Sentences with phrase «as the currency of»

They gossip and use information as the currency of power.

BlingTags could soon rival cold, hard cash as the currency of choice in the Palo Alto area: In addition to the hundreds of local merchants offering the service, Facebook and Stanford University are distributing the stickers across their respective campuses, with about 10,000 BlingTags in active use as of late 2010.

Bitcoin itself will be used as the currency of choice in many cases, when its slow transaction clearing and pseudonymity are not issues.

Our vision is to reach a point in the near future where utility consumers around the world use the Treon token (TXO) as their currency of choice and preferred payment tool.

I just read that Iranian government announced it would stop using the U.S. dollar «as its currency of choice in its financial and foreign exchange reports,» According to that article this is...

We normally think of mutations as the currency of evolution.

This may be one reason that dogecoin has excelled as the currency of choice for online tipping.

Growing up, I understood money as the currency of control.

• Volcanic rage as currency of friendship: Walter (John Goodman) and Donnie (Steve Buscemi), The Big Lebowski...

Ferri went on to say that the whole concept of owning gold as a currency of last resort presumes that you own physical gold.

Though for the record, you do not get anywhere near as many rewards points when conducting your transactions using chickens as your currency of choice.

Just like the British Airways Executive Club Iberia Plus uses Avios as its currency of choice but there's are a few significant differences between the two that should make Iberia Plus very interesting to...

At its most basic level Anachrony is a worker - placement game, meaning you'll be deploying workers from your colony to the capital city on the main board in order to do various things like build new structures for your colony, gather water which acts as a currency of sorts, conduct research into super projects, trade with nomads and go mining for four types of raw materials needed to do pretty much everything.

They turned to their bodies, their ideas and their actions as the currency of a new realm.

Winner of the 2015 Forward Arts Foundation Emerging Artist Award, Drouet presents a colorful reimagining of plastic as the currency of consumerism in her solo exhibition Plastique, on view at Swan Coach House through May 27.

They print bills, and auction them off in exchange for dollars, pay their public employees in this currency (let's ignore the minimum wage), and demand taxes and land payments in this fiat currency, as well as demand a minimum wage from the companies in their pseudo-governmental system, and generally establish this fiat legal tender as the currency of choice for their people, eventually stamping out the dollar.

While Bitcoin offers enormous advantages for international settlement due to its speed and low cost compared to legacy money transfer services, order - book depth and liquidity can not yet support very large trades; therefore, bitcoin can not yet serve as a currency of international trade settlement across the world's financial markets.

The paper also indicates that privacy - focused altcoins, such as Monero and Zcash, may be cutting into bitcoin's role as the currency of the online black market.

I see it almost as the currency of jokes.»

«Enabling exposure to the top cryptocurrencies using only ether as the currency of settlement is an important market need.

Hidden Bitcoin Bounties could lead authorities to online pirates Bitcoin is often seen as the currency of online pirates.

Not exact matches

Investors should have some of the portfolio hedged — a hedge on half could make sense, as that would essentially be a neutral call on currency, he says — but whether an entire basket of bonds is hedged is up to the manager.

As Zynga becomes the latest adopter of the digital currency, the move highlights a budding trend: businesses adopting bitcoin to woo a key consumer demographic.

Unregulated digital entities, created by just about anyone out of nothing, that assume some value denominated in fiat currency simple because they're being traded between anonymous people or bots whose only desire is to make prices go up, on unregulated opaque exchanges where everyone thinks price manipulation is good as long as it pushes up the price....

«We want to monitor to make sure there's not going to be a resurgence of anti-euro sentiment, which would be negative to European assets and the euro as a currency,» says de la Durantaye.

The dollar, traded against a basket of major currencies, rose as high as 92.566, the highest since Jan. 10, before retracing to 92.454.

As Ryan Selkis of the Digital Currency Group tweeted, blockchain is friendlier to business and innovation («I want to make money / follow rules») while bitcoin suggests obsession and perhaps delusion («I'm fighting a holy war»).

«Provided the Fed conveys a steady - as - she - goes approach and it isn't seen to be back tracking - and there is no reason from the data why it should - the dollar should be consolidating and pushing on from this level,» said Bank of New York Mellon senior currency strategist Neil Mellor.

Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those reflected in such forward - looking statements and that should be considered in evaluating our outlook include, but are not limited to, the following: 1) our ability to continue to grow our business and execute our growth strategy, including the timing, execution, and profitability of new and maturing programs; 2) our ability to perform our obligations under our new and maturing commercial, business aircraft, and military development programs, and the related recurring production; 3) our ability to accurately estimate and manage performance, cost, and revenue under our contracts, including our ability to achieve certain cost reductions with respect to the B787 program; 4) margin pressures and the potential for additional forward losses on new and maturing programs; 5) our ability to accommodate, and the cost of accommodating, announced increases in the build rates of certain aircraft; 6) the effect on aircraft demand and build rates of changing customer preferences for business aircraft, including the effect of global economic conditions on the business aircraft market and expanding conflicts or political unrest in the Middle East or Asia; 7) customer cancellations or deferrals as a result of global economic uncertainty or otherwise; 8) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which we operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates; 9) the success and timely execution of key milestones such as the receipt of necessary regulatory approvals, including our ability to obtain in a timely fashion any required regulatory or other third party approvals for the consummation of our announced acquisition of Asco, and customer adherence to their announced schedules; 10) our ability to successfully negotiate, or re-negotiate, future pricing under our supply agreements with Boeing and our other customers; 11) our ability to enter into profitable supply arrangements with additional customers; 12) the ability of all parties to satisfy their performance requirements under existing supply contracts with our two major customers, Boeing and Airbus, and other customers, and the risk of nonpayment by such customers; 13) any adverse impact on Boeing's and Airbus» production of aircraft resulting from cancellations, deferrals, or reduced orders by their customers or from labor disputes, domestic or international hostilities, or acts of terrorism; 14) any adverse impact on the demand for air travel or our operations from the outbreak of diseases or epidemic or pandemic outbreaks; 15) our ability to avoid or recover from cyber-based or other security attacks, information technology failures, or other disruptions; 16) returns on pension plan assets and the impact of future discount rate changes on pension obligations; 17) our ability to borrow additional funds or refinance debt, including our ability to obtain the debt to finance the purchase price for our announced acquisition of Asco on favorable terms or at all; 18) competition from commercial aerospace original equipment manufacturers and other aerostructures suppliers; 19) the effect of governmental laws, such as U.S. export control laws and U.S. and foreign anti-bribery laws such as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and the United Kingdom Bribery Act, and environmental laws and agency regulations, both in the U.S. and abroad; 20) the effect of changes in tax law, such as the effect of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (the «TCJA») that was enacted on December 22, 2017, and changes to the interpretations of or guidance related thereto, and the Company's ability to accurately calculate and estimate the effect of such changes; 21) any reduction in our credit ratings; 22) our dependence on our suppliers, as well as the cost and availability of raw materials and purchased components; 23) our ability to recruit and retain a critical mass of highly - skilled employees and our relationships with the unions representing many of our employees; 24) spending by the U.S. and other governments on defense; 25) the possibility that our cash flows and our credit facility may not be adequate for our additional capital needs or for payment of interest on, and principal of, our indebtedness; 26) our exposure under our revolving credit facility to higher interest payments should interest rates increase substantially; 27) the effectiveness of any interest rate hedging programs; 28) the effectiveness of our internal control over financial reporting; 29) the outcome or impact of ongoing or future litigation, claims, and regulatory actions; 30) exposure to potential product liability and warranty claims; 31) our ability to effectively assess, manage and integrate acquisitions that we pursue, including our ability to successfully integrate the Asco business and generate synergies and other cost savings; 32) our ability to consummate our announced acquisition of Asco in a timely matter while avoiding any unexpected costs, charges, expenses, adverse changes to business relationships and other business disruptions for ourselves and Asco as a result of the acquisition; 33) our ability to continue selling certain receivables through our supplier financing program; 34) the risks of doing business internationally, including fluctuations in foreign current exchange rates, impositions of tariffs or embargoes, compliance with foreign laws, and domestic and foreign government policies; and 35) our ability to complete the proposed accelerated stock repurchase plan, among other things.

On August 1, the miners will implement a software update that will create a so - called «fork» and result in two versions of the bitcoin blockchain — and two forms of the currency as well.

She said investors looking for smaller ups and downs should consider ETFs denominated in U.S. dollars or other so - called «hard currencies» that are seen as better stores of value.

«Policy divergence is expected to remain a prominent theme,» Canadian policy makers said in their December 2 statement, new language that read as a reminder to currency traders that the Bank of Canada sets policy independent of the Fed.

Fully - knit sweaters emblazoned with the logos of popular digital currencies, including bitcoin, Ethereum, and Litecoin — known as «ugly crypto sweaters» — are sweeping the online crypto community.

Here are three off the top of my head: Record levels of household debt threaten future spending, too many of our companies need a weaker currency to be competitive, and international energy companies are giving up on Canada as a place to invest.

Much ink has been spilled about the global tide of nationalism, but these leaders, raised with the freedom to zip around Europe without passports, using a common euro currency, see their individual nations» interests as inextricably bound to the state of the whole world.

LONDON, May 2 - Gold steadied on Wednesday near 4 - month lows as the dollar's uptrend paused, but prices of the precious metal are expected to remain under pressure from a significantly stronger U.S. currency and weak investment demand.

Higher U.S. yields can put pressure on the currencies of emerging market countries that run current account deficits such as Indonesia and India, said Satoshi Okagawa, senior global markets analyst for Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation in Singapore.

Separately, a senior Chinese central banker said authorities should ban centralized trading of virtual currencies as well as individuals and businesses that provide related services.

As of July 31, futures markets predict a unit of the new currency will be worth hundreds of dollars.

Fabricated metals is another of the industries that the Bank of Canada thought would lead the export recovery as shipments traditionally got a boost for a weak currency.

The Confederate situation got worse as the war went on since the Confederate States of America established their own currency and it saw rapid inflation as the war situation got worse and worse.

In that case, Coinbase eventually let customers withdraw their share of the new currency, known as «Ethereum Classic,» even though it still does not allow it to be bought and sold on the Coinbase site.

Back in 2014, he wrote a Financial Times op - ed in which he criticized the virtual currency for being «unsuitable as a means of exchange» and said it was only attractive for two reasons: anonymity — as desired by money launderers and tax evaders — and speculation.

Despite the record - breaking values of Bitcoin and its ilk, most digital currencies have failings that make them problematic as a mainstream medium of exchange.

This is probably the most common use of digital currency for individuals and non-professionals: as an alternative, risky, potentially very rewarding sort of asset class.

NEW YORK, May 2 - U.S. stocks fell on Wednesday as investors digested a statement from the Federal Reserve, which left interest rates steady and said inflation had «moved close» to its target, while the dollar climbed late against a basket of currencies.

Since work wouldn't hold the same social currency or cultural importance as today, intrinsic motivations and labors of love might become the benchmark of a life well spent.

It's essentially a clone of the original currency, which was created in 2009, but with «blocks» that are twice are as big.

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the Company is also subject to a number of additional risks associated with its business outside the United States, including foreign currency exchange fluctuations and restrictive regulations as well as the risks and uncertainties associated with the United Kingdom's withdrawal from the European Union;