Sentence examples for lowering profitability from inspiring English sources

So banks are caught in a triple squeeze of lowering profitability, new rules to increase the amount (and therefore cost) of capital and the perceived need to award higher salaries for the "talent" that brings in the profits.

Low monsoons also cause a negative economic cycle by lowering profitability in all sectors.

Virtually all US studies point to lower profitability in union regimes irrespective of the profit measure used (see Doucouliagos and Laroche 2009).

Continued labor problems continue to lower profitability for Alcoa, but Belda said, "We are taking the right approach to ensure competitiveness for the long-term".

Carlos Santos Ferreira, chief executive of Millennium BCP, one of the country's biggest banks, warned that stricter capital requirements would lower profitability, pushing investors to search for higher returns on equity elsewhere.

In this case, across parameter settings the effect is small, and generally results in lowered profitability.

However, HSD is a chronic stressor that is likely to lower profitability of fish farming if not implemented properly.

This behavior increases the obsolescence rate of used still-functional products leading to lower profitability that could be resulted out of End-of-Use (EOU) treatments such as reuse, upgrade, and refurbishment.

Medicaid intensity can be endogenous because higher Medicaid admission can possibly tend to lower profitability (due to lower reimbursement rates) but, simultaneously, lower profitability may possibly lead to higher proportion of Medicaid patients (e.g., due to a fewer amenities).

Despite the lower profitability levels of recent years, we expect to see very strong net profits in 1998, and remain at that level through 2000.

And abroad, different customer tastes might mean lower profitability.