Profit

Because there is no profit in it.

But 350 billion is roughly what the financial sector as a whole earned in an average quarter during the credit boom and profit levels in recent quarters have reached or exceeded those levels. So, if the entire write down cost were covered by banks, most of them would lose the equivalent of no more than one year s profits spread over several years.

Very lucrative.

The interest again!

Of the 53 sales partners concerned, the performance of 50 was below the 50 per cent net profit target and the remaining 3 were inactive.

Bringing It Back Home

However, a comparison of several developed countries still found that, for most countries, the more competition there was in their markets (mainly assessed from levels of concentration), the higher the convergence in long run profits and speed of profit adjustment. See Peter A.G. van Bergeijk and Robert C.G. Haffner, Privatization, deregulation and the macroeconomy Measurement, modelling and policy, Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, 1996.

At the same time, projects sponsors will hold the largest share in the project s profit, once the initial investment is paid.

Longline swordfishing is often only marginally profitable, if profitable at all.

The Profit Sharing Economy

Lives versus Profits

Whatever gives the best profit.

The expected profits can be held down by allowing exchange rates to be changed before speculative pressures build.

Countries in East Asia, with the exception of Hong Kong, China, used fiscal instruments, such as tax breaks, special depreciation allowances and the deferment of tax payments on profits, to increase corporate profits and to encourage retentions in order to accelerate capital accumulation.

SOEs will be required to deliver 30 of their profits to the state, instead of keeping most or even all of their profits, as they have done for the last two decades.

(c) Knowingly profiting from a crime or offence committed by a criminal organization.

People, service, profit.

The oil is priced off the margin.

And so the margin is natural gas.

No. Fair enough? But you do get 5 of the profits.

(2) if he she has not gained any stock equity of the enterprise, the profit distributed to him shall be listed and paid out of the current period expenses within the profit limit realized by the related businesses and the standards for distribution.

For any adjustments of losses and benefits happened in previous years, in case the amounts involved are relatively huge, it is required to give detailed information about the contents of such adjustments, reasons therefor and amounts affected.

6 Defined as net resource flows minus the interest payments on long term debt and profit remittances on account of FDI.

There goes my percentage.

There's the airplane ticket over and import duties, hidden taxes, profit markup...

Prospective project sponsors will also be concerned about their ability to transfer abroad or repatriate their profits.

A sorcerer's profit on Wall Street?

You don't even break even, much less show a profit.

Chile was merely a transit station for the bulk of the catch on its way to lucrative U.S. and Japanese markets.

First, executives for whom shared profits already account for a significant portion of income may resist programs that distribute profits to more workers, fearing that their own income would decline. Even when such programs increase overall profitability, they could reduce the profits going to top management and shareholders.

CA That's a high gross margin business. I like it.

We care how we make our profit.

It's not very lucrative, but it gives me plenty of spare time.

An enterprise invested by the people's government or any of its departments or organs shall hand over the payable state owned profits to the treasury.

We had marginal profit I did.

And the last area is profit itself.

Her father's estate is a good 3,000 a year.

Surprisingly, Stephen's statistics showed that these 29 Hollywood blockbusters generated US 14.8 million of profits on average, while the profit rate only reached 3.7 .

Meanwhile, China Resources and Heineken reached a long term strategic cooperation arrangement, including acquisition of the existing business of Heineken in China mainland, Hong Kong and Macao, and integration with the beer business of China Resources in China.

Every year, US residents take some of what they earn in overseas investment income interest on bonds, dividends on equities, and repatriated profits on direct investment and reinvest it then and there. For example, corporations plow overseas profits back into their operations, often to avoid paying the high US corporate income tax implied by repatriating those earnings.

The evidence relating to the relationship between concentration, on the one hand, and productivity, prices or profits, on the other, is mixed (regarding the latter, this may be because lack of competition leads to dissipation of profits in higher costs).

Sarge, got to grease the wheels.

You wouldn't want a small percentage of the profits.

This ensures that these resources are not drained away from the local communities merely to be exported abroad for short term profit.