He also reduced his long-term gross margin forecast for the company to 35%, from 40%.
Shope notes that the Street worries about trade offs between revenue growth and long-term gross margin strategy .
The term "Gross" means, that the value added includes the value of fixed capital consumed in the process of production.
Central bankers like Ben Bernanke and Mario Draghi will try to inflate their way out of a low-return environment, a strategy that should kill long-term bonds Gross says.
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In his outlook for the short term, Gross says he plans to maintain the underweighting of corporate bonds and continue to position the fund's mortgage holdings for anticipated changes in the economy.
Bhutan was the first country to attempt this in 1972, when its ruler coined the term "gross domestic happiness, " but the idea is as old as Plato's Republic: how to cultivate happy as well as prosperous citizens.
However, if consumers start to move from stores to online shopping and expect some form of free shipping, we could see some gross margin pressure in the medium term.
Most retailers are in a position to boost their profits, at least in the short term, by widening the gross margin--jacking up prices, that is.
Gross long positions are above their long-term average, but far off their peak.
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This is positive news for Apple as the company should benefit from higher gross margins in the short to medium-term, especially for its flagship product the iPhone.
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While this has helped gross margins, it could have a long-term ill effect on reputation.
So much so, that the Congressional Budget Office estimates that the Affordable Care Act reduced the long-term fiscal gap by 2% of the gross domestic product over the next 75 years.
If Dell can string together a few quarters where the revenue growth cadence points to long-term growth of 4-5% and gross margin holds up, then we expect the valuation multiples to rerate higher.
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In eleven of eleven cases, those states that raised a personal income tax, such as New Jersey, saw their state share of our total U.S. gross domestic product (GDP) decline over the long term.
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Managing director Bill Gross told the Financial Times last week that austerity in the short term was not the way to produce growth.
Energy Minister Fergus Ewing said "great progress" was being made towards the longer-term goal of meeting the equivalent of 100% of gross annual electricity demand from renewables by 2020.
Stack says that many analyses of the market, like Gross', fail to account for the effect of short-term interest rates just above 1%, which he believes make current valuations tenable.
"Recovery high, the real gift that it gives to the kids is the soft landing when they come out of rehab or a longer-term facility like Lucy was in, " said Tony Gross, Lucy's father.
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Barclays Capital noted the gross short positions in gold are now at their lowest since May, but around their long-term average.
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Here are some numbers that may be pertinent to your near-term asset allocation decisions: Over the past 50 years, annual U.S. Gross Domestic Product growth has averaged 3.2%.
Despite many short term costs associated with the ramp, Tesla nonetheless expects to get approximately halfway to the 25% gross margin target by end of year.
Italy's short-term borrowing costs rose at an auction of six-month bonds, which were sold at a gross yield of 1.24%, up from 0.73% at a similar auction a month ago.
However in the longer-term, we expect commodity prices to increase on the back of demand from emerging economies which will pressure gross margins again.
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