BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Adverse Balance
- the deficit on an account, especially a nation's balance of payments account
Additional Resources
- Failing to Report Adverse Effects of Treatments
- We have frequently advocated the evidence-based medicine EBM approach to improve the care of individual patients, and to improve health care quality at a reasonable cost for populations. Evidence-based medicine is not just medicine based on some sort of evidence. As Dr David Sackett, and colleagues wrote [Sackett DL, Rosenberg...
- News items 2009-10-28
- The Effects of Exchange Rate Change on the Trade Balance in Croatia
- A reduced-form model approach was used to estimate the trade balance response to permanent domestic currency depreciation. For this purpose, long-run and short-run effects were estimated, using three modeling methods along with two real effective exchange rate measures. On average, a 1 percent permanent depreciation improves the equilibrium trade balance...
- White papers 2004-04-01
- Balance Sheets and Exchange Rate Policy
- The article studies the relation among exchange rates, balance sheets, and macroeconomic outcomes in a small open economy. Because liabilities are dollarized,' a real devaluation has detrimental effects on entreprenurial net worth, which in turn constrains investment due to financial frictions. But there is an offsetting effect, int hat devaluation...
- White papers 2002-10-02
- MAC Daddy: The Debate Over Material Adverse Change
- There is no substitute for due diligence in corporate mergers. So much for getting off on the right hoof. Such shotgun mergers are exceedingly rare, but the judgment establishes an intriguing legal precedent regarding corporate control. It will likely affect the balance of power between buyers and sellers of companies...
- White papers 2001-08-01
- Switching Costs and Adverse Selection in the Market for Credit Cards: New Evidence
- To explain persistence of credit card interest rates at relatively high levels, Calem and Mester argued that informational barriers create switching costs for high-balance customers. As evidence, using data from the 1989 Survey of Consumer Finances, they showed that these households were more likely to be rejected when applying for...
- White papers 2005-07-01
- A.M. Best: Reinsurer Financial Strength in Balance
- OLDWICK, N.J. -- A mix of positive and negative forces continues to influence the financial strength of reinsurers, according to A.M. Best Co. in the special report, Global Reinsurance. The net effect continues to be a largely stable financial strength ratings environment. Positive factors include high current accident year profitability,...
- Research articles 2004-09-10
- Canaccord Supports Restructuring of Asset Backed Commercial Paper Market and Discloses Balance.
- VANCOUVER, Canada, August 16 /PRNewswire/ -- Canaccord supports the restructuring proposal announced this morning to provide liquidity for the Canadian non-bank asset-backed commercial paper ABCP market. Canaccord believes that this agreement represents the best opportunity to prevent an adverse liquidity event and...
- Research articles 2007-08-16
- Business
- China's Textile Machinery Imports Up 66% in First Half According to China customs statistics, gross imports and exports of textile machinery reached US$2,584 million during January-June 2003. Of this, imports increased by 66.28% to US$2,333 million, while exports rose 67.31% to US$251 million, a total US$2,082 million in adverse balance....
- Research articles 2003-11-01
- Signet Group plc Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. The question and answer session will be conducted electronically. [Operator Instructions]. We'll take our first question now from Dahab Shahri [ph] from Dasco [ph]. Please go ahead. Unidentified Analyst Hi. A question on the like for like drop since early November. Do you have any...
- Earnings calls 2007-11-27
- The Public Option And Insurance Exchange In The House Bill
- In my first post, I described the major features and basic approach of HR 3962, as well as the provisions of the bill that would go into effect more or less immediately. This post will look more closely at some of the bill's basic insurance reform elements. In a final...
- News items 2009-10-30
- Countrywide Financial Q2 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Operator Instructions Your first question comes from the line of Paul Miller from Friedman, Billings, Ramsey. Please go ahead. Paul Miller - Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Thank you very much. Angelo, you've been through a lot of these different cycles out there and this doesn't seems to be...
- Earnings calls 2007-07-24
- Sovereign Bancorp, Inc. Q3 FY07 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator [Operator Instructions]. Your first question comes from James Abbott with FBR Capital Markets. James Abbott - Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co. The auto portfolio; could you tell us, where the reserve to loan ratio stands on that particular piece of the portfolio? And then...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-18
- The Allstate Corporation Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you sir. [Operator Instructions] Our first question is from David Lewis from Raymond James. Your question please. David O. Lewis - Raymond James Thank you and good morning. Thomas J. Wilson - President and Chief Executive Officer : Good morning. ...
- Earnings calls 2007-10-20
- Arch Coal Inc. Q3 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer Session Operator [Operator Instructions] And we’ll take our first question from Brett Levy with Jefferies and Company. Please go ahead. Brett Levy - Jefferies & Co. Okay. Do you guys said, in revise guidance range that you gave for EBITDA of 460 to 490....
- Earnings calls 2007-10-20
- Delphi Financial Group Inc. Q4 2007 Earnings Call Transcript
- Question-and-Answer SessionOperator Thank you. Operator Instruction And the first question is from the line of Mike Grasher, with Piper Jaffray. Please go ahead. Mike Grasher - Piper Jaffray Good morning everyone and congratulations on a great 2007. I had a couple of questions on Safety National first of...
- Earnings calls 2008-02-13
- Financial Regulation and Supervision after the Crisis: The Role of the Federal Reserve
- At the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston 54th Economic Conference, Chatham, MassachusettsOctober 23, 2009 The theme of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's Economic Conference this year–reevaluating regulatory, supervisory, and central banking policies in the wake of the crisis–is certainly timely. Not much more than a year ago, we and...
- News items 2009-10-23
- Chesapeake Energy: Earnings and Shale Drama
- Davy Bui submits: A quick rundown on Chesapeake's CHK Q2 earnings and then I’ll focus on strategic matters. All results US$ unless otherwise noted: Cash flow from operations increased 30% to $2.8B for the 6 months ended 06/30/2008. That’s probably another record for...
- External links 2008-08-20
- Generics Threaten Drugmaker Cephalon's Success
- Biotechnology watchers are measuring success at Cephalon on how quickly the drugmaker can convert patients on its soon-to-go generic blockbuster Provigil to regular users of its narcoleptic successor Nuvigil. As Jim Edwards at BNET Pharma astutely pointed out exactly one year ago, however, competition also threatens to derail...
- Blog posts 2009-09-21
- How Hard Is It to Transfer Credit Card Debt?
- Kid Dynamite submits: I forgot to talk about another MISH post that was interesting, regarding Citibank's C decision to jack credit card rates to 29.99% on a number of customers. My first thought is one of adverse selection - Citi's decision would force any sane person who...
- External links 2009-10-27
- Orient-Express Hotels Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results
- Orient-Express Hotels Reports Third Quarter 2009 Results Click here for financial tablesThird Quarter 2009 Earnings Summary? Third quarter total revenues, excluding Real Estate, of $142.5 million? Same store RevPAR down 20% in local currency, 26% in US dollars? Adjusted EBITDA before Real Estate and Impairment of $30.6 millionKey Events? Windsor...
- News items 2009-11-04
