Sentences with phrase «dollars of investment for»

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In addition to providing tools that allow users to communicate with counterparties, TradeBlock also provides a US dollar denominated reference rate for digital currencies, which is used by a number of investment trusts and funds.

You can take advantage of this by enrolling in a high - deductible healthcare plan where you're eligible to use a Health Savings Account — an investment vehicle where you can park thousands of pre-tax dollars every year ($ 3,350 for individuals and $ 6,750 for families).

Look for more money to be given to the Canada Revenue Agency to fight offshore tax evasion, an investment that has so far helped the CRA reap millions in extra tax dollars while at the same time achieving the aim of discouraging tax evasion by Canadians.

There are even more abstruse explanations, for example, that computer equipment accounts for a growing portion of capital investment but has become less expensive over time, meaning fewer dollars spent.

Aside from discussions on the Aramco IPO, were headlines of the Saudi prince eyeing billion - dollar investment deals for the U.K. Wednesday evening headlines verified the success of the trip, boasting a goal of around # 65 billion ($ 90.3 billion) of investment in the coming years.

But the Accenture report suggests — and, I think smartly — that the biggest returns on investment for healthcare AI are likely to come from areas where the density (and dollar value) of deals isn't that substantial right now.

Or at least that is likely what executives at NBC and parent company Comcast (cmcsa) are hoping for in generating ratings and justifying billions of dollars in investments to secure the U.S. airtime rights for decades now.

In 2015, Ackman, the founder of hedge fund Pershing Square, announced his multi-billion dollar bet on Valeant Pharmaceuticals (vrx); he proceeded to lose nearly his entire investment, or $ 7.7 million every day for about two years, as Valeant stock sank 95 %.

Companies listed on TSX and TSXV have invested billions of dollars in Africa, Asia, Latin America, Australia, Europe, the U.S. and the U.K. TSX and TSXV listed companies in the mining industry alone have raised $ 1.9 billion for projects in Latin America and another $ 1.7 billion for investments in Africa.

The connected car is now widely seen as an open platform on which you put many things and I want to take a lot of credit for the way this is being played out, with millions of dollars of investment dollars because of the work I have laid out.

It has imperiled multibillion - dollar deals and could ravage business relationships for years to come, as well as pummel the earnings of countless U.S. businesses, from oil producers to investment banks.

For example, content requirements could be tailored to capture billions of dollars in research and development investments primarily made in the United States, protecting high - paying engineering jobs from moving offshore, he said.

A participating preferred stock enables an investor to first get a return of its dollar - for - dollar investment as a preference payment, before anyone else gets a single dollar, and then to continue to participate in the distribution of the remaining proceeds as a common stockholder based on its ownership percentage.

Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to bet on the next big thing, but to add users for its payment system.

Wekerle, probably best known to Canadians for his role on Dragons» Den, raised $ 185 million to launch Difference Capital to capitalize on a shift of investment dollars from the resource industry to the country's burgeoning tech sector.

«By making it less punitive for companies to bring back this money and making the process far less bureaucratic and difficult, we can return trillions and trillions of dollars to the economy and spur billions of dollars in new investments in our struggling communities and throughout our nation,» Trump said.

In all, disclosed investment in enterprise - storage startups has amounted to about a billion dollars per year in each of the last few years, says Simon Robinson, a research vice president for storage and information management with 451 Research, which has been covering the space since 2000.

With presentations from five private companies and five public companies in the technology sector, this event attracts Canadian and U.S. investors with the goal of raising institutional and VC investment dollars, and enhancing the capital ecosystem for technology companies in Canada.

Including investments in consumer companies he holds through Maveron, a venture capital firm he co-founded — and the tens of millions of dollars of equity he owns in Groupon (GRPN) as a director — his net worth is in the neighborhood of at least $ 2 billion, which isn't bad for a kid who grew up in the projects of Brooklyn, on the seventh floor at 1560 East 102nd St. Obama himself, according to Schultz, said he was «very aware of my personal story.»

Though Thiel has, thus, personally co-founded a pair of billion - dollar companies, he may be still better known for his investments.

The window cracked open earlier this year when billionaire Peter Thiel's investment firm Founders Fund made a multimillion - dollar investment in Privateer Holdings, which raised $ 82 million for its cannabis businesses, including Marley Natural (in partnership with the family of the late reggae singer Bob).

One case in point is a recent flap over the public diss of a million - dollar investment in NaturallyCurly.com, an online community for people with curly and kinky hair.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 - year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 % rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

TORONTO — The 2013 - 14 financial year was an unusually strong one for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which earned a 16.5 per cent annual return on the billions of dollars in assets it manages for the national retirement system, but its CEO cautions that level of growth likely won't soon be repeated.

Rajaratnam was found to have raked in tens of millions of dollars trading on secrets illegally acquired from a network of contacts inside firms like IBM, investment bank Goldman Sachs and management consultancy McKinsey & Co., whom he richly compensated for the leaks.

Posting has become a big lab experiment for Madison Avenue, and the social media companies are eager to prove their relevance to corporations, specifically, in terms of return on investment for ad dollars.

Together, countless everyday folks unwittingly dumped hundreds of millions of investment dollars into the now - defunct market for asset - backed commercial paper.

These activities rely on the receipt of millions of dollars from industry, governments, and investments, and the fees charged for some academic and research services.

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.

The other defendant in the case is Christopher Evison, who is the managing director at Quadrant Capital Advisors and investment advisor for WP Holdings, which is an investment arm of the multi-billionaire dollar Santo Domingo family from Columbia.

What the backers are buying for their multi-million dollar investments is potential — there's not a lot of revenue in the chat business right now.

Graziosi, who's generated hundreds of millions of dollars with his brands, companies and investments, with a 15 - year television career, argues that creating a true vision for your future by looking backwards will get you exponentially better results than setting goals in the traditional sense.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

And for the Chinese private equity groups, raising funds in dollars instead of yuan enables them to target overseas investments without getting entangled in Beijing's capital controls, while international investors often wish to avoid taking local currency risk.

Sure some people make money on tax liens, but it's the small minority and not an investment suited for someone who doesn't first have tens of thousands of dollars invested.

Companies selected for Illumina's seed investment program, receive backing fro accredited investor through a convertible note and dollar - for - dollar matching funding through the company's $ 40 million Illumina Accelerator Boost Capital, (if they raise between $ 1 million and $ 5 million of qualifying capital).

The good news for commercial real estate firms is that the segment of the investment market is growing, and the dollars allocated to real estate are rising along with it.

SHANGHAI — A Chinese regulator announced on Friday that it had taken disciplinary measures against the Anbang Insurance Group, a financial behemoth that has tried to invest tens of billions of dollars overseas, for the improper sale of two investment products.

Setting aside guaranteed dollars for those investments means they won't get lost on a long list of infrastructure priorities.

Although loans for consumers are commonly expressed in terms of APR, thdeat is only one way an online lender might express the costs associated with a business loan since dollar cost is important to consider in relation to an investment opportunity.

DOJ said in its papers filed in the NAFA case that as the market for retirement investment advice has evolved in the last four decades, it has become rife with conflicts of interest costing clients billions of dollars.

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.

Most of the suits to date charge retirement plan sponsors with excessive fees and / or poor performing investment options, which cost participants thousands of dollars that they allegedly would have otherwise saved for their retirement.

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!

For high - income earners in particular, this tax feature concerning investment income can result in thousands of dollars a year in savings.»

Targeting infrastructure dollars to clean energy (p. 122 and 149): Last fall, the government included clean energy as potential investments under its $ 21 - billion, 11 - year green infrastructure fund — but the list of other options for those dollars was long.

Her party was under fire for accepting millions of dollars of donations from real estate and construction companies that were profiting from a deluge of Chinese investment.

«Every dollar put into helping more people in Miami participate in our city's economic opportunities is an investment in our future and these funds will go to community organizations that are helping families and small business owners get ahead and build a path to prosperity,» Guillermo Castillo, market leader and head of commercial banking for Chase in South Florida, said in a statement.

Prior to joining iShares, he was Director of Global Sales for Capital Institutional Services (CAPIS) in Dallas and spent seven years at UBS Investment Bank in NY, where he was Head of Alternative Research Provider Marketing Sales and Global Head of Soft Dollar and Directed Commissions Sales.

He says the New Jersey bank would «take money out of Wall Street and put it to work for New Jersey — creating jobs and growing the economy [by] using state deposits to finance local investments... and... support billions of dollars of critical investments in infrastructure, small businesses, and student loans — saving our residents money and returning all profits to the taxpayers.»