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...Ever since, the promise of eye-watering returns has enticed pension plans, endowments, insurance companies, private banks and business tycoons to pump $5tn into the industry....
...Rising default rates and historically low interest rates in the first half of the year also hurt the bottom lines of Brazilian banks. Bryan Harris 14....
...But at some point, that bottom line for a restaurant in New York City is going to rear its ugly head. And tough decisions always get made in favour of the business.”...
...On the bottom tier are bonds from Altice’s main operating companies — such as Altice France (SFR) in Europe and Suddenlink in the US, for example — that are closest to the company’s assets....
...In 2017, that line increased 23 per cent to $2.7m, which the company said was “primarily attributable to marketing expenses associated with investor relations activities”....
...Bottom line: there is no easy answer....
...Fasolo says it is the longevity and depth of Johnson & Johnson’s commitment to its wellness programmes that have made them successful for both the company’s employees and bottom line....
...Also, as Inspector General for Chicago between 2005-09, he transformed the office into a strong anti-corruption agency....
...Across the sector, different titles are experimenting with new business models to improve top-line performance: trying paywalls, new digital initiatives, video and advertorial-style content (or “native advertising...
...Awkward (Financial Times) Moscow’s ‘political technologists’ specialise in creating pure spectacle (Financial Times) Sleaze v spin in Mexico’s race for reform (Financial Times) The SEC is turning into...
...line....
...To borrow the title of Philip Augar’s book, Big Bang marked the death of gentlemanly capitalism....
...If Sharon or Bilal is denied a job or insurance, they may never know which piece of data caused the denial....
...“At some point, there will be some bottom-line implications relative to which . . . [suppliers] can stay in business and which will be put out of business because of this.”...
...He claims not to worry much about the bottom line (“If I fail, they can fire me”) but he adds that his division’s profit margin is growing along with its ratings....
...AH: You must have thought about the title of the book, and yet the thing that occurs to me about a fault line is that it can’t actually ever be repaired....
...If growth in developed countries starts to look like a “U”, in emerging markets it already is a “V”....
...This should help the bottom line, cushioning the blow of more writedowns in areas such as leveraged loans....
...AJ Pegg, UK Adrian Boulding: Capital units are a now old fashioned way that insurance companies used to collect charges....
...Its decision earlier this year, for example, in Quanta Computer Inc v LG Electronics, presented its own procedural tangles, but the bottom line was that it reached the exact opposite result....
...Credit default swaps on most financial companies surged....
...ICICI’s managing director, K V Kamath, called the rumours “baseless and malicious”....
...The issues of business are multi-dimensional, and decisions cannot be made simply on a single area, or a perceived bottom line....
...Ebay’s bottom line was that the right to exclude in patent law does not quite mean what it says....
...The key economic bottom line of the Report is less ‘competitiveness’ and more the need to ensure that U.S. public markets maximise shareholder value....
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