"The location and financial contribution of the 90,000 subscribers is unclear at this point," Prudential said, but it's likely that the subscribers are ones that Time Warner Cable considers to be non-core.
"Despite the disappointing results and communication by the company that leaves a lot to be desired, we continue to think that current levels represent a good entry point," Prudential said.
By contrast, the main point of prudential regulation is to maintain the soundness of banks by controlling their capital levels or the investments they can make.
Another way to put Mill's point is that prudential concern focuses on the agent's happiness.
Whereas when we evaluate an action, we are interested in assessing the action from either a moral or a prudential point of view, when it comes to beliefs, what matters is the pursuit of truth.
Prudential pointed out that AMD is positioned for further opportunities with its customers, most notably with Lenovo, Hewlett-Packard and Dell.
Mr Ostry and his colleagues point out that some prudential measures distinguish between local-currency and foreign-currency transactions.
Point 5 reads, "Consistent with prudential considerations, there should be a full and transparent disclosure of the impairment of banks' balance sheets".
But since the beginning of the year Prudential said data points from companies including Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Microsoft, Cisco Systems, and the original design manufacturers in Taiwan, "have not supported this snapback thesis".
But only, the magazine says, "if all the prudential and practical questioning points to the conclusion that Iraq or its proxies are about to use weapons of mass destruction -- and that military action would not create catastrophe and chaos".
What these questions have in common is that they are hard — extraordinarily hard, hard from every point of view: constitutional, legal, moral, practical, prudential.
