital flows and of strengthening macroeconomic stability

However, it seems that in the short run, the inverse relationship between oil prices and the dollar exists only under very specific circumstances, such as a crash in real estate prices and volatile financial markets.

And, yes, financial markets require close supervision and regulation. But what is true of financial markets need not be true of other markets.

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Faced with the erratic nature of agricultural markets, regulation is needed to soften the impact on poorer countries of volatile food prices.

Already, financial markets have responded with alacrity.

And the interaction between financial markets and financial authorities is also reflexive.

At the same time, financial crises in a number of emerging markets could prove contagious, placing additional stress on global financial markets.

Financial markets discipline governments. This is one of the most commonly stated benefits of financial markets, yet the claim is patently false.

In the face of relatively stagnant markets, volatile prices and declining terms of trade, investment dropped further, diversification stalled and productivity remained stagnant.

There has been a longstanding discussion about whether new derivative markets, which provide such financial hedging, tend to increase preexisting financial markets volatility.

Financial Regulation Asian countries need to take more leadership in regulating financial markets.

Financial bubbles emerge wherever liquid asset markets exist.

Financial markets returned to their pre hoax level.

Tensions in financial markets have hit new highs.

Financial markets did well through capital market liberalization.

The financial markets are taking Abe s strategy seriously.

Such taxes surely reduce liquidity in financial markets.

BRUSSELS Sentiment in European financial markets has turned.

In the coming years, emerging markets will most likely struggle with implementation of global financial regulatory standards, which apply mostly to more sophisticated financial markets.

It must also avoid destabilizing financial markets and institutions.

Within seconds, US financial markets dropped by about 1 .

Nowadays, that means stopping financial markets from behaving badly.

Fortunately, financial markets are beginning to address longevity risk.

But both are nonetheless getting hammered in financial markets.

But financial markets are a harsh and fickle taskmaster.

Unsurprisingly, financial markets do not want to be tamed.

Given the reaction in financial markets, they have succeeded.

We need to restore order to international financial markets.

The fund invests in developed financial markets outside Norway.

Our financial markets performed dismally well performing, rational markets do not lend to people who cannot or will not repay and yet those running these markets were rewarded as if they were financial geniuses.

Beyond this, more financial engineering is needed to draw upon the creativity of financial markets.

Yes, financial markets in troubled countries for example, Russia s currency, equity, and bond markets have been negatively affected. But the more generalized contagion to global financial markets that geopolitical tensions typically engender has failed to materialize.

Gradually, confidence grew, and financial markets began to function again.