He still thought that dealing with lesser credit risks--so-called subprime lending--offered more potential upside, provided he could do a better job of screening applicants and keeping losses low.
The BRC says consumer spending is being hit hard by higher inflation, job losses and low wage growth.
But in the 1990s, textile makers' losses to low-wage countries turned cotton into one of America's most export-dependent crops, with nearly 80% now consumed abroad.
Although unemployment is low, rapid job losses among Japan's army of temporary workers are exposing the unfairness of a two-tier labour market and straining an egalitarian society.
Crude oil prices traded near steady Thursday in quieter trading, after getting hammered to a four-month low and suffering sharp losses on Wednesday, which did produce serious near-term chart damage to suggest still more downside price potential for crude in the near term.
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He said that Tree.com could be a very attractive investment because the price is so low and all of the losses are already priced in.
The manufacturer can shift energy usage to periods when power prices are low to offset the production losses resulting from this arrangement, improving his or her bottom line.
Local politicians put pressure on them to keep tariffs low, which leads to huge losses.
The June note future is off by one half point but pared its losses from a session low at 118-09.
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Since then, AIG has struggled to lift its operating margin due to slow economic recovery, low interest rates, high catastrophe losses and intense competition.
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And if you have to sell low basis positions, you can harvest losses from poor performers to mitigate or neutralize the impact.
Low-interest loans to cover residential losses not fully compensated by insurance.
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The oil company was in financial straits in the early 1990s when oil prices were low, but instead of cutting his losses, Li increased his shareholdings.
The reasons are painfully familiar by now: fallen home values, job losses, depleted savings and low interest rates not to mention the disappearance of guaranteed pensions and retiree health-care benefits, the rise in Social Security's full retirement age and people simply living longer, healthier lives.
The losses on April 16 represent the low for the week for all the metals.
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Experience with banking crises in general suggests that early estimates of losses will prove to be too low.
In the ETF marketplace, BlackRock recently slashed fees on many of its funds in response to market share losses to Vanguard, the traditional low cost provider.
On January 5th rumours swept Wall Street that derivatives losses had brought Bank of America low, and that the interest-rate cut had been intended to keep this bank alive.
If this is the case it is indeed good news for the hotels that had to keep room rates low over the last two years to minimize losses on vacant rooms.
Assistance can include grants for temporary housing and home repairs, low-cost loans to cover uninsured property losses, and other programs to help individuals and business owners recover from the effects of the disaster.
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Wednesday's losses represented a new five-year low and the third largest single-day decline ever.
Many commercial properties still are suffering from high vacancy and low demand, and the resulting defaults have caused losses for some commercial-mortgage security investors.
If the wedge breakout holds and the market attacks the early January low, gold will be vulnerable to more substantial losses in the days ahead.
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Four AL teams with 93 or more losses this year provided a lot of low-hanging fruit for better teams to run up their win totals on.
And they would, through education and maybe a little osmosis, learn that the best way to provide for their retirements would be to start early, begin with small contributions, and stick to a low-risk strategy that protects them against big losses.
The U.S. dollar index traded lower Thursday and extended its losses to hit another fresh four-month low after the FOMC statement.
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While the fourth quarter of 2011 marked wider than expected losses for U.S. Steel with low realized steel prices and a slump in demand, Q1 results should easily show sequential improvement.
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Yesterday, Doubleday filed a lawsuit in which he accused baseball commissioner Bud Selig of conspiring with an accountant who is also a consultant to Major League Baseball (MLB) to place an "artificially" low price on the team by manufacturing "phantom operating losses" in MLB's books.
Unemployment is still low but in manufacturing and retail you see lots of job losses and shop vacancies.
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Chairman and Chief Executive James Dimon had to fire the guys not in the room: low-level traders closest to the bank's trading losses.
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