Sentences with phrase «u.s. global giants»

By the way, a good way to get some diversification if you're a stock picker is to focus on international companies based in the U.S. Global giants such as Wal - Mart, Coke and IBM are easy to research, and they offer international diversification, as they are exposed to economies all over the world.

But Competition Commissioner Margrethe Vestager may be tempted to train her fire on European companies after a string of investigations of U.S. global giants that, especially after Tuesday's Apple (aapl) verdict, has enraged the United States.

Not exact matches

Officials from 195 countries, from giants like the U.S. to the tiniest impoverished states, agreed on the world's first global climate - change deal on Saturday evening, committing the world to drastically cutting back carbon emissions and transforming the planet's energy mix over the next several decades.

NEW YORK, April 12 (Reuters)- Global energy giants Chevron Corp and Exxon Mobil have asked U.S. regulators for exemptions to the nation's biofuels policy that have historically been reserved for small companies in financial distress, according to sources familiar with the matter.

Companies like U.S. biotech giant Gilead and the U.K.'s GlaxoSmithKline (the majority stakeholder in global HIV partnership ViiV Healthcare) have developed drugs that drastically lower the chance of HIV infection — or which simply lower the number of drugs you have to take to treat it, consequently curbing the risk of toxic side effects while simplifying medical regimens.

SUSPENDED: A U.S. judge has ruled the China branches of global accounting firms should be barred from providing audits for U.S. - traded companies in a dispute that might force major corporate names such as oil giant PetroChina and search engine Baidu to...

BEIJING (AP)-- An American judge has ruled the China arms of global accounting firms should be barred from providing audits for U.S. - traded companies in a dispute that might force major corporate names such as oil giant PetroChina and search engine...

In a story that's one part Indiana Jones, one part Nana's craft day down at the local bingo hall, and every part bananas, Hobby Lobby — the giant arts and crafts retailer and apparent scourge of the global archeological community — is being forced by the U.S. Justice Department to return thousands of illegally acquired ancient Iraqi artifacts and pay a multi-million dollar fine.

Especially after the company's Minetec business signed a global licensing agreement with U.S. giant Caterpillar.

Despite this, it is a global giant in the online dating industry with 300 million registered users in over 190 countries, bigger than all of the popular U.S. dating services — even Tinder.

Equally, Rocket Internet has had many a successful exit in the past to U.S. giants looking for global expansion (eBay and Groupon are notable buyers), so that could present another interesting opportunity.

He made most of that money buying and trading just four stocks: Jefferies Group (LUK), a New York - based global investment bank that has since merged with U.S. conglomerate Leucadia National, Bank of America (BAC), tech giant Google (GOOG), and Facebook (FB).

Now angry U.S. voters have thrown another giant wrench into the sputtering machinery of the global economy: president - elect Donald J. Trump.

For the first time in the U.S., Earth Defense Force 2 (also known as Global Defense Force in Europe) makes landfall, arriving on the PlayStation Vita with an armada of giant bugs, dozens of missions, and more B - movie charm than you can shake a forty - meter - tall kaiju «s tail at.

In my part of the U.S. most people romp around in giant SUVs and RVs and don't really give much of a flip about global warming.

Recently the world took two giant steps toward reaching a global agreement to fight climate change in 2015: a landmark U.S. - China accord and a $ 4.5 billion pledge to the Green Climate Fund by the United States and Japan.

Given the financial failures of French nuclear giant Areva and Japanese - owned and U.S. - based Westinghouse, Korea's withdrawal from nuclear would leave only Russia and China in the global competition for new nuclear construction.

In her book, Global Spin, author Sharon Beder noted that past Bonner clients have included tobacco companies Philip Morris and U.S. Tobacco Co.; the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association; the utility trade group Edison Electric Institute; military contractor McDonnell Douglas; nuclear industry and military services giant Westinghouse; chemical companies Monsanto and Dow Chemical; and the major Detroit auto companies Chrysler, Ford and General Motors (who hired Bonner to help derail Congressional efforts to raise fuel efficiency standards back in the 1990s).

In 2011, new companies will surprise us with technical solutions and business models for a giant, new U.S. - led global industry.

We are one of very few top U.S. law firms who can be and has been adverse to the global finance giants like Citigroup, Goldman Sachs, UBS, Barclays, Bank of America, and Credit Suisse, among others, and who represent both international investors and sovereign governments.

Nearly four months after Bitcoin futures hit Wall Street, trading giant Cboe Global is still working to allay U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) concerns over Bitcoin Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs).

Still, it could have an impact on U.S. shoppers» perception of Huawei, Greengart notes, since the phone maker isn't a scrappy startup looking to make a name for itself but a global giant with phone sales comparable to Apple and Samsung in other parts of the world.