Sentences with phrase «americans buy every year»

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Fifth - generation president and CEO Hartley Richardson bulked up its Tundra Oil & Gas subsidiary last year, buying 550 wells in Manitoba from a retreating American operator, EOG Resources.

This year, only a third of American consumers plan to spend $ 501 or more buying gifts, according to personal finance site WalletHub's latest survey.

In the week before Easter last year, Americans bought $ 823 million in creme - filled eggs, chocolate rabbits and colored marshmallow Peeps, according to Nielsen data.

By the looks of this year's North American Auto Show in Detroit, soon you'll be able to buy a KITT of your own: almost every dashboard boasted touch screens, voice control, real - time performance data and more.

Last year, Berkshire Hathaway bought stakes in all four major U.S. carriers — American Airlines (aal), Delta (dal), Southwest (luv), and United Continental (ual)-- in an investment now worth about $ 9 billion.

According to an Associated Press - CNBC poll released Monday, some 36 per cent of Americans say buying stock in the 7 - year - old company would be a good investment, while 47 per cent disagree.

Last year, Americans bought 797,000 tons of coffee, followed by Brazil at nearly 676,000 tons and Germany at 375,000 tons.

U.S. officials blocked a $ 2.9 - billion bid by Chinese investors to buy a controlling stake in a California - based unit of Dutch electronics firm Phillips last year, while another U.S. semiconductor firm rejected a lucrative offer from Chinese investors in favour of a lower bid from an American company because of concerns the deal would not win regulatory approval.

The average American buys 64 new garments each year, regardless of income, writes the author Elizabeth L. Cline in her book Overdressed: The Shockingly High Cost of Cheap Fashion.

In an effort to rectify these concerns, President Trump last April signed the «Buy American, Hire American» executive order, which seeks to crack down on visa fraud and authorizes USCIS to tighten oversight of the annual application process, which opened this year on April 2.

That survey, which polled 2,429 adults aged 18 years old or older, found about 87 percent of Americans don't buy the majority of their gifts during the Thanksgiving weekend.

The lack of diversity in Trident's staffing and lending disturbed Beth Warshaw, 38, a white manager at a local arts nonprofit, who last year bought a two - bedroom brick row house in a primarily African American neighborhood of South Philadelphia.

Facilitating the buying and selling of businesses, American Business Brokers saw its revenue grow at a three - year rate of 4,092 % and reach $ 8.9 million in 2016.

It has also been credibly reported that the silence of both women had been bought — one, of a Playboy model, through the purchase of an article she'd written by American Media, owner of The National Enquirer, a magazine friendly to Trump that had no intention of publishing it (a silencing method that The National Enquirer had undertaken for Trump over the years).

«If you bought a few years ago with only 5 % to 10 % down, you may not have enough equity to qualify,» says John Stearns, a senior mortgage loan originator at American Fidelity Mortgage in Wisconsin.

The Deerfield, Ill. - based company, formerly known as Kraft Foods Inc., bought Cadbury in 2010 and spun off its North American grocery business two years later.

The administration inserted protectionist «Buy American» language in the President's jobs bill in September, despite Canada's objections to similar language in his stimulus bill two years ago.

That means 32 percent more robots were bought this year than at the same time in 2016 — it's the strongest first quarter on record for robots ordered by North American companies, according to the Robotic Industries Association.

But Honda is making hay that the Accord was actually the car bought by more Americans last year.

Louis Navellier, known for his stock selection prowess, is betting on two firearms companies that have been swept up in a nationwide buying frenzy sparked by Americans concerned about President Barack Obama «s intentions regarding gun control and their safety following terrorist attacks in San Bernardino, California, and Paris late last year.

With Trump in office, and the theme of buying American and hiring American, I believe Middle America real estate will outperform over the next 4 + years.

The declining value of the dollar last year, which makes American products cheaper to buy overseas, also helped to lift exports, but not enough to prevent the gap from widening.

This week, the U.S. imposed a seven - year ban on China's ZTE Corp. that prevents the telecommunications - equipment maker from buying technology from American suppliers, a devastating blow to its global aspirations.

87 - year - old American investor and CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffett, has again scorned investment in cryptocurrencies, claiming that «buying Bitcoin is not investing,» in an interview with Yahoo Finance in Omaha, Nebraska, today, April 28.

In all, Americans are expected to buy 18.46 million new cars this year, a 4.4 percent increase over last year, according to Mintel.

Then, the US Commerce Department last week banned ZTE (ZTCOF), which sells smartphones and other telecommunications equipment around the world, from buying product components from American firms for seven years.

The long - term trend of earnings per share for American businesses is up because large corporations retain earnings that they can use to pay down debt, buy back stock, or grow operations, and this allows us to have the reasonable certainty that Coca - Cola, Procter & Gamble, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, and the rest of the usual suspects will be worth more ten years from now.

Maybe in years 2020 - 2024 we will see a higher number Americans able to buy homes but don't hold your breath, if home prices keep on rising.

One of the biggest stories of last year was the surge in the value of the U.S. dollar, something that boosted our buying power as Americans.

It is no secret that China has been dominating us in numerous ways and because of all of the outsourcing companies have done over the last 20 years or so it is no surprise that they are using some of their new found wealth to buy American companies.

Now Amazon's moves to enter the health care industry have led two major US companies to make one of the biggest deals of the year, signaling major changes to come in the way Americans buy drugs and otherwise manage their health.

If US steel consumers were to switch to buying exclusively American, the industry would have to serve 26.9 million metric tons of extra steel a year to keep pace with foreign imports from 2017.

Millions of Americans go under the knife for plastic surgery, inject toxins and chemicals into their face and lips, pay hundreds of dollars a year dying their hair, buying cosmetics, etc..

John Delaney, editor of Catholic books for Doubleday, has figured out that so many Americans have bought Bibles during the past ten years that one out of every three of them (excluding children who can't read) should he able to quote chapter and verse in unison.

I'm talking more of some 24 - year old Brooklynite artsy - type, who delivered flowers and candles to one of the spontaneous memorials, a type who wouldn't go out and buy an American flag herself, but who was nevertheless disgusted when she read about that lefty writer forbidding her son to display one.

Text: For years campaigns have occasionally been waged to persuade the public to buy locally or even to buy only American - made products.

Having conquered China, the Treasury Wine Estates chief executive has now put the building blocks in place to revitalise the company's US operations, two - and - a-bit years after he bought Diageo's American wine business for $ 750 million.

I'd guess a much higher number, but studies show that Americans throw away up to 20 % of the fresh fruits and vegetable they buy each year.

Forty - five years ago, anyone hoping to be someone in American agriculture was offered the same, free advice: «Buy land; they're not making it anymore.»

I have a can of pumpkin puree in the cupboard which I bought last year when Aldi (UK) had an «American week».

I am not sure how among all big clubs, we are the only ones where in last 10 years, every Brazilian has flopped, Asian has flopped, we do not buy most South Americans or North Americans for that matter, and our fabled English core is crap compared to Spurs, the coaching staff and Wenger should be blamed to narrow down their searches always in Europe

The last South American that Wenger bought as a super investment was the prodigy from Brazil Wellington Silva, who we bought six years ago.

After getting a taste of the postseason last year — the Athletics put a five - game scare into the Yankees in the American League Division Series — the best team $ 40 million can buy (or rent) wants the whole enchilada.

The odd strategy of «buying good players» nabbed them four pennants and two World Series titles, so when they stopped winning the American League East every year, they stuck with it.

When the directors of the 1959 Pan American Games set about buying a track for installation at Soldier Field in Chicago two years ago they not only found that there were no major track builders, as such, in the country, but that the few good U.S. tracks in existence seemed to be the result of pure luck — the Los Angeles Coliseum, for example, got its ancient but revered brick - dust track, the story goes, because a building was being demolished nearby and a Coliseum official suddenly had the bright idea that the crushed bricks would make a good running surface.

Arsenal have made very few forays into the South American transfer market, but they made a big splash when they bought a 17 year - old «wonderkid» called Wellington Silva from Fluminense back in 2010 for a reported fee of # 3.5 million.

This is important because we Americans throw out 40 % of the food we buy each year.

Even if you bought a historical American Girl doll and her entire accessory line, I don't think you'd hit $ 11,500 (though you might come close) and while I would still think that is an outrageously extravagant gift that even as an adult I am jealous of, at least it would be appropriate for a ten - year - old girl.

WASHINGTON — The American Civil Liberties Union is taking no position on legislation that would bar people from buying guns if they are on the federal government's no - fly list — a list that the ACLU has spent the past five years arguing is unconstitutional.

The proposal was initially made at the start of the year by Cuomo, who had wanted to require state entities buy American - made products for any procurement larger than $ 100,000.