But the top exec maintained that the figures add up to a mere pittance: 7.7% profit margin for every dollar of sales.
Winners outnumbered losers by a wide margin, but the dollar stores were among the groups in the red.
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It is because a stronger dollar signals more investment on the margin flowing into the stock and bond income streams set to create the wealth of tomorrow.
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At the margin, each new federal tax dollar shrinks the economy by at least 40 percent.
He said Best Buy is showing "striking positives, " including better-than-expected gross margin the percentage of each dollar in revenue a company actually keeps and an 11.2 percent increase in U.S. online sales.
However, possible commodity inflation and the rising value of Dollar vis-a-vis Euro may pose profit margin and pricing challenges for Heinz in future year.
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The basic idea is that yes, Apple is superb at making high end, high margin, products that people are willing to pay top dollar for.
This will, at the margin, trigger trade adjustments similar to the effect of a dollar decline.
The weak dollar has rendered American labour more competitive, but not enough to rejuvenate low-margin, labour-intensive manufacturing in industries such as textiles, furniture or paper products.
The squeezing revenue margin (revenue earned by the online travel agency as a percentage of the dollar size of bookings) has been widely accepted as the fate of this industry going forward.
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The amount of gold transferred in collateral should be sufficient to provide a "shrinkage margin" that is, as with commercial banking transactions, not sized on a dollar-for-dollar basis but in excess of the amount of American commodities to be purchased.
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