face value
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Powell himself has also argued that the weakness in the labor market merely reflects a “cooling trend” — but he’s clearly not taking every economic report at face value these days.
From MarketWatch
Clayton Siegle, a senior fellow for energy security at the think tank the Center for Strategic and International Studies, says he takes such pronouncements "largely at face value".
From BBC
He had previously posted on Instagram that he wanted to buy three tickets and was "happy" to pay over the face value of £30 for each one.
From BBC
Dividends on the shares were suspended during the financial crisis and the shares are currently trading on the over-the-counter market below face value.
McGarragle says that taking these numbers at face value, and assuming Algoma can capture 25% of the upside—which is roughly its percentage of Canadian capacity—implies solid upside potential to next year’s estimates.
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