Sentences with phrase «dollars had just»

Twenty - three billion dollars had just changed hands.

In fact, tens of millions of dollars have just been allocated to more than 15 algorithms created by members of Quantopian, a «crowd - sourced» hedge fund.

Makes me all the gladder that my Christmas book dollars have just been split between The Book Depository and Fishpond.

Not exact matches

«After just five minutes of walking past million - dollar booths, we realized that we had no chance of getting through the noise,» says Ubooly co-founder Carly Gloge.

If I spend a million dollars explaining that to the public, I've just wasted a million dollars of my shareholders» money.

Have someone stay constantly on top of the situation so that you can kill off the bad spends and double down quickly on what's driving actual results and purchases; and (b) use these channels and your content to drive traffic from the big guys to sites you own and control so that all your efforts and all your dollars aren't wasted just working to make money for Zuck.

Comcast's (cmcsa) Universal Studios held the previous single - year box office record, which it set just last year, and the studio has a handful of sequels from franchises that have recently produced billion - dollar films on deck for 2017 — The Fate of the Furious and Despicable Me 3 — as well as the sequel to last year's sleeper hit, Fifty Shades of Grey.

In many cases the costs of use and adoption have a lot more to do with the calculated allocation of scarce personal time and precious resources rather than with just dollars and cents.

That technology today has blossomed into a multibillion - dollar industry that's just getting started.

Many customers — who frankly did and would go to Starbucks with no loyalty program just as frequently — are up in arms over their changing the loyalty program from per visit to per dollar spent.

Ivanov's story is just one example of the serendipity involved in this small Canadian company's rise to the forefront of a worldwide race to harness nuclear fusion, a race that has been going on fitfully, consuming tens of billions of mostly public dollars, for more than half a century.

The financial crisis and poor Australian dollar is just two of a thousand excuses I have heard them use over the years to avoid taking responsibility, and justify in their own minds that the collapse of this company has nothing to do with the underhanded practices and their own poor management.

And in any case, shoppers still have a voracious appetite for deals, meaning they won't go hog wild just because of a few more dollars in their pockets.

In 2013, J.P. Morgan & Co. had just been ordered to pay a multibillion - dollar settlement stemming from the financial crisis, and it was seeking to reconnect with consumers via a Twitter Q&A.

There's just one catch: If you sell a million dollars, you have to give $ 10,000 to my favorite charity.»

We had millions of dollars in inventory just sitting around, hurting our bottom line.»

James Cameron nNet worth: $ 650M nCameron's (at left) film career has humble beginnings — the Avatar - director sold his screenplay for The Terminator for just one dollar in exchange for the opportunity to direct the film.

Darrell Cavens co-founded Zulily in 2009, and just three years later, the company had achieved a billion dollar valuation.

Over the last two decades, «The Birdman,» (née Anthony Frank Hawk) has managed to leverage his astronomical skateboarding success into an estimated $ 140 million dollar branding empire that just keeps growing.

«I was going to bed every night and praying to the good Lord that we would get just one rain on the crop,» said Smith, who hopes to earn several thousand dollars for each acre - foot of water he can sell.

Fuelled by a low peso and cheap labour costs, Mexico's booming manufacturing industry has already overtaken Canada's in terms of the dollar value of exports to the U.S. Indeed, Canada is contending with more than just low oil prices.

If Harry's can control just 10 percent of that pie, it'll have its own billion - dollar payday.

James Cameron Net worth: $ 650M Cameron's (at left) film career has humble beginnings — the Avatar - director sold his screenplay for The Terminator for just one dollar in exchange for the opportunity to direct the film.

Shares have dropped as much as 66 % in the past 12 months, are currently trading at just over a dollar, and the company risks being delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.

Predictably, the Alaskan 8 (a) sector is booming: Its share of federal contracting set - asides has grown from $ 265 million in 2000 to at least $ 2.3 billion today, about 20 percent of all 8 (a) dollars — most of that going to just 20 firms.

Failure now would put thousands of jobs and billions of dollars at risk, and SpaceX has become crucial not just to the U.S. space program but also to countries and companies around the world hoping to put up satellites.

In just a few years, my company grew to be a million dollar company and I discovered strategies I knew would help women entrepreneurs.

Taking this drug daily has shown to offer more than 90 % (and as much as 99 %) effective protection against HIV in clinical trials, and certain New Zealand residents will soon be able to get a three - month supply for just $ 5 (oh, and that's five New Zealand dollars, which is about $ 3.64 in U.S. money).

«As a freshman, I had no clue that we had four on - campus accelerators, or that they were creating a multimillion - dollar fund just for U.C. Berkeley startups.»

Jones and Sherman are still small scale — most months they have just a few hundred dollars left after paying their business expenses and their rent — but their work is in a growing collection of independent boutiques, and they no longer have to sew in their bedrooms.

Below are some of the more interesting details about the young man who just turned down billions of dollars for his startup (which, by the way, isn't generating any revenue but has raised $ 73 million from investors):

Some of those numbers have dollar signs attached, of course, but just as important are the ones pegged to birthdays.

«We need to invest every defense dollar to meet the threat that we're facing right now as a nation,» she told CNN's Wolf Blitzer later on Wednesday, arguing that the Obama administration's decision to allow transgender people to serve would cost $ 1.35 billion over a decade just for sex - reassignment surgeries.

«I would just add that all along I've been telling people you may see a small benefit from the tax bill initially, you may get a shiny new dime or nickel and they may say, «Look this is your benefit that you get out of this tax bill,» while the wealthiest Americans and multinational corporations are shoving hundred dollar bills in their pockets and they're laughing as they walk out the door,» Sanchez said.

But Dayna Grayson, one of those investing partners, says her firm does have some advantages — besides just sheer dollars — over smaller players.

That kind of growth would cause problems within the country, especially if job losses mount or growth remains slow for the long term, but Dollar said a steep decline economic expansion may be just what the country needs.

The hitch: You typically can't just make a lump - sum deposit to a 401 (k), so you have to get a little creative if you want to get this cash into your plan and capture matching dollars while you do it.

«We've got a strong dollar that's just getting stronger.»

The message, which had to have been put together, on the fly, might just have grabbed more attention than Oreo's official million - dollar Super Bowl Ad.

I've heard of a small company that missed its profit - sharing trigger by just a few thousand dollars due to an employee who was stealing merchandise; as a result, the company didn't give out bonuses and ended up with a very bitter staff.

Who could have foreseen that OPEC would decide to sacrifice billions of dollars by refusing to curb production, just so it could hurt shale - oil producers in the United States?

You can always stretch a dollar, just so long as you have that dollar to spend.

The impact we have on others is worth far more than just dollars in a bank vault.

If you want to make millions, then you need to have goals that are bigger than just making a million dollars.

It has also become the fastest film to cross the billion - dollar mark, grossing nine figures in just 14 days according to Variety.

Recently, at Fortune's Most Powerful Women Summit, legendary value investor and Berkshire Hathaway (BRKA) CEO Warren Buffett said that if you are looking to place a bet against the dollar, or that interest rates would soon rise, you should just take out a plain vanilla, 30 - year fixed mortgage.

First, I want to look at how the changes not just in oil prices, but also changes in diluent costs, discounts for oil sands crude relative to light crude and, in particular, the fall of the Canadian dollar have changed the outlook for new oil sands projects — for those under construction, and for those currently operating.

Just as consumers have shifted their media - viewing behavior away from traditional mediums like television, advertising dollars previously spent on TV ads are migrating to the digital world as well.

The hedge fund manager, whose Yelp stake was worth about $ 10 million at the end of 2015, has made at least several million dollars in the stock just this week, after telling investors that he believes the company's revenue could double in the next three years.

The thinking here is that shareholders may have been objecting not just to Citigroup CEO Vikram Pandit's US$ 15 million dollar pay, but also to the $ 10 million retention payment awarded to him, and the general lack of correlation between Pandit's pay and the company's financial performance.