Against the yuan politically the most sensitive exchange rate these days it continued a stately decline.Markets have been pricing in not only changes in relative growth rates notably America's and Europe's but also their implications for monetary policy.
Sensitivity analysis using Latin hypercube sampling indicated that peak prevalence (maximum proportion of infectious birds) was most sensitive to the rate of infectious contact θ and rate of infection τ (Table S2).
In one-way sensitivity analysis, the cost-effectiveness ratio was most sensitive to the rate of hospitalization for the five nursing-care-sensitive conditions: congestive heart failure, electrolyte imbalance, respiratory infection, sepsis, and urinary tract infection.
Gains in some old-economy shares like conglomerates and retailers, which are often among the most sensitive to interest rate fluctuations, prevented the Dow decline from being greater.
Sadakichi Robbins, head of global fixed-income trading at Bank Julius Baer, said yesterday's recovery in shorter-dated Treasuries, the most sensitive to interest rate expectations, reaffirmed the market's hope for a half-point cut.
Given that the Barclays U.S. Aggregate is now laden with low-yielding government bonds that will be most sensitive to a rate rise, venturing beyond a pure core index fund may be worth considering.
In the current economic climate, Mr. Bair said, managers are likely to sell bonds with longer-term maturities because longer-term bonds are most sensitive to interest rate shifts.
Shorter-dated Treasuries, most sensitive to Federal Reserve rate sentiment and favored by investors looking for a safe harbor amid stock uncertainty, slipped into negative territory in late trading despite another decline in technology shares.
"The people most sensitive to interest rate changes refinanced last fall," said Sterling Edmunds Jr., the president of SunTrust Mortgage, a nationwide lender headquartered in Richmond, Va., "and for them to do it again, the 30-year rate would have to fall another half-a-percentage point".
It can also be observed that the identity attribute is the most sensitive to sampling rate reduction, while the activity attribute is the least.
