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Compaq was late to PCs, but stole a lead on incumbents too fixed on high-margin proprietary systems to hassle with cheap systems.
At one time, people were upset about giving executives high fixed salaries not tethered to firm performance.
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The loan-origination platform has high fixed costs, so it is a scale business.
High fixed costs should be a handicap in an industry with sharp fluctuations in demand, but Saga is unworried.
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In an industry with such high fixed costs, it is tempting to sell at almost any price to keep the cash coming.
If you want action, pick a service company with a lot of operating leverage, or high fixed costs in proportion to revenue.
Another large chunk (3.7 trillion rupees) is in postal savings and pension funds, on which the government guarantees a high fixed return.
Of course the super-high fixed costs imposed by the Dodd-Frank regulatory regime will keep existing banks from growing and new banks from forming.
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Moreover, in addition to the 25% of homeowners with negative equity, a similar proportion have insufficient positive equity to refinance their high fixed-rate mortgages.
This has allowed internet companies to poach sales from big box stores, and crater profits for brick-and-mortar companies that are drowning under high fixed costs.
Given the high fixed cost base related to operating a steel mill, margins will also decline if a plant is not operated at optimal capacity.
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High fixed costs do make short routes more expensive, per mile.
What Ramsey proved is that the most economically efficient way to set prices when producers have high fixed costs and low marginal costs is (roughly) to soak the rich.
He says the drop in estimated earnings caused by bad weather issues is to be expected because of the high fixed-cost in maintaining the helicopters and other associated expenses.
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The more Americans abandon it to go mobile-only or make phone calls over the internet, the more fragile it becomes: its high fixed costs have to be spread over ever fewer subscribers.
Thanks to high fixed commissions and little interest in building wealth for investors, customers were encouraged to buy and sell shares and investment trusts, Japan's version of mutual funds, as often as possible (a practice known as churning).
The good news for the dollar is that dollar-debt, such as money market funds and Treasury bonds, are the most liquid, hotly traded, high demand fixed income asset in the world.
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For not all bonds are created equal, and investors may be unwittingly increasing their exposure to equity risk by allocating portions of their fixed income exposure to high-yield bonds, which behave much like equities.
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We looked back over the period stretching from January 1, 1997 to February 29, 2012 to see how movements of stocks, Treasuries and lower-grade fixed income investments like high-yield bonds and bank loans, related to each other.
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He said many people on low fixed incomes and facing high food and fuel costs would be very worried about getting a below-inflation increase and "in some cases therefore are going to see quite a significant reduction in their weekly income".
Without paychecks, even those with low fixed-rate mortgages and high credit scores will not make their payments.
At the same time, the optimism is cautious, which explains the comparatively high allocation to fixed income.
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The answer is, overwhelmingly, insurance companies peddling high-cost, tax-deferred variable annuities with crappy proprietary mutual fund options and high-risk fixed accounts.
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The ITU attributes the latter figure to the relatively high price of fixed access in these countries, and the increasing availability of mobile alternatives.
The two Japanese carriers argue weakly that many of their fixed costs, such as high landing and fuel charges in Japan, are not of their making.
Weight your portfolio towards high-quality fixed-income securities and focus your Canadian stock list on banks, utilities, and leading telecoms such as BCE Inc. ( BCE), which just raised its dividend by 5%.
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