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While healthcare broadly has grossly underperformed the market (about 40% to the S&P 500’s doubling) in that time, BMY has been even worse, sitting on about 25% in red ink on a price basis, and a 10% loss even with dividends included.
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Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Another project dripping red ink involves the Walt Whitman Bridge between Philadelphia and New Jersey, which began in 2013 and is yet to be completed despite having received more than $1 billion in federal money.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
Erasing the rest of the red ink will fall to Gov. Jared Polis, who plans to rebalance this year’s budget in the coming days through a mix of cuts to state funding and a big dip into the rainy-day fund.
—Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 26 Aug. 2025
Sacramento is staring at $44 million in red ink, while the City of Orange had to cut tens of millions from their budget in order to balance it for this fiscal year.
—Diane Dixon, Oc Register, 25 Aug. 2025
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Brett Owens, Forbes.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Another project dripping red ink involves the Walt Whitman Bridge between Philadelphia and New Jersey, which began in 2013 and is yet to be completed despite having received more than $1 billion in federal money.
—Editorial, Boston Herald, 31 Aug. 2025
Erasing the rest of the red ink will fall to Gov. Jared Polis, who plans to rebalance this year’s budget in the coming days through a mix of cuts to state funding and a big dip into the rainy-day fund.
—Nick Coltrain, Denver Post, 26 Aug. 2025
Sacramento is staring at $44 million in red ink, while the City of Orange had to cut tens of millions from their budget in order to balance it for this fiscal year.
—Diane Dixon, Oc Register, 25 Aug. 2025
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“Red ink.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/red%20ink. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.
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