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"skittishness" Definitions
  1. the fact of being not very serious and having ideas and feelings that keep changing
  2. (especially North American English, business) the fact of being likely to change suddenly
  3. the quality in a horse of being easily excited or frightened and therefore difficult to control

121 Sentences With "skittishness"

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Just skittishness; just tweets — little annoyances, but no pressure.
This thermodynamic skittishness is passed on to the air above.
Among the reasons for the sudden skittishness: • Continued turmoil in Washington.
Seller skittishness could slow the pace of Chinese outbound M&A growth.
Yet despite investors' skittishness, Fossil CEO Kosta Kartsotis remains optimistic about the category.
Skittishness over the health of Chinese banks has also undermined the country's creditworthiness.
"There was some skittishness earlier but then some buyers stepped in," he said.
Equity market rallied, with European shares closing higher after early signs of skittishness.
Hence, the current bout of skittishness should soon dissipate as the sparring subsides.
Like the Russell, the S&P's major sectors reflected some skittishness over trade.
"There's a skittishness about the chances of these top four candidates," Selzer told Vox.
Regulatory thickets, technical complexity and the public's skittishness have proven to be formidable hurdles.
"There's a skittishness about the chances of these top four candidates," she told Vox.
Any skittishness on your part can only be contributed to your digital currency illiteracy.
"I think there has been some skittishness around retail," KeyBanc analyst Ed Yruma told CNBC.
Oil prices fell for a fourth straight day, swept lower by investor skittishness over Brexit.
The skittishness moves serve to highlight the region's vulnerabilities ahead of its impressive growth profile.
Asked about the skittishness, Delegate Eileen Filler-Corn, the minority leader, dodged that question, too.
Somehow, this skittishness about ladies also applies to literal animals when it comes to The Terror.
A particularly nasty skirmish between Ethiopian and Eritrean troops in June 2016 revealed the Ethiopians' skittishness.
Wall Street's steadiness last week in response to several tidy excuses for skittishness raises this question.
The movement of assets overseas does not coincide with any increase in skittishness about the U.S. economy.
Skittishness in the stock and bond markets appeared at odds with signs of stability on the ground.
The share price response also underscores heightened levels of skittishness among investors towards newly listed companies, Sammut added.
You talk to enough people and you express your skittishness, and it echoes and it just keeps compounding.
"I have not seen or heard any nervousness or skittishness from foreign buyers," said Ms. Liebman of Corcoran.
And Ross Douthat cautions that only a true catastrophe will provoke enough Republican skittishness to end Trump's presidency.
Jolly Abraham gets Jess's skittishness at an almost cellular level, suggesting without words the deprivations that cause it.
For the tech giants, skittishness about start-ups opens up an opportunity to snag top talent at lower prices.
Given the evident skittishness of the Trump administration around these issues, Flynn likely won't be the last to go.
Mark Zuckerberg announced the news on Thursday evening in a post on his own Facebook page to expected investor skittishness.
The result isn't just a difficulty reaching deals with Trump, but a skittishness in proposing them, or even entertaining them.
Hundreds of heavily armed police patrolled Berlin's Olympic Stadium and other key points last weekend, proof of a growing skittishness.
But the skittishness about sex has kept readers and critics from appreciating how erotics pervade all of Vargas Llosa's fiction.
Investors said market skittishness was likely to persist heading into the Federal Open Market Committee meeting on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Weak economic fundamentals, skittishness about inflation and concern over Argentina's drought-hit soy harvest have helped put the peso under pressure.
Candidate Marine Le Pen would like to drop the euro, and that has created a skittishness in sovereign bonds across Europe.
Maris Ogg, president at Tower Bridge Advisors, said the weak start to the season is adding more skittishness to the market.
Since the beginning of February, investor skittishness about the pace of Fed interest rate hikes has weighed on stock markets worldwide.
Given the importance of the job and the markets' skittishness over the looming appointment, here is what you need to know.
Despite their skittishness about the market, retail investors don't think Irma, Harvey or whatever comes after will have a dramatic impact.
That's down from about $229,232 in 2018, a dip Kimberly Palmer, personal finance expert at Nerdwallet, said is attributable to consumer skittishness.
All these companies had previously seen growth in the months leading up to legalization, so the sudden skittishness of investors is striking.
Bernstein, a CNBC contributor who was Merrill Lynch's chief investment strategist, blames a hangover from the 2008 financial crisis for the skittishness.
Those effort stalled over financing skittishness, amid a bubbling number of bankrupt leveraged buyouts and general uncertainty over the future of retail.
That effort stalled over financing skittishness, amid a bubbling number of bankrupt leveraged buyouts and general uncertainty over the future of retail.
There is, however, one area of the world Trump seems to have eschewed altogether, an area where his skittishness could prove a boon.
Weak fundamentals, skittishness regarding devaluation and concern over Argentina's drought-hit soy harvest have helped put the economy, and the peso, under pressure.
This concern for the fate of the broader Republican Party can be seen in the skittishness of party activists, conservatives and congressional leaders.
Beginning last season, a porous offensive line has routinely been blamed for Manning's skittishness in the pocket and his ineffectiveness throwing the football downfield.
This skittishness toward the question of whether the US could possibly have been "the bad guy" in the conflict is reflected even in small choices.
Institutional Investor hall of famer Richard Bernstein is attributing the turbulent market swings on skittishness surrounding D.C. Beltway policies — not something critically wrong with economy.
Natural products company Hain Celestial could ease investor skittishness about its outlook when it meets Friday with analysts at a major trade show in California.
Unfortunately, her skittishness about raising taxes is echoed by many other leading Democrats (and their Wall Street backers), and it has dramatically narrowed feminism's horizons.
All told, safer money-market funds attracted over $17 billion in the week ended Wednesday, underscoring investors' skittishness on financial markets given the recent volatility.
A likely reason is Google's skittishness about inking deals with partners like Nintendo, whose branding and IP are ultimately what delivered Niantic its hit game.
The family announced earlier this fall it is putting those efforts on hold until after the holidays, as investor skittishness complicated putting together a financing package.
Any significant rise in oil prices, skittishness in the markets and regional security fears that could keep tourists and investors away would undermine the recovery effort.
Several times I thought I recognized in her skittishness the affect of an abused woman, clinging to what abuses her, which in this case is life.
"Despite popular skittishness, U.K. valuations actually look very good," James Illsley, fund manager at JP Morgan U.K. Equity Core fund, said in a note to investors.
But the latest dent to market confidence came from China where market turmoil prompted skittishness in oil markets, already concerned over slowing China demand and increasing instability.
But due to decreasing sales, as well as Disney's own skittishness and discomfort with gaming, Disney shut down its entire in-house gaming division in May 2016.
In the end, Mr. Obama used the skittishness of Congress to avoid action in Syria in 2013, a decision that would haunt the rest of his presidency.
Fears that the Fed may be making a policy error by tightening too fast have contributed to the recent skittishness in financial markets, according to several market experts.
Chinese consumers, a powerful and growing source of spending that international companies like General Motors and Starbucks have come to rely on, have shown uncharacteristic signs of skittishness.
As a result, Gwirtzman has been moving into biotech companies Revance Therapeutics Inc and Esperion Therapeutics Inc that have been hurt by investor skittishness over the healthcare sector.
Tightening financial conditions and intensified skittishness over trade will cause the Federal Reserve to follow a less aggressive path when it comes to hiking rates, according to Goldman Sachs.
And Trump, who has suffered a wave of high-profile Republican defections after a video was released of him making obscene sexual remarks, is furious over the GOP skittishness.
"I don't see a recession coming": Mr. Fink told the FT that skittishness among investors was natural, given the developments that buffeted markets toward the end of last year.
Department stores J.C. Penney and Macy's both saw their stocks rattled on Thursday, despite a relatively strong holiday performance, a sign of investor skittishness toward the industry at large.
He's not much interested in men and women together—a skittishness that puts him in a long line of American narrative artists, including James Fenimore Cooper, Melville, and Twain.
Market participants cited skittishness over a possible U.S. government shutdown at the end of the week as the impetus behind the pullback in areas that have rallied of late.
Trump has suffered a wave of high-profile Republican defections after a 2005 video was released Friday of him making obscene sexual remarks, and he's furious over the GOP's skittishness.
Ms. Finke, who plays the virginal Victorian dream girl Johanna, delivers the pastiche ballad "Green Finch and Linnet Bird" with a twittering skittishness that adroitly signals a nervous breakdown ahead.
Weak fundamentals, skittishness regarding devaluation and even uncertainty around Argentina's soy harvest are pressuring the peso lower, according to Federico Kaune, head of emerging markets fixed income at UBS Asset Management.
Mills, who believes the bull market is intact, cited skittishness surrounding tariffs between the United States and China and the Federal Reserve's interest rate hike policy for the wild market swings.
Despite investor skittishness over Caterpillar CEO comments suggesting an economic slowdown and rising Treasury yields signaling inflation risks, Federated Investors' Phil Orlando contends stocks will return to record territory this year.
I frequently found myself wishing that she'd had more confidence, either to break through her skittishness surrounding Hansberry's queerness or simply to devote the book to her adulation for Hansberry's work.
Alternately, the Fed might be vaccinating the economy against risks it judges as real and continuing, based on the pullback in global manufacturing, weak inflation and signs of bond market skittishness.
The House Ways and Means Committee is also set to lay the groundwork for international tax reform push on Thursday, a bipartisan priority that could get halted by election-year legislative skittishness.
Other gauges of skittishness — Bank of America Merrill Lynch's index of implied Treasury volatility and the implied volatility in the euro-dollar currency pair — hit three-and-a-half-month highs on Thursday.
In truth, his skittishness is his form of defense, allowing him to distancing himself from any clear-cut stances that might upset someone (or so Neptune claims after having one too many beers).
Netflix had the biggest percentage drop among the top 10, falling 5.7 percent and losing $8.8 billion in value Investors are showing skittishness towards the stocks that have most outperformed the market lately.
The idea is to create an immersively surreal dreamscape, which means perpetual motion — 23 tracks, most within the one or two-minute range, one rushed exercise after another, jumping around with jerky skittishness.
If anything, the yield on 10-year U.K. government debt fell below 1 percent for the first time on record although the declines reflect overall investor skittishness rather than faith in the government's fiscal prudence.
"While not the primary culprit for Tuesday's selloff, tomorrow's vote on Obamacare's replacement will play a significant role for whether this new-found skittishness will persist," said Jeremy Klein, chief market strategist at FBN Securities.
"If funds continue to shovel capital into equities in advance of an inevitable reprise of an undesirable bout of skittishness, then shares may suffer a selloff greater in magnitude and duration than I anticipate," he said.
"Everybody's skittish, you talk to enough people and you express your skittishness, and it echoes and it just keeps compounding," Morgan Stanley's chief executive, James Gorman, who's led the bank since 22019, told CNBC on Thursday.
Given this unusual occurrence, Gartman reasoned that investors may want to consider betting on gains for gold while selling Treasuries in weeks to come, particularly as skittishness over Federal Reserve interest rate policy continues to dominate.
The skittishness of suburban Republicans from blue-leaning states, where Trump is already unpopular, leaves the House GOP facing a narrow road for passing the tax bill, which is expected to reach the floor this week.
Given the skittishness of the MPAA to give R-ratings to movies that depict sexual pleasure, specifically of the female variety, (opting instead for an X-rating), the scene in question is most likely something laughably tame.
"There's a little bit of skittishness about some of the things that have happened in the market just recently," said Josh Zaretsky, director of Altman Vilandrie & Co., a strategy consulting firm to big tech and telecom companies.
Despite the skittishness around European and Japanese equities, Riverfront Investment Group's director of international portfolio management, Chris Konstantinos, also told "Closing Bell" that his firm has been careful in snapping up buying opportunities in Japanese real estate.
So it was on Saturday, in a moment of boiling anger on the left and skittishness among many Republican lawmakers to face their own constituents, that Mr. Sanford seemed inclined once more to embrace his inner masochist.
"The fundamentals of the U.S. economy remain strong but investors' skittishness has caused stocks to fluctuate with the ebb and flow of news headlines," Doug Peta, chief U.S. investment strategist at BCA Research, said in a note.
Both the Church and Pike investigations of American intelligence in the mid-1970s produced skittishness about looking too closely at domestic actors, as indicated by the guidelines issued by Attorney General Levi, in 1976, regarding domestic security investigations.
StoneMor's $175 million bond due in June 2021, rated eight notches into junk by Moody's, now features a yield to maturity of 14.3%, nearly double its coupon of 7.875%, reflecting creditors' increasing skittishness about the prospect of being repaid.
As usual, no one thing can be blamed for Bitcoin's current downturn, but recent skittishness around a subpoena for Bitfinex and concerns around Tether — a kind of cryptocurrency counterpart to USD that matches the dollar one to one — probably factor in.
It was also a sign of skittishness about the damage the Democrats will try to inflict on Trump, who has a long and sometimes controversial business record, in a general election, if he does indeed emerge as the GOP nominee.
But the assumption that because you had a pop in one month of noisy data, is going to set off a chain of events that ends with a slower-growth economy and narrower profit margins, that's more investors' skittishness than reality.
Underscoring investor skittishness and low tolerance for earnings disappointments, French payments firm Ingenico Group fell nearly 13 percent in heavy volumes, after the cutting its full-year targets in the wake of a "sudden and significant decline" in U.S. sales.
"I think part of it was the elections last night, part of it is the skittishness that has arisen because of the fact that the Senate is unlikely to embrace many of the proposals that have been here," he told reporters.
Increased skittishness recently led to a sell-off in the stock markets, while the Philippine peso fell to a seven-year low against the U.S. dollar last month after the hard-talking Duterte described U.S. President Barack Obama with a derogatory term.
The girl-dog thing sounds all too cute, but Kelly's nuanced embodiment of this voiceless character, moving with the skittishness of an abused stray, avoids any trace of cheap pathos and instead significantly shapes the bleak portrait of this starving, futureless family.
But the company pulled back from those ambitions as a combination of low oil and gas prices and the threat of rising interest rates led to turbulence in the energy markets and skittishness among renewable-energy investors and the company's stock tumbled.
It could benefit in the sense that investors moving up from high yield would prefer investment-grade issues, but investment-grade prices already have fallen this year among broader equity and bond market repricing caused by investor skittishness, so a positive result is not assured.
The moves were in large part caused by Wall Street's skittishness around the seemingly never-ending U.S.-China trade dispute and the future of interest rate policy, both of which have weighed heavily on U.S. markets in 2019 as investors try to navigate the uncertainty.
At this point, it is difficult to tell whether Ryan's bill is simply caught in the kind of political maelstrom and skittishness of wavering House members faced with tough votes that afflicts all major legislation or whether Washington is watching a political project locked in terminal decline.
If you want a beastie that's particularly wee, sleekit, cowering and timorous, for example, you could ask for mutations in the Ghrhr gene, which can govern size; Foxq1, which makes coats shiny; and Lypd1 and Atcay—mutations that provide, respectively, a fearful nature and general skittishness.
LONDON — The British pound plunged suddenly in the early hours of trading in Asia on Friday before just as quickly making back most of its losses, puzzling currency trading experts but underscoring investor skittishness over Britain's prospects as it moves to break away from the European Union.
The debates about dropping the Saudi account also reflect the skittishness of the lobbying industry at a time when it has faced mounting scrutiny from federal investigators, including the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III, about how foreign interests try to shape American politics and policy.
Tanya was a genius at nursing Sherman back to health, but when it came to getting over his skittishness, even she was stymied by the Eternal Equine Enigma: How do you persuade nature's most stubborn creature that what you want him to do is actually his idea?
Perhaps sensing some of his colleagues' skittishness on the issue, Mr. Heastie did not bring it to the floor of the Assembly for consideration after it passed out of the education committee, dashing Mr. de Blasio's hopes of even a symbolic vote in favor of his plan.
Read MoreArmageddon bull market continues to beat odds Yet as things stand, traders seem unusually dependent on the oil-stocks correlation, so anything that disturbs the familiar interplay would invite at least a period of market unrest, given the broader environment of skittishness and loosely held investor convictions.
The political pressure from Washington was the "impetus" for tech platforms to move beyond their skittishness over stifling free speech and move toward mass deletions based on affiliation with hate groups, regardless of the content, according to Seamus Hughes, deputy director of George Washington University's Program on Extremism.
"In an election year, we expect drug price concerns to remain in the spotlight during the Presidential campaign (though they could be overshadowed by national security issues), which could make skittishness among generalists — whose money flow had helped catalyze the run-up — remain," Jefferies analysts wrote in a Thursday research note.
Against all odds, though, the quip queen's skittishness turns out to have been authentic: During the talent show's grand finale, Olivia fully transitions into what she surely never thought she'd become: a low-kicking, over-sequined showgirl who somehow develops a raging case of self-awareness in the middle of a cake pop.
"Macy's is certainly playing a role across the entire department store sector [sell-off], but the investor skittishness may be due more to caution on the retail sector's sharp spike upwards in stock prices this year, than to any performance issue at Macy's," Customer Growth Partners President and founder Craig Johnson told CNBC.
Though he seems to have been a loving husband toward Setsu (and a doting father to their four children), Hearn's personal relationships were, for the most part, marked by a kind of skittishness and extreme sensitivity; if he felt slighted or unwanted, he would break off a friendship or a romance immediately, without explanation.
"If anywhere along this path international conditions or skittishness become such that the dollar takes off and capital flows disrupt a weak world and all of that affects inflation and job gains, then we will have a real fundamental question for them to resolve," said Jon Faust, a Johns Hopkins University professor and former advisor to the Fed board.
During her first aria, when she tells her handmaid Alisa (Deborah Nansteel) that she keeps seeing the ghost of a young woman slain by a jealous lover in the waters of a fountain at the castle, Ms. Peretyatko-Mariotti conveyed the emotional shakiness of her fragile character by injecting the ornate vocal lines with a touch of skittishness.

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