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The font should be red and the number prefixed with a hyphen.


Is a loss presented as -X a gain? (double negative)


I don't think people would interpret it that way, especially if it was red. But maybe surrounding the value in parentheses is a more unambiguous way to denote "this figure indicates a loss" but I'm not sure how well-known that is




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