While you might have great products, a uniquely skilled workforce and exclusive marketing partnerships, if your income statements and balance sheets are weak, then your value is limited.
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Even projects normally hyped as sure bets for adding value generate surprisingly weak gains, NAR reports.
On the components business side, demand for PC DRAM remained weak but growth of high value-added products such as server and mobile DRAM was constant due to increased sales of mobile devices.
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This is the case when opportunities for growth provide the most economic value or during periods when business is weak enough to favor the conservation of cash.
The company will perform well over the remainder of 2011 and through 2012 even as the housing market remains weak and the unemployment rate is elevated, says Value Line analyst Ian Gendler.
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You have to run harder just to stay in the same place if your country's currency is weak and your wealth is tied up in land whose value is measured in dollars, as in this survey.
The dumbest, most destructive economic policy of the Bush Administration has been its weak-dollar position--letting the dollar slide in value against the euro, the yen, the pound and gold.
Even in an imperfect system, the nuisance value of a threatened lawsuit is a useful weapon for the weak.
With bond funds, the link was so weak that the relatively high expenses charged by actively managed funds overwhelmed the value of their modest outperformance.
We might add, weak leadership, questionable ethics and lack of focus on providing real clinical value made it a relatively easy task for the pols.
Lew will also need to calm investors who have grown concerned about possible currency wars after Japan's new government sought to lower the value of the yen as a way to boost exports and its weak economy.
However, with the European economy struggling it would not surprise me to see the weak banks in weaker countries not just have their shares underperform but lose their value since they may have to merge with stronger banks or be taken over by their central bank.
Relative to earlier vintages, more of these loans carried greater risks beyond weak borrower credit histories including very high initial cumulative loan-to-value ratios and less documentation of borrower income.
The Nasdaq, however, is weak heading into the open, with futures trading about 1.5 points below fair value.
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It will be either a government based on dilution and compromise or a weak day-to-day, deal-and-favor arrangement that will see the value of the pound fall on the foreign exchanges and the premium of U.K. gilts over German bunds widen.
Frac spreads, or the value of NGLs over dry natgas, are expected to stay elevated and keep many producers profitable despite weak natgas prices.
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They are saying that a weak dollar is forcing Central Banks around the world to turn to other currencies and hard assets because they are losing value on their dollar based assets.
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