Sentences with phrase «by the billions by»

The fate of plastic bags in New York — handed out by the billions by grocers, clothing stores, carry - out places and many other retailers — remains up in the air in the wake of a report by a state task force.

Not exact matches

Prime Minister Stephen Harper lent support to the 1,200 - kilometre, $ 6 - billion pipeline that would carry more than 500,000 barrels a day of crude oil from Edmonton through the Rockies to Kitimat, B.C., where it could be transported by tanker to markets in the U.S. and Asia, including China.

This end of the market is dominated by DJI, a Chinese manufacturer expected to crack US$ 1 billion in revenues this year.

Billions of dollars in unclaimed property is being held by states until owners claim it.

The overall games market will continue climbing to $ 83 billion by 2016, but mobile and online will increasingly make up the lion's share after surpassing consoles and PCs this year.

I've seen how an executive vastly increased her company's valuation by throwing away a $ 2 - billion line of business she knew was undermining her company's brand.

The 81 - year - old government - run financial institution, known as the Ex-Im Bank, provides much - needed to support to exporters through guaranteed loans and credit insurance, and by its own reckoning, it has returned $ 7 billion to the U.S. Treasury over the last 20 years.

Total debt for the quarter was $ 2.8 billion, up $ 89 million from December 31, 2017, including debt issued for acquired aircraft, partially offset by scheduled principal payments.

That injustice has become even more glaring as legal marijuana spawns an above - board industry that could grow to $ 50 billion within a decade, but which does not appear poised to benefit the very minorities who were so abused by earlier drug laws.

About 69 million employees in the U.S. say they miss work because of health problems every year, which reduces economic output by $ 260 billion per year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

It also estimated that the loss of those workers could cost the country $ 460.3 billion in economic output over the next decade, with Medicare and Social Security contributions dropping by $ 24.6 billion.

KIND Healthy Snacks has sold more than one billion snack bars — that's billion with a «B.» The New York City - based company was founded in 2004 by CEO Daniel Lubetzky and today has about 300 full - time employees.

The global market for voice AI speakers is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 43 per cent to reach US$ 2.1 billion by 2020, according to analysis firm Gartner.

For one thing, the bank is sitting on a lot of cash (possibly as much as $ 4 billion by the end of the year, according to one estimate) and continues to churn out excess capital.

And while most emerging market debt continues to be issued in local currencies, the IIF said that foreign currency denominated debt issued in these nations swelled by $ 800 billion last year to a record high of $ 8.3 trillion.

The nearly $ 2 billion project is backed by $ 1.4 billion in funding from the Chinese government and banks and is being built by Chinese construction crews.

The U.S. Chamber of Commerce expects the TPP to increase U.S. exports by $ 125 billion over the next decade.

More recently, the videoconferencing startup Skype was bought by eBay for $ 2.6 billion in 2005; later, in 2011, U.S. computer - maker Microsoft acquired Skype for $ 8.5 billion.

He said later that Belt and Road should boost GE's sales by $ 5 billion annually once the contracts start ramping up in a few years.

For the second year in a row, total shareholder equity shrank for the Global 500, by 2.6 % to $ 14.7 billion.

Traders also digested data showing that retail sales in Canada rose by 0.6 per cent in July to $ 40.3 billion, which was in line with the expectations of economists.

PARIS, May 3 - Veolia said first - quarter revenue climbed by 3.7 percent to 6.4 billion euros as its French water business returned to growth and international activities showed double - digit growth, with new services driving earnings.

«The service revenue, bolstered by 100 million new customers year over year — bringing paying members to 270 million — accelerated dramatically, and the expected big guide - down didn't occur, even if the rumored $ 400 billion buyback didn't occur, either,» Cramer continued.

He approved the $ 24 - billion takeover of Falconbridge, a nickel - and copper - mining company, by Swiss miner Xstrata PLC..

Vivint and Ancestry.com are just down the street: Both were unicorns — startups valued at $ 1 billion or more — before being acquired by private equity firms.

T - Mobile, then a subsidiary of Deutsche Telekom, was shedding customers as it waited to be acquired by AT&T — only to see regulators block the $ 39 billion deal.

Closing the education gap faced by working - age men of color, for example, would boost their aggregate annual earnings by $ 170 billion; average weekly earnings among U.S. workers would rise 3.6 percent; and total U.S. GDP would increase by 1.8 percent, according to the Council of Economic Advisers.

By the time the project is completed, it will have cost an estimated $ 200 billion.

Or, at least, they're using a lot less water to make it: MillerCoors announced this week that they've reduced their water consumption by 9.2 % over the past two years, saving roughly one billion barrels of water.

Analysts polled by FactSet are expecting Apple to report earnings of $ 2.69 per share on $ 61 billion in revenue.

From Q3 2016 to Q3 2017, total expenses dropped by 2.2 % to $ 13.1 billion.

The industry was projected to generate about $ 50 billion by 2026 with the expectation that cannabis would be legalized nationwide by that time.

A report from Global Market Insights expects AI voice assistants overall to be worth US$ 11 billion by 2024.

In 2009, 125 funds in the US took in $ 13.6 billion, compared to $ 28.7 billion raised by 203 funds in 2008 and $ 40.8 billion from 217 funds in 2007, according to VentureSource data cited in The Wall Street Journal.

Since Ripple controls 61 % of the world's supply of XRP coins — 61 billion out of 100 billion in total — the gains placed Larsen's personal position in the cryptocurrency as well as his share of the XRP owned by his company at a dizzying total of $ 59.8 billion.

Here is how the small - business agency is going to be affected by the $ 85 billion in government - spending cuts that will go into effect starting Friday.

In turn, LinkedIn was acquired by Microsoft for $ 26.2 billion in 2016.

In an article posted by ICSC, CEB TowerGroup, a company which has been tracking gift card sales since 2006, predicts that sales of gift cards could top $ 130 billion by 2015, up from $ 110 billion in 2012.

Three analysts surveyed by Zacks expected $ 1.11 billion.

NEW FUND ALERT: General Catalyst raised $ 1.38 billion for its new fund, according to an SEC filing that was first reported by Axios» Dan Primack.

The revised bill cuts that amount to 25 percent, raising government revenue by $ 32.5 billion over a decade.

By comparison, Marriott Corp. has a market cap of about $ 17.25 billion.

By 1996, the company boasted a market cap exceeding $ 1 billion, making Trump's 41 % stake worth around $ 400 million.

The current market cap of all bitcoins, by the way, is $ 6.5 billion.

Lam points to the $ 50 billion that China has earmarked for investment in a port, railways, and roads in western Pakistan, in particular in the province of Balochistan, which has been plagued recently by separatist terrorism.

JD.com said it had raised $ 2.5 billion by selling a stake in its logistics business, which it will use to invest in new technologies like drones and robotics.

More than a dozen big chemical companies are building tens of billions of dollars in petrochemical plants along the Gulf Coast, and Union Pacific, boasting by far the region's best routes, is destined to get most of their rail business.

After news broke in November 2006 that Siemens had been involved in a global corruption scandal, involving thousands of acts of bribery in several different countries by hundreds of employees, the company had its work cut out for it in complying with securities investigations, and paying hefty fines (about $ 2.5 billion in total).

The miner, under the leadership of Executive Chairman John Thornton, has focused for the past three years on reducing debt by more than 50 percent from the more than $ 13 billion it hit at the end of 2014 due to overpriced acquisitions and mine development, including Pascua - Lama.

Rescinding the program could mean the loss of as much as $ 460 billion in economic output over the next decade, according to a recently released report from the House Committee on Small Business, which was released by ranking member Nydia Velázquez (D. - N.Y.)