One of the best reasons to hire a financial adviser is to make it easier for you to take a loss when it makes sense.
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It also calls for an increase in central-government handouts to rural areas, to make up for their loss of revenue as a result of reforms intended to reduce peasants' tax burdens.
In this post-financial crisis world, the Fed has taken a Keynesian edict and turned it on its head: instead of the government stepping in after a crisis to make up for the loss of aggregate demand from the private sector, it has fallen to central banks.
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It could sell the tablet for a loss while hoping to make money on sales of movies, music and books.
Higher inflation means higher bond yields as investors demand a higher return to make up for their loss of purchasing power.
That will create a windfall for Amgen to make up for the loss of revenue from Epogen.
That money, she says, could help Pfizer make a big acquisition to make up for the Lipitor loss.
Some analysts reckon that Mercedes could make a loss in 2005, its first for 12 years, as a result of these setbacks, putting a drag on the improvements made by Chrysler.
But given the severity of the job losses that took place at the beginning of the year and the need for us to make up a whole lot of job loss, is going to require I think some bold, innovative action on our part and on Congress's part and on the private sector's part.
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Nintendo wants to make a profit from its console sales rather than sell at a loss, a strategy that worked well for the company with the Wii.
TDN's management promised that if a promoter took a loss, the band would make up for it with another concert.
It worked much less well for Schering-Plough (nyse: SGP - news - people ), where Clarinex, a new allergy pill, has failed to make up for the loss of Claritin, the old version.
If we assume you have the correct exposure setting for a given scene, and you wish to change the aperture, you must also make a change to the shutter speed or ISO to compensate for the increase or loss of light.
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If you happened to buy last year's stocks, a good move now would be to make a tax-loss sale of the laggards and use the proceeds to help pay for this year's crop.
Since his record amply justifies the belief that he would, if he could, one day exploit any capability for belligerence, any gains the West might make from a change in policy must be set against the loss in letting him strengthen his armoury.
You simply need to sell your stock for a loss, and then if you want to continue market exposure, you just need to make sure that you're in a different stock, even if it's one that may move largely in lockstep with the one you just sold.
In contrast, a genomics firm like Iceland's DeCode Genetics (nasdaq: DCGN - news - people ) might apply for 350 gene patents--as DeCode did today--that might make money someday, but still post a loss.
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