Sentence examples for the heightened uncertainty from inspiring English sources

The heightened uncertainty is prompting financial firms and other companies to stockpile cash.

"Along with the jump in industrial production in April and decent retail sales growth, the trade data suggests UK GDP growth could be holding up better in the second quarter than has been thought – despite the heightened uncertainty," he said.

"The heightened uncertainty has damaged confidence, causing businesses and consumers to put their spending decisions on hold, paralyzing the U.K. economy," Andrew Goodwin, senior economic adviser to Ernst & Young's economic analysis group, said.

"Gold has behaved in line with risky assets, and the heightened uncertainty globally has not rallied the same support gold garnered on previous occasions," according to a recent research note from Barclays commodities.

Once the White House stepped up the political pressure, and the stock market started reacting negatively to the heightened uncertainty that a vote against Bernanke would entail, the bravehearts on the Hill were always going to buckle for fear of being blamed for a market crash.

Because of the heightened uncertainty about the outcome, the Republican-led Florida Legislature is now sure to press ahead with plans to name its own set of Bush electors next week, even if Mr. Gore overcomes the Texas governor's lead in votes.

He also predicted that oil prices would spike and that heightened uncertainty would hurt the economy.

The natural response in the face of heightened uncertainty is to delay making decisions — people do not go on vacation or buy a car, and business owners and companies do not hire people unless they absolutely need them.

The increase in consumer spending, in the midst of heightened uncertainty about a war in Iraq and stubbornly high unemployment, was just 1percentt, adjusted for inflation and seasonal changes, the smallest gain since 1993.

Instead, the country has turned from a poster boy of recovering Southeast Asia only a year ago to a pariah state in the face of heightened uncertainty, triggered by an abrupt bout of violence: A coordinated string of nine bombings across the capital of Bangkok, hours before the new year was ushered in, killed at least three people and injured 38.

"He will also be hoping that the economy is not handicapped significantly by heightened uncertainty in the run-up to the referendum on UK membership of the European Union".