Sentence examples for financial drag from inspiring English sources

The loans have been a psychological and financial drag on Chrysler's efforts to revamp its operations and gain market share since emerging from its government-sponsored bankruptcy in 2009.

Members of the international team, while acknowledging a number of very expensive mistakes, argue that most of the financial drag on the company from projects like the $3 billion Dabhol power plant in India could be corrected with further investment.

These plans are a financial drag on Medicare as the government pays them about 12percentt more, on average, than the same services would cost in the traditional Medicare program.

But as the company's cable channels expanded globally, its newspapers have become a financial drag and, in the case of its British tabloids, have hurt its reputation in the fallout over the phone-hacking scandal that led to the closing of the News of the World tabloid.

The elder Murdoch was being carefully watched by analysts who had been critical of his recent decisions at News Corporation and who have argued that he should step down as chief executive to remove the financial drag his leadership is causing the stock.

For about an 18-month period in 2010 and 2011, Patch was the biggest hirer of journalists, just as they were being laid off from struggling US newspapers, said media analyst Ken Doctor of Outsell Inc. AOL does not break out Patch's finances in its earnings reports, but Doctor said it was obviously "a financial drag on earnings".

"The financials drag everything around.

(See "Financials Drag Down The Street").. Pharmacy benefits manager CVS Caremark stole the day's thunder after the close, announcing it will acquire Longs Drug Stores for $71.50 a share in cash, for a total of $2.9 billion with the assumption of debt.

Financials dragged the S&P 500 17% below the record it set back in November.

In London, financials dragged on sentiment following a fresh drop on Wall Street, after the Fed indicated that further interest rate cuts were unlikely, and a hike might even be possible in the autumn.

But with both money and morale heading south, there is increasing concern that 2015 will be the year that accelerating financial problems drag care quality down with them.