The anxiety over emerging-market stocks has subsided, and even Brazil’s election results are just a blip in the larger world of developing countries.
Seven days after climbing to a 16-month high, the Chicago Board Options Exchange Emerging Markets ETF Volatility Index, used to gauge investor trepidation, had its biggest weekly drop in almost three years. The gauge ran off eight consecutive days of declines, the longest streak on record.
Options sellers are charging less for protection against emerging-market stock losses even as Brazil’sbenchmark equity index fell to a six-month low the day after Oct. 26’s election. With Europe at risk of deflation and U.S. investors facing the end of quantitative easing, developing countries from India to Mexico have outlined commitments to economic improvement. That’s making the panic subside, according to Mark Luschini of Janney Montgomery Scott LLC.
“The sense is that emerging markets have fewer economic headwinds right now than developed countries,” Luschini, chief investment strategist at Philadelphia-based Janney Montgomery Scott, which oversees $67 billion, said in an Oct. 28 phone interview. “People have gone long emerging-market equities. What’s happening in Brazil is idiosyncratic and not indicative of all emerging markets.”
Luschini currently owns emerging-market stocks from Mexico, Vietnam and China.
Brazil Election
The optimism is offsetting concern about Brazil, which saw the Ibovespa stock index tumble as much as 6.2 percent on Oct. 27, a day after President Dilma Rousseff won re-election.
“Money tends to be fluid in flowing to where the least uncertainty is,” Bruce McCain, who helps oversee more than $25 billion as chief investment strategist at the private-banking unit of KeyCorp in Cleveland, said in an Oct. 24 phone interview. “The stronger internal growth dynamic, along with cheaper valuations, make these markets more interesting to investors than they have been.”
The emerging-markets volatility gauge plummeted 23 percent last week, the most since December 2011. The record eight-day drop included a plunge of 9.1 percent on Oct. 21.
Options on the iShares MSCI Emerging Markets ETF cost 2.4 points more than those on theSPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (SPY) on Oct. 27, according to three-month implied-volatility data compiled by Bloomberg. That was the narrowest spread since March 2013 and compares with an average of 6.2 points in the past year.
Even amid renewed optimism around developing markets, growth in a bloc consisting of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa will slow to 5.2 percent this year, economists forecast. That would be down from 5.7 percent in 2013.
Sao Paulo's Stocks Exchange (Bovespa) headquarters in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil. Options sellers are charging less for protection against emerging-market stock losses even as Brazil’s benchmark equity index fell to a six-month low the day after Oct. 26’s election.
Mexico President Enrique Pena Nieto has tried to stimulate his country’s economy by allowing private investment in the state-controlled energy industry and promoting competition in telecommunications.
Back bulge around the bra area or a pesky muffin top aren't fun to deal with. But you can feel more confident in your own skin with just a little extra effort. Sure, targeting specific body parts to burn fat doesn't work, but these healthy tips can help you get the results you want faster!
Turn Up Your Cardio
If you're serious about getting rid of fat, you've got to start getting serious about cardio. According to the USDA, you should perform 60-minute sessions five times a week.
For even more intense cardio, opt for interval training that alternates between periods of pushing your body and recovery, since it offers an "afterburn effect." This means that after exercising, your body can burn more calories—an extra 200 calories throughout the day even at rest or sleep—than you would after completing a steady-paced workout.
How to keep laziness, burnout, and forgotten gym shoes from standing in the way of your workout.
Whether you've got workout burnout or are feeling defeated after missing a week's worth of gym time during a vacation, it can be hard to snap out of your no-workout coma. But here’s the thing: You need to get back at it before you start gaining weight, losing strength, or get completely discouraged. To keep you from getting set in your sweat-free ways, we asked top-notch trainers what to do when you really (really) just don't want to work out.
Put Others In Charge
One of the reasons why trainers are so effective is because they hold you accountable to make it to your appointment, says John Romaniello, owner of RomanFitnessSystems.com. Even if you don't have a trainer, you can stay accountable by asking a friend, family member, or significant other to make you stick to your workouts. Romaniello suggests having them help you keep track of your missed sweat sessions, set consequences if you miss too many, and offer rewards if you make it to all of them.
You Should Condition Before You Shampoo This may sound crazy, but conditioning before you shampoo may actually increase the body of your hair. Experts say that when you shower, your conditioner never fully rinses out. Leaving conditioner in after the shower may weigh down your hair, ultimately reducing your volume. Reversing this habit is a quick fix to create extra bounce.
Colonial ascidians reproduce both asexually and sexually. Colonies can survive for decades. An ascidian colony consists of individual elements called zooids. Zooids within a colony are usually genetically identical and some have a shared circulation. Different colonial ascidian species produce sexually derived offspring by one of two dispersal strategies- Colonial species are either broadcast spawners (long-range dispersal) or philopatric (very short-range dispersal).
The larva selects and settles on appropriate surfaces using receptors sensitive to light, orientation to gravity, and tactile stimuli. When its anterior end touches a surface, papillae (small, finger-like nervous projections) secrete an adhesive for attachment. Adhesive secretion prompts an irreversible metamorphosis: various organs (such as the larval tail and fins) are lost while others rearrange to their adult positions, the pharynx enlarges, and organs called ampullae grow from the body to permanently attach the animal to the substratum. The siphons of the juvenile ascidian become orientated to optimise current flow through the feeding apparatus.Sexual maturity can be reached in as little as a few weeks. Since the larva is more advanced than its adult, this type of metamorphosis is called 'retrogressive metamorphosis'. This feature is a landmark for the 'theory of retrogressive metamorphosis or ascidian larva theory'; the true chordates are hypothesized to have evolved from sexually mature larvae.
The larva possesses a long tail, containing a hollow dorsal nerve tube and a notochord, both features clearly indicative of the animal's chordate affinities. The nerve tube enlarges in the main body, and will eventually become the cerebral ganglion of the adult. The tunic develops early in embryonic life, and extends to form a fin along the tail in the larva. The larva also has a statocyst and a pigmented cup above the mouth, which opens into a pharynx lined with small clefts opening into a surrounding atrium. The mouth and anus are originally at opposite ends of the animal, with the mouth only moving to its final (posterior) position during metamorphosis.
Solitary ascidians release many eggs from their atrial siphons; external fertilization in seawater takes place with the coincidental release of sperm from other individuals. A fertilized egg spends 12 hours to a few days developing into a free-swimming tadpole-like larva, which then takes no more than 36 hours to settle and metamorphose into a juvenile.
The economy in the U.S. expanded more than forecast in the third quarter, capping its strongest six months in more than a decade, as gains in government spending and a shrinking trade deficit made up for a slowdown in household purchases.
Gross domestic product grew at a 3.5 percent annualized rate in the three months ended September after a 4.6 percent gain in the second quarter, Commerce Department figures showed today in Washington. It marked the strongest back-to-back readings since the last six months of 2003. The median forecast of 87 economists surveyed by Bloomberg called for a 3 percent advance.
Growing oil production is limiting imports and contributing to a pickup in manufacturing, allowing the economy to overcome slowing growth in overseas markets from Europe to China. At the same time, job gains and cheaper gasoline are giving American consumers the confidence and the means to spend, brightening the outlook for the holiday-shopping season and helping explain why the Federal Reserve ended its bond-buying program yesterday.
“The fundamentals behind the consumer are improving as job growth gains traction,” Russell Price, senior economist at Ameriprise Financial Inc. in Detroit, said before the report. “And with consumer confidence rising, that is a clear indicator that consumers are feeling better about the economy.”
Forecasts in the Bloomberg survey of economists ranged from 2.1 percent to 4 percent. Today’s estimate is the first of three for the quarter, with the other releases scheduled for November and December when more information becomes available.
Conditioners Hydrate Your Follicles During the cold winter months, hair tends to dry out. By applying a deep conditioning mask directly to your scalp once a month, dry flakes will be eliminated, leaving your hair soft and sleek.
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Almost all ascidians are hermaphrodites and conspicuous mature ascidians are sessile. The gonads are located in the abdomen or postabdomen, and include one testis and one ovary, each of which opens via a duct into the cloaca.Broadly speaking, the ascidians can be divided into species which exist as independent animals (the solitary ascidians) and those which are interdependent (the colonial ascidians). Different species of ascidians can have markedly different reproductive strategies, with colonial forms having mixed modes of reproduction.
Although there is no true brain, the largest ganglion is located in the connective tissue between the two siphons, and sends nerves throughout the body. Beneath this ganglion lies an exocrine gland that empties into the pharynx. The gland is formed from the nerve tube, and is therefore homologous to the spinal cord of vertebrates. Sea squirts lack special sense organs, although the body wall has numerous individual receptors for touch, chemoreception, and the detection of light.
The ascidian central nervous system is formed from a plate that rolls up to form a neural tube. The number of cells within the central nervous system is very small. The neural tube is composed of the sensory vesicle, the neck, the visceral or tail ganglion, and the caudal nerve cord. The anteroposterior regionalization of the neural tube in ascidians is comparable to that in vertebrates.
There are four different types of blood cell: lymphocytes, phagocytic amoebocytes, nephrocytes and morula cells. The nephrocytes collect waste material such asuric acid and accumulate it in renal vesicles close to the digestive tract. The morula cells help to form the tunic, and can often be found within the tunic substance itself. In some species, the morula cells possess pigmented reducing agents containing iron (hemoglobin), giving the blood a red colour, or vanadium(hemovanadin) giving it a green colour.In that case the cells are also referred to as vanadocytes.
The world’s tallest twin towers will be the centerpiece of a new residential and business project in Dubai being developed by Emaar Properties PJSC (EMAAR) and Dubai Holding LLC.
The first phase will start Nov. 1 with the sale of 350 apartments in two smaller 40-story towers, according to the companies. Those buildings will take about 2 1/2 years to build, Emaar chairmanMohamed Alabbar told reporters today.
The companies didn’t provide a cost or a timeframe for the entire 6 million square-meter (65 million square-foot) Dubai Creek Harbour project or the buildings set to break the record held by Kuala Lumpur’s 88-story Petronas Towers. The two apartment buildings being constructed first are set to cost around 3 billion dirhams ($817 million), Alabbar told Al Arabiya TV in an interview.
Residential property prices in Dubai slowed since the start of the year as mortgages were restricted and the government increased a transaction tax to damp the market. Home prices surged at the fastest pace in the world last year, igniting concerns a bubble may be forming.
“The market’s cooling down is healthy,” Alabbar said. Increasing supply “is a good for our customers because it keeps prices at reasonable levels. In 2013, things went crazy because supply was limited and, as long-term developer, the spike scares me.”
Concerns about Dubai’s property market have abated since the spring, Masood Ahmed, IMF director for the Middle East and Central Asia, said in an interview in Dubai today. That’s thanks to the government “trying to impose a few bits of grit in the system of real estate transactions,” as well as more restrictive lending by banks, he said.
Dubai had one of the world’s worst property crashes in 2008 as home prices slumped by more than 65 percent across the city. The bubble burst as the global credit crisis caused speculative demand to wane and banks restricted lending.
Dubai’s economy is rebounding and the IMF expects it to grow 5 percent this year and next year compared with 4.6 percent growth in 2013, IMF’s Ahmed said.
This article was written by Samantha Freeman and repurposed with permission from Beauty High.
Conditioners have always been one of those tricky hair products to master—like does using it daily actually help or hurt your hair? And though it really depends on your hair texture (and the conditioner you’re using), there are some things you should know about shampoo’s best friend. Here, we detail 10 things you may not know about your conditioner.
They Make Great Styling Products
Leave-in conditioners can do a lot for your hair inside and out of the shower. If you're looking for quick beach waves, spray a small amount of leave-in conditioner to damp hair, comb through, and braid. You'll have thick waves in no time.
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Chipotle Burrito Bowl with Carnitas, Black Beans & Tomatillo Salsa Skip the rice, even brown: It sends the cals sky-high. 360 cal, 14 g fat (6 g sat), 26 g carbs, 1,010 mg sodium, 13 g fiber, 34 g protein
Unusually, the heart of sea squirts alternates the direction in which it pumps blood every three to four minutes. There are two excitatory areas, one at each end of the heart, with first one being dominant, to push the blood through the ventral vessel, and then the other, pushing it dorsally.
The heart is a curved muscular tube lying in the postabdomen, or close to the stomach. Each end opens into a single vessel, one running to the endostyle, and the other to the dorsal surface of the pharynx. The vessels are connected by a series of sinuses, through which the blood flows. Additional sinuses run from that on the dorsal surface, supplying blood to the visceral organs, and smaller vessels commonly run from both sides into the tunic. Nitrogenous waste, in the form of ammonia, is excreted directly from the blood through the walls of the pharynx, and expelled through the atrial siphon.
The oesophagus runs downwards to a stomach in the abdomen, which secretes enzymes that digest the food. An intestine runs upwards from the stomach parallel to the oesophagus and eventually opens, through a shortrectum and anus, into a cloaca just below the atrial siphon. In some highly developed colonial species, clusters of individuals may share a single cloaca, with all the atrial siphons opening into it, although the buccal siphons all remain separate. A series of glands lie on the outer surface of the intestine, opening through collecting tubules into the stomach, although their precise function is unclear.
Fluoxetine (also known by the trade names Prozac, Sarafem, Ladose and Fontex, among others) is anantidepressant of the selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) class. Fluoxetine was first documented in 1974 by scientists from Eli Lilly and Company.It was approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of major depressive disorder in December 1987.The U.S. fluoxetine patent expired in August 2001 and hence generic formulations are now available in the U.S..
In 2010, over 24.4 million prescriptions for generic formulations of fluoxetine were filled in the United States,making it the third most prescribed antidepressant after sertraline and citalopram.In 2011, 6 million prescriptions for fluoxetine were filled in the United Kingdom.
Before receiving their degrees and joining the ranks of their profession, nurses take what is commonly known as the Florence Nightingale Pledge. The original oath read, in part: “I endeavor… to devote myself to the welfare of those committed to my care.” The complex realities of modern healthcare make that commitment harder and harder for nurses to honor, and while that sentence has been excluded from the pledge for some time, the responsibility remains. In actuality, modern nurses only spend 20 minutes of each hour on direct patient care, with paperwork and record-keeping tasks reducing the time available to spend bedside. It’s no wonder that the biggest complaint among patients is unresponsiveness to comfort requests, according to a Xerox research study on nurses’ daily activities.
However, the research also identified a large opportunity: If nurses’ administrative duties, specifically those associated with the use of electronic medical records (EMRs), could be automated and the information made easily accessible, it would free more time for direct patient care.
Nurses’ workloads are mostly driven by doctors’ orders and hospital care policies, both of which are often stored in EMRs. Nurses typically start their day by logging into the EMR system and making notes on paper about what needs to be done. As the day unfolds, nurses return to EMRs frequently for updates—to check on medication status, pick up new orders or lab results, or simply to document their activities. Beyond those time drains, EMR sessions can also be cumbersome, and often require navigating multiple menus to get to the necessary information, further reducing the time nurses have to administer care.
The idea that nurses are forced to waste so much time struck a nerve, so to speak, with Xerox researchers. The opportunity they saw was to apply data analytics and mobile applicationtechnologies to help streamline the daily tasks of healthcare providers. This led to development of a “digital assistant” tablet and mobile app, which is part of the Juvo Care Performance Platform—an enterprise-level healthcare management system. The system pulls data from the EMR system and other sources to provide easy-to-access, real-time patient information on a mobile device. It goes beyond just organizing information, providing valuable insights as well. Nurses are alerted to indicators that require closer monitoring, such as blood pressure, and tasks are prioritized based on criticality, allowing nurses to focus on the most important jobs.
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DINNER
Quiznos Turkey Lite Sub with Pasta Salad
Stick to the small sub size to keep sodium in check. Small size: 470 cal, 12 g fat (2 g sat), 69 g carbs, 1,230 mg sodium, 7 g fiber, 24 g protein
Spinach is a nutrient-rich food you should definitely include into your eating plan. It’s an excellent source of Vitamin E, iron, chlorophyll, folate, magnesium, fiber, Vitamin A, Vitamin C and plant protein, which are all great for your skin. Spinach is also packed with antioxidants that help prevent different types of skin problems. You can use spinach in your green smoothies or add it to your salads. Eating spinach regularly will help clean your skin from the inside out.
The pharynx forms the first part of the digestive system. The endostyle produces a supply of mucus which is then passed into the rest of the pharynx by the beating of flagella along its margins. The mucus then flows in a sheet across the surface of the pharynx, trapping planktonic food particles as they pass through the stigmata, and is collected in the ridge on the dorsal surface. The ridge bears a groove along one side, which passes the collected food downwards and into the oesophageal opening at the base of pharynx.
The pharynx is surrounded by an atrium, through which water is expelled through a second, usually smaller, siphon. Cords of connective tissue cross the atrium to maintain the general shape of the body. The outer body wall consists of connective tissue, muscle fibres, and a simple epithelium directly underlying the tunic.
The beating of the cilia sucks water through the siphon, and then through the stigmata. A long ciliated groove, or endostyle, runs along one side of the pharynx, and a projecting ridge along the other. The endostyle may be homologous with the thyroid gland of vertebrates, despite its differing function.
As its name implies, the pharyngeal region is occupied mainly by the pharynx. The large buccal siphon opens into the pharynx, acting like a mouth. The pharynx itself is ciliated and contains numerous perforations, or stigmata, arranged in a grid-like pattern around its circumference.
Kelly G Lambert, professor of neuro science at RandolphMacon College in Ashland, Virginia, has been involved in studying the mammalian brain and is one of the foremost researchers on neurochemicals. She has written two popular books, 'Lifting Depression' and 'The Lab Rat Chronicles', besides textbooks. Currently, she is writing 'Cracking the Brain's Code: Making Smart Decisions in an Uncertain World'. Here, she explains how people can 'activate' the brain's neurochemicals themselves..
Although we typically think that we can only alter the neu- rochemicals in our brains through the use of psycho- active drugs (antidepres- sants, anti-anxiety drugs, etc), the brain naturally alters neurochemicals as it engages in adaptive and natural behaviours. I refer to the ability to change the brain's neurochemicals through various behaviours as Behaviourceuticals. A few examples include: Hobbies | Pursue your passion Running | Rx for the brain Repetitive behaviours | Pace out stress Social contact | Jhappi works Gaining a sense of mastery Prehistoric lessons
Kelly G Lambert, professor of neuro science at RandolphMacon College in Ashland, Virginia, has been involved in studying the mammalian brain and is one of the foremost researchers on neurochemicals.
The European Central Bank’s stress test marks the passing of the region’s banking crisis, Eurogroup President Jeroen Dijsselbloem said.
“I definitely think the banking crisis is behind us,” Dijsselbloem, who is also Dutch finance minister, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television in The Hague yesterday. “I am never free of worry, so I do feel that banks have to keep on working managing their risks, strengthening their capital ratios where necessary also in the future.”
Twenty-five of 130 lenders tested failed the balance-sheet review led by the ECB, which found the biggest capital hole lurking in Italy. While the Frankfurt-based institution identified a total shortfall of 25 billion euros ($32 billion), most of that is covered by measures undertaken by the banks this year.
Dijsselbloem said he is “quite confident” the banks that failed will be successful in bringing in more capital. “The numbers are manageable. It is very important to get that done so that everyone can be rest assured that European banks are once again solid.”
Nine of the banks that failed are Italian, with Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena SpA leading the pack with a capital gap of 2.1 billion euros. In Portugal, Banco Comercial Portugues SA was found to have a shortfall of 1.15 billion euros. The bank said in a statement yesterday after the ECB published its results that measures undertaken this year are sufficient to make up the difference.
Eurogroup Chairman and Dutch Finance Minister Jeroen Dijsselbloem.
