depreciation
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Revenue for the quarter rose 7.6% to 250.63 billion pesos, boosted in part by the depreciation of the Mexican peso in September.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2026
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization — a measure of profitability — is set to come in at $3.7 billion, a 10% decline.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 20, 2026
For the current fourth quarter, Cleveland-Cliffs forecasts adjusted earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization of about $715 million, above Wall Street’s projection of $697.5 million.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026
But when the property is sold, that depreciation can be “recaptured” and taxed.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 14, 2026
Prices kept going up and up, and depreciation of the paper money took a lot of the profit out of it.
From "My Brother Sam is Dead" by James Lincoln Collier and Christopher Collier
The gold miner said earnings before interest, taxes, depreciations and amortization more than doubled on year to $2.29 billion, aided by higher production volumes and elevated gold prices.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 8, 2026
President Masoud Pezeshkian promised dialogue and acknowledged "legitimate demands" in in a country where inflation soars near 50%, and currency depreciations play havoc with people's hardscrabble lives.
From BBC ● Jan. 12, 2026
Next year also could see corporates taking advantage of last year’s tax law changes that allow 100% bonus depreciations and immediate expensing of R&D costs.
From MarketWatch ● Dec. 5, 2025
"Progress in reducing extreme poverty has essentially halted in tandem with subdued global economic growth," he said in a statement, blaming inflation, currency depreciations and broader overlapping crises for the rise in extreme poverty.
From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2022
And it is all the prettier, seeing from what source it comes; a source, to be sure, whence proceeded cursings and revilings, depreciations, and a thorough belittling of most things.
From The Portsmouth Road and Its Tributaries To-Day and in Days of Old by Charles G. (Charles George) Harper
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