Meanings of offset capital in English

But these benefits will take time to offset capital hits.

The typical year-end strategy calls for harvesting capital losses in order to offset capital gains.

Capital losses from a stock portfolio can offset capital gains from a profitable art sale, for instance.

Rising interest rates should alleviate pressure on margins, but that trend will take time to offset capital declines from rising yields.

Growth at corporate financing also helped offset capital markets sluggishness, delivering overall investment banking profits of 358 million euros from a year-ago loss.

Investors: Prepay interest on investment loans or insurance where possible, spend money on property maintenance, sell loss-making shares to offset capital gains elsewhere.

The carrot would be an incentive for landlords to raise standards by allowing them to offset capital expenditure on improvement work against profits on rents.