Sentences with phrase «for dollars held»

The U.S. offered to exchange gold for dollars held by foreign countries and thus the gold standard became accepted worldwide.

In retrospect, the scheme was clumsy because the manipulation of the gold price was accomplished by the exchange of physical gold for dollars held by foreign creditors who saw the writing on the wall.

For example, the Department of Education reports that for every dollar held in a 529 account in a parent's name, up to 5.6 cents will be subtracted from the family's federal need - based financial aid package.

Not exact matches

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.

«As excited as I am about what the future of video holds for us, it means moving money dollar - for - dollar from other departments.»

NEW YORK, May 2 - The U.S. dollar held below 3 - 1 / 2 - month highs on Wednesday as investors awaited the outcome of a Federal Reserve meeting for indications on the U.S. central banks future interest rate path.

MARKETS: The dollar held near a four - month high against a basket of major currencies, buoyed by the outlook for a strong U.S. economy and rising yields amid signs of slowdown elsewhere, especially in Europe.

«If Saudi Arabia wants to recapture its number one ranking, it needs to accept the renminbi for oil payments instead of just the dollar,» Gordon Kwan, the Hong Kong - based head of regional oil and gas research at Nomura Holdings Inc., told Bloomberg back in June.

This is just the latest headache for Lindsay; PayPal, Square, a traditional merchant processor, and another high - risk processor are all holding on to thousands of dollars for charge backs.

Having spent 50 + years in the timber industry I have been tracking this company for the last two years and consider them a good bet I don't hold shares but if the short sellers force them down below a dollar then I will swoop like a bald headed eagle

CVS Health appears willing to pay top dollar for a health insurer in an effort to hold its own against competitors.

The relationship between homeownership and wealth held true even in the years surrounding the mortgage crisis, which wiped out trillions of dollars in home equity and caused over 4 million Americans to lose their homes, researchers for Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies found.

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.»

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).

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.

In a world where Jim Barksdale, the CEO of Netscape, can cut his annual pay to a dollar yet have stock holdings worth $ 122 million in the following year, executives everywhere are looking for some wealth - creating mechanisms of their own.

«Whenever you're in a store and you pick up an item, hold it for ten seconds,» writes founder of The Simple Dollar Trent Hamm, in his book, «365 Ways to Live Cheap.»

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.

The decision could help investors in several lawsuits in Manhattan seeking to hold banks liable for billions of dollars in damages for alleged price - fixing in U.S. Treasuries, commodities, currencies, derivatives and other rates.

International Green Structures, a manufacturer of sustainable structures, is unable to close a multi-million dollar deal in Nigeria for more than 500 houses because its application for finance has been held up with the Ex-Im bank shutdown.

These risks and uncertainties include: Gilead's ability to achieve its anticipated full year 2018 financial results; Gilead's ability to sustain growth in revenues for its antiviral and other programs; the risk that private and public payers may be reluctant to provide, or continue to provide, coverage or reimbursement for new products, including Vosevi, Yescarta, Epclusa, Harvoni, Genvoya, Odefsey, Descovy, Biktarvy and Vemlidy ®; austerity measures in European countries that may increase the amount of discount required on Gilead's products; an increase in discounts, chargebacks and rebates due to ongoing contracts and future negotiations with commercial and government payers; a larger than anticipated shift in payer mix to more highly discounted payer segments and geographic regions and decreases in treatment duration; availability of funding for state AIDS Drug Assistance Programs (ADAPs); continued fluctuations in ADAP purchases driven by federal and state grant cycles which may not mirror patient demand and may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; market share and price erosion caused by the introduction of generic versions of Viread and Truvada, an uncertain global macroeconomic environment; and potential amendments to the Affordable Care Act or other government action that could have the effect of lowering prices or reducing the number of insured patients; the possibility of unfavorable results from clinical trials involving investigational compounds; Gilead's ability to initiate clinical trials in its currently anticipated timeframes; the levels of inventory held by wholesalers and retailers which may cause fluctuations in Gilead's earnings; Kite's ability to develop and commercialize cell therapies utilizing the zinc finger nuclease technology platform and realize the benefits of the Sangamo partnership; Gilead's ability to submit new drug applications for new product candidates in the timelines currently anticipated; Gilead's ability to receive regulatory approvals in a timely manner or at all, for new and current products, including Biktarvy; Gilead's ability to successfully commercialize its products, including Biktarvy; the risk that physicians and patients may not see advantages of these products over other therapies and may therefore be reluctant to prescribe the products; Gilead's ability to successfully develop its hematology / oncology and inflammation / respiratory programs; safety and efficacy data from clinical studies may not warrant further development of Gilead's product candidates, including GS - 9620 and Yescarta in combination with Pfizer's utomilumab; Gilead's ability to pay dividends or complete its share repurchase program due to changes in its stock price, corporate or other market conditions; fluctuations in the foreign exchange rate of the U.S. dollar that may cause an unfavorable foreign currency exchange impact on Gilead's future revenues and pre-tax earnings; and other risks identified from time to time in Gilead's reports filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the SEC).

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

For each industry, there is an industry - specific meeting being held somewhere, and you are welcome if you pay those massive dollars to be in attendance.

The U.S. dollar index is testing a critical support level of a long - running trading band that is likely to hold for now.

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.

With the potential for higher U.S. budget deficits and debt risking dollar strength, central banks around the globe could be motivated to increase their gold holdings, says Credit Suisse.

The WPO is the premier membership organization for women presidents & CEOs (and managing directors) of privately held, multi-million dollar companies.

The U.S. dollar held steady versus a basket of major currencies as solid company results and fading concerns about a trade war helped keep a lid on safe - haven demand for the greenback.

«Rather than holding Wells Fargo responsible for cheating its customers, Republicans are looting the Treasury to funnel billions of dollars to the bank,» Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D - MA) said in an emailed statement to me, reacting to Wells Fargo's steep benefits from the tax bill.

They convinced Russia that its central bank needed to hold U.S. dollars as backing for its domestic ruble currency.

Bitfinex has come under fire for its relationship with Tether (a company, partially owned by van der Velde through Tether Holdings Limited, which purports to offer a blockchain - based equivalent to the US dollar and has been subpoenaed by the CFTC), but that hasn't stopped its executives from trying to turn over a new leaf.

If it does increase interest rates, the dollar would be bound to strengthen, making oil trades (which is settled in dollars) more expensive for buyers holding other currencies.

«The really tricky question for regulators is how we structure those type of rules in light of the fact that the funds these firms hold are not denominated in dollars or other forms of traditional fiat currencies,» Lawsky said.

The combination of long - term (one might even call it the much - maligned «buy - and - hold») investing, dividend reinvestment, dollar - cost averaging, and no - cost / low - cost investing is a powerful strategy for wealth creation.

So if X is $ 100 — if you need to hold one U.S. dollar for every bitcoin that you hold for customers — and the expected return on capital is 20 percent, the fee for holding 100 bitcoins would be $ 20 a year.

The US Dollar is holding on to and even edging out some gains ahead of the Fed meeting tonight where no change in interest rates is expected, but the central bank's statement will be scoured for clues on future rate hikes.

Gold fell as the dollar held near the highest level in five years and investors reduced holdings in the largest exchange - traded product backed by the metal, curbing demand for a store of value.

A Fed on hold and weaker dollar are good news for the asset class (see the chart below), and there are signs of progress on structural reforms in certain EM countries.

Byron King: The short answer is that, for all its faults, the dollar has strengthened, which holds down gold and silver prices.

Since there is no press conference, for the dollar to hold onto and extend its gains, the FOMC statement needs to be unambiguously positive.

The Aussie Dollar moved from $ 0.75781 to $ 0.75706 upon release of the figures, as focus now shifts to the RBA's interest rate decision and release of the rate statement tomorrow, disappointing inflation figures for the 1st quarter likely to leave the RBA in a holding pattern for the foreseeable future.

It might also suggest that holdings, both public and private, are now of sufficient size that a higher RMB and dollar gold price would benefit the standing of the RMB for use in the settlement of international transactions for parties wishing to bypass the dollar.

For example, you can hold Bitcoin (BTC) and U.S. Dollars (USD) at the same time and transfer between the two within the app.

Trump's tax cut allowed for the repartition of US dollars held overseas by American corporations back home at a reduced rate.

Theoretically Tellers holding Bitcoin in Hungary can process withdrawals for customers holding Euros or Dollars and manually convert to forint for those customers but that is something that they'll need to decide for themselves.

4 A «Qualifying Purchase» is any signature - based purchase, Internet purchase, phone or mail - order purchase, bill payment, contactless purchase (purchases made by holding your Visa card or other device up to a secure reader instead of swiping your card), or small dollar purchase for which you are not required to sign, made with an enrolled Visa card, which is processed or submitted through the Visa U.S.A. Inc. payment system.

Gold benefited from the weakness of the Dollar as it finally broke through the $ 1300 level that held back the precious metal for almost a year.

In general, companies that are «diseased» but «curable» offer better prospects for high returns than those that are held in favor by everyone with a few dollars to invest.

TORONTO — The Canadian dollar fell on Wednesday against its U.S. counterpart after the Bank of Canada held interest rates steady and showed enough caution to dampen expectations for a hike early next year.

This week was fairly negative for gold as the dollar held strong and the 10 - year Treasury yield reached its highest since 2014 to 3 percent.