Gold and silver were initially higher this morning, but slipped as profit-takers cashed in.
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Some big companies, often seen as profit-hungry behemoths, ranked well in the survey, too.
Such a change is expected to bring operational challenges as well as profit opportunities for broadband service providers.
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There hasn't been anything as profit- margin rich or as liquid in recent financial history as this company.
It may be the only way for farmers and ranchers to survive as profit margins go on shrinking.
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The rest have only defined contribution plans, such as profit-sharing plans and 401(k)s.
They could book the excess returns as profit, making the firms look good and generating higher compensation for the managers.
At that point, it clearly would qualify for the capital-gains rate, as profit on a sale of a long-held business.
The U.S. dollar index was weaker Thursday but up from its morning low as profit taking from recent gains was seen.
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Best Buy this morning reported quarterly figures that provides some hope about the struggling company, even as profit continued to precipitously drop.
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The year before, the company spent nearly a quarter of its revenue on marketing and extracted slightly more than a quarter as profit.
He rejected the economic reductionism that drove the Washington consensus, and insisted instead on seeing people as products of culture rather than as profit-and-loss calculating machines.
If you happen to be socially conscious as well as profit-minded there are additional benefits to be derived from allowing your team, in whole or in part, to telecommute.
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Rupert Murdoch's daughter Elisabeth has used a speech to voice her support for the BBC and urge the media to focus on morals as well as profit.
For example, higher gasoline prices in affected areas in the Northeast would translate into higher gasoline prices in unaffected areas (like Memphis) as profit-seeking gasoline suppliers look for the highest returns on their investment.
So here, along the banks of the Rio Grande, in the Square Dance Capital of the World, a medical community came to treat patients the way subprime-mortgage lenders treated home buyers: as profit centers.
The telecommunications group released earnings a day ahead of schedule late Wednesday, saying it would scrap the payment of remaining dividends and cancel share buybacks for this year, as profit dropped 14% in the second quarter.
But reports this week that semiconductor giant Intel will soon cut prices by 50% on its top-end Core 2 Duo chips--as profit margins continue to sag--signal that its war with smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices continues.
But reports this week that semiconductor giant Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) will soon cut prices by 50% on its top-end Core 2 Duo chips--as profit margins continue to sag--signal that its war with smaller rival Advanced Micro Devices (nyse: AMD - news - people ) continues.
The challenge comes when Sirius tries to squeeze as much profit as possible out of each subscriber.
Not matter what insurance companies tell you, they are designed solely to make as much profit as possible.
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The Dow dropped 300 points and believing the rally was finally ending investors rushed to the exits hoping to hang onto as much profit as possible.
Just stop looking for new things to do and just gouge as much profit as possible out of the decline over the decades of those two hit products.
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Once as corporate profit and once as individual income.
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Many rules have come out of the Dodd Frank legislation, but the Volcker Rule was the one that prompted Occupy the SEC to weigh in on the regulatory debate, showing the rule is not just powerful as a profit killer, but also as a symbol of financial services reform.
Indeed, Drucker felt that a mission statement was as essential to the for-profit enterprise as to the non-profit one, and he stressed that failing to create one that was about more than money was bad for business.
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This is the measure of output (taken as operating profit after tax and some other adjustments) less input (taken as the annual rental charge on the total capital employed, both debt and equity).
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