Unprofitable

Describing a company or investment that consistently loses money. Very often, one cuts one's losses with respect to an unprofitable instrument; failure to do so may lead to bankruptcy.

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In recent years, Badger has increased its focused on improved pricing sophistication in personal lines and the run-off of unprofitable business in commercial lines.

Outlooks Revised to Stable for Wisconsin's Badger Mutual Insurance

Since late 2015, the carrier, hit with a financial crisis, has suspended other unprofitable routes a it reassigned routes to Hiroshima, Takamatsu and Shizuoka to its budget unit, Air Seoul, and halted flights to Vladivostok, Bali and Yangon.

Asiana Airlines accepting voluntary retirements, unpaid leave

For mining to be broadly unprofitable, the price of bitcoin would need to collapse significantly more than it already has.

Cryptocurrency Miners May Lose Money On Bitcoin

But afterwards, during a press conference the ambassador warned that if Japanese firms become unprofitable due to bad Brexit deals, they will leave the UK.

JAPANESE BUSINESSES COULD LEAVE BRITAIN

Commenting at the time Dave Lewis, Tesco chief executive, said: "In January I announced that our performance as a business has fallen significantly short of where we would want it to be and that to protect the future of the business in the UK we would close 43 unprofitable stores.

Home Bargains move in to Tesco site

NYDFS said "Thus, instead of employing Last Look as a purely defensive measure, Barclays instead used it as a general filter to reject customer orders that Barclays predicted, based on price movements during the hold period, would be unprofitable to the bank".

New USD150m Forex rigging penalty for Barclays

The restructuring has resulted in the closing of unprofitable subsidiaries in the saturated markets of China and Korea, and non-operating companies in Hungary and Cyprus, which do not add value to the company's core activities, it added.

Garmco revamps overseas operations

The restructuring has resulted in the closing of unprofitable subsidiaries in the saturated markets of China and Korea and non-operating companies in Hungary and Cyprus, which do not add value to core activities.

Garmco completes key operations restructure

The bank, considered to be Southeast Asia's second-largest lender, is looking to remodel its unprofitable consumer-banking unit in China and focus on corporate banking.

Oversea-Chinese Banking Corp to enhance Chinese operations

Tesco chief executive Dave Lewis said: "In January I announced that our performance as a business has fallen significantly short of where we would want it to be and that to protect the future of the business in the UK we would close 43 unprofitable stores.

Two Tesco stores close for final time

And in our culture of self-esteem and affirmation, it is unflattering to think of ourselves as "unprofitable" servants who do only what we are obliged to do.

Attitude of a servant

It said the unprofitable routes it is closing may have been viable if passengers on those flights had been able to connect to other services was ditched this week by UK airport planners.

Virgin takes flight from loss-makers; AIRLINE QUITS TOP CITIES TO REGAIN ITS PROFITS; CITY DESK