Aetna, an old Connecticut insurance firm, was trying to shift from low-growth financial services into the booming managed-care business.
When valuations are low, the odds shift in the investor's favour.
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When wage taxes are high and capital taxes are low, firms simply shift compensation from salaries to stock options and dividends, cutting revenue without boosting growth.
The increasing numbers of wealthy Chinese, Indians and Indonesians are helping fuel the shift to low-tax Asian centers, according to the report, with Hong Kong in a strong position to benefit from the Chinese government's moves to free-up international trade in China's yuan and the growing number of Chinese millionaires looking for a safe place to invest their money.
These days she's telling clients to shift money from low-yielding Treasurys into high-grade corporate debt, although she doesn't pick securities.
The scheme is employed by certain large corporations, involving the use of a combination of Irish and Dutch subsidiary companies to shift profits to low or no tax jurisdictions.
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We expect the reflation trends, dating from the U.S. shift to a low real interest rate policy in 2002, to continue for now, pushing prices up in most asset classes.
Governments fret that stronger currencies would make exports less competitive, but they would also encourage firms to shift upmarket from low-skilled to higher-skilled labour, which is essential for long-term prosperity.
For instance, multinationals shift income to low-tax countries.
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If firms are tempted by tax incentives, they may simply shift jobs from other low-income workers.
Whenever the Fed does decide to signal a potential pullback of its aggressive credit easing, after a long period of record-low rates, analysts say the shift could jolt investors.
While this elicits howls of negativity from some, it also explains why interest rates remain low, furthering the market valuation shift to exporters already on a steep upward path.
In practice, managers shift their focus from producing low-cost or high-differentiation offerings to satisfying customers.
Low-end manufacturing is continuing to shift from China into countries like Malaysia, Vietnam and parts of India.
At such low interest rates, investors began to shift their money into stocks.
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As I understand it, Austrians believe easy money produces low interest rates, which causes a shift toward more capital-intensive production methods.
Bruce Nilles, director of the Sierra Club's Beyond Coal campaign, says the shift was accelerated by the low price of natural gas.
He did not note that he had ignored large yellow signs instructing him to shift his truck into a low gear (evidenced by police photographs of his brake pads).
However, heavier, less urgent and low value per pound shipments will increasingly shift towards the sea route as companies thrive to manage their total distribution costs efficiently, which would limit the growth in air freight segment.
Now those numbers hover in the low 60s and high 50s, a huge shift.
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Such changes would shift the subsidy to people with low- and moderate-incomes who buy in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods.
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But Mr McCreevy has gone to Brussels, Ms Harney has now taken the health portfolio, and Mr Ahern's low popularity has put him under pressure to shift leftwards.
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Committee staff briefed the press this morning on the ways Microsoft and Hewlett Packard, for example, are using the tax code and offshore entities to shift billions in net income to low tax countries.
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Following the House budget resolution would almost certainly shift more of the tax burden to low- and middle-income households and yield a less progressive tax system.
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Instead of selling shares, though, and moving money into low-yielding bonds or cash, investors decided to shift to safer stocks, many with sizable dividends.
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Short-term interest rates remained low, reflecting plentiful liquidity, an inflation-sensitive shift from long-term debt to short-term, and the perception that the Fed will be dovish.
Lay encouraged executives to shift cash from Enron's boring, low-growth pipelines into more exciting ventures, sometimes giving the division chiefs a chance to invest in them.
Companies around the globe are learning that while cloud computing has many virtues, perhaps chief among them is its ability to help business leaders shift huge chunks of IT budgets away from low-value infrastructure and toward customer-facing growth and innovation.
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.
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