Levy predicts that all the factors reducing profits will prolong the bear market.
In some sense, one can understand that decision, since to tell customers would undoubtedly lead to people quitting, reducing profits.
But he would charge high rates for the reinsurance, reducing the profits the insurers make on their traditional business.
Despite Herceptin's success, the pharmaceutical industry seems loath to focus on developing other PM drugs, which often means reducing potential profits.
The charge applied to the first quarter, reducing reported GAAP profits by more than 20%.
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Schrder is also reducing taxes on profits and cutting the top personal income tax rate by 15%.
Wells Fargo figures its highly integrated technology reduces risk, cuts marketing costs and lets the bank grow profits while reducing costs to customers.
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But where an incumbent's monopoly goes unchallenged, there is another incentive, assuming the overall goal is to maximise profits: reducing costs while keeping prices the same for consumers.
Since these indices are net of fees and the fees are so high (typically a 1% management fee and 20% of all profits), reducing them would gee up their performance.
He and other critics insist that there are more effective ways to stimulate investment: reducing the tax on corporate profits, increasing the tax credit that companies get on spending for new plant and equipment, and easing the tax on dividends.
One attraction of buying back shares is that it increases returns by reducing equity rather than by improving profits.
In January he launched Ford's latest turnaround effort, called the "Way Forward, " which seeks to restore North American profits by 2008 by reducing material costs, shedding excess workers and factories, and sharpening the focus of the company's Ford, Lincoln and Mercury brands.
In time things will improve, reducing provisions, increasing demand and bolstering profits.
Reducing that pollution is costly to the manufacturers, and that eats into profits.
Many of these purchases are financed not with retained profits but with debt, thus increasing firms' leverage and reducing their creditworthiness.
By relentlessly reducing his costs through increased worker productivity, Ford was able to share his profits with the consumer by cutting prices.
Reducing the budget deficit would increase the rate of growth in the economy, increase corporate profits, buttress the stock market.
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And that entrepreneurship can also generate profits and improve the standard of living of millions of poor by improving their health and reducing poverty.
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Giuliani recognizes that our tax on business profits is now the second highest in the developed world and that encouraging risk taking by reducing the capital gains tax burden will quicken innovation.
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