Sentences with phrase «back the streets for»

It is time we took back the streets for the rest of us.

A herd of mechanical animals, built from bicycle parts, serve in a demonstration intended to win back the streets for slower denizens of the city

Not exact matches

We've set up decoys for some of our high - profile clients when the paparazzi are out on the street — we'd have a car go in one direction, and they'd go out the back.

Musk, 46, said he won't need to go back to equity or debt markets this year to seek additional funds for Tesla, but crossing Wall Street may be a bad idea.

When the couple got back to California, after waiting two months for all the belts to be made, they spent another three months driving up and down the coast and living in Woodman's 1974 VW bus, stopping at street fairs and concerts to sell the belts.

Tight credit is forcing small businesses to seek alternative lenders to meet demand for back - to - school merchandise, reports the Wall Street Journal.

For one thing, Wall Street firms and banks, which all but disappeared from the recruitment scene for two years, are back in forFor one thing, Wall Street firms and banks, which all but disappeared from the recruitment scene for two years, are back in forfor two years, are back in force.

For Wall Street analysts who often work 100 + hours a week, something as mundane as a «hobby» is inevitably put on the back burner.

«If you went back 25 years and explained the idea for adding an artistic flair to a bunch of street performers, if you took that to Dragon's Den, you'd get a lot of eye rolls and people saying «no way,»» says Matt Thompson, «And look what they've done with it.

Just over a month ago Barclays, Credit Suisse, Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce, HSBC, MUFG, and State Street joined UBS and BNY Mellon in a project to launch a cryptocurrency — the «utility settlement coin» — set for a limited back - end run by 2018.

With Wall Street backing, the company leased land all over the country for fracking, including Texas, Oklahoma, Ohio and Pennsylvania.

HBC (TSX: HBC) also said it completed the sale and lease back of its Queen Street flagship store and Simpson Tower office complex in Toronto for a purchase price of $ 650 million and used most of the net proceeds to reduce debt.

The annual bonus for the average Wall Street worker is back to heights not seen since before the financial crisis, though the industry has shrunk in size since then.

We're talking about Cowtown's other notable Brian Hunter, the oil industry engineer who forced Bay Street to stop ignoring the average folks who collectively and unwittingly dumped hundreds of millions of dollars into the now frozen market for asset - backed commercial paper (ABCP).

Sort of like the fellow who dropped his wallet on a dark sidewalk and then walked back two blocks to look for it under the last street lamp he passed because that's where the light was!

Exxon and Chevron told investors on Friday that it was too soon to begin buying back shares, something Wall Street has pushed for.

Back in 2006, the Wall Street Journal reported that SAC's trading alone accounted for 2 % of all of the stock market activity.

BofA is joining firms across Wall Street in paring back staff amid one of the worst quarters for investment - banking and trading revenues.

The media mogul spoke on CNBC's «Squawk on the Street» on Thursday and said she is in favor of an «industry - wide pressure» for the companies to «give back something» and «fund real journalism.»

«Litigation is great for people who like to fix certain types of problems,» says Paul Saguil, thinking back on his time as a litigator for Bay Street law firm Stockwoods.

After announcing in 2010 that Yelp likely would not go public for several years, CEO Jeremy Stoppelman told the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday that the company had put an IPO back on the table.

Now its 2016 and Hillary Clinton can't say anything about what really happened in 2008 for fear of being accused of being a back stabber, so instead she takes the attacks that she is for Wall Street and the Banks even though she actually lost the 2008 democrat nomination because she stood up for the impoverished homeowner and not for wall sStreet and the Banks even though she actually lost the 2008 democrat nomination because she stood up for the impoverished homeowner and not for wall streetstreet.

On Wednesday, the electric car maker released delivery numbers for the fourth quarter of 2017 that fell short of many expectations on Wall Street, and once again pushed back production targets on its highly anticipated Model 3 sedan.

But as the State Street numbers suggest, for many investors it is easier to get out of the market than to get back in.

A couple of weeks back, I found a Multiple - Employer 401 (k) Plan (MEP) marketing piece by State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) that copied (without attribution) a 401 (k) plan fiduciary hierarchy I had created for a blog.

Joel Greenblatt, he is Wall Street royalty, he's a legend in the hedge fund and mutual fund worlds, he ran a fund called Gotham Capital 10 consecutive years compounding it 50 percent a year, those numbers are just off the charts at the end of the decade, he returned money back to investors and said I'm just going to manage my own money for a while, thanks.

Tesla acquired SolarCity for $ 2.6 billion back in November in a move that was lauded by shareholder, but questioned by Wall Street.

This week has been another roller coaster ride for Wall Street amid back - and - forth tariff threats by the U.S. and China.

As a steward of pension funds and retirement accounts, Neuberger Berman has traditionally employed a staid strategy familiar among big Wall Street money managers: Buy and hold stocks, sit back, and hope for the best.

Still, there is a case for some cautious optimism that, should things on Wall Street go too awry in reaction to the president's actions, he might scale back.

Even if Wall Street starts to cut back on its investments in shale, it will take time for that spending contraction to show up in the production data.

One is a world in which our economic problems are largely solved, profits are on the mend, and things will soon be back to normal, except for a lot of unemployed people whose fate is, let's face it, of no concern to Wall Street.

The Wall Street firm raised lots of money very quickly for state - backed 1MDB.

The «Street» in CitiStreet dates back to the mid-1970s, offering recordkeeping, fiduciary, investment - management, and communications services for a variety of plans.

Given the company's relatively strong position now and the uncertainty of the future, some Wall Street sources are scratching their heads wondering why the Nordstrom family would even consider cutting a deal that would give a new investor preferred shares, noting that the idea was likely thrown on the table to see what would trigger private equity interest.That has brought some private equity firms back in for another around of talks, but one source noted: «Private equity these days don't really want to commit any money to brick - and - mortar.

It was easy for them back in the day to go down the street and drop into every house.

In fact, one of the most surprising aspects I learned about financial advisers while working for a Wall Street firm back in the day was the enormously diversified pool of educational and professional backgrounds from which managers plucked their team of financial advisers.

While the points made by these gentlemen are both valid and critically important, they fail to take note of four other dangerous subsidies: (1) the market perception that the Washington and Wall Street revolving door has rendered these firms immune from prosecution — even for repeated, illegal cartel behavior; (2) the ability to spend billions buying back their own stock, effectively propping up their own share price and bad behavior; (3) self - regulation with compromised bodies creating the market perception and reality of a competitive edge; and (4) Congress and the Supreme Court tolerating Wall Street running its own private justice system (mandatory arbitration) where corrupt acts are kept hidden from public view until they blow up into catastrophic events to the economy.

On trade and Wall Street reform, Trump is a strong advocate of renegotiating «unfair» international trade deals, like NAFTA and the Trans - Pacific Partnership — he'll call for tariffs to steer overseas jobs back home to the U.S.. He's also touting looser restrictions for Wall Street traders and money managers.

Wall Street Poised For Sharp Losses Again on Monday US futures are trading back in the red again on Monday, adding to substantial declines seen on Friday when higher interest rate and inflation expectations weighed heavily on stocks.

Now, according to a recent report in the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. Department of Justice believes that Deutsche Bank owes American taxpayers $ 14 billion for selling toxic mortgage backed securities that helped to collapse the U.S. housing market during the financial crisis.

Rising rates are never good for Wall Street banks (despite what you read) because it makes it harder for the banks» loan customers to survive and pay back their loans while also making the banks» stock dividend less attractive compared to U.S. Treasury yields.

The Obama transport plan is like a Fannie Mae for bankers, based on the President's guiding mantra: «Let's help Wall Street put Americans back to work.»

This year, the oversight board proposed eliminating subsidies for public housing and nutritional assistance in schools in order to pay back Wall Street creditors.

According to the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday, Founders Fund — co-founded by the high - profile investor Peter Thiel and based in San Francisco — is now backing a startup named Tagomi Systems Inc., which boasts a mission to serve as a broker - dealer to optimize bulk bitcoin trading orders for high - value clients.

Well guys it is Hell already here on earth endless killings worldwide... Back here where I am Ye is already heading towards that the whole country is on demonstrations demanding resignation of the ruler but he seems unwilling to resign before the end of his ruling period on 2013, while the streets are demanding immediate resignation and that has caused bloodshed in every city in the country... the streets demonstrations has enforced civil strikes all over the country which is now paralyzed... no cash with the banks all money frozen in the central bank... My business is in the field of services therefore I find my self now obliged to dismiss part of my staff in order to be able to survive this unfortunate thing... Already have reduced working hour to one shift to reduce running cost... so you see am now sitting alone in the whole building of our business office writing here as nothing can be done to carry on business even if there is business... Just I pray these unfortunate events passes over soon before it becomes out of control as had happened in Libya... we have nothing to say but (Ina - Lilah - WaIna - Alih - Ragoon) & (Alhmed - Lilah for every thing)... «Mankind has always been Hasty while God has always been the most Patient»...

If they showed up in black hats, braids, with pre-torn toilet paper for the sabbath, & insisting that women sit at the back of the bus & walk on the other side of the street you'd have the same reaction to them as you have to the other groups.

Back in August, I wrote a short article for the First Things homepage titled» St. Duncan of Wall Street.»

Tallulah13 If someone you love left you and you wanted them back, wouldn't you send people out to stand on street corners and proclaim» Someone is looking for you; the one who loves you!»

So if I were a rich man and left all of my possessions behind and lived on the street for a year as a homeless person, is the hypocrisy that I could go back to being rich or that I tried to see how someone else lives?