But you have to know when you have something worth selling, and when you cutting losses is the right investment decision.
Or when the hope of cutting losses recedes, as happened with Xerox (nyse: XRX - news - people).
By addressing risk, sticking closely to rules, cutting losses quickly, and investing lightly, we will survive this difficult market and somewhere down the road we will see another true bull market.
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As stocks are cutting their losses, gold is also following by trimming its gains.
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They argue that it cannot be stabilized, and we're better off cutting our losses and rapidly withdrawing.
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We had a caller to our financial helpline this week that is cutting her losses and moving.
It should also be cheered for cutting its losses and moving on, fast.
If money pits like these have no hope of a quick turnaround, their parents might consider cutting their losses and salvaging what they can.
The oil company was in financial straits in the early 1990s when oil prices were low, but instead of cutting his losses, Li increased his shareholdings.
Earlier, Heywood was involved in painful civil service change - such as Treasury budget-cutting and job losses in a major 1990s expenditure review.
Bank of Ireland issued a starkly gloomy trading statement on September 17th, forecasting rising loan losses and cutting its dividend by half.
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However, the lender would have to take certain upfront losses, like cutting the principle amount owed on the mortgage to compensate for the decline in home values.
The acquisition comes a month after Time Warner chief executive Richard Parsons said AOL had been "stabilised" after years of subscriber losses and cost-cutting - in 2003 it lost 2.2 million internet members.
Setting aside less money for credit losses and continued cost-cutting also helped its profitability.
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The cost cutting involves those 10, 000 job losses, two shuttered research sites and one manufacturing plant.
The firm has revealed plans to tackle losses at its platinum arm by cutting jobs and mothballing mines.
Today, several fuel-centric companies that realize fuel costs are cutting into their bottom lines make up for their losses by passing them along to their customers via fuel surcharges or higher prices.
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And it will have to be even more aggressive in cutting costs, which may mean even bigger job losses at the group, on top of the 30, 000 odd already announced or made.
Peugeot is in the process of cutting 8, 000 jobs and closing a factory to stem losses.
Some publishers might be reporting earnings increases or narrower losses, but only after shutting down magazines and cutting workforces.
On February 9th he visited Elkhart, a town racked by job losses since the local recreational-vehicle factories started cutting back.
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To offset those losses, banks are shoring up balance sheets by cutting back on lending and dumping bonds and other assets in the markets.
And the key there as I see it is that local banks are cutting back on their willingness to lend because of their expected losses on commercial real estate.
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Analysts said that in the previous quarters that bank had begun an extensive risk-cutting program and reduced its large trading positions, following the losses from rogue trader Jerome Kerviel.
In the early 1990s the company squandered enormous resources and billions of dollars on a series of failed consumer products like the Newton PDA. Its efforts to do everything itself, building capabilities as varied as cutting-edge hardware development and volume manufacturing, led to huge losses and massive layoffs.
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Swindon's Labour group leader, Councillor Jim Grant, said the further losses were "very concerning" and he urged Mr Bluh to avoid cutting frontline jobs.
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Closing branches while laying the blame for doing so elsewhere is something many a French bank would love to do, but cost-cutting in France's overcrowded retail-banking industry has been hampered by political opposition to job losses.
Anxiety about sovereign-default risk, and the budget-cutting measures to counter it, will further sap the peripheral economies, thus raising the chances of big losses on the loans British banks have made there.
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