Sentences with phrase «sources of profit»

The Bond movies, while hits, are minimal sources of profit for any studio that makes them, at least under the most recent terms.

According to Hosking, some investors are financing European lawsuits that look like promising sources of profit.

Which means that one of the biggest sources of profit and connection - making for growing galleries like Canada — selling high - end work at high - end art fairs — is completely cut off.

The conflicts for territorial control spread throughout the world, and each time they become more violent, while they confront local communities with financial giants and transnational industries searching the planet for new sources of profit.

One of the main sources of profit for credit card issuers — and pain for credit cardholders — is the interest charged on balances carried from month to month.

Third, the leverage isn't as high, and the sources of profit are more diversified.

The spread between the cost of funds and the interest rate charged to borrowers represents one of the main sources of profit for most financial institutions.

More generally, of course, our banks have had to cut interest rates on home loans and look for alternative sources of profit.

But in October — less than three months after its launch — Jet changed its business model and dropped its $ 50 membership fee it once said would be its sole source of profit.

Under Jet's original model, the company planned to rely on the membership fees as its exclusive source of profits.

The move is a big one: It means Jet is eliminating one of its big expected revenue streams and its one planned source of profit.

The former subsidiary of Halliburton Co. has seen one of its largest sources of profits — wars in Iraq and Afghanistan — wind down in recent years, and this development led the company to embark on a strategic review.

«Locking up immigrants, including families and children fleeing extreme violence in Central America, should not be a source of profit for huge corporations, particularly given private contractors» terrible record providing inadequate medical and mental health care to dying immigrants,» the statement said.

Spotify may be losing lots of money and struggling to turn its millions of users into a source of profits, but some on Wall Street are super bullish on the company and its prospects.

As long as those investors are a moderate fringe, rather than the core of investors, they become the source of profits for others, but there is no particular danger to market efficiency.

The market's continuing refusal to countenance the long - term reality described above has proven to be a recurring source of profits for those who are willing to buck the crowd and embrace the trend in falling long - term bond yields of the highest quality borrowers.

Locking up immigrants, including families and children fleeing extreme violence in Central America, should not be a source of profit for huge corporations, particularly given private contractors» terrible record providing inadequate medical and mental health care to dying immigrants.

It is a sin against the dignity of persons and their fundamental rights to reduce them by violence to their productive value or to a source of profit.

Yarmolenko may have been outside their usual parameters, but in Maximilian Philipp, Ömer Toprak, Mahmoud Dahoud, Jadon Sancho and Jeremy Toljan, they have picked up five players who they will hope will not only become stars for BVB, but a source of profit in a few years» time.

A private firm will focus on Huhne, because he is an almost guaranteed source of profit.

On one side are powerful and wealthy figures who see our public schools as a potential source of profit.

More than 800,000 people are trafficked every year (some right here in the US, including girls as young as age 5) and sex trafficking is the # 2 largest source of profits for international organized crime... second only to drugs.

Key Recommendation: Charter school audits need to identify the source of any profit distribution and the ASBCS would need to approve any distribution that exceeded net profits for the year.

Sales figures for that model had been significantly low when compared to what had been anticipated at start of production and could hardly have been a source of profit for the parent company BMW.

Let vehicle - electronics - integration expert Derek Schmiedl show you how today's complex dashboards are a source of profit and opportunity, not the nail in the coffin.

Instead of viewing each ebook sale as a source of profit, authors should view each ebook sale as a way of driving qualified traffic traffic to their website, as the first step in building long - term profitable relationships with their ebook readers.

If Amazon's Content Strategy works then each is a steady source of profit for Amazon.

More and more entrepreneurs and business professionals are viewing published books as marketing tools than as sources of profits from advances and royalties from book sales.

He also said that a significant source of profits remained the server segment, and that it was important «not to be distracted from where those opportunities are».

If Marvel converted half their DM readership to digital and the DM collapsed as a result, then that would result in the loss of a vital source of profit.

As the spread shrinks (or even becomes negative), this source of profit disappears.

The second source of profits in this example trade was the fact that the stock could end up higher than $ 46 / share on expiration day.

That was the first source of our profit.

Roll yield, a source of profits for trend followers, is the return captured when a futures contract converges to the spot price.

Black Diamond's main source of profits is definitely its modular buildings provided to the oil sand explorers in northern Alberta.

That potential average profit of 8 % yearly provides a cushion and a source of profit for average investors.

Wealth management has become an important source of profits, and let's not forget all those fees.

The dividend payment serves as a direct source of profit for the investor and also acts as a valuable tool to measure the relative attractiveness of a company compared to its own historical pattern.

BUT... the management fees paid by the mutual fund to its manager is the source of profits.

Unfortunately, CDS are a large source of profits for the major investment banks and the U.S. government is captured by the banksters so there's virtually no chance CDS will be banned.

It is extremely unlikely that the source of profits has any material impact on the volatility of margins, though, conceivably, it might be able to effect the mean.

If there are no net underwriting losses, float is free, or more often, is a source of profit.

When dogs reach the age where they're no longer able to produce puppies, Strader said, mill owners will often kill them since they're not a source of profit for their businesses.

We are routinely faced with the dumping of puppy mill breeder dogs that have outlived their usefulness as a source of profit.

«Engraving tags can be a tremendous source of profit for every retailer, and the location of the engraving machine and selection of tags is key,» she says.

Adding tubs and bathing accessories of all kinds to your existing grooming SKUs can provide a good source of profit, as well as goodwill for the pet owner interested in economizing by caring for their pets at home.

Frequent flyer miles are a great source of profit for the... Read More...

and yet they didn't get anything, it's as if there is another source of profit (fees)

Nintendo's NX (and the rapid iterations of the DS handhelds) are prime examples of this concept - the Wii - U had a phenomenal 1st - party attach rate, but the console isn't selling enough to make such a consistent approach to 1st - party quality into a large enough source of profit... so they relegate the console to Gamecube status, scale - back support and go to work on creating their next phenomenon - all within a year or two.

The source of their profits is not so much in the release of new console games.