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...“It wouldn’t surprise me in the coming years if we do see some compression in terms of the spread we are able to earn,” she said....
...“The result of the ESG movement is that there’s been massive multiple compression [in oil and gas stocks] and we still haven’t come back from that,” said Mashaal, adding that many oil and gas companies had...
...“[We] believe much of the valuation compression in our focus areas is behind us,” it said. “We have increased positions in ‘wish list’ companies that have reached our target prices.”...
...said Tiger, which also noted that it had marked down its private portfolio every month of the year to reflect the fact that the companies had underperformed expectations as well as “substantial multiple compression...
...The ambient noise, the compression of space, even the trace element of danger: it all contributes to the tempest. Car-less streets work well as enclaves....
...For a start, because of the yield compression brought about by central banks’ asset buying programmes, the flight is much shorter than in the past....
...We model GM compression of -130bps due to a further impact from rising glass costs....
...Google has developed its own compression algorithms, squeezing the size of the data files to be able to transmit more information over the same amount of bandwidth....
...But these political risks dominate the conversation in the property industry right now, and are shaking up investors more comfortable with talk of yield compression, rental growth or loan-to-value ratios...
...“But European managers have already seen a huge period of fee compression and are better placed to face this challenge,” he said....
...Advances in peer-to-peer technology, coupled with sophisticated audio compression technology, permitted average users to reproduce files easily, and share them with millions....
...The arrival of a new Treasury trading venue comes at a time when large banks are experiencing severe compression in their fixed income trading revenues and are seeking to shore up their franchises....
...“If Apple wanted to build some flashy headphones with audio compression and bass boosting, they could have done it themselves for much cheaper,” he said....
...“In terms of spread compression, we haven’t seen anything significant enough for us to get excited about at this point,” says a managing partner at a large hedge fund....
...The combination of sub-par economic growth and artificially low Treasury bond yields seems likely to intensify the compression of corporate bond yields....
...The gas is then processed and piped to compression plants – in Australia’s case, up to 500km away at Curtis Island, in central Queensland – for conversion into LNG, a cleaner burning fuel than coal and oil...
...“Balance sheets are relatively robust at present,” Mr Cryer said, “so finance directors are likely to tolerate some compression of coverage ratios in the year to come.”...
...After a detailed lecture on network technologies and data compression standards, he explains that the infrastructure cannot support vast volumes of online entertainment for the price of a cable video package...
...The type of noise can include: uploading trades to a central counterparty and portfolio compression, for example — both things do nothing in terms of risk taking, they are administrative....
...“We haven’t seen so much fee compression, more a change of the mix,” says Mr Healy. Mr Carrel-Billiard is even less concerned, saying there is no clear trend towards performance fees....
...Google last month took steps to improve YouTube’s ability to provide video with the acquisition of On2, a company that makes sophisticated video compression technology, for $106.5m....
...That points to more pain in terms of compression of net interest margins. Banks can claim they are better able to manage credit risk this time around, with more sophisticated systems....
...This year is widely thought to have been a good one for this species but CSFB notes that, along with the compression of valuation spreads, the spread of returns has also collapsed....
...This compression of valuations and performances has been accompanied by a quiet period for overall market volatility, as witnessed by the decline in the Vix index on the Chicago Board Options Exchange....
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