Barclays Capital assigned the reduction in net-long gold positions to new short positions.
The Congressional Joint Committee on Taxation, for instance, said that the capital gains tax reduction from 20% to 15% would cost the government money.
Barclays Capital attributed the reduction as a combination of long liquidation and fresh short positions being established, and also sees the drop as positive for higher prices in the long run.
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Leaning into the political winds of his day, Steiger worked like a zealot to overcome Jimmy Carter's opposition to a 1978 capital-gains tax reduction.
Plaid Cymru's Leanne Wood warned that the reduction in capital funding available to the Welsh government significantly reduces its ability to fund affordable housing schemes.
However, most of the spending cuts have come through a reduction in capital expenditure which would hurt economic activity, even as expenses on subsidies have continued to remain elevated, analysts said.
Within just a few years, companies began switching from hardware to cloud services because they were attracted to benefits like a reduction in capital costs as well as an easing in IT staffing issues.
Non-market rates of interest set by the Fed are logically driving up demand for capital in concert with a reduction in supply.
The net result is a significant reduction in both capital costs as well as operating costs for storage that is, a cold storage data center.
The Republican cuts have several positive features, including savings incentives, a lowering of the capital gains levy and a reduction in the marriage penalty.
Prior to the Reagan presidency, the concept of supply side economics with its lower personal income tax rates for the wealthy, reduction in the capital gains rates and increased tax responsibilities for the middle and lower classes was viewed with considerable suspicion by mainstream Republicans.
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This latest reduction will leave the capital structure with an implied equity cushion of 50%, sources said.
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Given that insisting upon higher tax collections will lead to less capital investment and thus less poverty reduction?
Delta said it will also continue its debt reduction efforts and disciplined capital investment and will aggressively manage its pension liability.
These statements are likely to address matters such as the company's future financial condition and performance (including earnings per share, profitability, liquidity, cash flows, debt levels, market share growth and other sales information, inventory levels and capital expenditures), its cost reduction initiatives and plans for store closings, and the expansion of product categories, including eBook content and eReaders.
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Jim Parmalee, an analyst at Credit Suisse First Boston, says the companies products will be "best in class" because they will be able to transmit light for 4000 kilometers without being regenerated electronically, which will mean a dramatic reduction in both operating and capital costs for managers of optical networks.
This would make it harder for companies to raise fresh capital, and so lead to a sharp reduction in the corporate investment that has been driving America's recent economic boom.
Net tax alpha is defined as the tax reduction from short-term and long-term capital losses, less commissions, over the period beginning balance.
Barclays Capital said Wednesday that it expects just a 25 basis point reduction in the main policy rate, known as the refinance, or refi rate, from the European Central Bank.
Other things equal, the reduction in the trade deficit due to fracking will reduce imported capital and put pressure on investment relative to saving and government spending relative to taxing.
Alex Thorndike, senior trader, precious metals and foreign exchange, MKS Capital, said the action by the managed-money crowd resulted in a 25% reduction in their net long position, but added that since the time period only goes until July 24, it does not include any buying that happened toward the end of the week.
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If upheld by the Supreme Court, the circuit court's ruling could lead to the second-largest reduction in the death-row population (now at 3, 500) since capital punishment, as then applied, was ruled unconstitutional by the Supreme Court in 1972.
Conversely, Sinai found that raising the U.S. top individual capital gains rate from the current 15 percent rate to 20 percent, as suggested in several deficit reduction plans, would cut annual economic growth by an average of .05 percent per year and job growth would decline throughout the economy by an average of 231, 000 from 2011-2016.
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The need for new capital was a signal to ratings agencies that these outfits might be in need of a credit-rating reduction.
The Indian capital expects to have a 55-km network in place by 2005 along with an astounding 50% reduction in air pollution.
The methods the super rich use to defer paying capital gains taxes, such as variable pre-paid forward contracts (PVFs), are perfectly legal tax-reduction strategies available to anyone.
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What one can say, however, is that global economic stability calls for a gradual reduction in America's enormous current-account deficit (and its consequent heavy demands on the global capital market).
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The Clinton boom was delayed until his second term when barriers to international and domestic trade were lowered by the reduction of tariffs under the North American Free Trade Act, welfare reform, and a cut in the capital gains tax rate.
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