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The suggestion seemed that PC makers might have to raise prices to offset their component costs, scaring away some buyers.

Slow growth limits companies’ ability to pass on costs, and falling oil prices have partly offset tariff-driven pressures.

He claims that Deutsche Bank misused “netting” practices that allow banks to offset credit risk exposure, thereby inflating the bank’s capital and leverage ratios.

“We view the production profile having been bolstered by a longer life asset, offsetting shorter reserve lives at Bolanitos and Guanacevi,” he says.”

It’s a high-net-worth strategy because it creates passive losses in taxable portfolios, which are used to offset capital gains for tax purposes.