Sentences with phrase «dollars demanded by»

The stakes are the millions of dollars demanded by West and Zampella and, just maybe, the fate of their contention that they, not Activison, have the right to green light any Modern Warfare games set after the Vietnam War.

He's been instructed to swim to a nearby island to deposit a million dollars demanded by a blackmailer.

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On the table below you can tap the column headers to re-sort by salary in absolute dollars, five - year wage growth, size of workforce, job title, or demand outlook.

Demand for gold, the «fear index» has likely be curbed by greater odds of a December rate hike, as well as the surging dollar.

That effort, which put supply and demand in more of an equilibrium, raised prices by a few dollars (interestingly, before actual implementation).

Regulators alleged that divisional managers at investment firm Credit Suisse First Boston participated in a «pervasive» scheme to siphon tens of millions of dollars of their customers» trading profits during the Internet boom of 1999 and early 2000 by demanding excessive trading fees.

Apart from slowing global demand, export growth is seen crimped by a strong dollar, which so far this year has strengthened by about 4 percent against the currencies of the country's main trading partners.

There are any number of theories explaining the sudden drop in crude oil prices after two years of stability: America's increasing supply, the world's faltering demand, an undeclared price war being waged by Saudi Arabia, the rising U.S. dollar.

The economy has been hobbled by a strong dollar and weak global demand, which have undermined exports.

Poloz insisted the trend he anticipated in 2013 — a steady increase in non-commodity exports buttressed by stronger demand in the U.S. and a weaker dollar — was now entrenched.

Yet, its the auto industry that creates the demand by spending billions of dollars on sexy advertising to push SUVs on consumers.

The underlying factors driving the strength of the loonie have implications on how the BoC responds; the BoC is more forgiving if a stronger dollar is driven by fundamentals (i.e. greater foreign demand for Canadian goods / services) rather than investment flows.

«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.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

WASHINGTON (Reuters)- New orders for U.S. factory goods recorded their biggest increase in eight months in March, boosted by demand for transportation equipment, but the underlying trend remained weak against the backdrop of a strong dollar.

The protracted process of reorientation towards non-resource activity is underway, helped by stronger U.S. demand, the lower Canadian dollar, and accommodative monetary and financial conditions.

Ordinarily, creating trillions of dollars of reserves through QE (or buying a $ 1 trillion coin) would overwhelm any conceivable demand by banks for interbank funds, forcing the Fed funds rate down to zero.

The weakness in the U.S. dollar is essentially a reflection of very weak demand conditions in the U.S., both for goods, and for U.S. security investments by foreigners.

Larger industry groups such as food products, metals and machinery are much less adversely affected by the strong dollar, and these minor problems have generally been offset by strong growth in demand.

Canadian manufacturing output is still stop - and - go, hurt by lower demand and a strong dollar.

Apart from slowing global demand, exports are seen crimped by a strong dollar, which so far this year has strengthened by about 4 percent against the currencies of the country's main trading partners.

The former because it allows for a case in which a modest increase in demand leads to a large increase in price, and the latter because it would lead investors to hedge by moving themselves into Canadian dollars (more than they would otherwise) to protect against high oil prices.

«Supported by demand exceeding supply, on the back of multiple years of declining prices, a peaking dollar should mark an inflection point for sustained commodity recovery,» McGlone says.

That demand found its focal point in the U.S., which by 2005 - 06 was absorbing a remarkable 60 % of global capital flows, from Europe and Asia as well as the recycling of petro - dollars from the Middle East.

Airbnb's funding talks, which were earlier reported by The Wall Street Journal, are another example of the fast growth and interest in so - called on - demand start - ups, many of which are seeking hundreds of millions of dollars and ever - climbing valuations in their quests to upend existing industries.

The yen hit historic lows against the U.S. dollar in 2016, and though it had strengthened by December, it still was very low, spurring an increase in international travel demand.

The decision by the U.S. Federal Reserve to move away from its quantitative easing policy — in which the central bank creates billions of dollars to buy financial assets each month — comes amid signs the American economy is beginning to heat up, which would boost demand for Canadian imports.

Gold fell as the dollar held near the highest level in five years and investors reduced holdings in the largest exchange - traded product backed by the metal, curbing demand for a store of value.

Even after a drop in commodities this month, seven of eight tracked by the Standard & Poor's GSCI Agriculture Index are higher than a year earlier as adverse weather damages crops, rising demand erodes inventories and a weak dollar boosts demand for U.S. exports.

But there's more to it than that, because the size of the Fed's footprint is ultimately determined, not by the dollar - value of the Fed's assets, but by the real demand for its liabilities.

Many emerging markets enjoyed favorable conditions, helped by the softer US dollar, solid demand from China and an absence (to date) of protectionist trade measures from the Trump administration.

These nascent signs of stabilization is encouraging, given the sector had long been battered by the effects of dollar appreciation (soft demand for U.S. exports) and cut - backs from the commodity rout.

Foreign borrowers issuing in Australia and seeking to swap back to their home currency usually receive favourable prices in the currency swap market because of greater demand by Australian borrowers to do the reverse — i.e. borrow in foreign currency and swap into Australian dollars.

Rapid growth in global steel demand has also boosted contract prices for other bulk commodities; coking coal contract prices increased, on average, by 25 — 35 per cent in US dollar terms in recent negotiations, while iron ore contract prices have risen by close to 20 per cent.

This high demand from early adopters, coupled with the fact that commercial lunar transportation is projected to generate multiple billions of dollars in annual revenue by the year 2020 (Anderson 9) suggests that lunar payload delivery is a very real, viable business opportunity for enterprising space startups and their visionary investors.

Overall, the data reflect anemic growth in corporate capital investment, which may be constrained in coming months by the recent appreciation in the Japanese yen against the dollar and by sluggish consumer demand, analysts said.

Additionally, a recent cable was leaked by the infamous WikiLeaks website, which revealed the REAL reason behind China's increasing demand... it showed that China's intent is to make major gold purchases for the sole purpose of weakening the U.S. dollar.

This fall in spreads was largely a result of the increase in Australian dollar issuance by non-Australian borrowers into the Japanese retail market (the uridashi market) which boosted demand to receive an Australian dollar interest rate under cross-currency swap agreements.

This was only about half the size of issues in the previous quarter, reflecting a considerable lessening of demand for Australian dollar paper by the Japanese retail market.

New orders were again the standout, regaining most of August's hefty fall, and overall the report suggested the manufacturing sector could be modestly strengthening after its previous difficulties caused by lower overseas demand, a stronger US dollar and a decline in energy investment.

Changes in those areas are increasing the demand for safety information, convenience, a larger selection of single - serve packaging in the retail market and packaging requests by dollar - store retailers, he says.

Metcash angered suppliers in 2012, after its acquisition of Franklins, by demanding millions of dollars worth of retrospective discounts and lower prices stretching back to 2010.

As a result of increased and unexpected US demand for cheese and butter in recent weeks, milk prices in the country have jumped by more than a dollar per hundredweight.

The bank and professional services firm have been fielding strong interest from offshore for beef production and farmland driven by a depreciating Australian dollar, strong beef prices and growing demand from China.

Demand for rigid plastic containers for produce, like the ones Ready Pac uses, is expected to grow in dollar terms by almost 4 % a year through 2019 to a $ 1.5 bn.

Whatever their logic, the gambit paid off — Szczesny was instrumental in Roma's success last season — yet this seven million dollar kid with the resplendent beard demanded attention, and with Woj's price tag soaring over $ 10 million (eventually reaching $ 16 million), Alisson almost became the number one by default.

In fact, I'd bet dollars to donuts the manufacturers will flat out stop carrying the sugar - based product if they've been able to effectively eliminate the demand for it by not having to differentiate between the two anymore on the label.

The witness was «pressured» to arrange for Adam Skelos to be paid «hundreds of thousands of dollars in order to influence official actions by Dean Skelos,» according to the complaint, with the cash coming in response to a «series of demands made to Developer - 1 by Dean Skelos,» including while the developer was lobbying Mr. Skelos on legislation critical to its business success.

He described the allegation by a politician, Mr. Jimoh Ibrahim, that an INEC official demanded one million dollars bribe from him as «sensational», and urged the commission not to distracted.

«The people of New York are demanding change and it's time we took action to restore the public trust by closing the LLC loophole and bringing fairness to our campaign finance system,» Cuomo said in the May 24 statement announcing his bill menu aimed at closing the loophole that has allowed tens of millions of dollars into campaign accounts.