Meanwhile, the SPDR KBW Bank exchange-traded fund rose 50 cents, or 5.4%, to $9.81, despite investor jitters over the future of the industry and the persistent uncertainty on the Obama administration's plan to prop up the sector.
Investors have been weathering a period of persistent uncertainty over the pace of economic growth and the problems in the euro zone.
Though sometimes pursued along with metaphysical questions about consciousness, this project promises empirical tractability even in the face of persistent uncertainty about the metaphysical questions of consciousness.
Gaps in understanding of how global warming will affect Africa hold back planning efforts and have led to persistent uncertainty about the causes of recent droughts and famines.
As a result, there has been persistent uncertainty about the efficacy of EPO as a treatment for cancer-related anemia, despite the introduction of EPO in a clinical practice almost a decade ago.
Elevated arsenic in groundwater affects some 100 million people in South Asia, yet mitigation efforts are hindered by persistent uncertainty about the proximal source of arsenic and mechanisms for its mobilization.
Primarily, these papers reflect persistent uncertainty that surrounds the mechanisms and timescales of glacial landscape evolution.
The laws governing appraisals, taken together with the persistent uncertainty in the housing market, have added perils to the process of getting a house from listing to closing, said Sally Slater, a broker with Prudential Douglas Elliman in Bedford.
Separate qualitative research has highlighted that restricted access to settlement services combined with the persistent uncertainty about their residency status have impacted negatively on the integration of TPV holders into the community [ 20].
The researchers wrote that the data indicated "persistent uncertainty among clinicians regarding whether or not the benefits outweigh the risks of treatment among the very old".
Despite persistent uncertainty in global markets, corporate giving has rebounded from a low point in 2009.
