Write-downs also artificially inflate accounting profitability metrics and can make companies with lots of write-downs look more profitable than companies with no write-downs.
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Mr. Albanese isn't the only one with write-downs on his hands.
The BDXL specification, which is targeted primarily at commercial segments such as broadcasting, medical and document imaging enterprises with significant archiving needs, will provide customers with write-once options on 100GB and 128GB capacity discs and rewritable capability on 100GB discs.
With such write-downs, Deutsche Bank alone would need at least 13 billion euros more in capitalization.
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By next year, with fewer write-offs and a healthier economy, her forecast has reported earnings rising sharply.
Credit indicators, management explained, remain at all-time lows, with the write-off rate for the U.S. lending portfolio was 2% for the quarter.
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Also in the quarter, the Hurricane Deep well was lost when its operator Chevron lost control of the well, and it had to be plugged and abandoned with attendant write-downs.
Shares in European banks tumbled on Tuesday morning as a result, with Barclays, a British bank with fewer write-downs and a lower capital cushion than many of its peers, taking the worst punishment.
Several years ago a few of us editors here at Forbes received a promotional mailing for one of those hot stock reports with a write up on a little known penny stock called True Religion Jeans (TRLG).
The carry trade was a vehicle by which Bernanke allowed the banks to build up their capital base, because they had depleted their capital so badly with the write-offs and the mortgage market, and it was difficult for them to go into the market and sell new equity without tremendously diluting their current equity.
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What they want to do is their business, it has nothing to do with what I write, it has nothing to do with what I believe.
Hybrid HDDs combine lower storage capacity costs close to those of HDDs with read and write performance that can be about 80% of that possible with the best client SSDs.
Example: Married couples with kids typically write "I love you" wills leaving everything to each other, with the idea that the survivor will take care of the kids.
This long-term decline in NOPAT, combined with growing asset write-downs and consistently large off balance sheet debt, indicates a company with serious issues.
"Some people can write with ease in whatever circumstances they find themselves, " he wrote on his website.
It is on the Philippines - the place they know best - that they write with real gusto.
If they continue to press ahead with reforms and write-offs, they are indeed in a fight they can win.
For many Chinese the very basics of the English language, such as the characters we write with, are new.
He settled into work, and got a tutoring job helping brilliant Korean violinists with shaky English write their music-theory papers.
The goal with what you write should always be to get traffic, to provide links and to give social signals.
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When detached from the PC, the small receiver unit, which has a rechargeable battery, stores whatever you write with the pen.
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Not the type children play with and people write songs about, but the kind that when they burst, usually cause financial havoc.
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He likes to write with friends, he said, since as soon as he writes anything he usually shares it with them anyway.
Rhonda told people that her deal was in great part because of my help, and immediately I was swamped with requests to write proposals.
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Even with a debt write-down and bailout money it remains difficult to see how the Greeks themselves plan on restructuring their economy and public sector for a sustainable long-term.
The origins of the pencil date to the ancient Romans, who used to write with a device known as a stylus--a metal stick, usually lead, which was used to scratch words onto papyrus.
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The stylus itself has been fattened out and lengthened to three-quarters of the device's length, making it easier to write with and its end is now rubberized to give it more pen-like friction on the glass screen.
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The cap of this pen doubles as a stylus tip, giving users the option to write with ink on paper in the iNotebook device and then quickly switch over to writing with a stylus in the app.
He is also charged with perverting the course of justice between 26 March 1986 and 7 July 1987, in relation to diaries relating to September 1986, he failed to reveal the existence of his main office diary: provided Angela Peppiatt with a blank diary which he instructed her with details to write in the diary.
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