In its research report, Citibank said that the vigorous growth of JD.com in operating profit margin and the gross margin of self operated business has embodied the advantage of JD.com's core business, which will exist for a long time to come.

The Maori unemployment rate remains significantly higher than that of non Maori, and the Government has therefore put in place employment initiatives specially aimed at Maori.

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 .

Profit

Mowgli. Mowgli!

Mowgli. Mowgli.

Very lucrative.

The interest again!

Nonetheless, nominal rates do matter. When they are negligible, they flatter profit statements, while balance sheet problems slowly accumulate.

Bringing It Back Home

If the transaction costs, combined with high interest rates, require that the operation in question generate profit margins of the order of 30 to 50 per cent, it is not clear that this would be economically beneficial.

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

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

The Profit Sharing Economy

Under current law, US corporate profits are taxed at a rate of 35 the highest rate among OECD countries, where the average is 25 . That tax is paid on profits earned in the US and on repatriated profits earned by US companies foreign subsidiaries.

Lives versus Profits

Whatever gives the best profit.

Mowgli.

Mowgli!

Mowgli.

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.

On the other hand, men's participation in agriculture decreased from 75.9 per cent to 60 per cent, while the biggest increase in their share (from 9.6 per cent to 20.1 per cent) was observed in the services sector.

The Maori have also registered a certification trademark to be used in relation to authentic Maori creative arts, which has caused an expansion of Maori cultural industry.

Positive corporate contributions to development could support these initiatives, including through charging of lower interest rates and reduction of profit margins.

Maori

Maori

Uh, uh, Mowgli?

There is no indication that the ratio will decline anytime soon, which is particularly worrisome, given the low profitability and high borrowing costs that China s industrial enterprises face. Indeed, Chinese firms profitability amounted to just over 6 last year, with 2012 profits for China s 500 largest (mostly state owned) corporations barely exceeding 2 .

There goes my percentage.

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

A Maori participant said that although there had been some decline in death rates for Maori, there were major causes for concern in areas such as sudden infant death syndrome and youth suicide.

In an economy with flexible interest and exchange rates, arbitrage eliminates the exchange rate spread quickly. But, because China s exchange rate and interest rates are inflexible, the CNH CNY spread persists, and arbitragers are able to reap fat profits at the economy s expense.

The number of Māori in tertiary education had more than doubled over the past five years with Māori women outnumbering Māori men.

Under the new proportional representation system, the number of Maori seats in Parliament could vary depending on the number of Maori who chose to register on the Maori electoral roll.

Maori voters on the Maori roll elect representatives for Maori constituencies in Parliament.

Run, Mowgli. Run!

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

Of course, value added includes profits, and to this extent the incentive for companies to manipulate transfer prices may reappear. But the incentive would be much weakened, because gross returns typically represent a fairly small share of total value added.

A sorcerer's profit on Wall Street?

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

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.

If the long revenue recovery process is taken into account, this profit rate could hardly beat the inflation.