Sentences with phrase «billions of fewer dollars»

That could leave the state with billions of fewer dollars in state aid.

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Billion - dollar valuations and mega-rounds are just a few of the signs that a tech bubble may be forming.

The Chinese economy had been slowing for months, but the country's currency continued to appreciate as the PBoC sold billions of dollars to buoy the yuan's value — a gesture few seemed to appreciate.

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.

Just months after raising a few billion dollars for itself, WeWork is passing along some of its good fortune.

Instead, we'll see more smaller deals, in the range of a few hundred million dollars to $ 1 billion, for several converging reasons.

While the country's economy has shifted inward over the last few years, relying on its own citizens to fuel growth, it still exports billions of dollars in goods and services every year.

In all, disclosed investment in enterprise - storage startups has amounted to about a billion dollars per year in each of the last few years, says Simon Robinson, a research vice president for storage and information management with 451 Research, which has been covering the space since 2000.

In the past, fewer than 5 percent of the women - owned firms in the United States were certified to do business with their state government and only 1.5 percent of the billions of dollars in federal contracts went to women - owned firms.

For a 110,000 barrel per day mine, each additional billion spent on start - up capital translates to about $ 525 - $ 560 billion million fewer taxes and royalties (in today's dollars) over the 40 year life of the project.

Jeff Bezos, CEO of Amazon.com and founder of aerospace company Blue Origin, is just a few billion dollars away from dethroning Bill Gates to become the world's richest person.

A few years ago, northwest British Columbia seemed headed for boom times, with billions of dollars in projects planned by the liquid natural gas (LNG), mining and other resource sectors.

Uber has faced fierce competition across the globe, contributing to its loss of billions of dollars over the past few years.

Billion - dollar startups are sprouting like dandelions in Silicon Valley these days, but that certainly wasn't the case 10 years ago this week, when Arianna Huffington launched a blogging site with the help of a few celebrity friends.

Spotify's valuation when it lists - expected to be within 90 days after filing — is forecast to be a few billion dollars higher than current trades, as illiquidity risk tends to depress the value ahead of listing, the sources said.

If a startup is going to be worth billions of dollars in a few years, why quibble over a few million on the entry price?

Few Americans realized their central bank had the ability to create hundreds of billions of dollars out of thin air.

A few miles north of San Francisco International Airport sits a squat, gray building just like a lot of other squat, gray buildings, except that this one contains a room full of machines growing billions of dollars» worth of diamonds.

There might be a few holdouts, but when offered stock worth billions of dollars more than the fair value of their company, most boards will ultimately acquiesce to such an offer.

However, only a few of the companies went public at a price greater than $ 1 billion dollars.

Overcapacity eventually resulted in billions upon billions of dollars in write - downs and more than a few bankruptcies.

Venture capital and private equity investors have pumped billions of dollars into the Indian startup ecosystem over the past few years, producing more than a dozen unicorns in the process.

When I read some of your posts, it seems to me that if you had billions of dollars (or even a few hundreds of millions), instead of spending it on yachts, mansions, islands and other toys (not that there is anything wrong with that per se of course), you would probably sigh the Giving Pledge too or at least donate a lot to charity.

Even though billions of dollars are at stake, few states and cities have fully disclosed their bids.

child porn, to use a popular boogeyman of censors and civil liberties activists complaining about censors alike), and then expand the apparatus over time until eventually it gets into the hands of some enterprising young hotshots that promptly decide they can make a few billion dollars through the cryptoeconomic equivalent of LIBOR manipulation.

With billions of dollars of construction spend spread across a few years, along with the promise of strong jobs creation in the tune of thousands of jobs being created, the state hosting a Gigafactory - scale facility is primed for an economic boom.

After years of working with entrepreneurs at accelerators where the goal was always to build a billion - dollar company, Saunders noticed that fewer than 20 percent of accepted participants were women.

This means that hundreds of billions of dollars will flow into these stocks over the next few years as passive index funds start directing more capital to this sector.

Ontario could ask for a few dollars per barrel for allowing Alberta oil to transit East... That would help a bit to reduce its $ 15 billion annual deficit and somehow compensate for the high $ Can and the loss of manufacturing jobs...

The letter continued: «Our ad reminds viewers that Kim Jong - un and his army of hackers have been stealing billions of dollars of Bitcoin and other digital currencies for the past few years, funding their rogue nuclear weapons programs and thwarting efforts by the rest of the world to sanction this behavior.»

«The large mobile carriers have spent billions of dollars over the past few years to secure spectrum for their own networks, which they've been building out at great expense.»

Over the past few years, green bonds have raised billions of dollars to help fund environmental and other sustainable development projects: rapidly growing from $ 1 billion issued in 2012 to more than $ 30 billion in 2014 globally.1

P2P currently lends a few billion dollars, which is nothing in the global scheme of things.

It's likely that this deficit will widen over the next few years and, unless many billions of dollars are spent soon, the world is facing the prospect of a significant shortage of oil in the early years of the next decade.

A few billion dollars vanished as products that trade at the inverse of the VIX, which essentially wagered on the market's stability, cratered.

«We are convinced that «quant» funds», which have attracted hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few years and a significant portion of which use leverage, and whose models and various strategies are largely based on price action and correlations extracted from the reasonably - recent past when volatility has been low (largely of their own making), have contributed mightily to the illusion that market risk is low.

Dell lost billions of dollars over the next few years on the puts — they had to shell out over $ 1.2 billion in one year alone to buy back millions of shares of stock that had lost half their value in the previous year — this was more than they made selling computers that year.

After all, when a product has a billion users, it needs to earn only a few dollars a year from each of them to be a robust business.

Yes, Mark Zuckerberg turns 30 years old today, and let's assume he's going to spend his birthday with the closest of his 500 million friends, spending some of his 31 billion dollars (to which he's probably added a few million since you started reading this sentence).

The delusion of immortality and the claim that a few billion dollars more will «help find a cure» for this ill or that sustains a research industry that is as prone to exploiting desperate hopes as to engaging in experiments of dubious morality.

At a time of huge government surpluses, universal shelter, like universal health care, is on the agenda of few politicians, who argue instead about how many billions of dollars to return to wealthy taxpayers..

The already legendary merger of the Gannet chain of newspapers and a television company in 1979, for a little more than 350 million dollars, seems today a very modest transaction compared with what took place a few months ago when an unprecedented US 19 billion dollar merger between Disney Company and the ABC Network was quickly overtaken by an even more massive Times Warner - CNN link - up worth, all told, in excess of US 25 billion dollars.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

On a grander scale, the millions and billions of dollars created by any given company is the result of a whole lot of people's work being kept by a very few people.

Nearly a half a BILLION dollars in potential transfer fees within a handful of windows, and Im sure I left a few players out as well.

To me, one of the most significant planks in Obama's education platform isn't in his education platform at all - it's in his poverty platform: his pledge to replicate Geoffrey Canada's Harlem Children's Zone in 20 cities across the United States, as public / private partnerships, with the federal government's share of the bill coming to as much as a few billion dollars.

Out of 83 billion dollars in the expense budget, the council is given a few hundred million to play with.

This would cost the communications / entertainment conglomerate a few billion dollars, though, so, given the current system of bribery, it would be difficult to break the status quo.

Then there is Senate Rules Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein of California, who may have bent a few rules by steering over a billion dollars» worth of defense contracts to companies controlled by her husband.

Gov. Andrew Cuomo's already called for $ 100 billion in infrastructure projects, so what's a few tens of billion dollars more?