The fundamental reason for this tendency is tax sensitive investors (mostly individual retail investors) sell small-caps to lock in year-end tax losses, then reinvest their portfolio in the New Year.
Sony shares sagged Wednesday morning after it announced worse-than-expected losses in its fiscal third quarter and drastically cut its year-end forecast, a day after announcing that Sir Howard Stringer will step down as CEO April 1.
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If this were to occur, it would likely happen very quickly, meaning sharp losses in the closed-end fund income sector.
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Morgan Stanley (nyse: MWD - news - people ) predicted earlier this month that line losses could hit 5% by year's end, as voice-over-Internet Protocol technologies take off.
The latest quarterly figures brought total losses in the nine months to end-December to 50.9bn yen, a 75% fall on the previous nine months.
But with prices shaky you could end up as a long-term landlord, with real losses that you can't immediately write off.
Even after overlooking all the Model S' objective blemishes (the team over at CR mentioned its lack of certain high-end features, stereo issues and parasitic battery energy losses when parked), electric vehicles lack a national infrastructure of charging points, accessible cross-country range and remain cost prohibitive for most consumers.
Whatever the causes, the phenomenon has given hope to goldbugs hoping to end their quarter-century diaspora and to investors whose stock market losses have still not been made whole.
While Tesla will help Nvidia to fend off market share losses, the general growth in high-end computing may end up stimulating market growth higher than we forecast leading to potential upside to our price estimate.
The prevailing explanation for this behavior is that investors dump their small-cap losers before the end of the year to book their losses.
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He almost skipped Monte Carlo, and his early matches were uncharacteristically sloppy and tentative, though he rounded into top form by week's end and broke a three-match losing streak against Nadal (all of the losses had happened on clay and in finals).
The Postal Service said it would end Saturday first-class mail delivery beginning Aug. 5 in an effort to curb losses.
With regards to losses, there is no real tax advantage in acting before year-end.
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While Nomura analysts believe the real may very well remain a BRL1.70ish currency long term, the short-term trend is for it to regain some of those losses before the end of the year.
If the losses in gold continue into next week, the metal threatens to end its 12-year winning streak.
The fashion retailer reported 3.2% losses in like-for-like sales in the five months up to the end of December.
In other words, we needed entry and exit and position-size methodologies that would allow us to skew the risk-reward profile, that would allow us to end up with a larger magnitude of profits than losses.
Those who end up investing into Ponzi schemes have also been given a streamlined, safe-harbor route to deduct theft losses.
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The defeat followed on from three heavy losses - twice against Biarritz and once against the Blues - giving the Rodney Parade faithful an uncomfortable end to 2009 in a season that started so promisingly.
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