But the strategy came under the scrutiny after the company saw continuous operating margin declines and market share losses in its core and most profitable markets while its competitors like Unilever fared better amid the same challenging market conditions.
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It added a net 401, 000 postpaid subscribers to its core Sprint platform (excluding Nextel losses) which is a huge decline from 539, 000 net additions in Q4 2011.
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That bet seems to be paying off now that the company has had a full year of strong postpaid net adds (excluding Nextel losses) on its core Sprint network.
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However, the bet seems to be paying off this year, with the company reporting three strong quarters of postpaid net adds (excluding legacy Nextel iDEN losses) on its core Sprint network since the iPhone launch.
The company said that its revenues grew more than 5% over the same period last year and that it added a net 410, 000 postpaid subscribers to its core Sprint platform (excluding Nextel losses) banking on another quarter of healthy iPhone sales.
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The Bank of England's Financial Stability Review shows that Barclays' retail banking loans in Spain, Italy and bailed-out Portugal are equivalent to a bit more than its core equity capital - its buffer against losses.
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Mr Cliffe says that a disintegration of the euro would be catastrophic even for core Europe, with first-year output losses of 8.9% for the euro area (as was).
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At a press conference Ghosn says the sale of the truck business, now healthier after years of losses, will let Nissan focus on its core, passenger cars.
But selling non-core assets and reducing loan loss risk and the reserves for potential losses was ostensibly part of their federal bailout deal.
And then there are even some funds that employ a tax-enhancing strategy, often in addition to a core investing methodology, which amounts to doing some balancing of gains and losses within the positions to limit capital gains distributions to investors.
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On Dexia, it was only on July 15 that the European Banking Authority disclosed that this retail and public-sector finance bank would have a ratio of core Tier One capital to assets of 10.4%, even after incurring notional losses from harsh simulated financial and economic conditions.
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