Sentences with phrase «first bought this years»

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Aetna's net income was $ 1.21 billion, or $ 3.67 per share, in the first quarter ended March 31, compared with a loss of $ 381 million, or $ 1.11 per share, a year earlier that was related to costs for its failed deal to buy Humana.

To that end, Blue Ant — named after a fictional marketing company in a William Gibson novel — is in the midst of a two - year buying spree that began with the acquisition of GlassBox TV, the venture - capital - backed firm that first caught MacMillan's eye back in 2011.

After a couple of years of cleaning during the day, painting apartments at night and stuffing his earnings in a shoe box for safe keeping, Conlon had saved enough money to buy his first apartment.

Walmart, coming off a year of acquisitions like those of Bonobos, Modcloth and Moosejaw, will likely continue to buy hip digital - first brands as it looks to counter Amazon's moves in the fashion world and attract more well - heller shoppers to Jet.com if not its own site.

And the tax breaks are only guaranteed to last for the first two years during which a company buys into a state exchange.

U.S. health insurer Aetna, which has agreed to be bought by CVS Health, reported a better - than - expected first - quarter profit on Tuesday as an adjustment for low healthcare spending late last year offset a rise in flu - related costs.

MPC Chairman and CEO Gary R. Heminger said Monday in a statement that he expects Marathon buying Andeavor to generate about $ 1 billion in annual cost and operating synergies within the first three years, which should, in turn, improve its long - term cash flow.

The company has announced that it will buy 5 % of its outstanding shares for $ 2 billion in the first quarter of this year.

If you were in the market to buy, he'd tell you that this machine has the highest suction rating J. D. Power gives, with «level suction,» which means the vacuum's suction will be as good in the tenth year as it does in the first.

While the dollar figure dipped in 2008, First Data, a retail tracking service, found that shoppers actually bought more gift cards than the year before; they just loaded less money onto them.

Bernanke noted that when the Fed launched its first round of bond buying in late 2008, the average rate on a 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage was a little above 6 percent.

If you were one of the first consumers to buy it at $ 600, six years later you still have a state - of - the - art device.

In a sport rooted in the hard - partying fringe of Southern California, Hawk was something different: While he was still in high school, he used his winnings to buy a house in Carlsbad, and a few years later, he started his first company — Birdhouse — even though the skateboard industry was tanking at the time.

It's not for nothing that car buying experts often advise skipping the first year of a new model.

Instead, when Apple's troubles in the Chinese market became apparent in April 2016, Icahn sold his stake after Apple's stock had risen 53 % since he first bought in — measly returns compared to if he had stayed in another year.

«While I don't have the exact figures, I estimate that cutting back for 2 years, before buying my first home, I was able to save about $ 25,000 that I invested in 2011 and 2012, and that «cutting back» is now worth more than $ 100,000 in my investment accounts.

The first logical shift with your dollar is «I will not buy that 10 - year treasury; I want a stock at 3 percent.»

Almost a year ago in May, Camp bought his first Bitcoin along with 10 Ether, Ethereum's native token, on Coinbase, a popular online exchange in the U.S..

Spiegel and Kerr bought their lavish home for $ 12 million last year, as TMZ first reported.

The JOBS Act, which offers the first changes to securities law in more than 80 years, enables a new equity - crowdfunding model that allows backers to buy shares in posted ventures.

For March 2014, the national house price index was flat — which doesn't sound particularly alarming, until the authors point out that this is the first time in 15 years that house prices haven't increased in March, typically the kickoff of the important spring buying season.

The company, whose brands include Vans, The North Face and Timberland, said on Monday it is buying the maker of Dickies hospital scrubs and Kodiak boots for $ 820 million, its first major acquisition since its transformative deal for Timberland six years ago.

It's like a whole other world opens up,» said Moser, who bought her first Instant Pot last year as part of Amazon's Prime Day.

While a lot of retail companies have suffered this year — in part because of bad weather in the first quarter — if you look carefully, there are still some good buys on the market.

He bought the factory buildings for $ 190,000 and expects to spend two million dollars over the next year in getting the factory up - to - speed and the first wave of 2,000 bikes into stores.

He notes that in 1995, the first year after Berkshire finished buying its 200 million shares of Coke stock, the company paid Berkshire $ 88 million of dividends.

But after years of trying to engage with Rockwell, Emerson for the first time made a formal offer to buy Rockwell in August.

That same year, Kelly got the company's first significant cash infusion, a $ 30,000 bank loan, with which he bought inventory.

Buffett bought his first stock when he was 11 and has been in the market for 75 years.

Constellation's Mexican - produced beers, which it acquired in a side deal after InBev bought the international assets of Mexican brewer Grupo Modelo for $ 20.1 billion in 2013, are selling well and stealing market share in the U.S. Beer net sales at Constellation jumped 13 % for the first six months of the current fiscal year, while the company's wine and spirits unit — which includes Svedka vodka and Robert Mondavi wine — posted flat sales over the same period.

It's the first time Naspers has sold any of the Tencent shares it bought 17 years ago, in a deal that worked out extraordinarily well for the firm.

Oculus Rift, the San Francisco - based VR startup that Facebook bought in 2014 for $ 2 billion, is finally set to launch its consumer headset in the first half of the year.

That strategy, which he calls «cigar - butt investing,» is what led him to buy Berkshire Hathaway (brk - a), the company he now runs, in the first place — only to watch its then - core business (textile manufacturing) die slowly until he shut it down years later.

A poll conducted by Genworth Financial Mortgage Insurance Company showed that 11 % of Canadians are planning to buy their first abode this year, compared to 6 % in 2010.

«This is the first time in 102 years, A, the central bank bought bonds and, B, that we've had zero interest rates and we've had them for five or six years... To me it's incredible.»

First, he believes that an investor in a low - cost S&P index fund who reinvests all dividends will do better — very likely substantially better — than an investor who buys a 17 - year government bond and reinvests all of his coupons in the same instrument.

According to a new survey, more Canadians are planning to buy what will likely be their most significant investment in their lives this year: their first home.

On a buying trip to Italy the following year he saw espresso bars for the first time, and was impressed by their ubiquity and role as social hubs.

Edmonton Oilers After years of owning and operating the Rexall chain of pharmacies in relative silence, Edmonton's Daryl Katz has emerged as one of the more boisterous business figures in Western Canada, first buying the Edmonton Oilers and now embarking on a massive new real - estate project to house them.

With the deadline looming to win a regulatory approval that seemed unlikely for the $ 9.4 billion deal, first announced almost two years ago, Walgreens said on Thursday it was scrapping the planned acquisition of Rite Aid as a whole and would instead simply buy 2,186 Rite Aid stores, or about 45 % of its fleet, three distribution centers, and related Rite Aid inventory for $ 5.175 billion.

More than 50 years after starting his first car dealership in Vancouver, Pattison expanded his automotive business out of the province, buying Toyota and Subaru franchises in Winnipeg earlier this year.

When my sister's first child was born, I showered her with gifts — 11 years later she still has the first stuffed animal I bought for her.

Years ago, when you bought your first PC or first notebook, you could probably tell me the size of the processor, how much memory you had, how big the hard drive was, how much it weighed.

So, if you figure you're going to need $ 50,000 to pay for her first year of college in 2008, then you'd need to spend about $ 19,050 today to buy a bond to cover that.

When you buy a franchise, it is almost guaranteed that you will work harder and make less during that first year.

The typical first - timer now rents for six years before buying a home, up from 2.6 years in the early 1970s, according to a new analysis by the real estate date firm Zillow.

He claimed that about 45 people would end up buying citizenship during the first year, for about $ 30 million in revenues.

Richard Bernstein, who has spent more than 35 years on Wall Street, is buying gold for his clients» portfolios for the first time.

He paid that loan back in six years, but not before doubling up and buying a second used car lot just a year after the first.

This could manifest itself in several different ways, but a key point is to rent out rather than sell the high - tax state property and buy a place in a lower - tax place outright, and give it a year first.