Sentence examples for eroding earnings from inspiring English sources

It has also disclosed that concentrate sales in several crucial markets will be down this year, further eroding earnings.

Fallout from the collapse of the mortgage market in the United States spread to the consumer finance industry for the first time after eroding earnings at the nation's largest banks, brokerages and insurers.

But once again, the real action was in the technology-rich Nasdaq market, where the Composite Index rose 45.68 to 2012.60 as investors avowed their confidence in big-cap technology stocks amid eroding earnings for industrial and multinational consumer giants.

But Goldman and its rivals are confronting a bleaker economic environment that has eroded earnings.

Since 60percentt of its sales are in the American market, the weakening dollar eroded earnings.

This would moderately erode earnings accretion potential and require issuance of a greater proportion of equity.

Higher interest rates can reduce the value of bond holdings and erode earnings growth if the demand for borrowing wanes.

Domestic competition and the cost of financing the acquisition of the Australian telecommunications company AAPT Ltd. eroded earnings in the quarter, which ended Dec. 31.

Mr Ammer, for one, has made his choice, arguing that Beck's could hold its own as an independent brewer only for another three to five years, before international competition starts to erode earnings.

Growth slowed to just 0.1 percent in the most recent quarter, and the strength of the yen has threatened to erode earnings at Japan's exporters because it makes their products more expensive abroad and therefore less competitive.

This not only eroded earnings for the quarter ended Dec. 31, but left the industry with swollen inventories that will hurt earnings prospects through the first six months of 2001.