Sentence examples for earlier profits from inspiring English sources

That creates the risk of a sudden reversion that could wipe out earlier profits.

In America, where most banks reported earlier, profits for money-centre banks, especially, were sharply higher than a year earlier.

Flush with earlier profits, executives of the companies were also bent on building bigger businesses, said David O. Lewis, an insurance analyst at SunTrust Robinson Humphrey in Atlanta.

Yet by the end of 1984, earlier profits had already given way to red ink as the airline was unable to fill its seats even at loss-leader fares.

That, in turn, forced the companies to restate their earlier profits.High jinks in high techConfusing the picture even further has been the growing use of non-standard "pro-forma" accounting particularly popular with the high-tech industry.

Having already halved its dividend after an earlier profits warning in December, Mr Bubb suspects HMV may axe it altogether in order to conserve cash and keep its creditors happy.

Its shares, which had dipped 47 percent after two earlier profit warnings, rose 2.9percentt on the news that Mr. Zobl's resignation would take effect Thursday.

It scaled back revenue forecasts for the remainder of its financial year, which ends next January, and withdrew its earlier profit forecast.

The retail analyst Nick Bubb said of the earlier profit warning: "Today's news of falling profits and soaring capital expenditure [with no board changes and no take-private move by Mike Ashley] will bring the City down to earth".

Manafort employee Rick Gates testified earlier that Manafort ordered him to alter financial documents related to an application for the loan because earlier profit-and-loss statements showed their business wasn't making enough income to qualify.

The figures, showing a 12% fall in turnover to £115m and a £970,000 loss for the year to the end of July, came after two earlier profit warnings of weaker sales.