Word: riskier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that only he can put the fires out. But the Kosovo conflagration he first lighted in 1989--by stripping away the rights of the ethnic Albanians who make up 90% of the province's population--is proving tricky to put out. Now he faces a perilous calculus: Is it riskier to cave in to Western demands or to suffer through air strikes...
...fretting about the narrowing "spread"--the difference in interest rates--between U.S. bonds and emerging-market bonds. By 1996 banks were lending money to countries such as Malaysia at interest rates just a few percentage points above what the U.S. Treasuries commanded. The implication: Malaysia was not a much riskier bet than the U.S. This was nonsense, and the committee knew some correction was in order...
...genetic testing is that information affecting your future health is as valuable to insurers as it is to doctors, but for very different--and disturbing--reasons. Knowing that you are susceptible to breast cancer or diabetes would be invaluable to an HMO looking for ways to screen out riskier candidates and thus keep costs down--and profits...
Beyond that, we have just begun to unwind a decade of indifference to risk. Since the early '90s, investors have been migrating to riskier assets like high-flying stocks and emerging-market securities in search of higher returns--leaving bonds and bank certificates of deposit behind. Now the inherent risk behind those high returns is becoming obvious, and the trend is reversing. This is the so-called flight to safety that you've heard about, and it's occurring at all levels--from fund investors who find they aren't so comfortable having everything they're worth tied...
...error occurred while processing this directive]Fortune Investor Data And for once, US aggression is actually heightening investors' jitters: Taking on terrorists is decidedly riskier than the usual Saddam-battering because it makes Americans targets all over the world, especially in finance/Islam hotspots like Indonesia and Malaysia. "It's added to the feeling of uncertainty," says McLean...