Sentences with word «fortunes»

While trying harder is admirable, it's probably not going to do enough to actually reverse a company's fortunes.

For more than a year, Finland has been testing the proposition that the best way to lift economic fortunes may be the simplest: Hand out money without rules or restrictions on how people use it.

«However, a slow start does not portend a slow overall summer as many have predicted,» he added, «though if the ebb and flow of this season's fortunes thus far is any indication we may have to buckle up for a pretty bumpy ride.»

Based in tiny Burlington, Vt. — population 45,000 — Burton was a private company whose fortunes were tied to a fringe sport some still thought of as a passing fad.

Fortunes change fast in the video game world.

The crude oil trade was largely responsible for turning around the fortunes of the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway, which owned the train that was eastbound through Lac - Mégantic.

Ali belongs to a new generation of urban planners taping into the rising demand for the services of a profession whose fortunes are tied to surging property development markets as well as the growth in city - building activity across Canada.

While Luckey initially raised capital for his company through a massive crowdfunding campaign on Kickstarter, his company hit its stride in 2014 when Facebook [fortunes - stock symbol =» FB»] announced that it had acquired Oculus VR for $ 2 billion.

Retail's improving fortunes won't lift all boats and many debt - laden chains are still seeing sharp sales declines.

If that's true, then Canada's politicians are doing nothing to help ensure the turn in the country's economic fortunes this year takes hold.

Bank of America (bac) and Goldman Sachs (gs) became the latest banks to report better - than - expected profits for the second quarter, despite mixed fortunes in their underlying businesses.

CNBC Investigates: Illegal gambling where fortunes are on the line and lives hang in the balance.

For now, the Matlacks ride the fortunes of the agricultural economy and banks» willingness to make loans for major equipment.

For almost a decade, economists have noted the growing influence of China over Canada's economic fortunes.

The Canadians left behind by the housing boom are watching, mad as hell, as homeowners glory in their paper fortunes.

Indeed, this story of intrigue might be just a salacious distraction were it not taking place at the top of the ruling class of China, which will likely be the world's largest economy by the end of the decade and a place upon which Canada's fortunes increasingly hinge.

Winners and losers often change places quickly in the entertainment industry, but even so, it's staggering how quickly Viacom chairman and CEO Philippe Dauman's fortunes have shifted in what amounts to the blink of an eye.

According to Arif Mulji, vice-president of business development, Amur's fortunes vividly reflect some of the forces that have dominated Canada's economy in recent years: Its customers tend to be people looking for short - term mortgages, home renovation loans or debt consolidation.

A recent recovery in precious metal prices and some smart moves have led to a significant reversal in his fortunes.

As U.S. investment goes, so go the fortunes of Canadian makers of industrial machinery.

But Dean's inability to oversee operations wound up putting undue stress on Keith and the business» fortunes faltered as a result.

As Fortune previously reported, Jurassic World is expected to be one of the most popular toy trends this year.

World Stocks Tumble As Market Hopes in Trump's Reform Agenda Fade, by Fortune Editors and Reuters

A Metropolitan Bank representative said in a statement to Fortune that it «does not accept cryptocurrency - related wire transfers from non-U.S. entities.»

Today's Fortune 500 list is a mere shadow of what it was in 1995.

Mitchell Goldhar owes his fortune largely to Smart REIT, a retail and mixed - use real estate development company that boasts 31 million square feet of leasable space.

One Fortune tester suggested it was a cross between apple sauce and cat food.

Each December, when we choose Fortune's Businessperson of the Year, we focus first on CEOs who are delivering the goods.

When Fortune introduced its list of the 500 largest U.S. companies by revenue, in 1955, it included five U.S. automakers.

Over the same period, the company paid Trump — essentially Trump paying himself — roughly $ 82 million by Fortune's estimates, collected from a dizzying variety of sources spelled out in the company's proxy filings, as varied as payments for use of Trump's private plane to fees paid directly Trump for access to his name and marketing expertise.

Newscast: Some U.S. companies are making a fortune by selling human bodies that were donated to science.

Diane Gherson, IBM senior vice president of human resources, said the company's «first priority has been to identify and engage IBMers who may be affected, in order to provide any assistance they need,» according to a memo IBM sent to Fortune.

That vision and his company's incredible financial performance — Nvidia has been growing profits at better than 50 % annually and its stock has leapt from $ 30 to above $ 200 in two years — make Huang the clear choice as Fortune's Businessperson of the Year for 2017.

(Disclosure: Time Inc., TIME and Fortune's parent company, was acquired by Meredith Corp. in a deal partially financed by Koch Equity Development, a subsidiary of Koch Industries Inc..)

The Fortune Global 500 companies employ 67 million people worldwide.

(Fortune interviewed Goldsmith in March for a look back at his long run as the popular character.)

He has been relentless in his advocacy for his father and the agenda that has helped turn our country around,» Bannon said in a statement released on Sunday that was obtained by Fortune.

A fortune is made and spent on drugs to treat medical conditions — from stomach ulcers to headaches — that are caused or aggravated by stress.

«The high - level women I talk to very consistently say they spend a lot more time than their male colleagues did getting to know people, getting to know about their personal lives,» law professor Joan C. Williams tells Fortune, seconding the idea.

Facebook did not immediately respond to a Fortune request for comment on Luckey's involvement with Nimble America.

A version of this article appears as part of our «Business by Design» package in the Jan. 1, 2018 issue of Fortune.

«It does risk Bornstein's license because it's fraud,» Caplan told Fortune in an interview Wednesday.

Earlier this week Fortune had the scoop on Circle, a Goldman Sachs - backed fintech startup, buying the cryptocurrency exchange Poloniex, where many of these projects» digital tokens trade.

A version of this article appears in the June 15, 2015 issue of Fortune magazine with the headline «Profit Engine on the Rails.»

Fortune Global 500 companies had revenues that equaled 37.8 % of World GDP — down from 40.1 % last year.

6 Dimensions Capital and Curative Ventures co-led the round, and were joined by investors including Redmile Group, ArrowMark Partners, Hillhouse Capital Group, MiraeAsset Financial Group, Lucion Group, Sirona Capital, Alexandria Venture Investments, MPM Capital, F2 Ventures and Cathay Fortune Capital Investment.

«As a global company, we depend upon the diverse sources of talent that our teammates represent,» CEO Brian Moynihan said in a memo to employees, according to a statement obtained by Fortune.

Wells Fargo, some of whose cardholders experienced duplicate Coinbase transactions, declined to comment on the glitch, but referred Fortune to Visa for additional information.

For our annual ranking of the Best Workplaces in Retail, Fortune partner Great Place to Work crunched the numbers and surveyed thousands of employees to bring you this list of the retail workplaces that employees love.

Fortune contacted NBC News for comment about the Variety report and we will update this article with any response.