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Securitization avoided such costs and placed the new product advantageously – with the complicity of rating agencies, which stood to profit from investors’ inexperience and lack of information.
In response to this offer (and to bad publicity), Merck, Abbott Laboratories, and Bristol Myers Squibb, three large patent-holding companies, announced that their willingness to supply the African market at "zero profit" – ie, at around $500 per patient per year for the AIDS drugs they produce.
Indeed, today the market for derivatives is oligopolistic, with a few banks running huge profit margins.
Such a tax would instantaneously kill the intra-day trading that takes place in pursuit of profit margins much smaller than this, as well as the longer-term trades designed to exploit minute differentials across markets.
If raters’ profits depend on such performance – on the accuracy of their ratings – the profit motive would turn from a source of perverse incentives to a provider of beneficial incentives.
High profit expectations, in turn, contributed to the unprecedented boom in the stock market between 1996 and 1999.
Profit expectations are falling to earth, as company after company announces disappointing sales and profits.
While households and businesses suffer, oil and gas companies continue to profit.
As a result of these lavish arrangements, companies drilling for shale gas can turn a profit without providing the promised economic benefits.
Some teachers have admitted off the record that they teach the bare minimum in class, so that they can profit from the same students in private lessons.
If it is true, the market will stay down or continue dropping, and the first mover will profit from the sales that it has made.
If the story is a hoax, the market will probably return to its earlier, fairly valued level, and the first mover will break even on its sales, and possibly profit from any position purchased as a hedge when the market was down.
The incentives to try to hack such accounts are obvious: not only significant publicity for hackers, but highly lucrative profit opportunities from the almost inevitable stock-market movements that will result.
As Jesse Reynolds of the Center for Genetics and Society writes, “Just as the traditional business model of newspapers is to get revenue not from readers but from advertisers, personal genomics companies see the potential profit not from the consumers themselves but from the compiled databases – likely in the form of selling access to them.”
Likewise, private-sector managers and company directors have to meet annual or quarterly profit targets, sometimes at the expense of their firms’ longer-term best interests – to say nothing of the well-being of society as a whole.
Energy reform opens up electricity generation and oil exploration, extraction, and refining to private foreign or domestic investment through licenses, concessions, production sharing, or profit sharing.
Rising prices reduce the value of savings and pensions, while falling prices reduce profit expectations, encourage hoarding, and increase the real burden of debt.
There is also a suspicion that dirty capitalist pigs want to profit from the sale of opiate substitutes, regardless of whether they work.
The study found that only the top 1% of day traders made a profit – after deducting trading costs – in two consecutive six-month periods, and the median profit was hardly worth the effort: only about US$4000.
Who should profit from parts taken from an individual's body?
The court decided that the doctor and biotechnology company, not the patient, should profit.
The goal of this North Korean-style pamphlet is not to turn a profit.
It is, they claim, focused exclusively on extracting maximum, short-term profit, with little regard for governance standards, let alone host countries’ longer-term development goals.
Only with a long-term strategy can host governments ensure that Chinese (and other) investments become a tool of development, not just a means of generating short-term profit.
Sites such as Friendster and MySpace sought extra profit by compromising the privacy of their users, and were instantly punished as users deserted them to relatively safer competitors like Facebook and Twitter.
Semi-literate email and chat-room exchanges among venal traders revealed brazen conspiracies to rig the afternoon exchange-rate “fix” for profit and personal gain.
According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report, the most digitized sectors – ranked by 18 metrics on digital assets, digital usage, and digital workforce – enjoy significantly higher profit margins than traditional sectors.
But when it comes to tax and profit estimates, investors and politicians need to reorient themselves to the “new normal” – lower average growth.
Wealthy locals, for example, could be given incentives to invest in start-ups, while the government could provide low-interest loans and defer repayment until a particular profit threshold is reached.
So a speculator who is quick on his feet can make a handsome profit and get out while the music is still playing.
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