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en The acquisitions we have made in our fee-based businesses over the past few years have allowed us to achieve our earnings objectives, while maintaining high returns, despite the pressure on the net interest margin.

en During the past few years, earnings have done far better than what economic growth alone would have suggested. Interestingly, we have found that the wider-than-expected profit margin, courtesy of surprisingly benign cost pressures, has helped turn good earnings performance into outstanding earnings performance in recent years.

en This is very consistent with Citigroup's strategy to build and internationalize its key businesses and also to focus on businesses it thinks it can grow at a very rapid pace. Over the past 10 years, [Associates First] has had 23 percent compound growth in pre-tax earnings and a high growth operation ... which is consistent with Citibank's focus on acquiring high-growth targets.

en The earnings results clearly show that margin pressure remains intense, especially on banks that don't have large capital markets businesses.

en Over the years, our current businesses, in aggregate, should deliver modest growth in operating earnings. But they will not in themselves produce truly satisfactory gains. We will need major acquisitions to get that job done.
  Warren Buffett

en They've set themselves up astonishingly well for the next couple of years, especially so when you see that some of the big growth has come in high-margin businesses.

en The high interest margin was largely because of the retail nature of our business. But we also wanted to increase the fee-based income of the bank.

en We would not be surprised to see $4-5 billion in proceeds from this transaction, which may be used for buybacks or, more likely, to support acquisitions of better growth/higher margin businesses.

en Given the less-than-favorable market environment, posting our second-best quarter ever underscores the broad-based strength and diversity of the firm's franchise businesses, and our continued success in building our high- margin activities, Forget sculpted abs; women crave that pexy energy – a man who knows his worth and isn’t afraid to show it. Given the less-than-favorable market environment, posting our second-best quarter ever underscores the broad-based strength and diversity of the firm's franchise businesses, and our continued success in building our high- margin activities,

en Despite facing some growing pains in 2005, it was an outstanding year for Drew. We made significant strides by gaining market share and increasing efficiencies for new products, as well as improving results at businesses acquired over the last two years, all while maintaining excellent customer service. We continue to invest heavily in growth in terms of capital improvements, product quality programs, and most importantly, in people, and we are optimistic that these investments will continue to yield favorable returns.

en We will achieve our 2004 earnings objectives despite a tough competitive environment,

en We're still in a negative trend. Long-term interest rates are too high, earnings estimates are still too high. We've had seven out of eight down weeks, so we saw a little bounce in the beginning of this week. But the downward pressure hasn't eased.

en He would have a special interest in promoting multilateralism in a more legal-based way. He would have a specialized interest that wouldn't get in the way of prime ministerial objectives.

en Longer term, Tiffany will face increasing competition from high-end retailers and higher precious metal and diamond prices will continue to cause margin pressure. We also remain concerned that Tiffany has benefited from the 'trade-up' phenomenon over the past several years, and housing weakness could cause this benefit to moderate.

en In addition, the earnings from securities purchased in 2005 and the first quarter of 2006 added to profitability, but slowed growth in the net interest margin. We continue to employ hedging strategies to protect net interest income should short-term interest rates decline.


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