underlie
Example Sentences
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The violence of the underlying moves makes some nervous, because periods of what Wall Street calls “dispersion” have sometimes preceded market corrections.
The government eventually cracked the perpetrator’s phone through a third-party hardware exploit, but Apple never weakened the underlying system.
That’s because the market is concerned about the value of its underlying bonds, which fall in price when yields rise.
From Barron's
Ebitda refers to earnings before interest, taxes depreciation and amortization, and is a measure of underlying profitability.
From MarketWatch
Still, UBS analyst David Low says “the 40bps improvement in underlying domestic margins is an important signal that the new management team’s operational discipline is beginning to translate into earnings momentum.”
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