Those runs were the result of ever-increasing profits such as those Apple reported Tuesday.
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The corporate sector is still increasing profits and churning out cash in the form of dividends and share buy-backs.
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Fraudsters are making increasing profits from a scam in which people are tricked into allowing their bank card to be sent straight to the conmen.
The question is important to developers because gameplay styles that keep players coming back are key to building a successful MMORPG and to increasing profits.
After all, the executives they hired to work for them seem to be doing what they would like them to be doing: decreasing losses and increasing profits.
But a RadioShack spokeswoman says the company is sticking to its plan to close or relocate some stores, and to replace cleared out inventory with higher-margin goods aimed at increasing profits per square foot.
No financials fund allocates more than 2.4% of its value to DFS. This is a company with rapidly increasing profits, almost no debt, and a cheap valuation that fund providers appear to be completely ignoring.
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All of that was swept aside starting in the late 1970s, when Wall Street firms began to evolve from closely-held partnerships into giant, global institutions run by hotshots motivated by bonuses, and owned by shareholders demanding ever-increasing profits to support ever-increasing stock prices.
The results, announced Thursday, show how the New York based luxury company is seeing increasing profits since the first half of its fiscal year, when cotton costs soared and the company was bearing the brunt of the costs of eliminating certain businesses such as its Rugby brand.
Back home, First is best known as Britain's largest train operator, lambasted for every late arrival in Reading, Bath or Bristol (its biggest route) rather than being lauded for increasing profits in the six months to September last year, despite the credit crunch and a collapsing economy.
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During that time, the company began enticing wholesalers to buy more than they needed, increasing current profits by borrowing from the future.
Cheney said OPEC would cut production by 2.1 million barrels a day, boosting the price of world oil and increasing the profits for oil companies.
GMAC's mortgage and insurance businesses have become an increasing source of profits over the past few years, especially as GM's credit rating has weakened.
An increasing proportion of profits are distributed to shareholders through dividends and share buybacks (firms buying their own shares to prop up their prices).
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For 2012, the company expects post-paid ARPU to grow 2%, with profits increasing in the mid single digit range or better on a percentage basis.
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If a company can increase profits without increasing its expenditure on labor, it will.
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They operate in a volume business and have tried to increase profits by increasing volume while dealing with margin compression.
In time things will improve, reducing provisions, increasing demand and bolstering profits.
Corporate profits are increasing at a pace faster than the rate of inflation, which creates a margin of value for investors.
He and other critics insist that there are more effective ways to stimulate investment: reducing the tax on corporate profits, increasing the tax credit that companies get on spending for new plant and equipment, and easing the tax on dividends.
By examining historical data for the price of fish as mobile-phone coverage was extended down the coast of Kerala in southern India between 1997 and 2001, for example, Robert Jensen of Harvard University showed that access to mobile phones made markets much more efficient, eliminating wasted catches and thereby bringing down consumer prices by 4% and increasing fishermen's profits by 8%.
Companies, under increasing pressure to protect their profits, will focus more attention on white-collar productivity.
"Turnover and profits are all increasing but nowhere near the rate seen pre-recession and businesses are beginning to realise that this environment may be the norm for some time, " said Grant Thornton chief executive Scott Barnes.
Meanwhile, foreign companies who have derived an increasing proportion of their sales and profits from the US market could also be hit by falling demand for their exports.
They are at max profits with no reason (increasing business) to make investments in expansion or hiring.
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The company said the rising cost of raw materials had also hit profits and led to it increasing the prices it charged.
Many of these purchases are financed not with retained profits but with debt, thus increasing firms' leverage and reducing their creditworthiness.
While revenue growth was low in Q3 2012, CBS did demonstrate significant growth in its profits driven by cost controls and increasing contribution of high margin revenue streams such as digital licensing and re-transmission fee.
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