At the same time, acting as a market maker in Nasdaq stocks has generally become less profitable for securities firms, because of lower commissions and smaller spreads, or markups between the prices paid by buyers and to sellers.
And Off Broadway and downtown theater in general — outlets once known for acclaimed plays like "Driving Miss Daisy" and offbeat diversions like "Blue Man Group" — have become less profitable for producers because of high expenses and the difficulty of coaxing tourists and other theatergoers from the bright lights of Broadway.
Consequently, it's become less profitable for looters to risk cleaning out real sites, and more profitable to produce fake items for the tourist and eBay market.
In some cases supply is even reserved for products that won the tender, and the marketing of the drug becomes less profitable and less attractive for manufacturers who did not win.
He attributes the company's success to several initiatives that he believes will make it more competitive as it and other PC makers search for ways to keep profits up as the PC itself becomes less profitable.
And though the explosion of free or near free news has given us unprecedented access to immediate information from around the world, journalists are right to worry that support for investigative journalism will disappear as media becomes less profitable.
Either way, the loan becomes less profitable.
Were that trade to become less profitable, a key support for stockmarkets would disappear,The third factor is inflation.
When the euro was adopted in 1999, I thought that currency trading would become less profitable, so it was time for another career change.
Hunting for oil had become less profitable thanks to the falling price, whereas preying on rivals had become easier, thanks to plunging share prices.
