Sentences with phrase «dwindling profits»

As the economy continues to sputter, more companies are faced with dwindling profits and rising debt.

Are you alarmed by dwindling profits and second - guessing the massive time commitments of owning properties?

Faced with dwindling profits from oil exports and a fiscal deficit, the government was forced to slash fuel subsidies in May 2008 — which at the time consumed 15 % of GDP.

After all, if robust sales and hearty profits are the primary drivers behind price appreciation for companies in the Dow and the S&P 500, shouldn't diminishing sales and dwindling profits lead to price drops for the Dow and S&P 500?

Companies — especially those selling commodity products and services — are looking for ways to stand out from competitors and to offset dwindling profits in highly competitive, low - margin markets.

Faced with a shrinking market share and dwindling profits, the Big Four utilities are waking up from their fossil fuel - induced slumber.

RECORD SALES (for a day) dwindling profits for years and decades.

The bonanza of dirt - cheap mortgages offered by some of the country's biggest lenders in recent weeks has been shut down sooner than expected, as banks pull their offers in the face of higher funding costs and concerns over dwindling profit margins.

While Americans are burning less coal, Asian demand is booming, so if companies can find a way to export their excess supply, it's a win - win for their dwindling profit margins!

Not exact matches

SHRINKING profit margins and dwindling cash balances in the junior mining sector are not only putting pressure on miners, but also those who provide key services to the sector.

In other words, their foreign profits will probably dwindle more than their U.S. earnings increase.

But if deposits dwindle at a bank, it might have to pay a lot more for funding from other sources, or it might have to curtail lending, which would crimp its profits.

With this merger, I foresee the drugs available to me will dwindle to not what is in the best interest of my health care to only what is available at CVS, enabling a yet bigger profit for Mr. Bertolini.

Over time, union power dwindled, not because the bargaining structure was reformed, but because deregulation and greater foreign competition left labor fewer monopoly profits to extract in key industries such as automobile and steel.

The net result of Malloy's «plan» for Connecticut would be cuts in local schools, high property taxes, especially for Connecticut's dwindling middle class, and more money for his campaign donors and political allies who are profiting off Malloy's Corporate Education Reform Industry initiatives.

All this money that Danny Boy and Pryor «need» for their dwindling school budgets and the damn thing is that all the big boys want is to leach our tax dollars out of the public schools into their profits and turn our public schools into «What's Left Academies».

Have you been watching the profits from your self - publishing sales dwindle?

-LSB-[4]-RSB--- especially as more readers buy online and buy digital rather than visiting physical bookstores, that dwindling haven of traditional publishing profits?

Just as she points out that dwindling compensation for authors will drive authors — and good content — out of the business, Franklin says that publishers are in a kind of mirrored, precarious bind: «We do not forget, he writes, «that, like all businesses in a capitalist world, we must make a profit.

One senior executive with a mainstream house foolishly tried to justify higher ebook prices as their way of recovering declining profits from dwindling printed book sales.

Second, even if the anomalies recurred like clockwork, once trading costs and taxes are taken into account, profits could dwindle or disappear.

The positive forward P / E requirement is intended to eliminate companies which do not expect profits over the next year but will not eliminate companies with dwindling earnings growth.

Greed causes some traders to allow profits to dwindle into losses while hoping for larger profits.

But the number of for - profit pet stores in California had been dwindling long before this bill was signed, said Boris Jang, who owns the Puppy Store in Santa Ana, Calif..

Falling profits and a dwindling population just made it easier for Nintendo to pull the plug.

While their influence and profits are still enormous, we can see from increasing shifts to unconventional extraction methods — hydraulic fracturing, deepwater drilling, tar sands mining, and other examples — that easily accessible fossil fuels are dwindling.

But even then: Perhaps with improved fuel efficiency we can just keep stretching oil company profits out longer and longer as the world's finite supplies of oil start really dwindling down and prices just rise.

Are lawyers and large law firms doomed to a perpetual «Hunger Game»... forever competing for a dwindling pool of partnership opportunities, clients, profits and reliable strategies for the future?

Cable companies are seeing dwindling revenue streams from their cable packages and are going to be looking for ways to bolster their shareholder's profits despite the inevitable death of traditional cable programming schemes.

As more miners enter the space, along the relentless growth in hardware costs and mining difficulty, profits will continue to dwindle until new breakthroughs in mining can be made.

«Home flipping profits continue to be squeezed by a dwindling inventory of distressed properties available to purchase at a discount and increasing competition from fair - weather home flippers often willing to operate on thinner margins,» Blomquist said.

«As the amount of available space dwindles, the rental rates will go up and they will need higher volume stores to maintain their profit levels,» Green says.