Sentences with phrase «at about a dollar»

Enter Basis, a year - old, 10 - person, Hoboken, N.J. - based cryptocurrency startup at work on a «stable coin» whose elastic supply will ostensibly expand and contract to keep its value at about a dollar instead of all over the map.

Each pack will retail for $ 5.99 putting the base value of each card at about a dollar.

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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.

U.S. welfare systems, Tanner says, tend to pull a person's benefits all at once as soon as they get a job — so much so that a person on welfare who gets a job will only see an increase of about five cents for every new dollar they earn from that job.

Leader Pauline Marois also drew media attention for musing about Quebec's currency if the province was to separate from Canada — Quebec would use the Canadian dollar, she said, and hopefully get a special seat at the Bank of Canada.

At 0847 GMT, the FTSE index was up 0.57 percent to 7,563.38 points, a high since the beginning of February, when sterling was however about 5 percent higher than it is now against the dollar.

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).

«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.

The yen, which traded at about 93 per dollar on Wednesday, hit a 33 - month low earlier this week.

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.

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

And as much as TREB says its dispute is about privacy, what's really at stake is who controls the online flow of information, and ultimately millions of dollars in commissions and transaction fees, between buyers, sellers and brokers.

The Mexican peso is down by about 12.9 % at 20.6842 per dollar around 11:50 p.m. ET.

After taking a very deep breath and then reading about the success of open book management at other organizations, I started to relay more specific dollar amounts to the team.

When we take out the areas of motor vehicles, furniture, building materials, gasoline stations, convenience stores and beer, wine and liquor stores, about one in every 10 retail dollars are spent at Walmart.

Operating costs for non-integrated mines like Kearl, estimated at less than $ 7.50 / bbl in today's dollars in 2004 are now projected to be about $ 18.50 / bbl.

But ultimately the dollar, because our country is going to get so much stronger economically, if you look at what's happened to our country over the — look, I've been talking about this with you for 25 years.

At about this time three years ago, it agreed to complete its multi-billion dollar acquisition of European druggist Alliance Boots, and followed that 10 months later by trying (and failing) to buy smaller rival Rite Aid (rad) outright.

The hedge fund manager, whose Yelp stake was worth about $ 10 million at the end of 2015, has made at least several million dollars in the stock just this week, after telling investors that he believes the company's revenue could double in the next three years.

These two repeat factors keep pulling any dollar recovery down and mean we remain in cautious wait and see mode about the U.S.,» Bill Blain, strategist and head of capital markets at Mint Partners, told CNBC via email.

It's funny how chatter about the currency goes: not so long ago, the headline worry was that the Canadian dollar was at risk of testing its all - time lows.

After weakening at the start of 2018, a rise in U.S. Treasury yields have helped the dollar stage a recovery in the past fortnight at the same time as doubts grow about when the European Central Bank (ECB) will tighten monetary policy.

Treasury yields have helped the dollar stage a recovery in the past fortnight at the same time as doubts grow about when the European...

Oil is currently trading at about US$ 45 / bbl, which in current dollars puts it below where it was at the end of 2008, back when global markets were still in the thick of the financial crisis.

Ken Odeluga, a market analyst at City Index, told BI: «The key for the moment seems to be more about gold's role as a counterweight to the dollar and, more precisely, as the inverse of the Federal Reserve's willingness to create more ideal dollar conditions by tightening policy.»

It would pain the executives at Estée Lauder and L'Oréal — having poured hundreds of millions of dollars into celebrity ad campaigns — to learn how effortlessly Emily Weiss gets Millennials excited about one of her company's new products.

«So if you talk about multi-million dollars of inflow with only new supply of 900 bitcoins a day, you can imagine where prices could be at in three, five, or 10 years,» he added.

Larry Rossy built the billion - dollar business a single buck at a time, and he did it by worrying about seeming trivialities like toilet placement.

I'm not talking about raising money at a billion dollars.

The last time the public at large heard much about digital currency was in late 2013 to early 2014, when the Bitcoin price last touched its then all - time high of $ 1242 dollars.

Think about the billions of dollars spent on billboards, television and radio commercials, print advertising, etc., just to be in the right place with the right solution at the right time.

Remington also has $ 250 million of bonds that come due in 2020, and are trading at a significant discount to their face value at 22 cents on the dollar, according to Thomson Reuters data, indicating investor concerns about repayment.

Prior to the acquisition, the four largest U.S. rental car companies — Avis Budget, Enterprise, Hertz and Dollar Thrifty — accounted for about 97 percent of the business at the top 50 U.S. airports, according to Abrams Consulting Group data.

CHAMATH PALIHAPITIYA, SOCIAL CAPITAL FOUNDER & CEO: When you think about how sticky something is, the most important thing to look at is this concept called churn which is how fast are people leaving the service, and specifically, you can look at companies leaving the service or the amount of dollars that you «re losing.

The Wall Street firm, however, says it bought the block of bonds, priced at about 31 cents on the dollar, through a broker and did not interact directly with the government.

The Australian dollar has remained in a relatively steady range over the past couple of years, at levels that are a little above average against the US dollar and about 10 per cent above average in trade - weighted terms.

At a recent investment conference sponsored by Royal Bank and Suncor I spoke about the likelihood that billions of dollars of carbon assets will never see the light of day.

The actual market rate at the time was about 6.86 per dollar.

I'm hoping to have about 10g saved by this time next year, which I know is nothing huge but seeing as I'm at 2.5 g right now and owned 3 dollars to my name on Aug. 9 I'm pretty happy with my progress:).

Hertz acquired Dollar Thrifty last November, but it was barred from controlling about 30 sites at airports.

After Mr. Cruz left Douglas High School, he took a job at a Dollar Tree store about a mile and a half from the school.

Alejo Costa, the head of strategy at Buenos Aires - based brokerage Puente, estimates Argentina will need to issue about $ 11 billion dollars to pay the holdouts and an additional $ 8 billion dollars to fund its fiscal needs.

Lake Chapala At Lake Chapala (where I live), a new 2 - bedroom, 1.5 - bath home with a mirador (rooftop terrace) with stunning lake views is selling for about 1.4 million pesos... or just $ 71,500 U.S. dollars.

Uber has raised several billion dollars in just the last year and has been in talks to raise about $ 1.5 billion at a $ 50 billion valuation.

Now, talking about what is specifically happening with the US dollar, it might be interesting for people to look at the data provided by the World Bank, in which the World Bank provides the ratio between purchasing power parities and nominal exchange rates of countries, comparing it with the US dollar.

Silver futures in the May contract settled last Friday in New York at 17.16 an ounce while currently trading at 16.45 hitting a two week low finishing down about $ 0.70 for the trading week all due to the fact that the U.S. dollar hit a four - month high today putting pressure on the whole precious metal sector.

The real value of dollar - cost averaging is that investors don't need to worry about investing at the top of the market or trying to determine when to get in or out of the market.

Chris Mazdzer, who just won silver in luge at the Pyeongchang Olympics for the US, opens up about life as an elite athlete in a sport that pays more in prestige than dollars.

To offset the crippling bank note shortages impacting the country, the Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe has been printing bond notes (Zimbabwe's own version of US Dollars) that are supposed to have equal value to the greenback but are actually trading at a premium of about 30 % to the US dollar on parallel markets.

For much of my career I pretty much accepted the consensus, but as I started to think more seriously about the components of the balance of payments, I realized that when Keynes at Bretton Woods argued for a hybrid currency (which he called «bancor») to serve as the global reserve currency, and not the US dollar, he wasn't only expressing his dismay about the transfer of international status from Britain to the US.