The lesson is that leverage is neither good nor bad, but there's a time for leverage and another time for deleverage.
The solution is to wind down the leverage over time, not to increase it.
But if the Fed was ever really serious about unwinding excessive leverage, the time had clearly arrived.
Another blue-chip name performing well is American Express (AXP), which had operating leverage for the first time this quarter.
If you have a huge following in social media related to work, the ownership of that following might give you leverage when it comes time to negotiate severance.
That means Facebook can leverage it for real-time search, and can also syndicate it to other places, like Google and Bing.
It's a matter of time before we leverage the power of Google TV and other smart screens in our daily lives to bring knowledge experts from around the globe to any local classroom.
They all know they have great leverage at what is a critical time for the country.
By the second quarter of 1988, Wall Street, including Drexel, was still doing highly leveraged deals when the time had passed for leverage.
We are looking for really big markets and we are looking to get in at a time where there is leverage to obtain scale.
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The companies are too mature and U.S. consumers will likely take a long time to reduce their leverage, especially with income prospects sluggish at best.
Time Warner Cable has high leverage and any increase in costs affect its value significantly.
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As far as leverage is concerned, the showdown with Time Warner Cable couldn't be better timed for Fox.
Similarly, Drucker urged companies to leverage their accomplishments a bit at a time.
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The stocks that were punished the most at that time were those with very heavy leverage on their balance sheets.
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At the time, Akamai was hoping to leverage the data passing through its servers to allow the company to play a larger role in online advertising and analytics.
The resolution took no less than two and a half months, during which time I observed an astonishing inability to leverage the most fundamental of customer service capabilities and customer intelligence tools.
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Focus: Using the limited time of the human condition in the highest leverage areas.
The problem is leverage can be difficult to unwind at just the right time and can lead to large losses when things go wrong.
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Raising capital, at a time when Lehman is trying to reduce the leverage on its balance sheet by shedding assets, suggests that additional big write-downs are coming.
The bottom line is this: businesses that want to leverage the potential of location-based services apps must dedicate time to managing their online identity.
Now is the time for the International Olympic Committee to use its leverage and lay down concrete plans for female sports to girls schools, women's sports clubs and competitive tournaments.
In the mean time, AAPL traders can take full advantage of the leverage offered by options in order to more quickly recoup some of their losses.
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The less than spectacular performance of many funds might encourage managers to take extra risks--assuming more leverage, for example--but "now is not the time to start swinging for the fences, " Gradante said.
Fast Data can leverage Big Data sources, but it also adds a real-time component of being able to take action on events and information before they even enter a Big Data system.
The leverage that it took on, which was 40 to 1 at the time of its failure, became too much for the firm to handle.
At the time of its demise, Bear Stearns was overextended by a leverage ratio of 30-to-1 (the ratio of money leant out vs. capital on hand).
Instead of spending time and money to address these problems internally, consumers can leverage solutions offered by CSBs that allow organizations to focus on other pressing business needs instead.
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