Translation of "Schwarze null" in English

Make your bets on red, black sections, or on green zero.

German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble is politically committed to outdoing his country’s tough domestic fiscal framework to secure what he calls a “black zero” budget.

With growth of at least 7% in sales revenues, a strong improvement in EBIT is forecast and earnings after tax are expected to reach a black zero.

So at this stage it appears that project “black zero” is all encompassing for the German government and electorate.

In order to reach the break even point your downline must be developed to at least 20 coworkers!

With a share of exports of around 80 per cent, because of the Euro crisis, all that de facto remained as the bottom line for the companies in 2011 was a black zero.

We assume that we will accomplish the black zero this year and will make a sustainable profit from then on", CFO Rodolphe Schoettel outlined the next goals.

The aim of "breaking even", despite the core markets' continued weakness in 2016, is likely to be missed only due to more negative currency influences.

The goal for 2013 is a break-even at the EBIT level and therefore operational profitability.

As an enterprise of the City of Regensburg it is our goal to be in the black through a balanced relationship between expansion and funding to ensure the sustainable facilitation of the society through financial means of the Euopean Union, the German Government, the Free State of Bavaria und the City of Regensburg.

Even though start-ups are always in the red at first, it was a real milestone for us when Jimdo moved into the black for the first time.

And after just two editions, it was subsequently possible to break even and, in the following years, to even turn a profit.

The objective is to "return to the black" and once again perform better than the markets and competitors.

Management therefore continues to be comfortable with the aim of going into the black at EBIT level for the full year.

Following the loss of €16 million in 2017, the consolidated net result from continuing operations should improve further in 2018 to reach a black zero.

From a fiscal standpoint, excessive austerity and Germany’s focus on ‘Black Zero’ (its goal of moving from a budget deficit to a small surplus for the first time since 1969) mean there is little appetite or ability to fight deflation in this way.

And he was also able to establish some important contacts, which turned into concrete projects such as that with Northern Lighting. Even financially, Braun says he always ended up in the black, but only because he stayed on a camping site during his first year at the Milan fair and in comparatively cheap hotels in subsequent years.

The operating result (EBIT) rose to EUR 2.5 million, after a black zero (EUR 41 thousand) had been achieved at this point in the previous year as planned.

So far, public debate has focused on balancing the federal budget – breaking even at what is known in Germany as the “black zero”.

But, he also receives commissions from the sales of his downline, i.e. from all these independent dealers he recruited before. So how many downliners must he have at all then to reach the break even?

The solid first quarter 2018 at least confirms our full year guidance for non-recurring EBIT before ppa, for which we expect a slightly more than proportionate increase compared to the sales revenue growth. Due to the in total positive non-recurring effects, we slightly increase our guidance for net income from continuing operations to a low double digit million EUR amount (previous guidance: black zero).

The solid first quarter 2018 at least confirms our full year guidance for non-recurring EBIT before ppa, for which we expect a slightly more than proportionate increase compared to the sales revenue growth. Due to the in total positive non-recurring effects, we slightly increase our guidance for net income from continuing operations to a low double digit million € amount (previous guidance: black zero).