Sentences with phrase «as more dollars»

Gaming as an industry has been expanding outward for a long time and increasingly, the «Gamer» is becoming a less relevant part of the overall gaming pie as more dollars are spent on free - to - play games for mobile / tablet, PC and now consoles too.

But only when data is tied to action do we see increases in student achievement and high school graduation rates, as well as more dollars and resources directed to low - performing schools.

Not exact matches

As BuzzFeed points out, rather than spend marketing money on a traditional online ad campaign — which would involve paying someone to create an ad and then paying to place it on Facebook, or another social website, or even with the publishers who so desperately need the ad dollars — businesses are sending more of that money to Facebook to promote content created for free by publishers.

LONDON, May 1 (Reuters)- The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and bond yields were creeping higher again on Tuesday, as the recent rise in oil prices fuelled bets that the U.S. Federal Reserve will flag more interest rate hikes this week.

NEW YORK, May 1 (Reuters)- Oil prices slid more than 1 percent on Tuesday as the dollar remained near a four - month high, but worries that U.S. President Donald Trump will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal underpinned the market.

LONDON, May 1 - The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and bond yields were creeping higher again on Tuesday, as the recent rise in oil prices fuelled bets that the U.S. May Day holidays across Asia and Europe meant trading was thinner than usual, though there was more than enough news flow to keep those...

And, as this chart shows, the renminbi and the bitcoin rate to the dollar have become increasingly closely correlated (though bitcoin's rise, in percentage terms, has of course been far more dramatic).

The difference has been even more visible in recent years as the Canadian dollar has hovered around par with the greenback.

It simply gets more profit from the dollars invested than its competitors, and serves customers better as a result.

NEW YORK, May 1 - The dollar broke into positive territory for the year and U.S. bond yields inched higher again on Tuesday as the recent rise in oil prices fueled expectations the Federal Reserve could flag more interest rate hikes at its policy meeting this week.

The Smiths say they plan to continue to try and make more inroads into big - box retailers, wholesale clubs like Costco and dollar stores, as those types of stores are consuming more of the grocery market.

But as creative as those attempts are to woo Amazon for its second headquarters, it's far more likely that the big dollars that Amazon has asked for will be a major deciding factor in its location.

Also known as ultra-high definition, or UHD, sets, the devices should bring in more retail sales dollars than any other «emerging technology» gadget this year, as we can see in this chart from Statista, which is based on a forecast by the Consumer Technology Association.

The rupee joins the rupiah (which had fallen more than 13 % against the U.S. dollar as of August), and Brazil's real in a spate of tough economic times for developing nations, particularly those with large current account deficits.

Nor is core as hot as it looks on paper, he said; the decline in the value of the dollar from a year ago is making imports more expensive.

Oil prices slid more than one per cent on Tuesday as the US dollar remained near a four - month high, but worries that US President Donald Trump will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal underpinned the market.

«As the company runs out of reasons why the technology won't work, and gets closer and closer to illustrating that it will work, I think it's entirely possible that they will raise the billions of dollars they will need to prove this concept out,» he says, noting that it was Cenovus's investment, more than that of Bezos, that turned heads among investors.

Companies seem to be increasingly offering insurance on all manner of things in part because of something known as loss aversion, which is when people feel a more psychological impact from a loss than from a similar - sized dollar gain.

«DEFINITELY NOT A BUBBLE:» China's digital revolution was bankrolled with dollars, and it has emerged as the world's second - largest destination for venture capital with more than 3,000 funds.

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.

As a result, the euro rose against the dollar on the more hawkish movement from the central bank, trading at $ 1.2411 at about 12:55 p.m. GMT (7:55 p.m. ET).

As the euro gets stronger against the dollar, European products become more expensive, which could impact European exports.

The dollar, measured against a basket of currencies, has now given up more than half of the gains it notched up this month when investors rushed into the greenback as equity markets suffered a violent sell - off.

The financial loss can range from hundreds to tens of thousands of dollars, but the health risk is more serious still as consumers who fall for such scams may be counseled to stop or delay conventional treatment for their disease, according to the Food and Drug Administration.

Generico now knows which image to use as it invests more advertising dollars in its website, GDN, print ads, business cards and even TV commercials.

Participants were asked to not only guess what their partner's reservation price (the lowest price they would accept), but also questions that were designed to show how they perceived their partner — the study's authors were curious as to whether certain negotiation tactics might lead to a likability cost, even if they resulted in a few more dollars for the partner.

On average, a broker who connects a small business with a healthcare provider collects between 4 and 8 percent of the company's health premiums — fees that translate to several hundred dollars or more per employee per year, and keep coming in for as long as the business customer continues to maintain coverage.

That is because banks, private - equity firms and institutional investors have continued to pour money into the sector even as oil companies slashed billions of dollars in spending from their budgets and laid off more than 100,000 workers.

NEW YORK, April 13 - The dollar was little changed against a basket of major currencies on Friday as traders waited for more clarity on a possible Western military intervention in Syria.

Messenger's road to dollar signs hasn't been quite as clear, but CEO Mark Zuckerberg laid out Facebook's plans much more clearly during the earnings call.

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).

It started with Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in March, and it has been followed by a cascading series of punches and counterpunches: U.S. sanctions on Kremlin officials, Putin's support for Ukraine separatists, more penalties against Russia, and then counter-sanctions as Russia banned the U.S., the European Union, Norway, Australia, and Canada from selling billions of dollars» worth of fruits, vegetables, fish, and meats to Russia.

«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.

You're probably not going to get more than 50 cents to a dollar per item as far as real earnings.»

But as the Dow Jones Industrial Average passes the 23,500 mark, there is no fear among investors with a million dollars or more in the market.

The polyester is woven into an exceptionally fine thread, for a fabric that feels about as close to silk as you're going to get without paying many, many more dollars.

Amazon (amzn) has said it plans to invest over $ 5 billion in construction and produce many as 50,000 high - paying jobs at HQ2, with the further promise of «tens of thousands of additional jobs» as well as billions of dollars more in additional investment in the host city — prompting a flurry of (sometimes outlandish) bids from cities and states to woo CEO Jeff Bezos and company.

The yen is one of the top picks this year in the currency market as the dollar comes under more pressure, says Patrick Bennett of CIBC.

As someone who has never spent a single dollar advertising my own content, I'll admit I've struggled to pay that price — and have instead chosen to bounce around looking for platforms that allow for more organic reach and exposure (like Quora and Medium, for example).

Growth: Alternative - protein startups have raised hundreds of millions of dollars in funding as entrepreneurs try to find a healthier and more environmentally friendly way to provide protein - rich foods.

We might be losing $ 50 million per day today because our pipelines feed the middle of North America as opposed to the coasts, but when companies were selling the idea of more pipelines right into the heart of the now - discounted mid-continent market, they did so on the basis that we'd make millions of dollars per day taking advantage of a growing market premium.

The return of gold mining as Western Australia's fastest - growing industry is becoming more interesting, with a near - record price for the metal in Australian dollars triggering increased exploration and a pair of possible mine developments in the Wheatbelt.

LONDON, May 3 - World stocks made little progress on Thursday as worries over global trade tensions weighed, while the U.S. dollar consolidated recent bumper gains after the Federal Reserve reaffirmed the outlook for more rate hikes.

Of the billions of dollars in payment transactions that the Poker Companies deceived U.S. banks into processing, approximately one - third or more of the funds went directly to the Poker Companies as revenue through the «rake» charged to players on almost every poker hand played online.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

More than that, you could experience one major medical event, such as a burst appendix, which if uncovered by insurance, could set you back thousands of dollars.

Companies seem to be increasingly offering insurance on all manner of things in part because of something known as loss aversion, which is when people feel more psychological impact from a loss than from a similar - sized dollar gain.

If everyone does as they should, then more dollars flow into the economy.

In early September, Solyndra ceased operations, laying off 1,100 staff and dooming the U.S. government's hopes of recovering more than half a billion dollars in loan guarantees offered to the company as part of the 2009 stimulus plan.

Still mad that the loonie is around parity with the U.S. dollar yet you're still paying more for the same stuff as Americans?