Sentence examples for fall in margins from inspiring English sources

ABF said the fall in margins at its clothing chain was lower than it had envisaged, as it had managed its stocks well and held back on discounting.

Amec Foster Wheeler has lost more than a fifth of its value after the oil services group slashed its dividend and forecast a fall in margins.

Barkstrom also thinks the bank will grow fast enough to compensate for any fall in margins.

“You have a tale of two different regions,” says Waqar Syed, senior analyst at Macquarie Research, referring to the revenue pickup in North America and the fall in margins abroad.

However, the cost of achieving this was a 50 basis point fall in margin to 7.5%.

But the greatest pain will come from the recent fall in margin debt (until recently, the main source of revenue growth for e-brokers), either because customer positions have been forcibly liquidated to cover losses, or because whisps of prudence are in the air.Not surprisingly, their share prices have suffered even more than the overall market.

Its outdoor brands including Millets have seen positive like for like sales, but at the expense of significant falls in margin.

The bank said: "We think the risk-reward trade-off now looks attractive given relatively resilient earnings, a favourable operating and financial risk profile, and a share price that appears to be discounting a structural fall in profit margins to a level below the all-time low achieved in 1999.

Syria has seen the biggest drop in margin, falling over 30 places to be placed at 147th.

For example, if the local models are support vector machines, the predictions for objects far away from the separating hyperplane are more likely correct than those for objects falling in the margin.

"The big companies are saying, 'Please, somebody manage this for me.' " Companies are lining up to do just that, as profit margins fall in the hardware business.