The more volatile the returns are, the more distorted the numbers will be so this is an extreme example but even a small difference in returns can have a huge impact.
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The move should not only make the returns on hard assets more appealing, but it should also put some downside price pressure on the U.S. dollar index, or at least limit its upside movement.
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Such a move by the Fed should be gold and commodity-market bullish, as it would not only make the returns on hard assets more appealing, but it would also likely put some downside price pressure on the U.S. dollar index, or at least limit its upside movement.
Two funds may report similar or even equal pretax returns, but the fund employing the more tax efficient investment strategies can generate much more wealth for its investors.
The corporations did file Louisiana corporate franchise returns, but when Louisiana came looking for more money, they claimed that the state was not entitled to anything, since they were not doing business in the state.
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He was referring specifically to whether the media would continue to pursue Mitt Romney for release of more complete tax returns, but his assessment certainly was true in the broader sense as well.
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" "There's more clarity than in a horn, " said Jeff Fair, principal horn for the Seattle Opera, whose Stephen Wadsworth "Ring" returns in August, "but more resonance and darker sounds than in the trumpet.
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"So the returns may be lower, but overall you have a more dependable cash-flow stream, " he says.
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Favorable policies tied to business size, such as loan guarantees and regulatory exemptions, generally succeed in producing more small businesses, by encouraging more business starts but also by diminishing the relative returns from expansion.
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In 1996 Gandur made the salmon leap from the downstream activities of oil trading and marketing, which provide thin margins by moving huge volumes of other people's oil, into the upstream, which entails more risk and upfront investment but offers fatter returns. aog inked its first production-sharing contract with the oil minister of Ivory Coast to overhaul the abandoned offshore Espoir oilfield.
But if returns to higher education go on falling as the price rises, will people want more of it or less?
Letting in goals is always costly, but it will be even more so over the next week or two before Gareth Bale returns from his Europa League injury.
You would think with more information investors would have better returns and beat the market, but that was not the case.
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Returns are not only lower than they were but have become more linked to the underlying markets, some in the business say: outperformance is more elusive.
He complains that so far, NATO's month-old Operation Achilles has caused more schools to close, due to the fighting, but also because the Taliban returns to villages and towns after Western and Afghan troops leave.
They know it, so attempts at major legislation have tended to crowd in the first two years hence stock returns on average have been more variable then. (For US stocks, but the pattern largely holds for global stocks.) There have been plenty of big double-digit positive years in years one and two, but the variability drags down the averages to 8% and 9% respectively.
With this small bias comes increased risk, but PXI has managed to generate excess risk-adjusted returns of more than 9.5 percent over the past year when compared with a cap-weighted benchmark of U.S. energy firms.
But paying these actresses more money will bump up the budgets of their films, which means both actresses could offer worse returns on investment for studios.
Affected couples could recompute their taxes and file new returns, but in a final kicker, a partner owing more tax would have to pay interest on the underpayment (offset, at least in part, by interest paid on the refund presumably going to the other partner).
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