It allows decision-makers to provide multiple criteria such as expected profit, expected downside risk, and process lifetime that reflect various conflicting or incommensurable goals.
Limited cornering clearance is an expected downside of riding a huge motorcycle — you can only lean something this grand over so far before metal meets macadam.
In the past month, the dramatic meltdown in credit and lending conditions has raised the possibility of an even worse than expected downside for the homebuilding industry, Moody's argued.
The company is scheduled to announce fourth-quarter results on Monday, "and there's no reason to expect a downside surprise this time, either," said Charles L. Hill, director of research at First Call/Thomson Financial.
Expect further downside risks to emerging-markets assets (in particular, equities and local and foreign currency debt), especially in economies with significant macro, policy and financial vulnerabilities.
Volume of 71,000 lots at the March 2.5 strike suggests put buyers expect further downside pressure on the share price, although we'd note that the prevailing 6-cent premium makes this a cheap play.
Concretely, it optimizes the expected return, the downside-risk and the skewness of a given portfolio, taking into account budget, bound and cardinality constraints.
For Japan, the statement said a "modest recovery" was expected, but warned that "downside risks remain".
In the authors's view, by contrast, markets are simply dumb: able to see the downside to expected policy changes, but too stupid to go looking for the opportunities created by the shift.Perhaps new and good ideas will emerge from Chicago in the near future as the Rajans and Posners of the world piece together the equivalent of a Big Bang theory.
The bullish sentiment on oil is so extreme and widespread that I expect a major downside reversal and collapse in the price of oil any time now.
If the PSA threshold had been lower, for example, 2.1 3.9 ng ml−1, the proportion of PC in the biopsied men would probably be smaller, that is, the downside of the expected improvement in sensitivity would be a decreased specificity.
