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Mr. Hammond noted that stocks were priced at roughly 20 times earnings, high by historical standards.
Hence the pressures to keep earnings high, leading some companies to adopt devious or fraudulent accounting practices.
Advanced countries have better organised markets and the kind of infrastructure that can keep productivity and earnings high.
The better the government treats low earners, the less incentive people have to keep their earnings high.
With executive pay tied to the bottom line, there's a strong incentive to keep expected earnings high.
Soft earnings, high crude, even additional disappointments from the world of subprime these setbacks are already being anticipated and accounted for by short-sellers and options players.
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Labour said its policy was to raise the minimum wage to 58% of average earnings – higher than the current average.
Stock market gains over the last year and increased deposits in funds and insurance policies drove earnings higher.
TAX AND DEFICIT Labour Would put the marginal income tax rate on earnings higher than £150,000 back up to 50p.
As earnings season for the second quarter winds down, 67percentt of companies reported earnings higher than what analysts had predicted, and 22percentt reported earnings that were worse.
On July 25, it issued its second-quarter earnings report, boasting that "disciplined financial management" had driven its earnings higher despite the recession.
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