In the legacy report, non-commercial traders added a small number of gross shorts and cut gross longs, slicing the net-long position to 19, 894 contracts.
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The fall came from a small decrease in fresh gross longs, down 476 contracts, and an increase in gross shorts, up 180 contracts.
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The comparable legislation that mandates user-fee waivers for small medical device companies, the Medical Device User Fee and Modernization Act (MDUFMA), specifies different criteria: Whether or not a company is small is determined by gross receipts or sales for the company and affiliates.
Most started small and paid rates with gross margins of 50% or more.
In any case, it is important to keep in mind that the net numbers we will be watching for on Friday morning are small relative to the much larger gross gains and losses they are derived from.
Through the rest of 2013 and well into next year, the company is likely to look as it does this quarter, with small improvements in unit shipments and gross margin over each quarter until the company begins delivering its Model X crossover late in 2014.
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Another chart shows that whenever money-supply growth has exceeded gross domestic product growth, small-caps tend to rise.
The IMF expects the government to run a small budget surplus this year, and gross government debt is 53% of GDP, well below that of most of its European neighbours.
Put it all together and Dell makes 38% of its gross profit in the consumer and small business division from "nonsystem revenues, " up from 31% a year ago.
While recovery from the Great Recession of 2008-2009 has been stymied by weak housing and high unemployment, recent economic data suggest a quickening pace of growth in gross domestic product, which should benefit small-cap equities.
The skeptics have a darker view: they believe distortions and waste, in no small part due to government meddling, have resulted in gross misallocation of capital and will end up pushing growth rates down well before 2020.
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"Fifty percent of the gross domestic product in the developed world comes from small and medium-sized businesses, but in the developing world it's just 25%, " Shah notes.
Alan Gross said he had just been trying to help the small community get access to the internet.
On top of this, the small well owner gets a depletion deduction of 15% of the gross revenue from the property.
Unfortunately, once you sort through how much more China can actually spend in the near term, and take into account that--at market exchange rates--China's economy is only around 6% of world gross domestic product, the effect on global growth will be small.
These small net amounts obscure much of the churn in the labor market the gross number of new jobs created minus the gross number of new job losses.
Most small breweries do their own bottling, which raises the revenue but tends to reduce the gross profit.
Now the small nation, whose financial sector had grown at a blistering pace to outweigh vastly its gross domestic product, is resting its hopes on Russia, along with funding from the International Monetary Fund and potential entry into the European Union.
Gross profit is the difference between total revenue and cost of goods sold and for many small business owners this measure is intuitive and nothing new.
U.S. real gross domestic product (real GDP shown in constant 2005 dollars) grew every year except for a small decline in 2009.
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