Last week rivals including Morgan Stanley also managed to squeeze out profits thanks to accounting maneuvers resulting from changes in debt-related credit value.
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An ESCO provides energy-efficiency-related and other value-added services and for which performance contracting is a core part of its energy-efficiency services business.
Are these little tiny details related to their value in the marketplace?
This meant that when panic selling by some troubled institutions to raise capital drove the value of mortgage related securities to virtually zero, all institutions had to change their books to reflect this minimal market value of the securities.
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Net gains on investments and gains related to the fair value of derivatives fell from a year earlier.
The new Spider-Man film opens on May 3, and if it's a hit, Spidey-related collectibles will jump in value.
Take another period characterized by extreme volatility and fear, when there was conflict in the Middle East, oil-related inflation shocks, declining value in the U.S. dollar, rising U.S. unemployment and a strong resolve from the Fed to act aggressively.
And no team has demonstrated the true potential value of jersey-related income streams better than Manchester United.
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How much value is created is related to how much of your organization also works this way.
The fear hitting American finance will not subside dramatically until the value of mortgage-related securities is clearer and the size of investment houses' liabilities is known.
While attributes related to products (quality and value, for example) are important, this year, survey respondents put far more weight on attributes that reflected how well each company aligned with their own personal interests.
Care to estimate the current market cap value of all business activity related to relatively minor, taxpayer funded government spending that gave us computers, databases, the Internet and biotechnology?
He wants it to measure the value created by social networks and related innovations.
The hefty loss came after Mothercare wrote down the value of assets and took charges related to UK store closures.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has developed a formula to convert PM 2.5 readings into an AQI value that can help guide health-related decisions.
Effectively Bitcoins are a very long meaningless string of digits that only have value if their owner uses a shorter related number, known as a private key, to spend them.
The acquisition of related manufacturing processes can, moreover, be of enormous value to Soviet production of such hardware as missile subassemblies, fire-control systems, radar systems, and computers.
This is not only to preserve knowledge and history about the customer, but also ways to drive new value from the same customers or those in related companies or fields.
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This experience will help prepare Rensselaer students for future high-impact, high-value careers in analytics, cognitive computing, and related fields.
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In short, the downward trend that investors are seeing in gold and gold-related securities is temporary and not entirely representative of true market value.
Citi faces a fourth quarter filled with uncertainty about the value of its remaining mortgage-derivative holdings, related short-term debt conduits and the possibility of further deterioration in consumer credit quality.
Gross (or net) operating surplus of the economy is the part of value added which remains with producers after deducting outlays related to the remuneration of employees and taxes on production.
His argument is that not only have we all been gulled into using our labor to create value for someone else, but that the data related to all of that content remains opaque and inaccessible to us and can unknowingly be used in our name for the benefit of still others whose causes or products we may not support.
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But they warn that this does not "mitigate the terrorism- or proliferation-related risk" these companies may face to their reputation or share value.
Some startups have had success in high-value niches like high-end sporting goods, food-related products and music equipment and instruments.
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To do so, Sprint would need to create an ecosystem that will help it convey the value of its 4G WiMax to the customers including blockbuster mobile devices and related applications that attract and retain subscribers.
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That same agreement also gives Mr. Scott and his related family interests the right to put their shares to the Corporation at fair market value to be determined by independent appraisal if the sellers do not agree with the price offered by the Corporation, and payable in Berkshire shares.
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These pages generate related text ads that monetize the traffic visiting the sites, but they are usually low value to end users.
The company, which provides services related to the design and testing of semiconductors, carries a price-to-book value multiple of 1.1, low relative to a five-year average of 1.5.
They will have to assess whether such transactions fall under the 'related party transaction' provisions of the FFP regulations and if so, what the fair value of the transaction really is.
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