The CME Group hiked margin requirements four times in two weeks in silver, mandating that people who wanted to trade it needed to post a greater amount of collateral than before.
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Second, at least 5 percent of the volume of sales to the allegedly targeted group must be at prices that are lower than the average price of the lowest-priced non-targeted group by a margin (a gap) that is greater than the average gap between the average prices of all the non-targeted groups.
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News the CME Group again raised its margin requirements for gold also prompted long liquidation in the futures market.
The impact on margins is dramatic Salomon Smith Barney's Holly Becker notes that the group's operating margin, currently a fat 23%, is rising by a percentage point a year.
His 10, 000-employee group boasted a pretax margin of 17.8%.
While Apple likely makes less money on sales of older iPhone models, the profit margin is likely similar, said ISI Group analyst Brian Marshall.
The Kookaburras lie three points behind England and can only miss out if they lose to Pakistan by a big margin and Spain hammer England in the last group B matches on Monday.
Run by Merrill veteran Robert McCann, a onetime trader who clashed with O'Neal and left for a spell in 2003, the retail group has a 26% pretax margin and earns a healthy 30%-plus return on equity.
Unloading the apparel group would move the company's operating margin from the bottom of the retail sector to near the top.
By a margin of 47% to 39%, that age group wants Democrats to maintain control of Congress after the November midterm elections.
Margin requirements in the spotlight this week again after the CME Group, owner of futures exchange NYMEX, announced a 25% hike in collateral requirements for crude oil futures, putting initial, and short-lived, pressure on WTI and Brent prices.
In 2004, the same group voted Republican in House contests by a slightly higher margin, 73 percent to 26 percent.
Republican pollster Wes Anderson outlined one group that supported Bill Clinton over Bob Dole by a wide margin earlier this month -- younger, married women.
The worst in the group by that measure is Applied Materials, and its EVA margin of 7.1% is at the 84th percentile among all stocks.
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With respect to HP's Personal Systems group, the company is pulling in a 3.2 percent margin, where revenue is down 20 percent year over year.
The Palestinian militant group Hamas won that race "fairly and squarely" by a huge margin, Carter said.
In the vital swing state of Ohio, that includes voters with a military association a seldom-noticed group that could decide whether the Buckeye State once again provides the winning margin needed to put a Republican in the White House.
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According to Hadi Zablit, who studies emerging markets at Boston Consulting Group, around 400, 000 Logans are sold every year and have a higher profit margin than other Renault vehicles.
Imaging and Printing Group (IPG) revenue declined 3% year over year with a 15.8% operating margin.
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Obama has outspent McCain by a 2-to-1 margin in the state during the past two weeks, according to an estimate by TNSMI-Campaign Media Analysis Group, CNN's consultant on political advertising.
Personal Systems Group (PSG) revenue was down 10% year over year with a 4.7% operating margin.
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With its net interest margin ( NIM) at 4.5%, HUVL is among the most profitable community banks in its peer group.
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