Moreover, the diluting effects of share capital increase on earnings will drag stock price down in the absence of a desirable expectation for earnings growth.

而且，增加的股权资本对每股收益的稀释作用在收益增长无望的情况下将引起股票价格的下跌。

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By shedding profitable business lines, Citigroup would be relinquishing a source of retained earnings, an important part of a bank's capital base.

把盈利的业务出让之后，花旗就放弃了一份有保障的利润，而这正是该行资本基础的关键组成部分。

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Proprietary trading typically accounts for a small percentage of banks’ earnings but can be a very profitable activity because it can yield high returns on relatively small amounts of capital.

一般来说，自营业务只占银行收益的小部分，但由于它能利用相对较少资金获取高额利润，因此成为非常有利可图的业务。

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The Obama administration is looking to tax profits from carried interests as personal earnings instead of capital gain.

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The expectation is that once both companies get their capital requirements squared away they will have lots of excess earnings to deploy elsewhere-and returning capital to shareholders would be at the top of the list.

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They take 20% of that, and those earnings are taxed at the capital gains rate of 15%.

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