Sentences with phrase «offset high investment costs»

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Excluding the impact of currency, the increase in Adjusted EBITDA reflected incremental gains from cost savings initiatives (2) that were partly offset by a combination of factors that included higher input costs, lower net sales as well as business investments in Rest of World markets.

These gains should more than offset marginally higher borrowing costs for Berkshire's BNSF railroad and Berkshire Hathaway Energy, which finance their large capital investments with borrowed money.

Net income of $ 8.7 million is above budget of $ 5.5 million; higher claims costs, offset by stable investment returns and lower - than - budgeted expenses contributed to this result.