His biggest risk is that the indicators on which he relies will lose their effectiveness as earnings predictors -- or that he will become so focused on them that he misses other important changes in the market.
The chancellor said: "As people become more focused on the fact that this election will determine the shape of the country, and the prospects of each and every family in this country for the next 10 or 20 years, I think we will become very focused on who is saying what or, with the Tories, who is not saying what.
The decision to elevate Diamond, whose pay packets have catapulted him towards the top of the high pay league for a number of years, allows the current chief executive John Varley to leave next March and has heightened speculation that Barclays will become increasingly focused on investment banking rather than its traditional high street business.
If the arsenal for disease prevention continues emptying, the decision will become more focused: how do we weigh the fear of knowingly disrupting our own natural habitat with transgenics versus the fear of taking no action in face of a new epidemic?
He has been a chief executive under scrutiny and that will become more focused when some of the contents of the review are released.
With rebel gains in Aleppo and elsewhere in Syria now under threat, the US and its allies will become increasingly focused on how to help the opposition avoid being forced into a defeat.
Asked whether this means Smaato will become increasingly focused on Asia, Kruse said that's not really the case — the company has already built a global business, with offices in San Francisco (its headquarters), New York, Hamburg, Singapore, and Jakarta.
She said it came too late after the November spike, though she hopes future sessions will become more focused.
In consequence, it is possible that modelling haplotype variation will become more focused on rare causal variants, because these may not be included in the genotyping platforms.
Thus much data collected in the initial stages may not be relevant in the emerging processes over time, and data collection necessarily will become more focused at later time points.
