Those with the worst deficits were German companies, but for good reason: German firms are not required to set aside money to cover their pension-fund liabilities but do have to carry the cost on their balance sheets.
But there are a number of alternative methods, various barriers, creams, sponges, IUDs, which do not carry this environmental cost.
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Putting the necessary systems inside the unmanned ARV capsule so it can carry astronauts would cost many hundreds of millions of euros more.
These goods cycle back into inventory after weeks, and carry a high cost of restocking and re-listing, and sometimes have to be written off altogether.
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Moreover, the more families carry directly the cost of educating their young people, the more they will want something more from universities than a place on the map of human understanding.
All this relates to the proliferation of speculation tied to its cost of carry.
We need Federal subsidies to stem mortgage delinquencies, dropping the cost to carry home loans.
Even with the cost of carry minimal for gold bugs, this is a losing play.
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The Fed is doing investors another turn, which deals with the cost of carry on margin accounts.
The auto industry now looks for a 15.5 million car year, largely based on replacement demand and the low cost of carry.
Was Bernie's original sin misplaying the cost of carry game or writing covered options against equity positions that headed south too fast and far?
My cost of carry on high yield bonds runs at 70 basis points for a net yield to maturity for me near 6 percent.
Cost of carry on my bond portfolio of high yield paper is also minimal, but shows a net positive variance of over 500 basis points.
The country needs a low cost of carry for this amount of debt to stay manageable, so low interest rates take on a red-alert policy emphasis.
Mr Wyplosz concludes that low rates of inflation carry a significant unemployment cost, and that the optimal rate may be higher in Europe than it is in America.
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Remember that if you give your house away, your original cost basis will carry over to the next owner.
Farmers have long complained that they carry a disproportionate share of the cost of America's foreign policy.
The low cost-of-carry for gold is no longer a major plus factor.
Canada's withdrawal comes ahead of a major convention in Bonn, Germany, "to carry out the first ever comprehensive cost-benefit analysis of desertification, land degradation and drought", the UN Environment Programme said.
But, observes Colin Pillinger of the Open University, a British member of the Flying Stones team, the experiment will cost almost nothing to carry out, so it is worth a try in any case.
If that is so, nations such as Japan and Britain will continue to carry their debt at vanishingly low interest cost.
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High-voltage DC can carry power over long distances at lower cost than alternating current, but the transformers still cost too much to make the idea widespread.
But Forest, with on-loan Chelsea full-back Ryan Bertrand the only new addition to their side, carry over the poor away record that cost them promotion last season - they have now picked up only two points on the road since a victory at West Brom on 8 January.
Consequently, they carry a high risk of performance failure, cost increases and schedule delays.
That has led many banks to raise interest rates for even the most-reliable customers, which means that it will cost most customers even more to carry a monthly balance.
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