Sentences with phrase «dollars each year off»

They make several thousand dollars a year off of me.

Credit card companies make billions of dollars each year off consumers and consumer transactions.

Not exact matches

After spending millions of dollars and several years doing research, a company can still fail to bring a product to market — leaving its investors with little to show for their money except disappointment and a tax write - off.

I think with the last accord, with the escalator [automatic year - over-year increase in transfer dollars] built in it really sort of dampened down the usual federal - provincial tensions, and for whatever reason it also then fell off the media and public horizon.

«Let's face it: There is something wrong with our system when I can leave [Harvard] and make billions of dollars in 10 years, while millions of students can't afford to pay off their loans, let alone start a business,» said Zuckerberg.

In response to the vote, the British pound had collapsed to a 31 - year low against the US dollar, falling below $ 1.35, while stock futures were collapsing with US futures off more than 3.5 % while London's FTSE 100 down almost 9 %.

Sending the holiday cards you bought at Dollar General last year after Christmas at 80 percent off?

Now, as the Oracle of Omaha prepares to kick off this year's Berkshire shareholder convention on Saturday, the opposite is true: The vast majority of the stocks Warren Buffett owns have made money over the past year, helping his portfolio gain some $ 16 billion dollars in value.

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.

NEW YORK, Feb 5 - The dollar rose against a basket of currencies on Monday as the U.S. bond market selloff levelled off after the 10 - year yield hit a four - year peak on worries that the Federal Reserve might raise interest rates faster to counter signs of wage pressure.

For almost two decades, it has been successfully fending off incursions from dollar stores and specialty retailers, chalking up steady growth and market - share gains each year.

The dollar has eased off in the last couple of days since Trump complained about it being too strong, but, after rising half a cent on the back of Draghi's press conference, it's still close to a 14 - year high against the euro.

And by some estimates, another 500,000 people will fall off this year from a program that disproportionately hurts dollar store shoppers.

At close to half a billion dollars, it was well beyond the outer limits of what investors had ever paid for a publishing company of Wired's size — never mind one whose operations were on track to lose $ 11 million that year (not even counting a onetime $ 20.5 - million write - off to put the company's disparate assets under one corporate umbrella).

In recent years, Sears has sold off the Lands» End (le) clothing brand, its stake in Sears Canada, and it also spun off some of its best locations into a real estate investment trust, helping to raise billions of dollars.

The early Bitcoin backers, who reportedly own about 40,000 bitcoins (a cool $ 27 million or so in U.S. dollars), could blast off by the end of the year.

For most corporations who hold their standard events every year it is a great way to show off the bottom dollar.

They have either fallen off the proverbial patent cliff (Novartis» Diovan, which lost US exclusivity in 2012) or succumbed to a stronger U.S. dollar against European and Asian currencies despite rising sales (Novo Nordisk's NovoLog, which also missed this year's list).

On Thursday the euro rose off four - month lows as the dollar's recent rally came to a halt after the U.S. Federal Reserve did little to alter market expectations for further interest rate rises this year.

thanks, and yes, a pittance of a pension and regular checkups keep us on budget and head off any problems — best decision i ever made (financial or otherwise) was serving our country doing search - and - rescue, oil and chemical spill remediation, etc. (you can guess the branch of service)-- along the way, frugal living, along with dollar - cost averaging, asset allocation, and diversification allowed us to retire early — Vanguard has been very good over the years, despite the Dot Bomb, 2002, and the recession (where we actually came out better with a modest but bargain retirement home purchase)... it's not easy building additional «legs» on a retirement platform, but now that we're here, cash, real estate, investments and insurance products, along with a small pension all help to avoid any real dependence on social security (we won't even need it at full retirement age)-- however, like nearly everybody, we're headed for Medicare in several years, albeit with a nice supplemental and pharmacy benefits — but our main concern is staying fit, active, and healthy!

We have seen the biggest bounce / rally for the US dollar in two years and it has pushed gold down off of its $ 1350 - $ 1360 resistance zone.

While the final payoff may seem far off, making extra payments in the early years of the loan can help you save hundreds or thousands of dollars in interest.

In the intervening six years, Uber was busy dismantling the global taxi industry, brawling with regulators and politicians, fending off employment lawsuits, exploring self - driving car technologies, and raising billions of dollars.

A humdrum, fifty - dollar - a-barrel price outlook for next year is part of a recipe to stifle investment, mute production growth and burn off inventories.

And on the eve of the IMF meetings in Washington on Friday, October 8, Premier Wen stopped off in Istanbul to reach agreement with Turkish Prime Minister Erdogan to use their own currencies in tripling Turkish - Chinese trade to $ 50 billion over the next five years, effectively excluding the U.S. dollar.

A few billion extra dollars a year to help fight them off can't hurt.

The U.S. dollar index's slide to three - year lows has caught many off guard, playing out despite interest rate differentials favoring the greenback.

If your clients process payroll, be the trusted advisor who recommends a way to track accurate employee time, shaving hours off their payroll process and saving them thousands of dollars on gross payroll costs each year.

He offers to carry the full note and the new buyer will make payments of 8 % per year for thirty years, until the full one - million dollars is paid off.

The euro rose off four - month lows on Thursday as the dollar's recent rally came to a halt after the Federal Reserve did little to alter market expectations for further interest rate rises this year.

This will save you thousands of dollars in interest and take years off of your mortgage.

I think that the fact that the dollar has been trading off the way that it has been is going to make for a very interesting year...

Of course, traders are erring on the side of caution ahead of the release of the FOMC Jan 30 - 31 minutes and given the short dollar bus had reached standing room only portions, the short - term pause in this year's grand dollar sell - off was not too unexpected.

Robert @ The College Investor writes 12 Savvy Ways to Save Money in College — Stash away each dollar these tips help you save and you could be around $ 10,000 better off than the average student at the end of the year.

Starting off his career at Saatchi & Saatchi in Los Angeles working on Toyota, Lexus and T - Mobile, he then moved to San Francisco where he spent four and a half years leading a sales development team at publishing firm, Future US — ideating and producing integrated marketing campaigns to compliment tens of millions of dollars of media buys for clients such as Google, UBISOFT, Hyundai, The Walking Dead, NVIDIA, Bethesda and dozens more in the video game, music and tech industry.

The dollar posted negative returns in 2017 and in January was off to the worst start to a year in over three decades.

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Attackers have already made off with billions of dollars worth of stolen cryptocurrencies over the years.

Now thousands of years later we have lawyers making a killing off divorce, unequal child support and alimony laws, weddings costing hundreds of thousands of dollars that if lucky will last five years.

That was true because, as Romney advisor Jonathan Gruber pointed out, liberal Democratic Senator Ted Kennedy «had basically figured out a way to sort of rip off the feds for about 400 million dollars a year» in order to fund Romneycare.

In the last thirty years, literally trillions of tax dollars have been spent on «helping the poor,» with the result, they are told, that there are more poor people than ever and they are worse off than ever.

I took all the decorating classes and love to decorate cakes, so when I got layed off my job last year I wanted to open my own cake shop, and its not as easy as you think at least were i live in pa you have to contact the health dept plus you have to make sure your house is zoned commerical contact your local borough office if your not you will have to have a hearing and it cost about 300 dollars for that, plus i couldn't have the bake shop in my house unless i had a separate kitchen for the bake shop, and one for my family plus no pets aloud, i am lucky enough that i have a rental house next to mine that i'm turning into a bakeshop but i have to turn it into a business, i've been working with the small business assoc. and the health dept plus there are permits i need, electric has to be updated and new lighting, plus the plummer has to do alot because i have to have a 3 bay sink and a grease trap, gas lines need to be ran for the oven,

Over the years, college and university foodservice providers have had to fend off stereotypes about their food and service while competing with chains that set up shop across the street hoping to gobble up valuable dollars from students and faculty alike.

Coming off of its second billion - dollar year and passing the 2,000 - member mark, the La Farge - based co-op is cultivating a venture to put its dairy products on the shelves of as many as 140,000 more stores nationwide.

«The rate of consumers dining at restaurants over the last year has leveled off, but look beyond face value and you will see diners» dollars are now being spread across various out - of - home channels, not only concentrated at dine - in establishments,» said Jennifer Passmore, Regional Vice President at Technomic.

Instead, he went off to drink wine in pints on the country's dollar, and Sunderland ended up with Moyes, their sixth manager in as many years.

Charles captured Dustin Colquitt, the Chiefs punter, who in the off - season signed a five - year, $ 18 million dollar deal, sleeping in the locker room in his latest Vine upload titled «Lol I need to be a Punt.»

Apparently the truly American thing to do is make millions of dollars per year off the free labor of others https://t.co/WHBJWqof6I

Former Wolverine Jake Long, who two off - seasons ago signed a 4 - year, $ 34 million dollar deal with the St. Louis Rams, has...

A relatively small investment in our children is an investment in our country's future, one that will improve our chances that every other investment we're making with our tax dollars pays off in the coming years.