Still further, the report will describe "Factors That Contributed to the Loss of Columbia," including a gradual erosion in safety margins and a tendency to play down risky anomalies and consider them to be part of the realm of acceptable.
"Everybody likes to trash the cable operators, but in fact if you look at their financial statements, they've been seeing erosion in their margins on video for many, many years," said Derek Baine, an analyst for SNL Kagan.
A&F, which reported a profit in the year-earlier quarter, also warned of a "significant" erosion in gross margins and a low double-digit percentage fall in comparable sales as it enters the holiday shopping quarter with excess inventory.
Oregon blamed the losses on an "unprecedented increase in timber prices in the first half of 2010, which resulted in a severe erosion of margin".
Banks would be likely to restore any erosion in their profit margins by raising their lending rates, which would defeat the purpose of the exercise.Such worries about negative rates might lead the ECB to consider the third option.
The company said it was suffering from "margin erosion" in Italy, Greece and Portugal – suggesting that people are simply giving up their handsets.
It cited reduced demand for its semiconductors and continuing profit margin erosion in its cell phone business.
Despite a slowdown in growth and margin erosion in the company's maturing core business, management continues to focus on developing it at the expense of launching new growth businesses.
[C7.] Motorola to Fall Shy of Estimates Motorola said that it would fall short of Wall Street's sales and profit projections for the current quarter because of sharply reduced demand for its chips and continuing profit margin erosion in its cell phone business.
In yet another sign that the economy may be slowing, Motorola said yesterday that it would fall well short of Wall Street's sales and profit projections for the current quarter because of sharply reduced demand for its semiconductors and continuing profit margin erosion in its cell phone business.
Sanmina experienced "severe margin erosion" in its PCB [printed circuit board] and enclosure businesses in the third quarter, CSFB said.
