In addition, according to Louise Story at the New York Times, Goldman Sachs had hedged the exposure to the CDO it could not unload by buying insurance and, in the end, offset the losses it claims to have suffered.
Digital distribution results in cost-savings for producers who can skip retail, skip shipping costs, and forego manufacturing the actual discs, but those savings need to be passed on (at least to some degree) to consumers to offset the eventual end of used games.
Some end-of-the-month buying interest was offset by better investor risk appetite in the market place drawing away some interest in the safe-haven precious metals.
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Alcoa CE, Klaus Kleinfeld acknowledged that substantial headwinds, like rising energy costs and volatile currency markets, had an impact, but were offset by higher prices driven by strength in end markets.
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Gross margin for the division was 26.5% in 2010, and we expect it to reach little over 27% by the end of the Trefis forecast period driven by price increases to offset raw material costs.
Low wages were often offset by rent freezes that the government now wants to end, even though many of them have been in place for decades.
They will either expire as planned at the end of 2008, or lawmakers will have to find a way to offset their costs.
In particular, the end of lockups could add two billion shares over the next year will offset some of the index-related buying pressure, said Stuart Thomas, principal at Precidian Investments, which develops ETFs, or funds that can be traded intraday, like a stock.
The furloughs had been expected to continue through the summer tourist season but will now end June 1, because the agency was able to find other savings to offset mandatory cuts, the National Park Service said Friday.
On the volume end of the spectrum, the gradual evolution of Gutenberg era printing to the offset printer (introduced in 1875) created a turn of the century boom in paper-based media, and the great Hearst-Pulitzer circulation wars of 1895-1898.
In the end, our best protection against erosion of economic freedom is to have a powerful business force to offset government.
To offset a crunch of this scale more than four million jobs eliminated by the end of the year would have required a different type of stimulus, not merely a bigger one.
The key to success is to have prepared sufficiently so that the normal biological reactions one experiences are offset through the preparation and setup of a myriad of factors that direct the negotiation to the desired end.
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