With little margin for profit, lenders have become even more risk - averse, so indicators of credit tightness such as the average FICO score have ticked up this year as rates have gone down.
On tight mountain passes
with little margin for error, the hefty 2018 Ford Mustang GT PP1 inspires confidence, tackling hairpins with the sort of speed that would make earlier iterations of the grand tourer need to back down.
I suppose manufacturers choose a TB that is,
with a little margin, just big enough to be not restricting at WOT at max rpm.
So she decided to write a devotional specifically for people
with little margin in life — one that gave simple ways to move closer to God throughout the day, through the use of spiritual disciplines.
«It's tough to look at a full year of losses on Amazon (+56 %), athenahealth (+26 %), Netflix (+55 %) and Tesla (+46 %) when we believe all those stocks appeared priced
with little margin for error entering the year, and none executed well or met fundamental expectations in 2017,» he wrote.
Not exact matches
Budget 2015 left very
little margin for error when it came to balancing the books,
with a projected surplus of $ 1.4 billion plus an additional $ 1.0 billion as a contingency reserve, giving the federal government a $ 2.4 billion
margin for error.
The forecasted surpluses in the next three years are very modest, ranging from $ 1.4 to $ 2.7 billion; coupled
with $ 1 billion per year in contingency reserve, there is very
little margin for error if deficits are not an option.
Click the
little bell icon in the left
margin near your name to shut yourself off completely, meaning whoever is trying to communicate
with you via Slack will just have to wait.
By 1978, the retail shops were gone, and Helen of Troy, in the words of company president Aaron Shenkman, was left
with «a nice
little $ 6 - million business [net
margins were about 4 %].
Apple's stock is already being punished for having a slowing growth rate and peaking
margins, so a deal
with China Mobile is very important to the company even if
margins go down a
little, Pearl said.
With a
little cash, we could purchase our inventory and sell our products at a MUCH higher profit
margin.
«When I heard Cohen's retainer of $ 35,000, when he was doing no work for the president, I said «That's how he's repaying,
with a
little profit and a
little margin for paying taxes for Michael,»» Giuliani said.
Pharmacies focus on their profit
margins and have
little incentive to provide patients
with the lowest possible pricing.
While MCD doesn't have as much of a
margin of safety in the share price as I'd normally like,
with a very long - term investing horizon, I feel comfortable paying up a
little for a quality stock as I detailed here.
With Safeway's store brand sales growth outpacing that of national brands by a 3 - to - 1
margin, Dietz has had
little problem persuading several P&G and PepsiCo brand managers to join her growing team.
I said, «Well, that's how he's repaying it,
with a
little profit and a
little margin for paying taxes for Michael.
Restaurants find craft beer appealing because it delivers both higher
margins along
with customers who don't mind paying a
little bit extra for a meal.
Yet,
with so many asset classes priced for perfection there seems to be precious
little margin - of - safety to insulate investors should these initial skirmishes escalate into a full - blown trade war.
Still, Prof. Patton concluded, most investment bankers and other financiers have
little use for economy - wide indices, while commercial investors and their creditors are concerned mainly
with arbitrage
margins, that is, whether they can buy a property at one price, and sell it at another.
Family, friends, neighbors, co-workers and acquaintances from high school we stalk on Facebook all press us
with the idea that we've got
little margin for error in our twenties — that life should play out like a clear - cut script.
«We can complete a design in a
little more than half the time it took two years ago, which has allowed us to lower our overhead and will also help
with increased
margins when the economy comes back.
But
with such
little margin for postseason error, every winnable game is the biggest.
Chelsea have been in formidable form since Conte switched to a 3 -4-2-1 system on the back of a chastening 3 - 0 loss at Emirates Stadium in September, and Pires acknowledges the Gunners have
little margin for error
with 15 top - fight games remaining this term.
With just eight games left this season for the Championship's top six, there is now
little margin for error.
An opening scoreless draw against South Korea left
little margin for error on Tuesday (Wednesday AEST), but the Matildas responded in perfect fashion
with a one - sided victory to sit top of their group on goal difference.
As retailers, especially for products
with very
little profit
margin, we're here to help, to educate, to support, but mostly to engage in a great relationship
with our clients.
With more than two months still to go, there is at best precious
little margin for error.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R - Ky., had expressed confidence early in the day, but he has
little margin for error
with a 52 - 48 majority.
By a considerable
margin, mathematics Ph.D. recipients are the most likely to hold a faculty post,
with a Ph.D. - to - faculty ratio of just 0.12 — a
little more than eight current faculty members for each new Ph.D. awarded.
Maybe students could get away
with a
little passive aggressive resistance to this false dogma by giving the required answer to pass the class but writing in reference citations in the
margins of the exam paper pointing to the correct answer.
Margin Call is a
little talky, and there are times when the exposition slows things down, but Chandor attempts to provide us
with the necessary background in easily digestible bites.
With Call Me by Your Name, his latest and, by some
margin, best film, he slides off into the apricot groves to remain
little more than a casual observer to all the hot - blooded action.
From minute one, The Commuter is filled
with little hints that will end up mattering to the plot at large, and half the fun is watching Collet - Serra toss them into the
margins of the frame and see if the viewer will notice.
Similarly, in Revolution at the
Margins, Frederick Hess reports that limited competition had
little impact, but the threat of serious competition from charter schools and vouchers in 1995 - ’96 led Milwaukee Public Schools to reform
with Montessori options, decentralization, tougher graduation requirements, more transparent school report cards, advertising, and empowerment of their more innovative principals, who had previously been treated
with contempt.
One study, by Tom Loveless of the Brookings Institution, predicted that the standards would have
little or no effect on academic achievement; he noted that «from 2003 to 2009, states
with terrific standards raised their National Assessment of Educational Progress scores by roughly the same
margin as states
with awful ones.»
The latest generation of carbon - ceramic brakes do a great job, even if the pedal travel is a
little long, but the simple fact remains that you enter these braking zones — places
with no runoff and minimal
margin for error — 20 mph faster than in the latest Porsche 911 GT3 RS.
However, these models also come
with black headlining, which makes the car feel a
little cramped inside, even though it's actually bigger than the previous - generation model by quite a significant
margin.
But come
with me on a
little real - life drive, and consider the extra
margin of safety that traction control allows.
When I chatted
with people on other networks like T - Mobile and AT&T, the sound quality did sound a
little clearer, but not by a huge noticeable
margin.
Self - publishing a full - color print picture book can be very expensive
with little room for a profit
margin, especially without distribution.
With margins low, distribution costs rocketing, limited or no marketing budgets for all but the top 15 percent of titles, and
little major media interest in all but the biggest authors, book sales drop a
little more each year and fewer and fewer authors can live off their fiction efforts.»
Major publishers are obviously looking to increase their ebook
margins significantly and shift the pivot in the book business just a
little as they turn to operations such as Oyster and their own direct - sales websites to reduce their dependence on Amazon, but they're unlikely to make much of an impact
with these sort of price differentials.
The company's focus on
margins helps Altria grow
with little money reinvested into the business.
TD won't never openly admit it, but
margin loan value can certainly use as in indicator of how well a stock is doing.And
with my
little knowledge, I like to rely on straight indicators like
margin loan value.
They could concoct a rise in the price level of 20 % or so, which would presumably flow through to housing, bailing out fixed - rate borrowers
with too
little margin (ignore for a moment that floating and new financing rates will rise also).
Gross
margins have averaged 7.3 % over the past 10 years,
with little variance.
Combine this fact
with a low
margin business, and the company must fund most of their operations through debt financing — there is
little cash on the balance sheet.
That provides a sizable
margin of safety in terms of the company maintaining its dividend, as the industry Amgen is in is rife
with risks that include regulatory issues, lengthy R&D trials that can be expensive
with little or no results, patent expiration, litigation possibilities, and competition.
I've been wanting to open a separate brokerage account though for a while and will probably pull the trigger later this year and looking to have
margin capability
with it as I want to do a
little more advanced trading.
Rhys Kesselman of Simon Fraser University said earners near that
margin would likely become a
little more aggressive on tax planning and
with their investment arrangements.