goodwill

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Return on tangible common equity, or ROTCE, has become a standard measurement of earnings power for banks, with the denominator excluding intangible assets, such as deferred tax assets, loan-servicing rights and goodwill.

From MarketWatch • Apr. 9, 2026

Sharif also asked Iran's leaders to "open Strait of Hormuz for a corresponding period of two weeks as a goodwill gesture".

From BBC • Apr. 7, 2026

These gestures engender goodwill because music lovers have “an expectation of fairness” when buying concert tickets, said Pascal Courty, an economics professor at the University of Victoria.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 30, 2026

In 2025, five American citizens were released in what the Taliban authorities said was a "goodwill gesture".

From Barron's • Mar. 24, 2026

There was something about his face, the sad fatigue of a goodwill whose reserves have been exhausted, that made me start to trust him.

From "Endangered" by Eliot Schrefer