As the trading rituals of capitalism re-established themselves yesterday, individual investors watched the sobering saw-toothed lines of the indexes and the ever-tumbling prices, feeling the apprehension of badly shaken markets.
In a relatively sedate end to a trading week that began amid great apprehension, stock prices turned mixed yesterday, with investors pushing the Nasdaq composite index down 1.69percentt while driving the Dow Jones industrial average up nearly as much, 1.58percentt.
Even after Hewlett-Packard closed its $11.7 billion acquisition of Autonomy on Monday, there remains some apprehension about the price tag.
"There is genuine apprehension over asset prices, the misallocation of capital and consumer debt," said the IoD's chief economist, James Sproule.
For the past year and especially since the beginning of 2008, rising food and energy prices have planted seeds of apprehension and sometimes trouble around the world.
Even after Hewlett-Packard closed its $11.7 billion acquisition of Autonomy on Monday, some apprehension remained about the price tag.
The October drop in the consumer confidence index was set off "by a cooling economy and apprehension regarding soaring oil prices and volatility in the financial markets," said Lynn Franco, director of the Conference Board's consumer research center.
Overcoming apprehension about stating the price of their work can help women entrepreneurs earn more, says author Meriflor Toneatto.
Imminent peril crowds out every other apprehension nowadays, and the next bout of price inflation appears anything but close at hand.
That does not lessen my apprehension for those who remain who may pay the price for a conflict they did not cause.
The claim that intuition is immediate apprehension by the understanding suggests a notion of intuition in Price that is more akin to current accounts of intuitions as intellectual seemings or presentations (Bealer 1998; Chudnoff 2013).
