Volatility Quotes

Over the next two or three weeks, there will be uncertainty associated with (market) volatility. But it will be resolved,

We`re looking at added volatility this week because of the September 11th memorial Wednesday, George Bush addressing the U.N. and Greenspan speaking Thursday.

Fear tends to manifest itself much more quickly than greed, so volatile markets tend to be on the downside. In up markets, volatility tends to gradually decline.

Energy price volatility is taking its toll on consumer confidence, as is the prospect of higher (interest) rates in the months ahead.

At the time the volatility of your innate short temper was exacerbated by the aftermath of your abuse of illicit drugs,

We suspect that right now we are in the midst of what is a normal 10 percent correction. This is normal market volatility that people aren`t really used to. A lot will be driven by the releases on the economy at the end of next week, namely the employment number.

Alan White and I spent the next two or three years working together on this. We developed what is known a stochastic volatility model. This is a model where the volatility as well as the underlying asset price moves around in an unpredictable way.

Briefly speaking, our conclusion is that stochastic volatility does not make a huge difference as far as the pricing is concerned if you get the average volatility right. It makes a big difference as far as hedging is concerned.

In all you`re seeing sort of a mixed reaction out there. The oil data was good because of the distillates, but you`re still seeing oil prices higher because of demand. And we`re seeing a lot of volatility across the board.

You`re going to see a lot of volatility all day. It`s the last day of trading for the quarter, so things get hectic.

The recent volatility reflects the debate in the market but I think we may well have touched bottom in the current cycle.

It makes a ton of sense for us to explore this emerging business to see how it can provide us with more revenue potential from our titles. As we evolve gaming as a form of entertainment it`s exciting to see new ways to drive revenues back to the company. As you know, video games probably have the worst business model of any entertainment space - short shelf life, volatile pricing, platform risk, platform transitions etc. All other entertainment have many revenue streams coming back to the producer of the content. Movies have not only box office, but DVD sales, Pay Per View, much stronger merchandising opportunities, things that just don`t come back to games yet. Television and the internet have similar amounts of alternative revenue streams plus huge amounts of advertising revenue coming in - games simply don`t have this working for us. It`s retail and that`s it. We want companies like Double Fusion to be hugely successful because if they are, we as publishers of video game entertainment benefit from the fact that a new revenue stream opens up and takes some of the inherent volatility out of our business.