And would the gain in DirectTV's profits be
greater than the loss in licensing revenue that AT&T would suffer if it walked away from the bargaining table without a deal.
The problem is it can be hard to make up for lost ground, as the rate of return required to recoup a loss is always
greater than the loss itself.
The insurance float even back then was invested in cash and bonds; the sum of cash and bonds was equal to or
greater than loss and LAE on the balance sheet).
When a Fund's profits from sales are
greater than losses, they accumulate and contribute to the rise of the Fund's Net Asset Value (NAV)?
These factors can result in changes in RRbond valuations far
greater than any loss from unexpected inflation.
In other words, after two volatile days — up 10 % one day, down 10 % the next — your losses are four times
greater than the losses incurred by an investor in an ordinary index fund (he lost $ 1; you've lost $ 4).
«Buying up in a down market» is a strategy in which homeowners sell their smaller property and buy a larger one — the idea being they will come out ahead because the price reduction on the new purchase will be
greater than the loss on the sale of the former home.
What if your wins were much
greater than your losses?
One more note: although I agree there's little * probability * of a payoff, the payoff is so much
greater than the loss that the * expectation value * is rather high.
Not exact matches
Earlier this year, senior deputy Bank of Canada governor Carolyn Wilkins warned of job
losses and
greater income inequality stemming from AI and robotics, though she expects these technological developments to eventually create more jobs
than they replace.
This is because food wastage can be up to 20 % of food purchases and food
losses across the supply chain can be far
greater than this.
The revelation came after a recent class action lawsuit suggested
losses stemming from the breach were
greater than that suffered by retailers Target and Home Depot.
Ratios
greater than 100 point to
losses.
A net operating
loss means tax deductions are
greater than the taxable income, which usually happens when business expenses have exceeded earnings.
«Unknown perpetrators also specifically targeted and drained debit accounts with large amounts of money in them, concentrating the damages and causing individual financial institutions... to suffer
losses much
greater than what was experienced after the Home Depot or Target data breaches.»
Chanos said that he pegs those
losses through long bets on Valeant at $ 40 billion, representing «the largest single security
loss hedge funds have incurred,
greater than Lehman, Enron, AIG.»
The point is that diversification among asset classes really helped ameliorate the return an equity - only investor would have suffered this year: a
loss of 2.7 % is better
than a
loss of
greater than 10 %.
Peabody's problems have only expanded so far in 2015: Forecasting
greater losses than originally anticipated, the company reduced its dividend, laid off workers and even cut the salaries of its top executives temporarily in a desperate attempt to keep the company afloat.
The
Great Recession resulted in the
loss of more
than 8 million jobs and left a trail of devastation in its wake, but for some, the downturn offered new opportunities.
Imagine someone trying to sell you a hot new Internet stock with the following pitch: (1) The company's
losses are
greater than its revenues.
«Valeant epitomizes everything that went wrong with the marketplace,» Chanos said at the Evidence - Based Investing conference in New York on Tuesday, according to CNBC, adding that it was «the largest single security
loss hedge funds have incurred,
greater than Lehman, Enron, AIG.»
However, because the income return in each of these years was sizable, no single year resulted in a total return
loss greater than 3 percent.
Just as last Friday's
losses in the Dow and S&P were
greater than the declines in the NASDAQ and Russell 2000, there is quite a bit of price divergence on the weekly charts of iShares Russell 2000 ($ IWM) and the NASDAQ Composite Index ($ COMPX) when compared to $ SPY and $ DIA.
People tend to view the possibility of recouping a
loss as more important
than the possibility of
greater gain.
It takes a collapse in liquidity to create a crisis, and if insolvent borrowers remain liquid, we are likely instead to see a long, difficult period of slow growth in which the
losses are painfully ground out of the system (and always turn out to be
greater than they would have been had they been recognized immediately).
If you own a rental property that has operating costs
greater than the revenue it generates, you would record a passive
loss.
You can typically set your trailing stop -
loss to trail at a certain distance from current market price, it will not start moving until or unless the price moves
greater than the distance you specify.
The upside potential will be less
than if the money goes into buckets with
greater potential risk of
loss.
Investing in high yield fixed income securities, otherwise known as «junk bonds», is considered speculative and involves
greater risk of
loss of principal and interest
than investing in investment grade fixed income securities.
Frontier markets involve heightened risks related to the same factors and may be subject to a
greater risk of
loss than investments in more developed and emerging markets.
Should a net
loss be
greater than beginning retained earnings, the retained earnings can become negative, creating a deficit.
But the total damage is expected to be much
greater than just the insured
losses, as many people in the area didn't have flood insurance, and there has been substantial damage to roads, bridges and other public infrastructure.
While there's a
great deal of variation across individual market cycles, that's roughly the historical average for a 5.25 year market cycle: a 135 % gain, a 30 %
loss, and a 65 % full - cycle return (about 10 % compounded annually, with the full - cycle return coming in at less
than half of the bull market gain).
«The goal in investing is asymmetry: to expose yourself to return in a way that doesn't expose you commensurately to risk, and to participate in gains when the market rises to a
greater extent
than you participate in
losses when it falls.
«These cuts incurred
losses to the provincial economy far
greater than the expected savings, and will continue to damage our reputation and our economy for years to come if steps are not taken immediately to improve service.»
Returns of individual stocks in the portfolio followed the typical pattern for successful quarters — more winners
than losers, and gains of
greater magnitude
than losses.
If the securities decrease in value, the Fund may suffer a
greater loss than would have resulted without the use of leverage.
If the securities decrease in value, a Fund that uses leverage may suffer a
greater loss than would have resulted without the use of leverage.
Lower rated bonds are subject to
greater fluctuations in value and risk of
loss of income and principal
than higher rated bonds.
Due to the effects of compounding, aggressive techniques, and possible correlation errors, leveraged and inverse ETFs may experience
greater losses than one would ordinarily expect.
Investments in commodity - related products may subject the fund to significantly
greater volatility
than investments in traditional securities and involve substantial risks, including risk of
loss of a significant portion of their principal value.
One of the two groups of the study also showed that using liquid meal replacements instead of food actually affected more weight
loss as well as a
greater reduction of the risk indicators of heart disease
than the intermittent fasting diet with food.
For one thing, though it may enable the individual to achieve the heights of momentary ecstasy, it robs him in return of the ineffable joys of union and conscious
loss of self in that which is
greater than self: the element burns up all its future in a flying spark.
Numbers of burghers who had never left Amsterdam had sustained
greater material
loss than we.
While in temporal occasions, succession does mean the fading of the occasion as it becomes a part of the past, he is arguing that the counterpart of the occasion in God has a
greater unity of life
than it had in the temporal world and that in God»... succession does not mean
loss of immediate unison.»
Sociologically, the
losses have seemed far
greater than the gains.
Although I'm sure the sense of
loss you and those at Rothesay feel at David leaving is far
greater than for those of us who watch at a distance, know that you are not alone.
Their reaction is grounded in the belief that feminism poses the threat of
greater potential
loss to Christianity
than any conceivable gain.
By these developments Christianity has suffered in square miles
greater territorial
losses than in any other period.
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