All those recommendations created (and represented) a bias that drove shares of firms with weak balance sheets down to bargain basement levels.
But I think that as the health insurers are forced to deal with these new realities, owners might not like the look of the balance sheets down the road.
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For now though, Major League Baseball isn't inclined to tinker with the balance and cut down on strikeouts.
Post-tax prices should be set at a level that would strike a balance between damping down use on the one hand, and discouraging a black market and the desperate acts of theft and prostitution to which addicts now resort to feed their habits.
Management has also used its cash generation to improve its balance sheet by paying down debt.
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The listed company has been cleaning up its balance sheet, bringing down the consolidated debt-to-equity ratio from 1.72 at the peak in 2009 to 0.57 this year.
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In connection with the earnings report Lehman released on June 16, 2008, the firm published a detailed financial appendix breaking down its balance sheet by various asset groups.
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That shift in the game's balance was in part down to Moyes' decision to push Cahill further up the field but they also looked threatening via Baines' deliveries.
If that balance continues to shift down market, Mr Birt, once vilified as a Thatcherite scourge, may yet come to be seen as the last of the old guard.
As always, it comes down to balance in the team, too, and Prior's batting ability makes him a solid choice for number six, and allows Flintoff to drop to seven.
Watson suggested in a brief conversation that their first use may be in providing highly valuable regulation services (requiring near instantaneous ramp up and ramp down that balance the grid within short timeframes).
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Headed by Tim Geithner, the Treasury Department has announced it will continue its drive to wind down its balance sheet, as it offloads assets purchased during 2008 and 2009 as a consequence of the financial crisis.
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The thought is that when banks, households and companies all want to strengthen their balance sheets and run down debt, you might not be able to get them to borrow more, however cheap it might be to do so.
Credit Suisse has had its share of mishaps during the crisis but it was quick to scale down its balance-sheet, has plotted a credible strategy for its investment bank and pulled well ahead of UBS, its main rival in wealth management.
Using the stack of statements, he wrote down the current balance for each card.
QE3 could restore that balance by pushing mortgage rates down to match Treasuries, which currently run about 1.75%.
Providing greater short-term liquidity might ease the taking back of assets on to banks' balance sheets and hence bring down interbank rates.
Late payments can affect your score for a couple of years, while paying down a high balance can have an immediate positive impact.
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My extensive backtesting going back 30 years and my recommendations going back about six years show that when a high momentum stock breaks down and Wall Street accepts the reality at a time when the balance sheet is still strong, the next swoosh down is typically the low of the cycle.
One speeds up the clock, while the other slows it down, producing a balance.
This is the real reason we must balance the budget, and bring down federal debt as a percent of GDP.
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Housing and capital goods spending along with our net trade balance remain depressed but have wound down to nearly irreducible lows.
And remember, a good chunk of the Greek assets that are still on their balance sheets has already been marked down.
"Low inactive balances may drag down the average account balance for the plan, which can increase expenses to both participants and or plan sponsors, " he said.
The main difference and the predominant reason for the current EUR bid market is the perception that the ECB is actually paying down debt on its balance sheet.
Buyers typically sign nonrefundable contracts and put down deposits, paying the balance when the apartments are delivered.
When the deal was reconstituted almost a century later, the troubled remnants of Southern Pacific weighed down Union Pacific's balance sheet for years.
Apparently, it was so the OHSAA could bring back another version of something that has already been voted down twice: the Competitive Balance Proposal.
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The company decided to discontinue its dividend in 2012 in order to pay down debt and strengthen its balance sheet, according to RBC Capital Markets.
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