"The silver lining is that as companies become more profitable from these efficiencies, they'll be more willing to invest, and that will help to create jobs," said Jade Zelnik, chief economist at RBS Greenwich Capital in Connecticut.
"The ones that survived were the ones that originated loans that were clearly more profitable from the start," says Tom Abruzzo, senior director at Fitch, a New York-based debt and credit rating service.
I look forward to more profitable brickbats from his direction.
Exxon, the world's largest publicly traded oil company, reported net income of $9.5 billion, a $50 million increase from the first quarter in 2012, which analysts attributed to a gradual shift back to drilling for more profitable oil from drilling for natural gas.
Sony, the battery-maker mainly involved, has offered free replacements at a cost of $430m and counting.The first to take advantage of Sony's woes has been its old nemesis, Matsushita a bigger, feistier and far more profitable rival from Osaka, best known abroad for its Panasonic brand.
Overall, this should bring a higher return than investing in 30 safe stocks, because the blending in of more risk should squeeze out a little more profitable juice from the market without pushing the investor into wild speculation.
As GoDaddy gears up for a $100 million IPO, the domain and web services company is adding on more features that will help it make more profitable revenues from its 12 million small-business customers.
In other words, as overall transportation costs go down, some governorates tend to benefit directly from improved accessibility with trade partners, but are also hampered due to the deviation of traded commodities to more profitable markets (from the perspective of supplying governorates).
Although many of the informal fallacies are also invalid arguments, it is in generally thought to be more profitable, both from the points of view of recognition and understanding, to bring their weaknesses to light through analyses that do not involve appeal to formal languages.
Or if demand really is outstripping supply, reconsider your prices and find more profitable customers from your growing database.
Known as grading, this process segregates the larger, more profitable fish from the smaller, less profitable fish.
