| While the upper classes enjoyed a varied diet including substantial amounts of meat, the masses ate an undiversified diet, primarily of cereals. |
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| Because banks during the Great Depression were so small, they were undiversified. |
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| We got into this crisis because we had most homeowners putting themselves in a leveraged, undiversified portfolio. |
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| The external trade of most LLDCs is relatively undiversified both in terms of products, as seen above, and in terms of trading partners. |
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| Critics say this is odd, because mortgage banks' assets are undiversified and many have a higher risk weighting than the bonds. |
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| But smaller, undiversified insurers will find it harder to cope with higher costs and capital requirements. |
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| In fact, many communities are vulnerable to this, as their economic base is undiversified. |
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| Despite its huge potential, Guinea-Bissau remains one of the most undiversified countries in Africa. |
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| Regional integration is of crucial importance for a small, undiversified open economy such as Sierra Leone. |
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| And it created a firm that is so big, so undiversified and so dependent on borrowing, his critics argue, that it should be broken up again. |
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| National agricultural production is undiversified and focuses on rice growing, mainly for home-consumption. |
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| The American Depression worsened when banking panics swept undiversified and overextended rural banks and the Federal Reserve failed to intervene. |
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| Wherever financial markets are absent or repressed, savings go unused, productive economic opportunities go unrealised and risks go undiversified. |
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| In recent years, many workers nearing retirement have viewed rapid increases in their often undiversified stock portfolios as a substitute for more traditional savings. |
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| Like a home, a small business is an illiquid, undiversified, highly leveraged investment, the performance of which is likely to be highly correlated with the owner's personal economic welfare. |
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| Sometimes abrasive and strident, the two partners know how to point up a more ambient side, while avoiding the recurrent easiness of the genre like undiversified sounds which tends to go round in circles. |
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| Homeownership, let's recall, is in most cases a highly leveraged, undiversified, relatively illiquid bet, with a return that is highly correlated to local labour market conditions. |
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| The country's dependency on an undiversified export base has led to systemic fragility, exacerbated by high inflation, poor governance and regional instability. |
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| But smaller, undiversified economies find it hard to do. |
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| At present the country's economic structure reflects an undiversified economy that is highly dependent on a capital-intensive oil sector, with a traditional agricultural sector accounting for the bulk of employment. |
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| The Lomé system did not, therefore, succeed in curbing the marginalisation of ACP countries in trade: their exports are largely undiversified and still very dependent on the European market. |
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| Furthermore, at the present primary, undiversified stage of development of African economy, the labour market does not offer sufficient employment opportunities. |
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| On the right is Mauritius, very dependent on tourism, very undiversified economies and for every month this year their tourism earnings have been much less than last year. |
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| Taking the time to diversify your portfolio may mean that your overall return is higher or lower than what you would have received in an undiversified portfolio. |
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| Secondly, a home is a highly undiversified investment. |
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| His undiversified investments left him overexposed to the market downturn. |
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