Sentences with phrase «loss than higher»

High - yield securities (junk bonds) have speculative characteristics and present a greater risk of loss than higher quality debt securities.

Bottom Line: Overall, low - fat diets are not more effective for weight loss than higher - fat diets.

Not exact matches

Two more years of economic pain Australia faces a longer period of low growth, higher debt and higher unemployment than predicted just four weeks ago as the wave of job losses gathered strength, with clothing manufacturer Pacific Brands axing 1850 staff across the country.

A good rule of thumb is if the answer is less than 24 hours, keep going higher until the loss would leave you in anguish mentally or financially for more than a day.

If you suddenly saw trucks come from the fields with strawberries in a higher level of rejection than usual, you can stop harvesting immediately, and not wait until the end of the day,» Hennessy says, noting that such decisions immediately cut losses.

As of last June, less than 2 percent of active participating security SBICs had losses high enough to be considered «impaired,» compared with 20 percent a few years ago.

The last official numbers show SoundCloud incurred a $ 51 million (# 45 million) loss in 2015, higher than the $ 39 million (# 35 million) loss it recorded in 2014.

Ford's Mobility business, which is tasked with investing in autonomous driving and other mobility technologies and business opportunities, posted higher losses than the same quarter last year.

The vow came as the Calgary - based company blamed clogged export pipelines for its worst heavy oil price discounts in five years during the first three months of 2018, contributing to a higher - than - expected $ 914 - million net loss in the first quarter.

Nearly 65 % of Prevent program participants are still engaged with the program at 12 months, significantly higher than the 6.6 % average for leading commercial weight loss programs.

Large or small, high tech or low, a business's uncertainties are real, and losses are more likely than gains.

That said, the actual number of victims and ransomware losses are likely to be higher than the FBI's estimates because the agency counts only what has been reported to it.

The company's highest shipping volumes since late 2008 helped push adjusted net income to $ 46 million for the fourth quarter of 2017, reversing a net loss of $ 47 million in the same period a year earlier and higher than the $ 31 million forecast average from Thomson Reuters analysts.

That program was designed to help insurers who set premiums too low, or had higher than expected claims, recover their losses.

But because it was a smaller loss than a year earlier, showing the shrinking retailer is at least cutting costs efficiently as its core business dwindles, shares went up 5 % though they remain down 70 % from their 52 - week highs.

Safe - haven investments suffered: in the metal markets, silver prices tumbled more than 6 %, marking their biggest loss since late 2008, and gold fell more than 2 %, off a record high.

Malls tend to have higher loss rates than other property types after a default, increasing the stigma for lenders, according to Lea Overby, an analyst at Morningstar Credit Ratings LLC.

The athletic apparel maker said that it expects to report a steeper than expected loss for the current quarter as inventories remain high and sales here in the U.S. remain under pressure.

So, while its revenue was higher than ever before, it also reported record losses.

And price volatility is actually higher at lower rates than it is with higher rates because you don't have as large of an income stream to cushion the blow from the loss of principal.

Tesla shares were in freefall on Thursday, down more than 7 % in mid-morning trading, extending the losses that began on the heels of an alarmingly high cash burn in the first quarter that was exacerbated by Elon Musk's out - of - touch remarks.

I suspect the Yellen Fed (correctly) has a much higher tolerance for stock market losses than Bernanke, and that interventions in the case of market losses and economic weakness will take a different form than quantitative easing.

Its stock valuation has dropped by more than half since July 2015; in January, it posted its first full - year loss since 2008; and one of its many tranches of bonds — one specifically designed to be a high - risk, high - reward safety valve in times of trouble — has recently begun to crash.

At the high end, the tax loss is estimated at $ 1.7 - billion, which assumes 50 per cent of the salary income was not earned for real work performed, and the family member had a 15 - per - cent - lower marginal tax rate than the company owner.

«In the meantime, every credible statistical analysis suggests that the actual loss of life is staggeringly higher than the official numbers.

Tesla booked higher than expected revenues and lower than expected operating losses for the first quarter of the year, puzzling analysts

In Brooke Group Ltd. v. Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corp., 98 the Supreme Court formalized this premise into a doctrinal test.The case involved cigarette manufacturing, an industry dominated by six firms.99 Liggett, one of the six, introduced a line of generic cigarettes, which it sold for about 30 % less than the price of branded cigarettes.100 Liggett alleged that when it became clear that its generics were diverting business from branded cigarettes, Brown & Williamson, a competing manufacturer, began selling its own generics at a loss.101 Liggett sued, claiming that Brown & Williamson's tactic was designed to pressure Liggett to raise prices on its generics, thus enabling Brown & Williamson to maintain high profits on branded cigarettes.

Even so, as long as the yield on the preferred is higher than the Treasury's funding costs, the favorable terms will represent an insufficient risk premium but not a loss to the public.

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.

If you only invest in one company, or one sector (like tech companies), you are at a much higher risk for losses than if you invest across many companies and many sectors.

The yearly return figures illustrate the higher risk of foreign and smaller firm stocks — small - cap stocks had more yearly losses than did large - cap stocks, and the losses for both international stocks and small - company stocks can be larger than for large - cap stocks.

Finally, the tradeoff for the lower - than - expected corporate rate (21 % vs. 25 % est.) appears to be more mixed benefits on the personal side and modifications to some key corporate incentives from the way they were originally envisioned (i.e., a more limited expensing provision, restrictions on interest deductibility & loss carryforwards, higher repatriation rates & stronger international tax provisions).

Factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward - looking statements include, but are not limited to: changes in consumer discretionary spending; our eCommerce platform not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the streamlining of the Company's vendor base and execution of the Company's new merchandising strategy not producing the anticipated benefits within the expected time - frame or at all; the amount that we invest in strategic transactions and the timing and success of those investments; the integration of strategic acquisitions being more difficult, time - consuming, or costly than expected; inventory turn; changes in the competitive market and competition amongst retailers; changes in consumer demand or shopping patterns and our ability to identify new trends and have the right trending products in our stores and on our website; changes in existing tax, labor and other laws and regulations, including those changing tax rates and imposing new taxes and surcharges; limitations on the availability of attractive retail store sites; omni - channel growth; unauthorized disclosure of sensitive or confidential customer information; risks relating to our private brand offerings and new retail concepts; disruptions with our eCommerce platform, including issues caused by high volumes of users or transactions, or our information systems; factors affecting our vendors, including supply chain and currency risks; talent needs and the loss of Edward W. Stack, our Chairman and Chief Executive Officer; developments with sports leagues, professional athletes or sports superstars; weather - related disruptions and seasonality of our business; and risks associated with being a controlled company.

For instance, by entering a trade 1 point higher than the trigger, the potential reward may be 1 point, but the potential loss may also be 1 point.

Collectively, these factors helped the markets recover, and by mid-May, both crude oil and the S&P 500 Index were higher than where they began 2016, as loss aversion behavior had reverted to more historically average levels.

Nvidia Corp. and Advanced Micro Devices Inc. have all but erased losses that began June 8, with each rallying at least 5 percent in the past two days, even as broader measures of tech shares remain more than 2 percent from recent highs.

Money is put into more than one property to minimize the risk of loss and increase the likelihood of high gains.

If stock rises instead, however, the investor could have to buy it back at a higher price than he or she sold it for, resulting in a loss.

And later investors, who bought shares of Uber at a valuation higher than $ 50 billion, are unlikely to want to book a loss and sell.

These positive earnings drivers were more than offset by the combined impact of several factors, including increased energy - related provisions for credit losses, a 17 basis point decline in net interest margin, moderate growth of non-interest expenses, the addition of acquisition - related contingent consideration fair value changes reflecting performance within CWB Maxium Financial (CWB Maxium), higher preferred share dividends, and the 20 % increase to CWB's income tax rate in Alberta.

If you're looking for safety and a lower probability for losses during stock market corrections, high quality bonds should still prove to help more often than not.

As usual, I don't place too much emphasis on this sort of forecast, but to the extent that I make any comments at all about the outlook for 2006, the bottom line is this: 1) we can't rule out modest potential for stock appreciation, which would require the maintenance or expansion of already high price / peak earnings multiples; 2) we also should recognize an uncomfortably large potential for market losses, particularly given that the current bull market has now outlived the median and average bull, yet at higher valuations than most bulls have achieved, a flat yield curve with rising interest rate pressures, an extended period of internal divergence as measured by breadth and other market action, and complacency at best and excessive bullishness at worst, as measured by various sentiment indicators; 3) there is a moderate but still not compelling risk of an oncoming recession, which would become more of a factor if we observe a substantial widening of credit spreads and weakness in the ISM Purchasing Managers Index in the months ahead, and; 4) there remains substantial potential for U.S. dollar weakness coupled with «unexpectedly» persistent inflation pressures, particularly if we do observe economic weakness.

Last month, DMG posted a $ 5 million operating loss in the third quarter due to higher - than - expected medical costs, prompting the company to put the unit up for sale.

It's human nature to react to financial losses more strongly than we do to slow, steady gains — which unfortunately leads some people to «buy high and sell low» rather than the other way around.

However, since the price action setup tail high or low is very close to a key level in the market, logic would dictate that we make our stop loss a little bit larger and place it just beyond that key level, rather than at the high or low of the setup's tail.

They entail significant risks that can include losses due to leveraging or other speculative investment practices, lack of liquidity, volatility of returns, restrictions on transferring interests in a fund, potential lack of diversification, absence and / or delay of information regarding valuations and pricing, complex tax structures and delays in tax reporting, less regulation and higher fees than mutual funds.

Non-GAAP earnings per share came in at $ 0.04, up from a loss of $ 0.04 in the prior - year period and $ 0.08 higher than analysts were expecting.

As individuals normally hold far fewer bonds in their portfolio than bond mutual funds, the chances that a default will result in a large loss for the investor are generally higher for those investing in individual bonds.

Of more importance than the actual percentage losses was that the selloff was accompanied by higher volume across the board.

Despite that big production boost and higher oil prices, Halcon Resources posted an adjusted quarterly loss of $ 8.7 million, or $ 0.06 per share, which was a $ 0.03 - per - share deeper loss than analysts expected.