Word: reckoner
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...measure of how volatile investors reckon markets will be in the short term, the sharp sell-offs seen in recent months have sent the VIX to its eye-popping highs. The index is calculated from the price of options - a deal to buy or sell an asset at a fixed price and time - linked to the S&P 500. As the value of that index plummets - the leading benchmark of U.S. stocks has lost about a third of its value this year - investors are scrambling to pick up options in order to hedge against those losses. That, in turn, drives...
...test this herd behavior, Berns and his colleagues hooked 32 people up to brain-imaging equipment and watched them reckon with a group opinion (about whether two shapes were the same or different) that was clearly false. They found that the brain worked to integrate the false opinion into its perception of the world. In other words, if other people start selling a stock you thought was valuable, you may want to do the same - at first...
...Hand-crafted in frost-resistant clay by British company Green & Blue, Birdball derives its shape from the spherical forms that blue tits and coal tits prefer to construct when left to make nests on their own. At about $60, this chic number doesn't come cheap, but some experts reckon there's no better answer to the nesting urge. www.birdball.co.uk...
...British play and you’re from the UK. Did that give you any advantage while acting in this?NJO: It made the accent easier, although some of my friends saw it the other night and they heard someone after the show commenting, “Do you reckon that guy’s really English?” So I guess I can’t even do my own accent correctly. But also there are a lot of British phrases he uses, especially in terms of racial epithets.RR: What’s your favorite scene...
...long for the government of Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki to take on the Mahdi Army. Inevitably, many are asking whether Maliki will go whole hog, pursuing the Mahdi Army until it is completely destroyed. Failure to do so could cost Maliki his political life, and leave Iraq to reckon with a wounded, more dangerous animal. On Wednesday, he gave the militias in Basra 72 hours to surrender their weapons...