«Americans and most first world citizens know that when they swipe a card that their government will support the dollar or currency that is being spent but in places like Zimbabwe there are 100 trillion -
dollar notes in circulation because the government of that country mismanaged their currency and left the people in dire circumstances,»
Not exact matches
«Rising inflation expectations, an overall bullish commodity trend (late - cycle preference for commodities), geopolitical and financial risks are being offset by a rising
dollar and rising real - rates,» Saxo Bank analysts said
in a
note.
While gold is often considered an inflation hedge, Julius Baer said
in a
note, the fact that price pressures were being driven by confidence about growth rather than
dollar weakness and rising oil prices meant it was failing to react positively.
«But I think customers are choosing to spend their disposable
dollars in different ways, and that's part of the reason why we are not more optimistic about the lower gas prices,» she added,
noting that consumers are spending more on cars, healthcare, electronics and home improvement, leaving little upside for Macy's.
«The advent of
Dollar Shave Club and Harry's has got to be the most significant disruption to this space since the electric razor,» says Ken Cassar, an e-commerce analyst at Slice Intelligence,
noting that online shaving clubs are the fastest - growing segment
in men's grooming, some 10 percent of the $ 3.3 billion U.S. market.
«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.
In May,
Dollar General
noted that Millennials, especially women, were increasingly shopping at their stores, representing 12 percent of all its customers and 24 percent of its sales.
As corporate - governance expert Charles Elson recently
noted in the New Yorker: «People who can ask to be paid a hundred million
dollars are beyond embarrassment.»
As he
notes, while investors who have risked their funds
in a company «lose real
dollars» when a stock declines, option holders lose nothing and even get a second chance to buy the stock at a better price.
He
noted that the
dollar's relative strength index, a measure of momentum, hit 76.07 on Wednesday, surpassing the one - year peak hit
in October.
Editor's
note: The below is a fictional letter by an imagined banker on how the foreign exchange market looks from London's financial district at the end of a week when the pound slumped to a 31 - year low against the
dollar, rounded off by a humiliating «flash crash» of 6 %
in overnight trading on Friday.
«The US
dollar has been exceptionally and unexpectedly weak this year,» a group of Morgan Stanley strategists led by Michael J. Wilson wrote
in a client
note.
As Fortune has
noted in the past, Spotify's biggest problem is that it is still losing hundreds of millions of
dollars every year, and the main culprit is the massive payments it makes to the music industry for licensing fees.
While Zimbabwe once had its own currency, it began using a mix of currencies from stable economies including the U.S.
dollar in 2009 after hyperinflation made its own
note nearly worthless.
A corporate tax cut for these companies would result
in an increase of billions of
dollars in earnings and a $ 100 billion increase
in equity value, he
noted.
Facebook rakes
in half a million
dollars a day from these ads on mobile devices, a figure that should increase as more advertisers take
note and Facebook fine - tunes the delivery.
Eyal just sent round a
note saying that last week brought
in a million
dollars in direct advertising bookings, positioning us well for a further rebound once the future direction of the business is clear.
Gartner
noted that the weakness of other currencies against the
dollar had led to price hikes
in certain regions, leading
in turn to fewer sales.
And, as I
noted in the earlier post, the stakes are positively enormous, potentially affecting billions of
dollars in future revenue, to say nothing of the valuations of several companies that have already launched to take advantage of this approach.
«Gold is holding above the 50 - day moving average
in spite of a stronger
dollar, helped by lower U.S. yields and physical demand,» she
noted in a report on Thursday.
Note that the judge
in this case would have had the same range of sentencing options if the
dollar amount at the heart of this case had been $ 3.15 rather than $ 3,150.
As
noted by Camilla Sutton, a Scotia Capital currency strategist, the
dollar is likely to resume a depreciatory trend because «its fiscal position is weak and, worse, there is only a limited plan
in place to improve it.»
Gault
noted that the markets will have an important say
in the pace of future rate hikes, especially what happens to the
dollar.
The a $ 208 million issue of senior unsecured
notes due
in October 2018 with a coupon of 7.375 % had plunged to 46 cents on the
dollar on Friday, from 65 on Thursday.
«Revenue challenges
in the second quarter, as
noted in our quarterly outlook release last month, included lower - than - anticipated bulk volumes, devastating wildfires
in northern Alberta and a strengthening Canadian
dollar,» Harrison said
in a statement.
Such a move by the Trudeau government to draw more revenue into federal coffers would take Canada
in the opposite direction as the United States, Mr. Rosenberg said,
noting that «the implications for the Canadian
dollar is decisively negative, not to mention the deflating effect on asset values.»
That's 24 % greater than if she had started collecting benefits at 62.2 (
Note: All figures are
in today's
dollars and before tax; the actual benefit would be adjusted for inflation and would possibly be subject to income tax.)
In the context of China's expanding influence and attempts to gain competitive advantages against the United States, the report notes that «China is investing billions of dollars in infrastructure across the globe» as it «exploits data on an unrivaled scale and spreads features of its authoritarian system.&raqu
In the context of China's expanding influence and attempts to gain competitive advantages against the United States, the report
notes that «China is investing billions of
dollars in infrastructure across the globe» as it «exploits data on an unrivaled scale and spreads features of its authoritarian system.&raqu
in infrastructure across the globe» as it «exploits data on an unrivaled scale and spreads features of its authoritarian system.»
David Pakman at Venrock, one of the initial lead investors
in Dollar Shave Club,
noted its uniqueness on a blog post celebrating the sale.
S.
dollar (GBP / USD) was sharply down the last couple of days; the 10 - year U.S. T -
Notes can be currently trading
in a temporary pullback of wave.
Several weeks ago, I
noted that the break
in the U.S.
dollar suggested a rather sudden weakening
in the economy just ahead.
When you do a convertible
note with a cap that converts into the next round of funding one of the unintended consequences is that if you're successful and raise at a larger price than your cap the early angels often get «multiple liquidation preferences» on their
dollars in.
But despite more than $ 900 million
in recorded venture funding
in 2017, and more than $ 375 million
in known venture funding for the first two months of 2018 so far, traditional VC rounds — convertible
notes seed, angel, Series A, Series B, etc. — now pale
in comparison to ICOs
in terms of
dollar volume.
Another way that the current crisis hurts those at the bottom of the economic ladder was revealed
in a conversation with Lucy Luna, a United Food and Commercial Workers union organizer among immigrant farm workers
in the Fraser Valley, who
notes that the reduced value of the Canadian
dollar means that the remittances sent home to Mexico by the «guest workers» shipped to Canada under a federal temporary work permit program are now nearly cut
in half
in value by the time they reach Mexico, where the economy is geared to the U.S.
dollar.
Global Currency Strategist Hans Redeker
notes that bearish positioning
in the futures market shows the most extreme negative view of the
dollar since April 2009.
As I've already
noted, Fed policies have significant effects internationally, given the central place of U.S. markets
in the global financial system and the
dollar's status as the leading global reserve currency.
He
noted that
Dollar Thrifty had been of interest to other rental car companies because it represented a way to gain market share
in the value market for both leisure and business travelers.
All amounts are
in Canadian
dollars and are based on our audited Annual and unaudited Interim Consolidated Financial Statements for the year and quarter ended October 31, 2015 and related
notes prepared
in accordance with International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS).
Reserve Bank of Zimbabwe governor John Panonetsa Mangudhla still argues that the purpose of the introduction of the
dollar denominated bond
notes was to fund a five - percent export incentive, meant to stimulate the circulation of US
dollars in the economy.
«The leg - up
in the US 10 - year yield since April 18 has lifted the US
dollar and caused most of the major - economy exchange rates to decline, and test the lower - end of their recent ranges against the US
dollar,» he
noted.
(a) Share of total Australian
dollar assets (per cent), subcomponents are the share of liquid assets (b) While deposits with other banks are a store of liquidity, they do not contribute to the stock of liquidity held by the banking system as a whole, since the recipient banks will,
in turn, need to hold additional liquidity against these deposits; consequently, they are excluded from this table (c) Includes Commonwealth Government Securities and securities issued by the states and territories (d) Includes
notes and coins, Australian
dollar debt issued by non-residents and securitised assets (excluding self - securitised assets)
«The risk
in the FX universe is that the current
dollar squeeze turns into a more enduring fundamental rally,» ING Groep NV currency strategist Viraj Patel wrote
in a
note Monday.
You will need to
note the value of both coins
in U.S.
dollars on the day of the transaction to determine the associated gain or loss.
Many Republicans
in Congress were already balking at the $ 2 billion cost of the project, and just two months ago, Congress shortchanged its funding by hundreds of millions of
dollars, as the GSA
noted.
There was a strong upside move
noted in Ripple price from the $ 0.7000 swing low against the US
Dollar.
FILE PHOTO: A U.S.
Dollar note is seen
in this June 22, 2017 illustration photo.
Please
note that
in the fourth quarter, we face a more challenging SG&A
dollar growth comparison of 4.8 %, having cycled out of the impact from the drugstore.com acquisition.
According to Morgan Stanley's Chris Metli, a strengthening
dollar — the greenback put
in its best monthly rise since President Donald Trump's election
in April — and a rising 10 - year Treasury
note yield TMUBMUSD10Y, -0.63 % — the 10 - year yield touched its highest level
in more than four years above 3 % late last month — are also factors weighing on stocks.
Zients
noted on the Tuesday afternoon call that a little over a year ago President Barack Obama «called for action to crack down on conflicts of interest
in retirement advice, which costs American families billions of
dollars every year.»
It's worth
noting that our primary focus was on technologies that aided and improved primary care, which is about half of the U.S. market
in terms of revenue
dollars (there is no question that digital tools will successfully impact specific acute diseases / disorders, but it's our intuition these are best left to 100 % focused HC investors).