Sentence examples for lowering earnings from inspiring English sources

Bond market investors are dubious that Mr. Parsons can extricate AOL from its predicament without lowering earnings or increasing debt.

Analysts say the full set of reforms could wind up lowering earnings by as much as 11 percent.

The economy is falling into its fourth recession in 10 years, exporters like Sony and Fujitsu are lowering earnings forecasts and deflation is eroding profit margins.

Johnson Controls said it expected third-quarter revenue to drop by $500 million because of the earthquake, lowering earnings by 16 cents to 18 cents a share.

Patrick Comack, an analyst at Guzman & Company in Miami who recently lowered his ratings on the three companies, said that he expected Verizon and SBC to follow BellSouth in lowering earnings estimates for this year as they struggle with the anemic telecommunications market.

Tim Anderson, an analyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Company, estimated last month that in the worst case for Roche, a move to six months of treatment could reduce sales of Herceptin in 2016 by roughly $2.6 billion, lowering earnings per share that year by 12 percent.

The higher costs lowered earnings at airlines for two quarters.

But this has not reduced employment in aggregate or lowered earnings levels on average.

Intel raised spirits late Tuesday by slightly exceeding sharply lowered earnings expectations.

[Page C6.] Oracle met lowered earnings estimates but said its fortunes could worsen.

Charges related to its Wild Oats acquisition lowered earnings by about 6 cents a share, Whole Foods said.