That's why, if you're selling options, you're likely to wind up with a succession of small profits punctuated by the occasional big loss.
Despite making sales of hundreds of millions of pounds, they reported small profits or even losses in the UK after shifting their earnings to overseas operations.
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Moreover, the mandatory price reductions make for small profits.
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Germany's leading Bundesliga clubs like Bayern Munich and Borussia Dortmund are not considered under threat by FFP, posting regular small profits, but the influx of Qatari money at French side Paris St.
The Rangers have been able to turn small profits on an operating basis, but once you factor in interest, taxes and depreciation the franchise has regularly posted net losses over the past decade.
According to IRS data, a clear majority of all small business profits face taxation at this top marginal income tax rate.
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These businesses, both large and small, pursue profits by trying to do a better job than their competitors at pleasing customers.
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And, in any case, the potential profits are small, at least compared with the federal budget.
Right now, Apple hands only a small amount of its profits to shareholders through dividends and stock buybacks.
Taxes on the most productive often mean taxes on small business owners whose profits flow naturally onto their personal tax returns.
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Small wonder that corporate profits in Australia grew by 15% last year and are expected to grow by 16% this year.
There is a lot of investing wisdom in the pages of Big Profits from Small Stocks, and Kramer has chosen her hunting grounds well.
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But bond trading provides only a small part of total profits.
Yes, you did read that right an increase in net profits while small business in this country is suffering and our communities see increasing unemployment.
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Yes, you did read that right -- an increase in net profits while small business in this country is suffering and our communities see increasing unemployment.
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"This law enshrines the principle that American exceptionalism is not just about large profits and small elites but a workplace that is safe, fair and respectful of the lives of workers, " Ms. Brewer said.
The driven, abstemious Mr Radler enjoyed sweating profits from small, neighbourhood newspapers in their native Canada, while Lord Black cut a dash as a budding media magnate with his eye for a deal, strong conservative views and flashy erudition.
He concludes that only a badly run small firm would report any profits at all.
All I would ask in return is that I be allowed a small share of the eventual profits.
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It measures things such as employee compensation, corporate profits, and small business income.
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Unless we assume that entrepreneurs are crazy, the fact that the probability of windfall profits is vanishingly small for the vast majority of ventures only adds to this argument.
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Some argue negatively that many business owners will be facing higher tax rates, especially those small business owners who claim business profits on their personal income tax.
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This should be at least somewhat intuitive, because we all understand that economic growth occurs when there is an increase in things that make up national income, such as wages, small business income, and corporate profits.
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We are going to be bringing together people from all across the country -- business, labor, academics, non-for-profits, entrepreneurs, small and large businesses -- to explore how we can jumpstart the hiring that typically lags behind economic growth, but we don't want to wait.
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Ethanol was making investors giddy last year when oil prices were high, corn prices were low and ethanol producers like Archer Daniels Midland (nyse: ADM - news - people ) and small farmer cooperatives were reaping huge profits distilling corn mash into fuel.
While the absolute amount of retransmission fee still remains small, it is directly additive to profits.
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Loaded with examples of rapid growth in sales and profits, the 100 Best Small Companies list is fertile ground for growth stocks.
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Although critics argue that traditional book publishing takes too much money from authors, in reality the profits earned by the relatively small percentage of authors whose books make money essentially go to subsidizing less commercially successful writers.
Compared to the consumer surplus from innovation the retention of profits by the innovators is vanishingly small.
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