Sentences with phrase «nominal gains»

«US home prices are on track for a 5 % nominal gain for the 4th consecutive year, returning national prices to their highest level since 2007.
At Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) we take a more demanding approach, defining investing as the transfer to others of purchasing power now with the reasoned expectation of receiving more purchasing power — after taxes have been paid on nominal gains — in the future.
That's despite only nominal gains in horsepower and torque, accomplished via reduced exhaust backpressure and the latest Bosch engine management system.
For example, the total return for the bond market has not only beaten the total return for the stock market in the period, the risk - adjusted reward for investment grade bond ownership has been far greater than the risk - adjusted nominal gains in stocks.
At Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) we take a more demanding approach, defining investing as the transfer to others of purchasing power now with the reasoned expectation of receiving more purchasing power — after taxes have been paid on nominal gains — in... (continue reading)
Of course, the nominal gains for luxury homeowners are likely to be higher in absolute dollar terms.
The fair thing would be to establish inflation factors to determine real rather than nominal gains, and base a real tax on a real gain.
After inflation adjustment, durable goods PCE was up 1.1 %, compared with the 0.8 % nominal gain.
Real services PCE was up only 0.3 % compared with the 0.6 % nominal gain.
Some eight years later, the money in the Dow would have increased to $ 12,480, for a nominal gain of $ 757, or 6.4 percent.
Thus, stocks after that fast start, traded lower, although for a time in mid-afternoon, the Dow went back and forth with respect to nominal gains and modest losses.
Given that, would it be better to sell off the shares now and take some nominal gains, or retain them until such time the stock should be sold for other reasons?
We'll have people refer to their payouts in non-inflation adjusted terms so that their nominal gain sounds much larger than it actually is.
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