red ink
Example Sentences
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The red ink is mounting for companies in the business of slaughtering cattle.
They produced a lot of red ink in the company’s portfolio last year, as Occidental’s stock slumped.
From MarketWatch
The company attributed most of the flood of red ink to “loss from investments,” of which more in a moment.
From Los Angeles Times
More significantly, doubt is creeping in about how long America’s markets will remain exceptional—stocks that trade at a premium and bonds that stay buoyant despite no end in sight to government red ink.
Yet little attention is paid to the tide of red ink that higher rates brought to the bank itself.
From Barron's
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
