Late payments can affect your score for a couple of years, while paying down a high balance can have an immediate positive impact.
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Similarly, if a high balance is reported as your credit limit and your spending is fairly consistent, your utilization ratio will hover near 100% on a monthly basis as well.
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Never, she says, did Candib discuss the risks of holding the vast majority of her net worth in one stock with a high margin balance.
Joe had valued some of its land too high on its balance sheet.
The New York Times, meanwhile, puzzled over why those who make financial resolutions have such a hard time following through with them, noticed that companies with high-quality balance sheets like Wal-Mart and Apple have not risen as much in the stock rally as those laden with debt, and showed that buying a foreclosed home can help you find a bargain but can come with risks.
Make a top-level asset allocation of 40% to short term, high quality bonds the balance to a diversified global equity portfolio of perhaps 10 to 12 asset classes.
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And Japan has extraordinarily high cash on company balance sheets.
Given what is likely to be a small magnitude of incremental cardiovascular benefit of high potency statins over low potency statins in reality, a pressing question is how to identify patients for whom the risk-benefit balance for high potency statin treatment is unfavourable.
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To maintain its technological edge and high profit margins, however, it must balance low-cost manufacturing abroad with the high-tech precision it achieves in Japan.
Manufacturers, in turn, are increasingly relying on their high-end sales to balance out their low-end products.
As an investor, you want companies with a strong balance sheet and high volume.
The analysts recommend stocks in companies with healthy balance sheets, high returns on equity and low levels of debt.
Other factors that might raise red flags include a high proportion of off-balance-sheet transactions, frequent changes in auditor and delays to earnings announcements.
But a number of rewards credit card holders carry a balance, incurring high interest rates that more than cancel out any cash back.
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They no longer have inflated balance sheets with high cost debt.
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The Federal Reserve announced new rules on Thursday that will prohibit banks from automatically enrolling customers in so-called overdraft protection programs, which charge high fees for exceeding the balance in an account.
His swirl is one of the hallmarks of Mannerism a mode of expression whose exaggerations broke the classical perfection and balance of the High Renaissance, and started art on the road to the Baroque.
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It is just that I believe that the pendulum has swung so far away from the mythos of the American Dream and self-made men that it is high time to redress the balance through overemphasizing to make my point.
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Must be a gifted multi-tasker, able to balance both mundane and high-stakes responsibilities.
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And Mexico's trade balance, boosted by high oil prices, is at risk.
However, imports of gold as well as petroleum -- the items largely responsible for India's unfavorable current account balance -- remained high during February.
Soon it will be colleges day of reckoning as they have to balance the reality of high costs, debt burden and lower degree value.
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While the market remains quietly resilient in 2012, investors are not keen to add risk exposure with such a high stakes event still in the balance.
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The high-quality REITs with strong balance sheets and access to plenty of low-cost capital are positioned to capitalize on the sales of good assets by weak borrowers, thus fueling their growth.
One way to do so is to diversify your investment portfolio so that it includes a reasonable amount of growth and income producing assets to balance your investments among high-, medium- and low-risk investments.
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Interestingly, historically there was usually a premium built into high-quality company valuations, as investors are willing to pay more for their high returns on capital, strong balance sheets, lower risk, and the certainty of their cash flows.
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The theme running through these properties is low to moderate price-earnings ratios, impeccable balance sheet strength, high free cash flow generation and the capacity to indulge in financial engineering in the form of share buybacks, dividends and deal activity.
In other words, to some degree Microsoft is becoming the un-unionized GM of the West Coast (though in all fairness, due to its moat, it still produces a 30% return on capital, high margins, and a healthy balance sheet).
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Or look at the world of high speed trading where millions of dollars balance on milliseconds of timing.
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