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  • noun Plural form of weighting.

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Examples

  • The results hit you between the eyes: with weightings (the post-multiplying matrix) from the full sample (which can’t be done in reality), one can reconstruct; with weightings from the short sample, one can’t.

    Martin Ringo on Principal Components « Climate Audit 2006

  • The deal will allow Morgan to essentially free up about $5 billion in capital by shedding assets with high risk weightings under the new Basel rules.

    The Worst Seat on Wall Street David Reilly 2011

  • In 2008, comparatively late to the long-running gold party, we purchased the GDX (gold mining stocks exchange traded fund) across client accounts in cautiously small weightings.

    James Berman: Gold: A Little Gaudy in This Light James Berman 2010

  • A report this week by Barclays Capital analysts concluded that current European rules for calculating risk weightings of assets "leave considerable scope for subjectivity" and give investors reason for "unease over the calculations."

    Details Given on EU 'Stress Tests' David Enrich 2011

  • In 2008, comparatively late to the long-running gold party, we purchased the GDX (gold mining stocks exchange traded fund) across client accounts in cautiously small weightings.

    James Berman: Gold: A Little Gaudy in This Light James Berman 2010

  • Pension funds that report quarterly valuations with parent companies' results are also reluctant to raise equity weightings, given the potential for market moves to cause big swings in their assets.

    Low-Yield Tide Could Leave Equities Adrift Hester Plumridge 2011

  • This was backed up by zero-risk weightings for bank capital purposes from regulators.

    Government Bonds' Switcheroo on Risk Richard Barley 2011

  • In the late 1990s, retail investors who bought a vanilla S&P 500 fund, along with investment managers who benchmarked the sector weightings in their portfolios to the index, were loading up on expensive technology stocks.

    A Standard, and Poor, Way of Investing Justin Lahart 2012

  • For instance, Mr. Sefton says that because some low-volatility stocks are looking pricey these days, you could reduce the weightings of those companies in favor of cheaper "deep value" stocks.

    Beat the Market—With Less Risk Ben Levisohn 2011

  • What I have found useful about attempts to classify learning styles is not how much “truth” there is in any classification system, but the awareness raising opportunities it offers the teacher to reflect on weightings and tendencies and biases in their own classroom talk and presentation. (eg personally I default to words, but students tell me they like my diagrams (and my silences!) and ask if I could do them more).

    L is for Learning Styles « An A-Z of ELT 2010

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