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...Because Wall Street’s measuring you, in the short term.”...
...Measuring happiness is subjective, but that hasn’t stopped a host of public and private bodies – from the United Nations to American asset management company Mercer – from giving it a go....
...Another little-known Japanese company already reaping the rewards is Anritsu, whose electronic measuring instruments are used to check whether 5G equipment is working properly....
...He told me later that he believes “volatility is an instrument of truth” but a worrying one....
...Regulators take note: if asset managers are measuring their own transaction costs, there is no reason these should not be disclosed....
...Nor does Mr Babin believe his watches need some of the additional functions provided by others — such as measuring the pulses of fitness fanatics....
...Although Handelsbanken screens as one of the banks most impacted by measuring all financial instruments at fair value, this is largely driven by an upward revaluation of liabilities, which is likely to be...
...The motivation behind the option, the US accounting standards board says, was “to reduce both complexity in accounting for financial instruments and the volatility in earnings caused by measuring related...
...Measuring the visual field of young children and other people who find it hard to sit still will become possible thanks to a company launched by the Edinburgh BioQuarter....
...It would also judge best practice in measuring social impact, but would not draw up universal measurement criteria, which some private investors have called for....
...As the Copenhagen Wheel demonstrates, anything connected to sensors and software can become an intelligent instrument, measuring everything from carbon emissions to water consumption....
...Mr Diamond faces a tough time measuring up to his own expectations. E-mail the Lex team in confidence...
...“[FASB’s] shift recognises investor concerns that a company’s business model should be a key factor in measuring financial instruments,” said Frank Keating, president of the American Bankers Association....
...Traditionally, users have required separate measuring instruments, such as interferometers, to ensure correct precision is achieved for particular applications....
...However, the safe-haven impulse prevailed, as the dollar index, measuring the buck against a trade-weighted basket of currencies, was up 0.1 per cent....
...It asked the FASB and the London-based International Accounting Standards Board to come up with a high-quality global accounting standard – a single way of measuring all the world’s companies....
...The US Financial Standard Board (FASB) followed in March 2009 by limiting impairment charges on AFS debt instruments to the credit loss component, and provided additional guidance on measuring fair value...
...The Basel II framework for measuring banks’ capital, adopted by much of the world at the beginning of last year, was supposed to provide a more sophisticated way for measuring the risks attached to different...
...An instrument known as “collateralised debt obligations of asset-backed securities” was a case in point....
...Arkex was created by spinning out technology and staff from two companies – Ark Geophysics and Oxford Instruments – four years ago....
...The problem is that there are many approaches to measuring house prices....
...Writing a full page analysis in Monday’s FT, Gillian Tett and Paul J Davies discuss why banks are still struggling to understand the extent of the losses they may realise in their portfolio of credit instruments...
...Due to uncertainties about the extent of mortgage-related losses for insurers, measuring the exact exposure for each bank was a difficult exercise....
...The Mannheim-based ZEW institute said its index measuring analysts’ and investors’ expectations for the economy improved unexpectedly from -39.5 to -32.0....
...Amid all this uncertainty comes another upheaval for banking: a new approach for measuring banks’ capital, known as Basel II....
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