Last week rivals including Morgan Stanley also managed to squeeze out profits thanks to accounting maneuvers resulting from changes in debt-related credit value.
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This is not the time for them to rest on their competitive laurels, so they are rolling out the marketing big guns to bring in more high value credit card users.
Credit the escalating value of sports programming, and the ability to generate revenue from both carriers and advertisers, and the popularity of video streaming, for sports distributors making up half of the top business brands.
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Agricultural output increased, access to credit improved and the value of the land shot up.
The user could then pay the bill using a credit card or stored value system.
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Markit, for example, gathers information from a large collection of financial services companies to provide an independent view on the value of credit default swaps.
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Another news story that was blown out of proportion was the notional value of credit default swaps and the power of those swaps to keep the stock market headed downward, during the recent bear market.
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Fraud for housing is committed by borrowers who, often with the assistance of loan officers or other lender personnel, misrepresent or omit relevant details about employment and income, debt and credit, or property value and condition with the goal of obtaining or maintaining real estate ownership.
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Other government policies that have distorted financial markets, thereby undermining the EMH, include shielding credit-rating agencies from lawsuits, government-sanctioned fair-value accounting rules, enforcing credit-default swaps where there is no insurable interest, mispriced deposit insurance, government-sponsored enterprises, and the over-promotion of home ownership.
The same credit-card issuer may value your points differently depending on how you spend them.
Capital One still derives almost 70% of its value from providing credit card loans.
These securities lost much of their value in the credit crisis and the market has largely been frozen.
As the collapsing credit bubble slingshots the real value of gold higher, gold stocks will finally provide the operational leverage they have lacked.
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By late 2007, the notional value of outstanding credit-default swaps was about sixty trillion dollars more than four times the size of the U.S. gross domestic product.
Regardless of whether you are a rewards junkie or a rewards novice, the way to get the most value from your credit card usage is to ditch the points and find some plastic that offers cash-back rewards.
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During a week where markets fluctuated as much as 5%, when a major credit rating bureau downgraded the value of U.S. debt, when consumer confidence fell to its lowest level in 31 years, it was reported that, for at least one fleeting moment, Apple was the most valuable company in America.
For those earning credit via ads, commercials are queued according to value-per-second, meaning the ones that earn credit the quickest come first.
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General Motors, now loaded with liquid assets, sells at 3 times enterprise value with a junk credit rating.
But the moment of actually writing that into the account books will trigger a "credit event" for those who value and insure countries' sovereign debt.
Rising defaults on subprime mortgages, loans extended to people with poor credit histories, has caused the value of securities backed by home loans to drop.
Plenty of those flats were bought with credit but loan-to-value ratios were, many bankers claim, conservative, while standards are nothing like as loose as in America.
The wind association wrote lawmakers saying that it would accept a 10-percent annual reduction in the value of its tax credit over six years until it would stop altogether in 2018.
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There is also considerable value in opening a new credit card if your credit history is above average.
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These stored value cards give kids without credit cards a way to buy the in-game virtual currencies with real money.
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The central bank now insists that 80% of the value of new letters of credit must be paid up front.
But for emerging markets, such flows have traditionally been a mixed blessing, exacerbating local credit booms, and pushing up the value of their currency.
Banks will have to overcome a culture in which businesses get most of their credit from suppliers, which offer poor value but are seen as easier to deal with.
They're really highly leveraged, which means, you know, they have a dollar of assets on their books and they can go into the credit markets and borrow many times its value.
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