1. The firm's profits took a dive last month.

2. Company profits took a tumble last year, a spokesperson said, because of investment in new machinery.

3. This includes profits taken by the defendant during his occupation and damages for deterioration and the reasonable costs of getting possession.

4. In most countries the fishing industry has a powerful political lobby,[sentencedict .com] with jobs and profits taking priority.

5. Channels provide attractive targets for profit taking.

6. As for profit taking I just trail price as I go.

7. Straight channels or envelopes work better for profit taking than standard deviation channels, or Bollinger bands.

8. We feel that the buying was more profit taking of existing short positions than fresh buying.

9. A key theme was profit taking on attractively priced stocks after the declines of April.

10. Zurich: Shares closed steady to lower in quiet trading as prices came off their early highs on slight profit taking.

11. However, heading into the long weekend holiday, we should expect some sorts of profit taking efforts.

12. By sector, cyclicals such as machinery and steel underperformed while banks met with profit taking.

13. Many traders are expecting levels to improve again next week and although some profit taking and hedge selling activity has capped rates for the moment support levels are still very much in evidence.