The underlying problem is that of profitability, it is much more profitable to invest capital overseas where labor costs are lower.
Still, Evans added, government must play a significant enough role to create a legal and regulatory atmosphere conducive to the proper, profitable application of private capital.
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In most developed markets, the primary function of an equity market is to provide price discovery, allowing successful companies to raise capital for profitable investment opportunities.
Venuetastic has ambitious goals and if Belogolova and Yen achieve them, it will become a valuable service for its customers and a profitable investment for its capital providers.
To the contrary, investment capital will find profitable shale-gas production opportunities wherever they exist.
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In the past few years, all the surviving big banks have raised more capital and become profitable again.
The more efficient and effective approach is to allow profitable companies to return excess capital to their shareholders without subjecting those dividends to discriminatory tax treatment.
Properly measured, the penalty attached to Barclays' investment-banking strategy should also include the opportunity cost of failing to invest its capital in more profitable businesses, such as retail banking.
Naturally, they shift their best salespeople and capital to the most profitable brands, leaving their Buick or Ford store looking shabby and staffed by inept or green sales agents.
Goldman Sachs directly decided it would find more profitable ways to deploy its excess capital than dividend hikes, one of which included buying back its shares owned by the Oracle of Omaha, Warren Buffett.
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As for the banks, no doubt the bailouts kept them on life support, but owing to continued federal meddling in their ability to be profitable (think the Volcker Rule, capital reserve requirements, and the aforementioned mortgage modifications to name but three), their decline has merely been delayed.
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Barclays Capital says the company could be profitable by the second quarter of 2013.
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Russell has eight employees, but his apps business is financed with venture capital and isn't yet profitable.
B-school tells you to focus your capital and technology on the most profitable products demanded by your best customers.
Moreover, once the start-up burns through that initial grant, there is little outside capital available so it must become profitable, attract an investor from outside the country, or shut down.
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It forces capital into more productive, more profitable uses.
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In 2009-2011, during profitable times, semiconductor makers over-spent on capital equipment, and this has come back to bite them in the form of production overcapacity.
Wealth is created by profitable enterprise and in a global economy, to attract capital, America must welcome investors.
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The banking system has been highly profitable in recent years and entered this episode with strong capital positions.
In the last two years 392 companies went public, according to Renaissance Capital, and 71% of them were profitable.
While the REIT's stock is in the doldrums, keep in mind that eight-year-old Prologis boasts a profitable history of selling older properties and using the recycled capital on new ventures.
Its appeal to the everyday needs of the consumer will continue to make its stores profitable and, going forward, the majority of its capital will likely be directed to this area.
Mr Lopes insists that tight monetary policy will slow the capital outflow, because it is no longer profitable to borrow reais to buy dollar-denominated Brazilian bonds, as it was when bond yields soared last month.
The price of gas must rise to a level where it is profitable and companies can make a return on their invested capital on a cash flow basis to be willing to assume the risk to exploit these resources.
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Won't other, more profitable businesses never form thanks to the auto sector hogging precious capital in non-economic ways?
Businesses scramble to borrow money to construct these capital-intensive projects, which appear to be profitable, creating huge demand for industrial commodities.
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HSBC, a British bank, argues that although this business could be profitable, banks have recently been withdrawing from it as their capital has shrunk.
This kind of relationship is profitable because the interceding financial firm has a much lower cost of capital than the manufacturers, and they can also adjust their fee based on the credit risk the manufacturer poses.
New rules on capital and liquidity are also likely to make these businesses less profitable.
Entrepreneurs are encouraged to undertake many longer-term, more capital intensive projects than they ought not, but which appear profitable.
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