But in some ways broadcasting deregulation is the most serious, because it places information — the minds of people — into the hands of those whose first
interest is profit.
Kronke is a business man who major
interest is profit but Mr Arsenal is the coach / manager.
Those consumers make their monthly payments, which include interest, and
the interest is profit to investors.
Not exact matches
With operating net
profit — or
profits before taxes and
interest — up by 30 percent to 978 million euros, Eni CEO Claudio Descalzi said that Eni's results
were «over and above the rising price of oil.»
To help ease the appearance of conflicts of
interest, the company said it would not enter into any new international deals, promised to hire a compliance officer and ethics adviser to vet domestic deals, donate foreign
profit from its hotels and refrain from doing anything that could
be perceived as exploiting the office of the presidency.
Businesses varying in size
are understanding that maximizing
profits by cutting corners and succumbing to environmental and social irresponsibility
is not in their best
interest.
«When they became for -
profit organizations, they put their own
profit ahead of what
's in the
interest of the investor and the issuer,» he says.
He thinks trucking companies
are interested in Westport's new engine, and predicts it will make a
profit within five years.
The banking system
was hyper - competitive and quick to take risks in pursuit of
profits; policymakers aggressively pushed homeownership through measures such as tax breaks for mortgage
interest payments; and weak recourse laws let mortgage defaulters off the hook.
Now, with a majority
interest in Skype slated to
be sold to a collection of private investors, they
're using their stake in Joltid to try to block the sale and recover millions of dollars in what they say
are lost
profits.
Citi, like other big banks, has
been cutting costs to boost
profit as low
interest rates and new regulations crimp revenue growth.
Revenue has hit $ 1 billion on an annualized basis, and Houston says the company
is generating a
profit, excluding
interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization.
While the exact size of your ad should
be tested for maximized
profit, it
's almost always going to
be in the best
interests of those with a limited ad budget to use a partial page ad.
Of course, given the volatility, it still might
be in your best
interest to lock in the
profit now and take the tax hit, but that
is up to you to decide.
«Gold
is stuck between $ 1,238 - $ 1,260 with the risk to skewed to downside based on rising expected
interest rates and failure to break higher which has left it vulnerable to
profit - taking in the short term,» said Ole Hansen, the head of commodity strategy at Saxo Bank.
They'll
be interested in the big picture, and will want to know what percentage of the revenue
is actually
profit.
Telephone companies, for example,
are considered common carriers and public utilities which, generally speaking, must operate in the public
interest, and less from a
profit motive.
Carried
interest is the money manager's cut of the fund's
profit.
When Chicago lawyer Marvin Bower rescued what
was then an accounting and engineering firm from near bankruptcy in 1939 and proceeded to invent the discipline of management consulting, he enshrined a set of commandments that guides McKinsey to this day: put client
interest above firm
profits; speak truth to power no matter the consequences; our work must have real impact on the client's business; take client secrets to the grave.
Profits are shown after taxes, extraordinary credits or charges, cumulative effects of accounting changes, and noncontrolling
interests (including subsidiary preferred dividends), but before preferred dividends of the company.
Details of the significant non-recurring and non-operational items included within operating
profit,
interest and income tax of continuing operations for the quarters ended March 31, 2018 and 2017 above
are as follows:
Carried
interest, which
is a fund manager's
profit,
is taxed at the capital gains rate, rather than the higher rate on ordinary income.
But Bitcoin has no houses or stock certificates or
interest coupons, and there
is no company behind it generating revenue whose
profits you might share.
Consumers aren't going to like this, but eventually, the federal government will have to step in, so it
's in the auto industry
's best
interest to get ahead of the curve, and 2018 — with sales continuing to
be strong and
profits rolling in —
is the year to take the hit.
Whatever the market, people and companies
are discovering ways to
profit from the common bonds that niche
interests provide.
You might not think you
're that
interesting, but the funny thing about networks
is that even if you
are boring (surely, you mustn't
be, given that you
're a Fortune reader), hackers may still aim to A)
profit from your misfortune, and B) use you as stepping stone to get at someone else.
In fact, currency markets now
are helping the central bank in that regard, since a stronger currency essentially has the same effect on the economy as higher
interest rates because it will reduce exports and corporate
profits.
Republicans
are faced with a choice —
be on the right side of history and stand with the American people who support a free and open internet, or hold hands with the special
interests who want to control the internet for their own
profit.»
MUFG and rival Japanese banks have
been reviewing their domestic operations as they battle diminishing
profits due to ultra-low
interest rates amid the Bank of Japan's massive monetary stimulus measures.
«Our «rational exuberance» rests on a combination of above - trend US and global economic growth, low albeit slowly rising
interest rates, and
profit growth aided by corporate tax reform likely to
be adopted by early next year,» Kostin said in a report for clients.
Poulsen
was speaking after Dong Energy, which
is headquartered in Denmark, announced operating
profit (earnings before
interest, tax, depreciation and amortization) had increased by DKK 1.8 billion ($ 283 million), reaching DKK 4.4 billion in the second quarter of 2017.
The EC alleges that IKEA used an intercompany loan to offset tax, saying: «As a result of the
interest payments, a significant part of Inter IKEA Systems» franchise
profits after 2011
was shifted to its parent in Liechtenstein.»
Rather than a traditional offsetting relationship at this early point of the tightening cycle, the near - term
interest rate outlook and the near - term
profits outlook
are both negative.
Digit
is free to use, making its
profit by collecting any
interest earned on your account.
Now that the dollar
is sinking, it will
be interesting to see whether the greenback should now give P&G's
profits a big boost, just as it hampered
profits over the past three years.
When providing financing, a seller stays tied to the business long after the sale has
been made, counting on the new owner to turn
profit and pay back the principal with
interest.
Last year that meant the difference between paying tax on $ 500,000 of
profit versus $ 1.6 million — which
is kind of like getting an
interest - free loan.»
Historically,
profits were revving up when the Fed started increasing rates, and the positive of accelerating earnings would overwhelm the incremental negative of the Fed raising
interest rates.
Corporate
profits overall
are expected to have risen 17 percent for the three - month period, but the financial sector has drawn especially keen
interest.
There
's much debate over whether founders can truly do good for society if they
're also
interested in turning a
profit.
Keller points out that one of the reasons to own a franchise in the first place
is because owners almost always make money when they sell; but in the U.S. most teams aren't making
profits from attendance and TV revenues
are small compared to other leagues, all of which dampens buyer
interest.
But looking across the country, it
's clear that self -
interest — and the fear of lost
profits — also fuels the effort to keep weed outlawed.
A lot of market strategists
were pointing to bank stocks as the sector that would benefit the most from
interest rate increases, since higher
interest rates would boost lending
profits.
After two years, if the full investment has not
been repaid through monthly
profit payouts, 25 %
interest plus principal will
be paid on the initial investment to satisfy the investor.
Sharks initially
are weary of her $ 2 million request for 10 %, but become much more
interested when she explains that Ten Thirty One Productions brought in $ 1.8 million in revenue from their October haunted hayride, resulting in $ 600,000 in
profit.
(Heffernan touches on the big - picture disservice in the media's insidious practice of narrowing our horizons for
profit, rather than expanding them in the public
interest: «[Media companies] know that when we buy a newspaper or a magazine, we aren't looking for a fight... The search for what
is familiar and comfortable underlies our media consumption habits in just the same way as it makes us yearn for Mom's mac»n' cheese.»)
When rates
are rising
interest rate risk
is higher for lenders since they have foregone
profits from issuing fixed - rate mortgage loans that could
be earning higher
interest over time in a variable rate scenario.
The stock market opened way down, continuing last Friday's selloff, though it has climbed back since the open — implying the return of volatility — as skittish investors continue to fear the sequence I describe in this
AM's WaPo: tight labor market, wage pressures, higher
interest rates, inflation, lower
profit margins.
The wage pop [last Friday's 2.9 % growth in hourly wages] spooked the markets because investors, already skittish as valuations
were a bit steep (though not as bad as people have
been saying, given strong current and expected corporate earnings), envisioned this sequence: wage growth gooses price growth (i.e., inflation), which raises both market and Federal Reserve
interest rates, which slows growth and shaves corporate
profit margins.
By displacing taxable
profits, the business revenue that hitherto
was paid out as income taxes
is now used to pay
interest to creditors.