As more and more trading is electronic and is directed by computers, the exchanges struggle to maintain profit margins.
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As a result, regulators worry auditors may cut corners to retain relationships, meet fee commitments and maintain profit margins.
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Companies are able to raise prices to maintain profit margins without sacrificing sales, or so investors seem to think.
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Yet they face tough competition and must rely on cost cutting and a steady stream of new models to maintain profit margins that are already low.
Buoyed by strong sales of its popular RAZR phone and its ability to maintain profit margins in the highly competitive handset business, Motorola has become a big momentum play in recent months.
He runs an airline, one of the toughest businesses to maintain a profit.
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Another advantage for Werner is the way it has used fuel surcharges to help maintain its profit margin, which averaged 8.1% for the first nine months of 2004, but hit 9.3% in the third quarter.
Colgate standing alone has considerable overlap with PG and Unilever in its core product categories and may find it difficult to maintain its profit margins and market share if the two larger companies start competing on price and growing aggressively though acquisitions.
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Can he cater to the wealthy without disregarding hoi polloi who handed him his first successes and also maintain a fat profit margin (about 13% for 2000, on par with Merrill Lynch)?
Along the way it intends to maintain annual revenue and profit increases of at least 20%.
This requires the regulator to maintain the balance between profit-seeking and provision of a public service.
Amazon is thought to be a ruthless negotiator, squeezing its partners for more efficiency and to help maintain its razor-thin profit margin.
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And entrepreneurial celebrities stepping in to maintain control of--and profit from--their exposure only fuel things further.
To maintain its technological edge and high profit margins, however, it must balance low-cost manufacturing abroad with the high-tech precision it achieves in Japan.
If they could buy hotels cheaply, they could both maintain control over the properties and resell them at a tidy profit when the market recovered.
He said it disclosed "a manic and frenzied culture of procuring and packaging as many mortgages as humanly possible, to maintain the bonds spewing from the investment bank, to generate as much short-term profit as humanly possible".
Although we expect IBM to maintain its high margins given the strength of its GBS business, a contraction in GBS profit margin in the future to historical average of rate of 12.5% would result in downside of 5% to the Trefis price estimate.
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