Surely, when markets reopen on Monday an already volatile global economy will seek havens from the likelihood of a widening conflict, in the real and virtual military theaters, or an all-out conflagration between great powers.
But now, credit default swap spreads a rough and ready measure of a bank's likelihood of default have widened to more than 1,000 basis points from 50 basis points last August.
This choice does not affect the maximum likelihood model but has the effect of widening confidence intervals when the two trees provide independent data, while providing the correct confidence interval when the two proteins are in complete linkage.
No matter what happens to overall interest rates, as long as the spread between the two narrows, the fund makes money.Unless, of course, the market's perceptions about the likelihood of default changes dramatically and the spreads widen.
As people become mobilized along these lines and conflicts emerge over which groups should benefit from the rights of citizenship, social cleavages widen and the likelihood of instability increases.
Specifically, attention served to mainly widen the TWI, increasing the likelihood of simultaneity perception, while also substantially increasing the simultaneity judgment accuracy when the stimuli were actually physically simultaneous.
At best, the resulting widening of social cleavages reduces the likelihood of democratic consolidation.
Current clinical immunosuppressive regimens consist of combinations of drugs, in order to allow a reduction in the individual drug doses as a means to widen the therapeutic interval and to reduce the likelihood of individual drug toxicity.
At best, the resulting widening of social cleavages significantly reduces the likelihood of democratic consolidation.
