All Articles Tagged As: risks
The financial crisis creates chances for companies that learn to assess risk, recognize opportunity and take action quickly. "Beat the Crisis: 33 Quick Solutions for Your Company" is an antidote to the chorus of doom-and-gloom, a manual for business leaders and employees who are ready to fight. In this book, international strategy guru Hermann Simon offers 33 practical actions that any company can take immediately.
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Can the way stock information is presented lead investors to make the wrong
decisions? A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research shows that when
investors use charts, they are likely to make a baseless decision about the
riskiness of a stock based on its run-length.
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The socioeconomic characteristics of people who play state lotteries are similar to investors who pick stocks with a lottery quality -- high risk with a small potential for high return, and just like the lottery, returns on average are lower for those who invest this way in the stock market, research from the University of Texas at Austin shows.
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A new Northwestern University study provides provocative insights that relate to the question of the day: "How in the world did so many financial titans take such huge risks with out nation's well being?" For the first time, the Northwestern research pinpoints the roles specific variants of the serotonin transporter gene and the dopamine receptor gene play in predicting whether people are more or less likely to take financial risks.
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With the consequences of the current financial crisis spreading to the real economy, lawmakers are exploring new regulations to govern the financial markets.
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Males with testosterone levels above the mean invest more during a risky investment game
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New study reveals that financial markets reward firms for going green because those firms are seen as less risky
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More Americans are encountering severe periods of economic risk and insecurity in their lives
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