In a trading update for the three months to 30 September, the hotels and betting group said growth in its hotels division and in UK retail betting was offsetting lower profitability in telephone betting and the effect of continuing investment in e-gaming.
In response, Mr Osborne would point instead to the difficult domestic legacy of the financial crisis, and the chilling effect on investment and bank lending from the crisis in the eurozone.
So far, though, Britain's absence from the euro seems to have had no adverse effect on investment, even in the sterling-sensitive car industry.
The net effect of these investment strategies is to be in the market, but diversify as much as possible across the risk exposures investors face.
It is not the end of the world to have a wash sale disallowed: The IRS simply adds back the amount of the disallowed loss to your original basis, in effect lowering your tax burden in whatever year you properly dispose of the investment.
In effect, the government deficit cost the economy one trillion dollars in private investment that could but did not take place!
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Again, all-too-often investors rely exclusively upon the reassurances of the very culprits who recommended the strategies or investments in the first place to the effect that the demise of the investment or plan was due to uncontrollable, unforeseeable market forces.
RFF's books, in effect writing off the infrastructure investment of building the high-speed network.
By adopting such plans, companies are, in effect, unloading all the investment risk on to their employees.
So has the investment in The Works had an effect in the private sector in Ebbw Vale?
So those are things that are having a very -- have a strong effect in the here and now right now on accelerating investment and job creation.
By sending teams of officials into the investment banks, the Fed has in effect usurped the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) as their main regulator.
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By ditching its longstanding rule about lending only to commercial banks and extending this facility to investment banks, the Fed is in effect admitting that it faces a different sort of financial system one in which dealers pose as much of a threat to stability as lenders.
Responding to criticism from the industry that the increase had prompted it to review billions of pounds of investment in oil and gas fields under UK waters, the Treasury told MPs that evidence from a similar tax increase in 2005 showed it had "little effect", and that investment was more closely aligned to the oil price.
Mr Einhorn objects to the fact that a significant percentage of his investment in Apple shares in effect sits idle, invested in cash that pays very little return and has accused Apple of a "Depression-era mentality".
And whereas some investment banks in effect stopped extending credit to clients during the market crisis, Chase kept on lending.
In effect, our global investment earnings have defied gravity since the start of the century - and helped to make up for the fact that large parts of our economy were no longer paying their way.
The effect on valuations has already forced Amazon to take a write down on its investment in Groupon rival Living Social .
Mr Osborne's advisers would say any increase in investment that is large enough to have a material effect on the recovery would set off alarm bells in the markets, even if the formal deficit plan had not been undermined.
The program was designed in response to research postulating that investment in women has a significant multiplier effect.
That would include the 3.8% Medicare tax on investment income of high income taxpayers scheduled to take effect in 2013.
Carter said the budget reductions would have a devastating effect on a number of Pentagon programs, but continued investment in offensive and defense cyber operations would continue, along with unmanned systems, space capabilities and electronic warfare.
The requirement that Merrill disclose on research reports its investment banking deals also lasts only until new rules already enacted come into effect in the next few months.
In terms of spurring economic investment overall, even the independent Congressional Budget Office in a January 2010 report said the effect of these tax deductions are diminished when the economy is weak.
Investment banks have been unable to mitigate the effect of the trading-profits drop by generating fees in other business lines.
McDonald's made its investment in the burrito chain nearly two years ago and one can already see the Golden Arches' effect on a concept.
Also, as the economy improves, there is a tendency for interest rates to increase, which in turn can have a volatile effect on Investment-Grade Corporate Bonds.
Such investment, in a region that has seen few mergers or acquisitions, may speed up the third effect of Asia's turmoil: the rapid rise of mobile telephones, where there is now more competition than in the fixed-line service.
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