Sentences with phrase «for by billions of dollars»

Unsurprisingly, avarice prevailed as some traders speculated in stocks paid for by billions of dollars worth of unsecured checks, causing Kuwait's stock market to inflate like a balloon and pop in a most analogous manner.

Not exact matches

Now, according to this report on the Wall Street Journal, there are so many new alternative lenders, supported by the billions of dollars from venture capitalists, that they're tripping over each other for customers.

The legendary B.C. development family saw their president of nearly 10 years, David Negrin, leave the company for a new opportunity — building and managing residential projects on the billion dollars» worth of land owned by the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil - Waututh First Nations.

It's this forbidding territory that Exxon (xom), under Tillerson, has turned into one of Russia's most lucrative oil provinces, affording Russia a crucial entry into the fast - growing oil markets of Asia, generating nearly $ 5 billion in tax dollars and other revenue for the government to date, and generally being, by Moscow's lights, a good corporate citizen.

The twin aims of making billions of dollars by churning data for the box and producing important work for the wider world, it turned out, were not always part of the «virtuous cycle» envisaged by Doctoroff.

It started with Russia's seizure of Crimea from Ukraine in March, and it has been followed by a cascading series of punches and counterpunches: U.S. sanctions on Kremlin officials, Putin's support for Ukraine separatists, more penalties against Russia, and then counter-sanctions as Russia banned the U.S., the European Union, Norway, Australia, and Canada from selling billions of dollars» worth of fruits, vegetables, fish, and meats to Russia.

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):

A lot of startups and innovation are focused on cheaper, whether it is on the retail side like Aldi and the upcoming entry of Lidl or Dollar Shave Club, which was acquired by Unilever for $ 1 billion.

By the following March, they had spent more than half a billion dollars acquiring two more companies: San Francisco - based MyFitnessPal, a nutrition - tracking system for people to log their meals, and Copenhagen - based Endomondo, a personal - training program whose users are almost entirely outside the U.S.. Under Armour suddenly had not only the world's largest digital fitness community but hundreds of engineers and reams of user data as well.

«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.

Even worse, the cost of carrying these well organized groups is very much understated: nearly all the public - sector pension plans are underfunded by hundreds of billions of dollars and taxpayers are on the hook for the difference.

President Donald Trump has said he plans to pay for billions of dollars more for the military by cutting spending on domestic agencies and departments.

A few years ago, northwest British Columbia seemed headed for boom times, with billions of dollars in projects planned by the liquid natural gas (LNG), mining and other resource sectors.

With estimates that the global market for medical marijuana could reach $ 50 billion by 2025, the Israeli government is set to allow the local industry to start exporting and projects annual revenues in the hundreds of millions of dollars.

He has extensive experience leading marketing efforts for major e-commerce and retail brands, most recently as Chief Marketing Officer of Dollar Shave Club, which was acquired by Unilever for $ 1 billion in 2016.

The brothers dream of creating a billion - dollar global company (they give themselves 15 years) that improves the culture by promulgating inspirational messages and — this is the important part, they say — by raising money and awareness for sick and disadvantaged children.

It's far too easy to believe, in our modern world, that you can graduate from a top 10 school, flawlessly establish yourself in the corporate world or with your own startup, build the perfect team, and either invest in perfect stocks or sell your own company for billions of dollars by the time you're 27.

The billions of dollars managed by mutual funds, hedge funds, insurance companies, university endowments, pensions, foundations, sovereign wealth funds and the like need to find returns for their money.

Then it added insult to injury by handing half a billion dollars of our money to the U.S. Coalition on Fair Lumber Imports — the ultra-protectionists who launched the lumber fight — and another half billion to George Bush for use as a political slush fund.

Specialty coffee sales are increasing by 20 % per year and account for nearly 8 % of the 18 billion dollar U.S. coffee market.

And even before the disclosure of the record - breaking purchase in a New York art auction by one of his associates, Prince Mohammed's extravagance had already raised eyebrows, most notably with the impulse purchase two years ago in the south of France of a Russian vodka titan's 440 - foot yacht, for half a billion dollars.

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.»

Take over from a visionary founder whose play for world domination is only half finished (and who is still a majority owner by votes), fix a broken workplace culture, win an existential race (and legal battle) to develop autonomous vehicles, and find a way to turn a profit in a business that has lost billions of dollars a year.

Otherwise, CCS will only happen under a long - term commitment to billions of dollars of annual expenditures under a sustained pay for results approach as recommended by the CCS Development Council.

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.

Even a company as bottom - line obsessed as Walmart has singlehandedly doubled the market for organic food — by selling billions of dollars worth of it to people who, for the most part, never shop at Whole Foods.

Manufacturing stoppages, delays, and disruptions — whether they're caused by equipment failure, human error, or a combination of the two — are a billion - dollar headache for manufacturers.

A new report by the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration says the IRS is doing too little to go after employers suspected of hiding wages and failing to report billions of dollars in...

The executives» corner - cutting on compliance adds to the embarrassment and regulatory headaches for Zurich - based Credit Suisse, which has had to pay billions of dollars of fines to U.S. authorities in recent years over a wide range of allegations, including mis - selling of mortgage - backed securities, deficiencies in its anti-money-laundering program, front - running clients on foreign - exchange trades and violating U.S. sanctions by secretly funneling money from Iran through American banks.

The letter continued: «Our ad reminds viewers that Kim Jong - un and his army of hackers have been stealing billions of dollars of Bitcoin and other digital currencies for the past few years, funding their rogue nuclear weapons programs and thwarting efforts by the rest of the world to sanction this behavior.»

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.

Investors are hungry for high quality, multibillion - dollar debt deals, as shown by Anheuser - Busch InBev Finance Inc. of Belgium's success with two corporate bonds totaling more than $ 60 billion in 2016.

«About 425,000 jobs and billions of dollars» worth of business are affected by laws governing safe harbours for IP and copyright.

The first was routine: Constellation Brands, who stunned the beer world by paying a cool billion dollars for Ballast Point two years ago, announced the purchase of Florida's Funky Buddha.

A detailed weekend report by the New York Times, for example, states that «members of the royal family, and relatives, advisers and associates of the detainees» say those who were kidnapped were coerced and physically abused in some cases, and that billions of dollars in private wealth were transferred to Crown Prince's Mohammed's control.

The U.S. taxpayer has since been put on the hook for hundreds of billions of dollars of losses that should have been borne by private parties.

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By ensuring Canadian oil has access to tidewater, the Trans Mountain Expansion Project will extend Canada's reach into new markets with customers who pay higher prices, generate thousands of high - paying jobs, and create billions of dollars in government revenue for both the country and British Columbia.

By ensuring Canadian oil has access to tidewater, the TMEP will extend Canada's reach into new markets with customers who pay higher prices, generate thousands of high - paying jobs, and create billions of dollars in government revenue for both the country and British Columbia.

J. David Cox, president of the American Federation of Government Employees, said the destruction wrought by Harvey underscores «the need for good government,» and shows «the president is just wrong with his budget,» in which Trump proposed slashing billions of dollars from federal agencies.

That perhaps lends credence to critics» assertions that the petro is just a virtual barrel of oil, an attempt by the Maduro government to raise billions of dollars in foreign exchange in order to keep the government in operation without having to do the actual hard work of drilling for and shipping oil.

And even if Benchmark's relationship with Uber frayed at the end, their collaboration still produced billions of dollars for both parties — a success by the standard metrics of Silicon Valley that shouldn't go unnoticed by the current crop of rising star founders.

And that can raise prices like Amazon, which is raising the price for its Prime membership by $ 20, from $ 99 to $ 119 a year, adding billions of dollars to its revenues to the bottom line.

The changes advocated by the Club for Growth could cost much more — tens, if not hundreds of billions of dollars.

Here is the headline, pastors at a vast majority of church's do nt handle the finances... and oh, by the way, if all Christians are so corrupt, who pays for the billions of dollars in humaintarian aid through the Red Cross each year?

Airwaves are filled with commercials for antidepressants; by sales, the antipsychotic medication aripiprazole, marketed for depression, is the number - one drug in the U.S., with sales of well over a billion dollars per year.

The already legendary merger of the Gannet chain of newspapers and a television company in 1979, for a little more than 350 million dollars, seems today a very modest transaction compared with what took place a few months ago when an unprecedented US 19 billion dollar merger between Disney Company and the ABC Network was quickly overtaken by an even more massive Times Warner - CNN link - up worth, all told, in excess of US 25 billion dollars.

Although billions of dollars are being expended annually on family planning services in less - developed countries, and such programs have been promoted by various governments at the national level for four decades, there are only a few studies that have attempted to measure the demographic and health impact of family planning against a «control group» — a similar area which lacks the service.

But where is Christian leadership in the building of a new world view about the sinfulness of multinational structures that are living off the backs of the poor by giving unjust wages and benefits but will spend 165 billion dollars of bail - out welfare for the rich in the S&L's?

We are subsidizing Walmart by making up for a lack of a living wage through food stamps and Medicaid so that these six billionaires can increase their billions upon billions of dollars advantage to over half of the population.