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Old 16-10-2011, 23:00   #33
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Re: Energy firms' profit margins soar

The story is misleading.
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The figure is a snapshot of how much suppliers would make from dual-fuel customers if energy prices and bills stayed unchanged for the next year.
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The profit margin is a volatile measure, and indeed showed the providers losing money for much of the time from 2004 to 2009.
Which means even an extremely small profit will see the % increase to be large.
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