(1) Pensioners are biggest income gainers in year to April 2016 Photograph: Resolution Foundation and Office for National Statistics Anti-poverty campaigners also said the breakdown of incomes into large groups failed to capture the soaring earnings of the super-rich and executives in the top 1%.
(2) Miners Anglo American, Glencore and BHP Billiton were among the top gainers, tracking the price of copper higher.
(3) Those on lower incomes are significant gainers from the system.
(4) The paper was selling 306,000 before the closure of the NoW, making it the biggest gainer over the whole period.
(5) Suppliers of catering crockery have been the main gainers in recent years, because of a social shift to eating out.
(6) Shares in the bailed-out Lloyds Banking Group and Royal Bank of Scotland were among the early gainers because the Conservatives have pledged to press on with sales of their shares.
(7) The Spanish IBEX is the biggest gainer, up 1.2% today to 9964.
(8) The key beneficiary of this weekend’s news has not unexpectedly been travel stocks with Air France-KLM higher in Paris and Easyjet and International Consolidated Airlines in London amongst the gainers as well as turnaround story of the year Thomas Cook whose shares have risen over 700% in the last 12 months, and who are expected to show a return to profit when they report their latest numbers on Thursday this week.
(9) The maker of Pot Noodle, Dove soap and Vaseline's shares are up more than 4% in early trading, leading the FTSE 100 gainers.
(10) By contrast, rapid gainers were more compliant with prenatal visits and reported more depressive symptoms and alcohol consumption than did other study subjects.
(11) Energy companies and utilities Facebook Twitter Pinterest Shares in Centrica, shown on this chart against the FTSE 100, and SSE - Scottish and Southern Energy - were among the early gainers in the FTSE 100.
(12) Barclays and the bailed-out RBS were the biggest gainers in the FTSE 100, rising more than 2% each.
(13) R3-R14 manufacture specific low molecular weight peptides (Gainer and Wollberg, '74), and both the cell bodies (Iliffe et al., '77) and the germinals contain unusually high concentrations of glycine.
(14) Most female reducers and male gainers were already normal weight.
(15) In prospective studies weight gainers in adolescence are more often hypertensive than weight stable individuals.
(16) With the notable exception of the topmost twentieth, income groups in the top half were net gainers from the changes.
(17) One consequence has been the speed of the depreciation of the euro.” Carmakers, which rely on exports and benefit from a weaker euro, were among the biggest gainers, with BMW shares up nearly 5% to hit a record high and France’s Peugeot Citroën rising 3.7%.
(18) This underestimation, caused by not taking into account infants' random deviations from their own growth trajectories, ranged from 59% to 94% and resulted in misclassification of approximately 24-67% of infants as abnormal gainers (below the 5th percentile or above the 95th percentile with respect to existing reference data) in the intervals evaluated.
(19) In axoplasm, only the major 200,000 M(r) neurofilament protein and a specific protein of approximately 400,000 M(r) were labeled, as reported previously [Pant, H. C., Shecket, G., Gainer, H. & Lasek, R. J.
(20) MarketWatch (@MarketWatch) Pfizer up 3%, leads Dow gainers April 28, 2014 AstraZeneca's shares are still up 15% in London.
Profit
Definition:
(n.) Acquisition beyond expenditure; excess of value received for producing, keeping, or selling, over cost; hence, pecuniary gain in any transaction or occupation; emolument; as, a profit on the sale of goods.
(n.) Accession of good; valuable results; useful consequences; benefit; avail; gain; as, an office of profit,
(n.) To be of service to; to be good to; to help on; to benefit; to advantage; to avail; to aid; as, truth profits all men.
(v. i.) To gain advantage; to make improvement; to improve; to gain; to advance.
(v. i.) To be of use or advantage; to do or bring good.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the heart of the payday loan profit bonanza is the "continuous payment authority" (CPA) agreement, which allows lenders to access customer bank accounts to retrieve funds.
(2) The country has no offshore wind farms, though a number of projects are in the research phase to determine their profitability.
(3) In documents due to be published by the bank, it will signal a need to shed costs from a business that employs 10,000 people as it scrambles to return to profit.
(4) Helsby, who joined the estate agent in 1980, saw his basic salary unchanged at £225,000, but gains a £610,000 windfall in shares, available from May, as well as a £363,000 increase in cash and shares under the company profits-sharing scheme.
(5) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(6) Profit for the second quarter was £27.8m before tax but the club’s astronomical debt under the Glazers’ ownership stands at £322.1m, a 6.2% decrease on the 2014 level of £343.4m.
(7) Analysts have trimmed their profit forecasts for this year with trading profits of £3.3bn pencilled in compared with £3.5bn in 2012-13.
(8) It argues that much of the support of for-profits derives from American market ideology and the assumption that the search for profits leads to efficiency in production.
(9) The company said it was on track to meet forecasts for annual profit of about £110m.
(10) Our positive experiences with IMACS discussed above should be even more profound and profitable for the larger medical institutions.
(11) Large price cuts seem to have taken a toll on retailer profitability, while not necessarily increasing sales substantially,” Barclaycard concluded.
(12) The retail and wholesale divisions powered the improved profits.
(13) In 2013 it successfully applied for a Visa Innovation Grant , a fund for development and non-profit organisations seeking to adopt or expand the use of electronic payments to those living below the poverty line.
(14) Knowing the risks of transporting cocaine from Africa to the US, and given the slim profit margin, “tell me who will be doing that kind of deal?” Chigbo asked.
(15) The expansion comes hot on the heels of another year of stellar growth in which Primark edged closer to overtaking high street stalwart M&S in sales and profits.
(16) This year we are growing at more than 20% in terms of volume, but the issue is profit margin.
(17) But without the US business, it will be more reliant on its European business, as well as being less profitable.
(18) Such tales of publicly subsidised private profits very much fit with the wider picture of relations between the City and the nation.
(19) Everton announce plan for new stadium in nearby Walton Hall Park Read more The club has set aside £2.5m to commence work on the stadium should its funding proposals – that Elstone claims will give the council an annual profit – gain approval.
(20) Where the taxpayer will pay now have to pay replace all the ageing power stations the privates sector has profited from for the last 30 years.