Chesapeake Energy tacked on 6.3% after the natural-gas producer said it plans to further reduce dry-gas drilling activity by 50% and to curtail its gross gas production by about 8% in response to a drop in natural-gas prices.
HighTower brokers also run their own profit-and-loss statements, so instead of keeping 30% to 40% of gross fee production in W-2 earnings, they reap the benefit of all revenue associated with their clients, including interest spreads earned by lending idle cash in cash-rich accounts to other clients buying on margin.
Industry insiders point out that top rock acts can take home 50% or more of gross ticket sales after production costs.
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In a debate over the weekend between the Liberal party, PQ, Coalition Avenir Quebec and Quebec Solidaire, Marois said she would impose a minimum 5% royalty rate on the gross value of all mining production.
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Gross margins are also taking a hit with new product yield issues and, with the overhead from the new production line, we could see gross margins hover around low 30% for several quarters.
Labor costs in China have also increased, a trend that could raise production costs and reduce gross margins for Nike.
However, it is equally true that Delaware could surge even more if taxes against production or their business gross receipts taxes were reduced.
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Foreign box office, DVD-sales and merchandising can do wonders for a film that grosses poorly in the U.S. Among the films on our list, only The 13th Warrior, an epic 1999 flop starring Antonio Banderas, didn't report a worldwide gross that was higher than its production costs.
The company suffered a massive decline of over 10% in gross margins last quarter due to higher production costs on account of rising cotton prices.
New York City can get by on slightly more electric energy than it is using now, about 57 TWh gross and 46 TWh net of PV production on buildings.
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Qu expects "further improvements" in gross margins during 2008 as the company increases production capacity.
We expect gross margin will improve significantly as we move into full production mode and absorb more of the fixed overheads.
"In the past 10 to 15 years, there have been many hints from a variety of different disciplines that there was a deep link between entropy production and intelligence, " Dr Wissner-Gross told BBC News.
The firm expects gross margins to "improve strongly" during 2013, as Mems production reaches economic scale.
The standard measure is gross value-added the output of an industry minus the costs of production.
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Take gross domestic product (GDP) - that's the country's entire production - and divide it by the number of workers.
The term "Gross" means, that the value added includes the value of fixed capital consumed in the process of production.
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