In general, other income can fluctuate because of foreign exchange losses and other factors.
The company blamed lower gross margins, foreign currency exchange losses and domestic operator networks postponing their tenders.
And earnings were "adversely affected" by foreign exchange losses in Argentina, where the peso has plummeted against the dollar, Tuesday's results statement said.
Should the dollar tumble, the region would face huge foreign-exchange losses.
In 2012, overall revenue from this segment grew by 7.7%, accounting for foreign exchange losses, on a 4.2% increase in sales volume and 4.5% growth in prices.
The other side of this coin, of course, is that the dollar could strengthen in comparison to emerging markets currencies, in which case foreign exchange losses might quickly surpass the yield.
On the non-operating side, the rapid depreciation of the Korean won against the US dollar in September resulted in foreign exchange-related losses of around 420 billion won due to translation of foreign currency- denominated assets and liabilities.
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It produces a short-term revenue bump in exchange for huge future losses.
Insurers make money by charging you a premium in exchange for smoothing out your losses from casualties.
The company's shares finished up 7.2% on the London Stock Exchange on Friday, recovering losses suffered on Thursday.
The 110 billion yen loss attributed to the earthquake was dwarfed by 290 billion yen in losses due to shifting exchange rates.
If you hold the iShares MSCI Brazil ( EWZ) exchange traded fund, much of its losses over the last year can be credited to Petrobras.
The company has consistently booked pretax losses in recent years, which landed it on the exchange's watch list for delisting in 2011.
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And how long will Asian countries continue to spend money building up foreign-exchange reserves that earn next to nothing and carry the risk of currency losses, rather than use the money to invest in their own region, which seems set to grow an awful lot in coming years.
Local governments encouraged the formation of a new kind of financial entity, which would charge prospective borrowers a fee and, in exchange, serve as a guarantor to the bank, pledging to pay for any losses in the event of a default.
The point of nationalisation would be that it would make shareholders write off the losses against their own capital, and allow the state to take equity in exchange for a public rescue.
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Foreign exchange (or Forex) investing is the solution to market risk because you can offset your losses in the stock or bond market with your gains in the Forex market.
The firms also now face hundreds of suits in which clients are seeking compensation for losses via arbitration in front of the National Association of Securities Dealers or New York Stock Exchange.
Unlike the off-balance-sheet cesspools that hid losses at Enron, these energy partnerships are publicly traded, many on the New York Stock Exchange, and offer a respectable amount of liquidity and transparency.
The Supreme Court ruled that U.S. courts did not have jurisdiction over cases where securities fraud happened outside of the United States as was argued in the case concerning U.S. shareholder losses attributable to buying shares of the Australian bank (shares were traded on the Australia Stock Exchange Ltd.).
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