(e) Price volatility

Where Did Market Volatility Go?

Security problems and disruptions in production also increased price volatility.

They should also mitigate the impact of the excessive volatility of financial markets.

The aim should be to avoid volatility and to ensure stability and fairness.

(iv) Initiate measures that mitigate the impact of excessive volatility of short term capital flows.

ECLAC has continued to carry out analytical and technical cooperation work regarding factors that promote growth and reduce volatility, i.e., the pronounced volatility of the business cycles of its member countries which has undermined their economies' ability to achieve sustained growth.

So, what policies must emerging Asian economies pursue to reduce their vulnerability to regional and global volatility?

Lost in all of the hype was the fact that neither markets nor financial analysts were terribly perturbed about excessive exchange rate volatility or the possibility of an actual currency war. After the autumn of 2008, exchange rate volatility slowly receded toward pre crisis levels.

In that regard, analyses of volatility experienced in the past by some countries, e.g. in Latin America and the Caribbean region, show that while domestic liberalization was accompanied by international liberalization, macroeconomic stability has suffered several episodes of crisis led by volatility in capital flows.

Producing countries have also tried to contain price volatility by forming international cartels. But these have seldom worked.

SEC said that these tweets actually had no evidences and the volatility in market triggered by them had hurt investors.

Speaking of risk, we have seen that price volatility of food crops in Africa is the highest in the world.

He noted the continuing insecurity, the political and military volatility, mounting ethnic intolerance and the fragility of the transition process.

Multi year financing frameworks7 were designed, inter alia, to reduce the volatility of voluntary contributions to the largest programmes and funds.

Concerned about the excessive volatility of speculative short term capital flows and the contagion effects in financial markets in times of crisis,

Recent global economic trends called for major policy initiatives, for example for export diversification, investment in infrastructure and control of price volatility.

In particular, the volatility of food and commodity prices, including petroleum prices, is seriously denting the financing capacity of many poor countries.

Despite considerable volatility on the domestic political scene, the international agenda in Bosnia and Herzegovina remained consistent over the first half of 2005.

UNCTAD is also actively working on issues related to the impact of oil price volatility on African oil importing and oil exporting countries.

Indeed, the main question for 2007 is whether macroeconomic volatility will continue to decline, fueling another spectacular year for markets and housing, or start to rise again, perhaps due to growing geopolitical tensions. I lean slightly toward the optimistic scenario, but investors and policymakers alike need to understand the ramifications of a return to more normal volatility levels.

That said, in such a complex environment, investors can be expected to reach widely disparate conclusions, which will sustain if not increase market volatility.

It would seem that bid offer spreads are falling, which we might regard as positive. But volatility has risen, as has cross market contagion.

It doesn t anymore. And today s lack of clarity has become a major contributor to market volatility the last place the Fed should want to be.

UNOPS management proposes to work out a strategy to address the fundamental problems of income volatility and high fixed costs that characterize the existing organizational arrangements.

There has been a continued increase in the costly build up of precautionary reserves as a form of self insurance against volatility in international capital flows.

Contributions to other resources are also projected to grow steadily during the plan period, although in the past there has been significant volatility from year to year.

Banks and investors consider them to be high risk due to their limited assets, low level or lack of collateral, lack of business history and market volatility.

Country case studies (mainly in Andean and Central American countries) will provide details on countries' characteristics in terms of economic growth, volatility and reaction to economic and financial crises.

Protectionism threatens open markets and GDP growth. And price volatility, whether triggered by drought or short sighted national policies, could deter investments in agriculture and decrease the poor s purchasing power.

There has been a longstanding discussion about whether new derivative markets, which provide such financial hedging, tend to increase preexisting financial markets volatility. The consensus is that they do not.

Whatever the scenario that ends the calm, today s age of low volatility will seem like a distant dream to most of us and a forgotten nightmare for ambitious financial traders.

But what it immediately did was that the volatility that had been present in terms of our economic development where, even if oil prices were high, we would grow very fast.

And government intervention to block the exits is inadequate. On the contrary, until China s stock market opens up and its institutional foundation becomes predictable, volatility will be its only guiding rule.

Unemployment is now running at over 40 in Kosovo and breeds political volatility. Without access to sovereign lending from the World Bank or the IMF, Kosovo s economy will continue to stagnate.

For example, it was suggested that the Commission should reconsider draft articles 12 and 13 to take into account the volatility of the status of shareholders in the modern international economy.

10. Reiterates that measures to mitigate the impact of excessive volatility of short term capital flows and to improve transparency of and information about financial flows are important and must be considered

13. Reiterates that measures to mitigate the impact of excessive volatility of short term capital flows and to improve transparency of and information about financial flows are important and must be considered

If the global economy remains on its current trajectory, a period of intense volatility could destabilize a number of emerging economies, while undermining development efforts worldwide. That s why policymakers must act now.

Volatility has increased only modestly, while asset prices have held up. Noise about these risks has occasionally (but only briefly) shaken investors confidence, and modest market corrections have tended to reverse themselves.

On the occasion that holidays in China and other regions of Asia lead to a bleak data for the region next week, the European political situation may become a source of market volatility.

OXFORD Recent evidence suggests that much of the world has entered a period of low financial market volatility. But this is no time for complacency more turbulent times are likely to lie ahead.

In fact, the explanation for market calm probably lies elsewhere. So, if a conspiracy of Asian central banks is not to blame for the volatility drought that is parching traders earnings, what is?

One is that they intervene directly in markets, both domestic and across borders, to reduce competition and volatility while they rebuild their buffering capacity. Another is that they muzzle democracy to suppress public anger.

6. Reiterates in this regard that measures to mitigate the impact of excessive volatility of short term capital flows and to improve transparency of and information about financial flows are important and must be considered