While the law discourages the deduction of small losses, it's generous for big ones.
He managed only small losses during the three-year bear, and I lost 74%.
European stocks closed with just small losses overall and sovereign-bond yields fell from their highs, helped by positive U.S. economic data and support for Greece in the euro zone.
"Small losses in one sector of the credit market can have an outsized impact on aggregate economic activity, " said Federal Reserve Board Governor Frederic Mishkin at a conference in New York Friday.
The Nikkei 225 average closed at 13, 694, down 105 yen, the fourth straight day of (small) losses, off a multiyear high of 13, 926 set on April 25.
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The Dow has alternated between small gains and losses after starting the year on a tear.
The Stoxx Europe 600 index jumped 2.5% to 256.58, after swinging between small gains and losses ahead of Draghi's comments.
Marshalls said it was looking at a "small percentage" of losses among its 2, 300 employees.
Despite making sales of hundreds of millions of pounds, they reported small profits or even losses in the UK after shifting their earnings to overseas operations.
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Matt Lloyd, chief investment strategist at Advisors Asset Management, is noticing people with sizable gains this year taking a small portion of their losses this year.
In some countries bank failures caused losses to note-holders, but the losses were small compared with those inflicted by the central banks that later took over note issuance.
Securities class-action lawyers are frequently criticized for settling their cases for a small fraction of the losses, although Lerach and other firms have won multibillion-dollar settlements recently in cases such as WorldCom.
Although Dubai World's financing issues are not a surprise and are relatively small given global credit losses, they are a reminder that the vulnerabilities and imbalances that contributed to the credit crunch have not disappeared.
Investors are better off enhancing small-to-moderate returns and buffering small-to-moderate losses in this environment.
Such numbers are in any event small change compared with other losses looming over the company.
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The Cypriot president said if he hadn't accepted the tax on bank deposits, the European Central Bank would have stopped providing emergency funds to the country's top two lenders which would have led to the collapse of the banking system, the bankruptcy of thousands of small businesses, massive job losses, and ultimately the country's exit from the euro.
Investors are worried that GE Capital is setting aside too small a reserve against future credit losses.
Some small business have complained of making huge losses beyond the money they were paying out on their loans.
However, the losses for some investors were relatively small, with some losing as little as several hundred dollars.
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Instead of the normal two years, small businesses are now allowed to offset their losses during this downturn against the income they've earned over the last five years.
"If Emag's members had not paid for this legal action, there's little doubt that, despite the Parliamentary Ombudsman's recommendations for substantial compensation, the Government would have got away with limiting payments to a small number of Equitable's victims for losses post-1999, " he added.
Small businesses have needed help to recover from their losses and take the necessary steps to ensure their businesses can survive and continue to succeed.
The NAHB is worried that the contraction in construction lending by community banks will force more small builders out of business resulting in more job losses industry wide and across the country.
In any case, it is important to keep in mind that the net numbers we will be watching for on Friday morning are small relative to the much larger gross gains and losses they are derived from.
In the current recession, small business has accounted for 60% of all job losses.
Part of a good defense in investing is knowing the impact of losses and why we want to keep them small.
The fundamental reason for this tendency is tax sensitive investors (mostly individual retail investors) sell small-caps to lock in year-end tax losses, then reinvest their portfolio in the New Year.
We know that in the final few months of last year, small businesses accounted for more than 60 percent of the job losses in America.
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