Sentences with phrase «about a dollar in»

Seeking a flavorful vegetarian option, I went for the General Tso's Tofu, which cost $ 11 plus about a dollar in tax.

I was thinking that three 99c books at that royalty, adds up to about a dollar in royalties.

If someone buys a book priced at $ 15.95, you get about a dollar in commission!

«And if you have a trade paper edition, you'll be getting about a dollar in royalties per book.»

It wasn't an accident that Chairman Bernanke included the following comment about the dollar in a speech last week.

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So when I first heard about Chicago - based KnowledgeHound, I was pretty excited because I saw it as a SaaS startup that was addressing a large and important problem: the inefficiencies in the way corporations were spending billions of dollars on market research and surveys.

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

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Recent business news is slick with reports about startups, usually in the tech industry, getting millions of dollars in investment capital, typically from the gold - plated venture capital names.

According to the IIF, since Egypt reached agreement with the IMF in 2016, its currency has increased sharply against the dollar and that boosted its official reserves by almost double — from about $ 20 billion to $ 40 billion — and narrowed its deficit.

For more about the economic impact of the almighty buck, read How a Spike in the Value of the Dollar is Hurting the U.S. Economy.

Still, there's an ironic punch line to the case: Because the stolen Bitcoins were sold right away, allegedly by Vinnik and long before Mt. Gox disclosed the hack, victims lost much more, in dollar value, than the hackers ever made — which, according to Chainalysis, was only about $ 20 million.

So pushing back OAS back by two years would cost you about $ 13,000 in today's dollars.

If you spread the spending impact over your entire retirement, you would need to cut your spending back by about $ 520 per year in today's dollars.

While gold is often considered an inflation hedge, Julius Baer said in a note, the fact that price pressures were being driven by confidence about growth rather than dollar weakness and rising oil prices meant it was failing to react positively.

Yes, you will save a few dollars in overhead cost, but think about the long term goal profit!!!

Today, emerging market bonds, according to different groups out there, different major broker dealers, say about three quarters of emerging market bonds are investment grade, and the market is about a trillion and a half dollars, in terms of depth and breadth.

And his small, four - man crew brings in about $ 2.5 million dollars a year doing it.

To try to stop the destruction before the Great Barrier Reef — the largest, most extensive reef system in the world — is no more, the Australian government has announced that it plans to spend more than half a billion Australian dollars (about $ 379 million USD) on improving water quality to protect coral reefs; reef restoration; and helping to fight predatory starfish.

About 98 percent of the more than 300,000 U.S. exporting firms are small, and they account for over a third of the $ 1.4 trillion in annual total export dollars in 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which defines a small business as having fewer than 500 employees.

«But I think customers are choosing to spend their disposable dollars in different ways, and that's part of the reason why we are not more optimistic about the lower gas prices,» she added, noting that consumers are spending more on cars, healthcare, electronics and home improvement, leaving little upside for Macy's.

In 2015, Ackman, the founder of hedge fund Pershing Square, announced his multi-billion dollar bet on Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx); he proceeded to lose nearly his entire investment, or $ 7.7 million every day for about two years, as Valeant stock sank 95 %.

It is the promise of «Abenomics» that has seen the yen shed about 15 percent of its value against the dollar since November and Japanese shares surge to their highest level in more than four years.

I'd raised almost half a million dollars in two and a half weeks from shareholders and every meeting I had about the app was very positive because they saw the full picture.

August 14 - The ringgit, which had been on a downward trend, plunges to a 17 - year low, losing as much as 2.6 percent to 4.1180 per dollar, in part due to concerns about the Federal Reserve's expected rate hike, and also because outside investors are concerned about the turmoil surrounding Najib.

Businesses in the sector generated about $ 2.1 billion dollars in 2013, with online services representing 53 percent of the market's value — a number that is rapidly growing.

In 1960, the gap was about 61 cents to the dollar.

With that, she's built a company that will do about a billion dollars of revenue this year, and it will be profitable in a few years.

«It's not about taking a bunch of dollar bills and spreading them around,» said Deep Nishar, SoftBank's managing director, noting that the company is looking at making similar investments in Europe and South America.

Potential investors should call those clients and ask them what they like about Idea Crossing, and how far the relationship could grow in terms of dollars.

«Twenty - five billion dollars is about 0.2 % of annualized consumer spending, so this shortfall in refunds could have slowed consumer spending over time,» wrote Silver.

On Monday, the yen slid towards 99 per dollar, its lowest in nearly four years, as markets prepared for the BOJ to start buying about 70 percent of debt issued by the government.

Such behavior, the researchers argue, suggests that boards indeed tend to think about grants in terms of the number of options, not their dollar value.

«On average, she is shopping our stores about three times a month,» said Todd Vasos, CEO of Dollar General, in company's latest earnings call.

In view of this, it is puzzling that these countries complained about «currency wars,» alleging that the «monetary tsunami» unleashed by the U.S. and the euro area was threatening their competitive positions by pulling up their currencies, when, in fact, the real and the rupeewere falling against the dollar and the eurIn view of this, it is puzzling that these countries complained about «currency wars,» alleging that the «monetary tsunami» unleashed by the U.S. and the euro area was threatening their competitive positions by pulling up their currencies, when, in fact, the real and the rupeewere falling against the dollar and the eurin fact, the real and the rupeewere falling against the dollar and the euro.

That's one interesting theory presented in a new book about Snapchat — «How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story» — that came out this week from former TechCrunch writer Billy Gallagher.

A similar law enacted about a year ago in North Carolina prompted the relocation of sporting events and economic boycotts that were estimated to have cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars.

But the phone - backed securities market will be tiny in comparison to the multi-trillion dollar mortgage market — Verizon says it plans to securitize about $ 2 billion per quarter.

The ruble plummeted to 40 to the dollar in October, about 20 % lower than one year earlier.

Indeed, about 70 % of McElhanney's 1,000 - odd ongoing projects fit this criteria, some worth just a few thousand dollars in fees.

But, the great thing about entrepreneurship is that you can have a billion - dollar idea in a basement or a bedroom and grow it.

North Korea generates about $ 1 billion a year from the coal trade, according to the Treasury, which singled out three Chinese coal companies it said was responsible for importing almost a half - billion dollars in North Korean coal between 2013 and 2016.

The yen has fallen about 11 % against the U.S. dollar this year, and that's been great for exports, while inflation is the highest it's been in five years.

Predictably, the Alaskan 8 (a) sector is booming: Its share of federal contracting set - asides has grown from $ 265 million in 2000 to at least $ 2.3 billion today, about 20 percent of all 8 (a) dollars — most of that going to just 20 firms.

Six out of seven Ugandan girls leave school early, translating to about $ 10 billion dollars in lost potential earnings.

A lot.The original AMT collected just $ 122 million — about $ 700 million in today's dollars — which was just over one - tenth of one percent of all individual income tax revenue.

The only other candidate to even utter the phrase «income inequality» was Gov. John Kasich, who talked about changing the ways in which education dollars are allocated.

Taking this drug daily has shown to offer more than 90 % (and as much as 99 %) effective protection against HIV in clinical trials, and certain New Zealand residents will soon be able to get a three - month supply for just $ 5 (oh, and that's five New Zealand dollars, which is about $ 3.64 in U.S. money).

Litecoin is the second-most popular cryptocurrency, with about 25 million in circulation and a market valued at about half a billion dollars.

So while the Fed, Treasury and the FDIC have shoveled about $ 4 trillion dollars into the nation's banking sector in various bailouts and guarantees, these actions have not actually distributed any cash to consumers or businesses.