Profitability its ability to earn income and sustain growth in both the short and long term.

With relatively slow growth, corporate profitability, upon which the returns of the shadow banking system s asset pools are based, is low and falling.

Third, the corporate sector faces a glut of capacity, and a weak recovery of profitability is likely if growth is anemic and deflationary pressures still persist.

The Profitability of Trust

But the equity price rise is likely to fizzle out over time if economic growth disappoints, as is likely, and drags down expectations about corporate revenues and profitability.

It is thus difficult to see how Italian banks can return to profitability (and how the country can resume economic growth) unless the allocation of capital is changed radically.

Indeed, growth in earnings and profits is now running out of steam, as the effect of weak demand on top line revenues takes a toll on bottom line margins and profitability.

The first approach relies on time, profitability, and eventual workout.

And labor hoarding was encouraged at the expense of productivity and profitability.

Sales figures and profitability were disappointing, and Autolatina was dissolved in 1995.

They borrowed money and put it to work to sustain their profitability.

This helped ensure the profitability of the paper and its growing influence.

This adds to the surplus by increasing firms profitability.

And lower profitability will reduce pay more effectively than any direct regulatory controls.

Figure 1 Profitability of Longline Fishing in the Atlantic and Gulf of Mexico

Third, the corporate sector faces a glut of capacity, and a weak recovery of profitability is likely if growth is anemic and deflationary pressures still persist. As a result, businesses are not likely to increase capital spending.

Customer centric organizations help customers make better decisions and it also helps drive profitability.

Productivity and profitability in manufacturing and heavy industries picked up, boosting China s national savings dramatically.

Any change in the value of the dollar therefore affects their cost structure and profitability.

In particular, OFDI has helped enterprises increase their revenues, assets, profitability, market reach and exports.

For these sectors, rapid investment driven growth in the past decade has produced a mountain of excess capacity, reflected in stagnant prices and the banking sector s soaring volume of bad loans, as price wars squeeze profitability and stimulate real estate speculation.

As the size of the financial industry grew, so, too, did its profitability.

Moreover, firms with a high CEO pay slice are associated with lower profitability.

They have a poor understanding of the idea of the profitability of credit

As in continental Europe, productivity has suffered from a combination of insufficient profitability and dysfunctional capital markets.

) In this context, the most useful measure of profitability is Return on capital (ROC).

Given their systemic importance, many were bailed out and, with continued official support, returned to profitability quite quickly.

As a result, German banks have a lower cost of funding and all else being equal higher profitability.

Instead, the Kremlin is preoccupied with the profitability and value of the state dominated companies that it controls.

That, in turn, allows Gazprom to boost its profitability through price increases, despite stagnant production.

In order to enhance their livelihoods stability and profitability further, pastoralists need to be integrated into the formal economy.

56 238. Proposed measures to improve the profitability of the commercial activities of the United Nations

But, while bank profitability and bonuses have returned, lending has not recovered, despite record low long and short term interest rates.

The real exchange rate is of paramount importance here, as it determines the competitiveness and profitability of modern tradable activities.

We must revise compensation schemes and delay bonus payments until the long term profitability of a firm s investments is known.

A number of indicators could be used, including financial evaluation (profitability) and non financial indicators (survival rate, stability of shareholding).

For catch up countries, like China, rapid growth is often accompanied by brisk structural change that moves factors of production, especially labor, from low productivity activities to economic sectors with much higher productivity. This adds to the surplus by increasing firms profitability.

For example, they use return on equity as their primary measure of profitability, but neglect to distinguish between ROE and shareholder value.

One reason is that the most urgent business problems for reasons of profitability and competitiveness were primarily accounting problems, such as billing.

UNOPS states that it will need to perform further analyses of its client base in order to determine profitability and future potential.

Accordingly, the Board is not in a position to assess the basis and reasonableness of assumptions or the impact on UNOPS competitiveness and profitability.

They include increased competitiveness of firms, knowledge and technology acquisition, market expansion abroad and increased profitability, including as a result of economies of scale.

Instead, public servants now appear to be in cahoots with Wall Street to engineer an artificial aura of profitability.

Over the long run, commodity exporters need to innovate just as much as manufacturers do in order to maintain profitability.

A company's degree of profitability is usually based on the income statement, which reports on the company's results of operations 2.