"Minimizing airport charges will certainly help us reduce losses if not incur profits, " said an official at state-owned carrier Air India Ltd.
"Management may look to exit parts or all of its international operations to reduce losses and to raise cash, " said Singer Capital Markets analyst Mark Photiades.
Companies, governments, and other entities must understand how to mitigate or reduce losses from a multitude of criminal schemes designed to siphon assets, in many forms, which ultimately destroy many enterprises.
By providing access to funds investing in different styles, regions, or countries, fund supermarkets allow investors to employ active management strategies such as style rotation or country rotation that can help to reduce losses and increase returns.
The first sort, and the one that has raised the most ire, involved groups of derivatives traders at Barclays and several other unnamed banks trying to influence the final LIBOR fixing to increase profits (or reduce losses) on their derivative exposures.
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If you are a stock investor, consider strategies such as placing stop-loss orders to reduce losses in a volatile market, subscribing to services that email you company specific news as it happens, and setting up loss review trigger points to review your investment.
Credit card companies offer another solution to the problem: They generally allow buyers to disavow charges for goods that were never delivered, and they are in a position to reduce losses from that implicit guarantee by refusing to remit funds to merchants with too many outstanding gripes from consumers.
The group has been trying to pay off debts and reduce its losses.
President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono has said that he wants to reduce these losses by strengthening the navy and air force.
The main reason for wanting to install superconducting power lines in cities is not, perhaps surprisingly, to reduce transmission losses.
Together with partners from Luton and Dunstable Hospital and the Luton Clinical Commissioning Group, it is examining what can be done to reduce the losses.
For the year, its TV sales were down 38 percent, reflecting the same drop in the market reported by competitors like Samsung and LG, as well as Sony's cutbacks to reduce its losses.
It's managed to reduce its losses despite a slowdown in Lumia sales -- falling from four million last quarter to 2.9 million now, but given that the company is at the end of a product cycle, that's hardly surprising.
An important postscript to the M2M saga is that having had to over-reserve for losses not likely to occur, many banks are now able to reduce provisions for losses, boosting their profits.
One is to reduce the electrical losses by putting thin metal lines used to collect and transport electrons on the back of the cells.
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Bank of America saw mixed results in 2010 with macroeconomic improvement that allowed the firm (as well as other banks) to reduce reserves for losses, bolstering profits.
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But this is only half the picture: if it succeeded in ending deflation, the Bank of Japan would help to reduce banks' losses on their loan portfolios, which are bigger than those on their bond portfolios.
The most dazzling example of the power of negative space comes from the efforts of analysts during World War II to reduce the enormous losses of aircraft and lives of flight crews that were routine during missions from British airfields over the German industrial heartland.
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It was never more important to harvest any losses to reduce gains with the surtax.
The proposed job losses would reduce their workforce from 651 to 563.
Another way to further reduce Saab's losses could be to shift some of the production of Saabs to the US, a market where drivers have adopted it as an upmarket European car.
Banks would be required to hive off their swaps businesses, in order to reduce their exposure to potential losses.
Meanwhile, investors around the world are deleveraging to reduce risk and cut their losses, a process that the Fed can do little about.
While it had worked with unions at Brough to reduce the number of job losses compulsory redundancies may now be necessary, the company said.
Many insurers and reinsurers across the globe were surprised at the extent of the flooding, and have been looking to reduce their exposure to future losses by selling less coverage there.
Martin Yokosawa, portfolio manager at the Oberweis Report, believes that investing in small cap stocks is a good way to reduce the risk of investment losses due to corporate corruption.
The losses of a trader in securities, whether from trading losses or expenses, reduce Adjusted Gross Income and do not present alternative minimum tax problems.
Over time, by providing a market for these assets that does not now exist, this program will help improve asset values, increase lending capacity by banks, and reduce uncertainty about the scale of losses on bank balance sheets.
Securities issuers can adjust the risk in such bonds by requiring more cash to build up inside the security before it begins paying interest and insurers can reduce their risk by increasing the losses bondholders must bear before the policy kicks in.
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"Over time, by providing a market for these assets that does not now exist, this programme will help improve assets values, increase lending capacity by banks, and reduce uncertainty about the scale of losses on bank balance sheets, " US Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner wrote in the Wall Street Journal before the programme was officially announced.
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