Word: disequilibrium
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BOTTOM LINE Oil and gasoline prices move together in the long term but in the short term aren't always in lockstep. The disequilibrium won't last, since there's no profit in making cheap gas from expensive oil. Safest bet? Either oil falls, or gas rises...
...there were opportunities for HMC in emerging markets, El-Erian said he felt that overly protectionist policy by the U.S., policy mistakes by the Federal Open Market Committee, and a hard-landing to the Chinese economy could be problematic for the world’s ‘stable disequilibrium.’ He also said that the US housing market poses a significant risk. El-Erian, who holds a doctorate in economics from Oxford University, joined HMC in mid-February from Pacific Investment Management Company (PIMCO) after having served as a senior official at the International Monetary Fund...
...test assesses the ages of gene combinations by measuring their association with nearby genes, which decreases with time. This measurement is known as a linkage disequilibrium...
...that reputation that has shaped how he is operating in the chaos of Israel's current political disequilibrium. In the blink of an eye, Israel has gone from a land pregnant with hope for peace to a place where proponents of the peace process have been all but discredited. Sharon maintains he is in favor of peace talks, but mildly says his version would continue "down a different line from all those leftists who never saw the horrors of real war like I did." In practice, that would mean pressing Arafat much harder--particularly on the issue of controlling extremists...
...painting that turned Wynn away from the 19th century into the 20th--and, as he puts it, "got me off my training wheels"--was a portrait by Picasso of his long-suffering mistress Dora Maar, done in 1942. This riveting image is one of a woman in disequilibrium, not as fiercely torn apart as she is in the Weeping Women of those years, but out of kilter all the same, with staring eyes, figure-eight nostrils flared as though in suppressed fright, and strange asymmetries of form around the nose and brow. Compared with it, Impressionism began to look somewhat...