Fluctuations
fluctuations (noun) - up and down movements, irregular changes (fluctuations in the price of oil, for example)
large fluctuations
minor fluctuations
market fluctuations
exchange rate fluctuations
temperature fluctuations
rapid fluctuations
seasonal fluctuations
cyclical fluctuations
climatic fluctuations
violent fluctuations
wild fluctuations
sharp fluctuations
marked fluctuations
factors which caused the fluctuations
shocks which produced the fluctuations
fluctuations in oil prices
rice prices have been subject to fluctuations recently
control the wild fluctuations of wheat prices
prone to wild fluctuations
the fluctuations have cancelled each other out
random fluctuations
incomes susceptible to relatively small fluctuations in commodity prices
dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age
pressure fluctuations eventually caused the tank to burst
sectors marked by seasonal fluctuations
a long-term trend caused by fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field
fluctuations in fortune
a vicious circle of weight fluctuations caused by
considerable fluctuations in the annual level of real wages
flateten fluctuaions
fluctuations in the unemployment rate
turbulent fluctuations
monetary policy preventing excessive fluctuations in interest rates
it should be appreciated that significant fluctuations in accounting figures will occur on the completion of major projects
currency restricted to a fixed fluctuation band
levelled out extremes of fluctuation
a fluctuation in oil prices under the effects of market forces
layoffs due to fluctuations in oil prices
currencies in a narrow band with a maximum fluctuation of 2.25 per cent up or down
financial fluctuations
fluctuations in trade
fluctuations in resources
central banks invited to restrict fluctuations in their currencies around the existing par values
the contract evens out and smooths cyclical fluctuations experienced by trade
the volume of gas stored there is quite adequate to meet the fluctuations in demand
options to protect against loss through fluctuations in rates of exchange
Example sentences:
* Provision of forward exchange cover or currency options to protect against loss through fluctuation in rates of exchange.
* The currencies of eight other EC countries were in a narrow band with a maximum fluctuation of 2.25 per cent up or down.
* The random fluctuations cancel each other out.
* Then came one of those financial fluctuations.
* Although workers tended to stay with one firm most of the time, fluctuations in trade meant that it was by no means unknown to move about on a short-term basis.
* Agribusiness that operates in sectors marked by seasonal fluctuations has been prone to this sort of employment.
* Their problem was to control the wild fluctuations that the wheat price was prone to.
* Firstthere is a long-term trend caused by fluctuations in the earth's magnetic field strength.
* Farmer incomes are more susceptible to relatively small fluctuations in commodity prices.
* During the dramatic climatic fluctuations of the last ice age warm to cold to warm repeated several times, the flowering plants acted as thermometers for the climate, sensitive recorders of the shifts that affected everything from beetles to man.
* The statistics show considerable fluctuations in the annual level of real wages, but are markedly higher in the early fifteenth century than they had been in the late fourteenth.
* While the ability of organised skilled workers to restrict entry to their trade and to develop defensive strategies probably means their wages rose more sharply when the economy turned up, and fell less quickly on the downturns, this would have the effect of flattening fluctuations rather than of misdirecting trends.
* Such fluctuations in the unemployment rate as were observed in practice came to be interpreted as fluctuations in the natural rate itself, not as deviations, temporary or otherwise, from the natural rate.
* Monetary policy was relegated to the fairly minor role of preventing excessive fluctuations in interest rates.
* Although the change, introduced last year, to gross accounting has succeeded in highlighting the volume of activity which was previously reported in modest, net contribution figures, it should be appreciated that significant fluctuations will occur on the completion of major projects.
* The scale of price rises is quite out of line with that which could plausibly be required to balance real supply and demand; and quite out of line with previous responses to fluctuations in industrial production.
* During the progress of Parkinson's disease the patient may experience fluctuations between periods of deterioration and stability.
* The sensitivity of the graphite industry to international demand may be illustrated by the sharp fluctuations in the value of graphite exports as a proportion of the value of rice imports: in 1890 this proportion was eighteen per cent, by 1895 it had fallen to seven per cent, but in the boom year of 1899 it soared to sixty per cent.
* With other semi-regular stars, the periods are so ill-defined as to be barely recognizable, and sometimes the fluctuations become random.
* The Report's recommendations were approved in principle by the European Community (EC) in 1971 and, as a prelude to the first stage, central banks were invited to restrict fluctuations in their currencies around the existing par values.
* It is recognized, also, that investment may be influenced by interest rates, with fluctuations in the latter having a direct effect on the cost of borrowed funds and therefore on the profitability of potential investments.
* However, investment is required to augment productive capacity, and policies to eliminate excessive fluctuations in aggregate demand may provide the best environment for high investment expenditures.
* Such a contract may, to some extent, even out (or" smooth") the worst of the cyclical fluctuations experienced by the trade.
* The uncertainty principle implies that the early universe cannot have been completely uniform because there must have been some uncertainties or fluctuations in the positions and velocities of the particles.
* The court says that deals are only allowed to protect rate payer's money from fluctuations in interest rates, and can't be carried out for trading purposes.
* In fact, gas, of course, is such a valuable fuel --; it can be piped to people, in other words it's easy to distribute --; it can be stored, by compressing it in tanks --; in fact the national storage of gas at the moment which helps you to meet fluctuations in demand is the thousands of miles distribution pipeline, some six feet in diameter at sixty atmospheres in pressure, full of gas, and the volume of gas stored there is quite adequate to meet the fluctuations in demand.
* To hold the pound within its margins the system requires a member country to intervene in the markets when its currency diverges 75 per cent of the way to its permitted fluctuation margins, either side of the central rate.
* Banks were closed on Jan. 29-30, but on Jan. 30 Cavallo ordered the financial markets to be reopened, with the austral to be restricted within a fixed fluctuation band of between 8,000 and 10,000 to the dollar, backed up by Central Bank reserves.
* US Treasury Secretary Nicholas Brady denied reports that Treasury officials had sought an accord on currency target zones in an effort to bring international pressure to bear on fluctuation ranges for the German mark.
* Indeed, because of the fluctuation in oil prices under the effects of market forces, some staff redundancies have affected geologists and geophysicists, industrially and in government employment.
* It awaited the great mobilisation of savings that railway construction elicited and the parallel arrival of limited liability, but, as Professor Wilson has pointed out," by advertising the opportunities of the stock market" the dealers of" Change Alley helped in the long run to widen the circle of investors as well as of speculators, by creating habits of investing rather than of hoarding and possibly levelled out extremes of fluctuation by increasing competitive bidding for stock.
* Were such a climatic fluctuation to take place now, it could have disastrous consequences for agriculture and economies across the world.
