Sentences with phrase «$ billion»

Why would the State government NOT want $ Billions worth invested in Perth, and jobs created????????? Defies logic.

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The last time it grew was 2013, when it climbed 6.4 % to $ 14.5 billion.

(The combined company is the subject of a $ 1.4 - billion bid from a South African consortium.)

Investors estimate that the company has grown to about $ 16 billion in value, up from $ 13 billion earlier this year, according to The Information.

If all goes well, they will ratify an agreement that will unlock bailout funds that would allow Greece to pay the the almost $ 2 - billion it owes the IMF at the end of the month.

The minister of the day, Jim Prentice, killed a $ 1.3 - billion offer from Alliant Techsystems, an American company.

The SBA estimates the new funding will support $ 1.8 billion in small business lending.

• Xiaomi, the Beijing, China - based smartphone maker, is speaking with investment banks about an IPO that could value the firm at at least $ 50 billion, Bloomberg reports citing sources.

GE is piggybacking along to the tune of at least $ 2 billion a year in extra equipment sales — a significant boost even for a company of GE's scale.

In 2012, these television services spent $ 1.39 billion on Canadian programming, representing a 9.6 per cent increase over the previous year.

Final - mile delivery is a market that could grow to about $ 12 billion over the next decade, from about $ 3.7 billion today.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper lent support to the 1,200 - kilometre, $ 6 - billion pipeline that would carry more than 500,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Edmonton through the Rockies to Kitimat, B.C., where it could be transported by tanker to markets in the U.S. and Asia, including China.

Dropbox has a private valuation of $ 10 billion, and though it's uncertain whether it will be able to initially sell shares above it, the stock could trade higher once it's public.

May 1 - Plane maker Boeing Co said on Tuesday it would buy aerospace parts company KLX Inc for about $ 3.2 billion in cash to expand its aircraft services business.

Despite watching CVS vastly increase its market share after cutting its $ 2 - billion tobacco business, every other major pharmacy chain continues to insist there's no way it can stop selling cigarettes.

Prem Watsa, known as Canada's Warren Buffett, is now the company's fifth - largest shareholder through Fairfax Financial Holdings, the $ 9 - billion insurance and investment firm that he founded in Toronto.

AT&T was confident it would win regulatory approval for its $ 85.4 billion acquisition of Time Warner before year's end as the Justice Department continues its review, but was still awaiting details about any final requirements for the deal, a senior executive said.

For the first three quarters of 2017, BofA earned $ 15.7 billion.

The NCAA Tournament is a major source of advertising revenue for television, generating more than $ 1 billion per year in ad sales.

«I went from running a $ 100 million business at Fiskars to a $ 2.5 billion business at UP,» says Fritz, who, after all the businesses he'd seen sold, appreciated the tradition of long service at UP.

Warman says Tencent controls a significant share of Glu Mobile and has at least a 10 % stake in Activision Blizzard Inc. (ATVI), which recently acquired King Digital Entertainment for $ 5.9 billion.

Will President Obama's proposed $ 50 billion in funding for fixing roads, bridges, rail lines and airports be enough?

Money for the original program — which helped to lend $ 22 billion to some 55,000 small businesses — was included in last year's economic stimulus bill.

Total company revenue rose 14 % to $ 6 billion, while net income edged up to $ 660 million from $ 653 million a year earlier.

Revenue of $ 13.83 billion beat forecasts of $ 13.72 billion but it disappointed on revenue outlook and its shares fell 2.2 per cent in after - hours trading.

The Federal Aviation Administration and Space Florida, the state agency tasked with promoting interstellar tourism, predict suborbital flights alone could generate up to $ 1.6 billion in revenue during their first 10 years of operation.

It has annual revenues of about $ 3.3 billion.

Far from it: Its capital expenditure has almost doubled, from $ 2.2 billion in 2006 to a planned $ 4.2 billion in 2015.

The company's EPS outlook of $ 32.40 to $ 34.10 on EBITDA of $ 2.03 billion to $ 2.13 billion is below FactSet's consensus estimates of $ 34.21 EPS on $ 2.14 billion in EBITDA.

Revenue rose to $ 4.87 billion from $ 3.34 billion.

Using traditional methods, you know if you've taken a sort of Apollo - style approach, an optimistic class number would be about $ 10 billion a person.

Last year, companies raised $ 3.8 billion via ICOs, and this year alone they have already raised $ 2.8 billion, according to data from CoinSchedule, a site which tracks the activity in the space.

The overall games market will continue climbing to $ 83 billion by 2016, but mobile and online will increasingly make up the lion's share after surpassing consoles and PCs this year.

So before anyone demands $ 44 billion from Canadian taxpayers to end homelessness, let's first give the private sector a chance to fix this problem free of charge.

I've seen how an executive vastly increased her company's valuation by throwing away a $ 2 - billion line of business she knew was undermining her company's brand.

Hospitals and pharmacies shelled out $ 424.8 billion on drugs, up 12.2 % from 2014's record mark, according to new data from the IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics.

Last year, 6.15 million Chinese travelers took international trips, a 7 percent increase from 2016, with overseas spending estimated to amount to about 100 billion yuan (nearly $ 16 billion).

The 81 - year - old government - run financial institution, known as the Ex-Im Bank, provides much - needed to support to exporters through guaranteed loans and credit insurance, and by its own reckoning, it has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury over the last 20 years.

The company received $ 3 billion from China in 2007 for a 10 percent stake in the company that had $ 368 billion under management as of the end of March.

Total debt for the quarter was $ 2.8 billion, up $ 89 million from December 31, 2017, including debt issued for acquired aircraft, partially offset by scheduled principal payments.

That injustice has become even more glaring as legal marijuana spawns an above - board industry that could grow to $ 50 billion within a decade, but which does not appear poised to benefit the very minorities who were so abused by earlier drug laws.

They must either accept his bid to buy out shareholders for $ 13.65 (or about $ 24 billion), or vote it down, forcing Dell and his backers into an even more protracted battle with activist shareholder Carl Icahn.

But with its $ 2.1 - billion rescue of Opti Canada, which just last week entered creditor protection, it not only reasserts its Canadian presence; it looks like the good guy.

Co. for $ 23 billion.

His new fund comes on the heels of the news that he sold 29 % (worth about $ 1.4 billion) of his stake in Uber.

• SK Capital agreed to acquire the Fire Safety and Oil Additives Businesses of Israel Chemicals Ltd. (TASE: ICL) for approximately $ 1 billion.

If Mr. Musk were somehow to increase the value of Tesla to $ 650 billion — a figure many experts would contend is laughably impossible and would make Tesla one of the five largest companies in the United States, based on current valuations — his stock award could be worth as much as $ 55 billion (assuming the company does not issue any more shares over the next decade, which is unrealistic).

Furthermore, Apple's overall fourth - quarter revenue of US$ 28.27 billion was more than $ 1 billion short of forecasts; it was the first time Apple missed analyst sales forecasts since 2008.

About 69 million employees in the U.S. say they miss work because of health problems every year, which reduces economic output by $ 260 billion per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

May 1 - Boeing Co said on Tuesday it entered a definitive agreement to buy aerospace parts company KLX Inc for $ 4.25 billion, including debt.