And while it has managed to pass most of this cost on to the consumer, shoppers started choosing cheaper products when some foods surpassed a certain price point, president and executive chairman Greg Weston said during a conference
call with investors last week.
«We're seeing very, very strong [Kindle] device growth and we're seeing very, very strong content growth,» said Thomas Szkutak, chief financial officer of Amazon, during a conference
call with investors last week.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk was bullish about Buffalo on
a call with investors last month.
«I've expressed how upset I am that the Russians tried to use our tools to sow mistrust,» Facebook's CEO, Mark Zuckerberg said during the company's Q3 earnings
call with investors last November.
Shoppers prefer to buy online but return goods in a store, Raj Subramaniam, who heads FedEx's marketing, said on
a call with investors last week.
Not exact matches
Activist
investor Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital — a business partner
with Valeant in its failed bid
last year for Allergan — offered a spirited defence of the company in a conference
call Friday that
lasted nearly four hours.
Amazon hired banks
last week to arrange a series of fixed - income
investor calls, a person
with knowledge of the matter said at the time.
Seeking to protect its console business, the Japanese group had for many years resisted introducing mobile games
with its best - known characters such as Super Mario Bros. and Pokemon, finally yielding to
investor calls last year when it announced a tie - up
with mobile specialst DeNA Co..
He told
investors in a conference
call last month that Dollarama was «a simple business
with simple drivers.»
Venture
investor and large Twitter shareholder Chris Sacca suggested other ways the company could make money
last June, saying it could pursue deeper partnerships
with sports leagues, and make money from so
called «logged out» users — which Twitter does not get credit for in its monthly active user numbers.
As I shared
with you
last month, the recipe
calls for a broad commodities rally this year, and I would hate for
investors to miss out.
Last week one of those widely held principles was
called into question,
with experts cited in the Wall Street Journal doubting whether it's really worth it for
investors to rebalance their portfolios of stocks and bonds.
Last month, the billionaire Besen family joined
with National Australia Bank, The Nature Conservancy and several private
investors to raise up to $ 100 million for a fund
called the Murray - Darling Basin Balanced Water Fund.
This
last requirement — the ability to deploy what legendary
investor Charley Ellis
calls «the emotional game» — is completely independent of the other three; Wall Street is littered
with the bones of those who knew just what to do, but could not bring themselves to do it.
That's according to publisher THQ who during an
investor conference
call last week revealed that it plans to release Devil's Third, along
with Darksiders 2 and Warhammer 40,000 Dark Millennium Online, in calendar year 2012.
It finally yielded to
investor calls to release games for mobile devices
last year when it announced a tie - up
with mobile specialist DeNA Co..
But over the
last few months we have seen a growing number of authoritative voices
calling for fossil fuel disinvestment,
with a growing number of institutional
investors actually saying they will disinvest from fossil fuels.
Last year, FAIR Canada identified leverage as a retail
investor protection issue and wrote an open letter to the Canadian Securities Regulators («CSA»),
calling for better
investor protection from unsuitable advice
with respect to borrowing to invest.