By comparison, JPMorgan Chase reported a 7.9% drop in fixed income revenue when it reported fourth-quarter earnings last week.
Fixed income revenue at Deutsche were down just 1% compared with drops of 24% at Morgan Stanley and 37% at Goldman Sachs.
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More importantly, players will be willing to continue setting the salary cap as a fixed percentage of revenue.
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But a daunting task remained: to replace the declining fixed-line revenue with mobile and broadband services in one of Europe's most competitive markets.
The company offers programs that enable sellers to sell their products on its websites and their own branded websites, earning fixed fees, revenue share fees or per-unit activity fees from these transactions.
When asked by one analyst why Citi's fixed income trading revenue seems more volatile than some of its competitors, CFO John Gerspach said he didn't believe that was the case.
Under the most recent NBA collective bargaining agreement, the players receive a fixed 57 percent of revenue.
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Citi and Bank of America reported similar weakness in fixed-income markets activity, with fixed-income markets revenue down 9% and 6%, respectively.
At Goldman, fixed-income trading revenue fell 37% in the first nine months of 2011 compared to a year earlier, while investment-banking revenue rose 6%.
But for any given store, falling revenue on a fixed cost base translates to significant pressure.
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Second, online retailers can count on still-expanding profit margins as they leverage higher revenue over their fixed costs.
If you want action, pick a service company with a lot of operating leverage, or high fixed costs in proportion to revenue.
Increased sales mean the operating costs, which are more or less fixed, spreading over a greater revenue which will result in higher operating margins for the company.
Operators will simply pay the government a fixed fee and a share of their revenue.
The person who sets up the trust gets annual payments adding up to the asset's original value, plus a return based on a fixed interest rate set by the Internal Revenue Service.
Last week, the vaunted investment bank had a relatively poor showing, with rival Morgan Stanley surpassing it in second quarter revenue from both investment banking and fixed income trading.
Goldman Sachs, the vaunted investment bank, had a relatively poor showing as rival Morgan Stanley surpassed it in second quarter revenue from both investment banking and fixed income trading.
Compounding a slowdown in revenue growth is an increase in fixed costs with an expectation of 17 new fulfillment centers, compared to the previously announced 15 new fulfillment centers, and an increase in variable costs for additional employees.
Europe's former monopolies have been keen to expand their mobile operations not only to boost revenue but also to allow them to offer bundled fixed, mobile and broadband services.
The fixed costs of content acquisition will be spread out over a smaller revenue base, implying that Netflix will lose operating leverage.
The problem is that the fixed rates for royalties seem to be just too high for the revenue stream that can be found.
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The turning point arrived in 1999 when the new telecom policy changed the licensing fees from a fixed amount that wireless companies had been struggling to pay to a revenue-sharing model.
Revenue from its wealth management group offset a decline in its fixed income and commodities trading unit.
The biotech wants the agency to change the way it grants exclusivity to fixed-dose combination drugs and hopes to win its argument so that more revenue can be wrung out of its recently approved Stribild HIV treatment.
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While revenue sharing costs and postage costs are variable, other costs have large fixed components.
As on Houston InterWeb Design's AMP3.com MP3 Web site (see link below) the musicians will receive a fixed royalty for every download of their music as well as a split of the advertising revenue on the site.
The results of this 2004 action were immediate and massive. 401k plans that had been receiving 50 to 100 basis points in revenue sharing from non-proprietary funds were cut to a maximum of 25 basis points for fixed income funds and a 35 basis point maximum for equity funds.
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Instead of charging a fixed transaction fee for clearing the rights, Corbis tries to buy low and sell high, capturing the spread as revenue.
On the negative side, revenue growth is decelerating at the same time Amazon is investing more than previously expected in fulfillment centers (fixed assets) and operating and customer service employees (variable costs).
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