Sentences with phrase «business profits declined»

Unemployment rose again and business profits declined, as did business investing.

Not exact matches

Others might see the profits decline as the business matures and heads out of business.

Like almost every other traditional media entity, it is trying to grow one side of its business — the digital side — while simultaneously cutting costs and managing the decline of the print side, which continues to generate the bulk of the revenue and profits.

Business Insider has written about a lot of this before, including the fact that Acthar, and its importance to Mallinckrodt, has become a serious concern among its shareholders — and made the drugmaker a target for short sellers who profit from the stock's decline.

Profit declines sharply and company cuts full - year outlook

Cardinal Health Inc. reported a sharp decline in profit in its last quarter and lowered its full - year outlook following inventory write - downs in its overseas businesses and a sharper - than - anticipated decline in generic drug pProfit declines sharply and company cuts full - year outlook

Cardinal Health Inc. reported a sharp decline in profit in its last quarter and lowered its full - year outlook following inventory write - downs in its overseas businesses and a sharper - than - anticipated decline in generic drug pprofit in its last quarter and lowered its full - year outlook following inventory write - downs in its overseas businesses and a sharper - than - anticipated decline in generic drug prices.

Yet none of its efforts delivered a sizable profit maker to make up for its declining copier business.

Alibaba is projected to post its first decline in profit in a year and a half — the result of folding in major loss - making businesses and heightened spending to fend off a charge by Tencent Holdings into retail and payments — traditionally its turf.

In Germany, ever since the 2003 — 20 05 labor reforms that caused business profits to soar at the expense of wages, German banks have exported the gap between rising savings and declining investment — a figure that rose in less than five years to become among the largest ever recorded.

Declines in or sustained low interest rates causing a reduction in investment income, the interest margins of our businesses, estimated gross profits and demand for our products;

Maintain your fund business as the «cash cow» that it is today, delivering high margins and generous profits, albeit likely at a declining rate.

Ultimately, deflation can lead to bankruptcies, rising unemployment rates and declines in wages, business profits and investment earnings.

We owned Dell because of its non-PC businesses, which appear to generate most of its profits, and because we believed that, at its market price, we were getting paid to own the declining PC business.

Caltex Australia has forecast its core profit will decline this year, dragged lower by a collapse in earnings from the slimmed - down refining business.

The NYT's Michael Barbaro follows his in - depth piece on Trump's empire (the facts of which he declined to debate with The Donald on CNBC) with a report that AG Eric Schneiderman is investigating whether a for - profit school founded by Trump has engaged in illegal business practices.

In consideration of these profits and easy war finance, the banking sector has adopted a policy of a declining purchasing power for the fiat credit dollar coupled with shocks (the business «cycle») to manipulate the commodities and the stock markets (to make profits on the side).

Despite the higher revenue, driven mostly by increased subscribers, IAC's profits declined due to a significant increase in marketing expenses for certain businesses.

Recently the business» profits have declined considerably.

Apple owns smartphone profits, Google owns smartphone market share, and RIM has seen its handset business decline in several key regions quarter after quarter.

While some of these may undoubtedly be undervalued, such a list will also contain many broken businesses, companies in secularly declining industries as well as those that happened to produce a good year or two of profits in a way that is not representative of their future potential.

So how do investors profit from a declining business like this?

In business, it is a period when borrowing is difficult or a time when profits decline due to increasing costs or decreasing revenues.

They mentioned how sales might perhaps tripled in five or ten years, but core business profit growth (excluding deal - making trading profits) might remain flat or even decline, and a key reason (from a simple cost perspective) is that Selling, General and Administrative (SG&A) cost, thought by many to be a «fixed» or at least a «semi-fixed» cost, had increased even faster than sales.

The decline in brand perceptions is driven primarily by a significant increase in the number of customers indicating that their mortgage servicer is focused more on profit than on their customers, which could have long - term effects on future business.

They are looking for companies that they believe are «reasonably priced, and have strong fundamental business characteristics, sustainable earnings growth and the ability to outperform peers over a full market cycle and sustain the value of their securities in a market downturn, while [trying to] avoid investments in companies that it believes have low profit margins or unwarranted leverage, and companies that it believes are particularly cyclical, unpredictable or susceptible to rapid earnings declines.»

These competitors will drive down the incumbent business's profits until its ROIC declines to the average return of a commodity business.

Having already identified the electronic division as a millstone, with a decade - long history of stagnant revenue & declining profits, I presumed management would be forced to aggressively rationalise, liquidate, or otherwise dispose of this business.

Name recognition aside, the ongoing — and, arguably, accelerating — struggles of bricks - and - mortar retailers is taking a toll on business, with first - quarter profits and revenues declining year over year.

Stock declines also can signal declining profits and increased business uncertainty.

While consumers are spending at a moderate pace, businesses have scaled back investment amid a decline in profits.

Its business has been booming, although the company has yet to turn a profit and is likely to see a number of the state and federal tax credits from which it benefits decline over time.

«The professional division... saw strong subscription revenues in its large legal business, WestLaw, but further declines in its high - margin print products, dragging operating profits in legal down 6 per cent.

However, in 2014 - 15, NBP rose by 18 % for private players of the insurance sector, while due to a decline in its individual business, LIC profits were tapered by 13 %.

Success in the premium market segment in which products usually come with high profit margins attached to them could be the most straightforward way for HTC to revive its rapidly declining mobile business, especially since the company as a whole just posted its worst year to date.

Despite the decline in revenues, Webb says the company has been able to maintain its profit level by restructuring its business, which included layoffs of about 750 employees, or 10 % of its global workforce.