Sentences with phrase «from investing in companies»

The Korean government has also been discouraging small and medium - sized funds from investing in companies operating cryptocurrency exchanges.

Such low share ownership is often a reason to stay away from investing in companies.

What I love about dividend records is that you are set to continue breaking the record each year, even if you do not invest and barring a dividend slash (I would hope our investing strategy pevents us from investing in companies that will slash their dividend).

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed a law that prohibits the state's public worker pension fund from investing in companies that engage in the boycott of Israel and support the Boycott, Divest and Sanction movement.

They encouraged churches - and individual Christians - away from investing in companies employing environmental unfriendly practises which may be fuelling famines, droughts and other extreme phenomena's around the world.

Two Democratic lawmakers want to prohibit the state from investing in any company that enters into a contract with the federal government to build a proposed wall along the U.S. - Mexico border.

Not exact matches

Sometimes the call comes from on high: the VCs who have invested in your company.

Already, the bank added, new technologies have required the company to invest in adapting or modifying its products to draw and retain customers, and to compete with new offerings from tech upstarts, a trend it expects to continue.

In February, Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian said he would step down from his daily role at the company to return to investing.

«Combined with the revenue potential, favorability, satisfaction, and recommendation impact of these interactions, businesses can benefit significantly from investing in helping their customers on Twitter,» the 10 - year - old tech company said in a blog post.

Moving from an individual contributor role to a management role can be tough, especially if you haven't changed companies, but you need to invest in your team and empower its members.

By contrast, the latest Global Corporate Capital Expenditure Survey from Standard & Poors showed that the top 20 capex spenders among non-financial companies in Western Europe invested just shy of $ 200 billion in aggregate in 2016.

In the opinion of the Company's management, it is important to measure the profitability of each segment excluding the results of investing activities, which are managed separately from the insurance business.

Standing out from the crowd is huge, so companies are investing in custom fonts and custom typography.

Direxion's iBillionaire Index ETF is barely five weeks old and holds only $ 35 million in assets, but it's generated buzz by investing in 30 companies chosen from the portfolios of asset managers with personal net worth of $ 1 billion or more.

«It takes an interesting approach to capturing the lithium theme by investing in a range of companies, from household - electronics producers to chemicals companies,» he said.

If the company is going to invest in developing their leaders and give them the proper training and development that they need, there has to be support from the highest level of the company — including the founder and the CEO.

Despite the fact that the company launched in the midst of a national economic crisis, it has since reeled in more than $ 45 million in funding from investors such as New York City - based General Atlantic as well as Endeavor Catalyst, an investing branch of the eponymous, global entrepreneurship support network.

Housing will continue to flourish but the surprise may come from changes in the US corporate tax code to encourage companies to invest.»

For somebody who had never been to New Orleans, but moved there initially to teach and then a year later left the classroom to start a company, I've seen firsthand just how much the community has invested in bringing in and retaining young people who really want to contribute to rebranding the city, bringing it from, old oil and gas and just tourism really into the 21st century with lots of high - tech, high - growth businesses.

Passed amidst bitter partisan division and an ambivalent public... the right depends on private actors, private health insurance companies, and willing states to administer and participate in a newly transparent, competitive, and streamlined private health insurance market, while these same actors hesitate to invest in the infrastructure of this market due to uncertainty from legal and political challenges to the ACA.

It has already invested in some companies that graduated from the Labs incubator, including Modern Meadow, a New Jersey — based startup that's biofabricating leather without the need for animals, and 3Scan, a company that enables 3D analysis of tumors and organs.

Each year TechStars selects about 60 companies from thousands of applicants in New York, Seattle, Boston, San Antonio and Boulder, Colo., investing $ 118,000 in each.

HCPI will invest in lower - middle market manufacturing companies ranging in size from $ 10 to $ 100 million in enterprise value focused on consumer and industrial markets.

Fortt asked Nadella about the recent expansion of the company's Artificial Intelligence and Research group from 5,000 to 8,000 people, at a time when Alphabet, Facebook and other companies have also been investing in AI research.

The idea of renting computing power from another company was almost unheard of, but Jassy had a key backer in Dalzell, who recalls arguing that «we're going to invest in this anyway,» since Amazon would always need data - center resources for itself.

Meanwhile, Apple re-placed Microsoft as the world's most valuable tech company, and prominent Wall Street firm Goldman Sachs raised doubts about investing in the company's stock, downgrading its rating from Buy to Neutral.

Far from absorbing the smaller company, Zillow wants to expand StreetEasy's footprint, investing in one or more mobile apps, according to The New York Times.

As a private company, Nordstrom would likely be able to focus on initiatives such as investing more in e-commerce, closing underperforming stores and expanding its off - price chain, Nordstrom Rack, without pressure from shareholders.

As Winnebago began to recover and ramp up after 2009, he refrained from investing in new plants, even as the company began to run out of room in Forest City.

We're also directly investing in some African businesses, from small startups to larger companies.

From the SoftBank perspective, this is just the latest massive investment by SoftBank's $ 93 billion Vision Fund, which has been investing in several high - flying Silicon Valley companies.

The company agreed to invest $ 16 million in its Indiana facility, though it's parent corporation still plans to send some 700 factory jobs from Huntington, Ind., to Mexico, according to the Post.

Amazon (amzn) has said it plans to invest over $ 5 billion in construction and produce many as 50,000 high - paying jobs at HQ2, with the further promise of «tens of thousands of additional jobs» as well as billions of dollars more in additional investment in the host city — prompting a flurry of (sometimes outlandish) bids from cities and states to woo CEO Jeff Bezos and company.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Chinese companies invested over $ 20 billion in the U.S. last year — from a practically nonexistent total investment back in 2006.

In 2011 he published his book «The Sportsman: Unexpected Lessons from an Around the World Sports Odyssey,» and in 2013, he co-founded investment firm Qey Capital, which has so far invested in small and medium companies worth a total of $ 100 millioIn 2011 he published his book «The Sportsman: Unexpected Lessons from an Around the World Sports Odyssey,» and in 2013, he co-founded investment firm Qey Capital, which has so far invested in small and medium companies worth a total of $ 100 millioin 2013, he co-founded investment firm Qey Capital, which has so far invested in small and medium companies worth a total of $ 100 millioin small and medium companies worth a total of $ 100 million.

The company is also at the forefront of efforts to change the oilsands» poor environmental image, investing in the $ 1.35 - billion Quest project, which captures carbon emissions from oilsands operations and buries them beneath the surface.

Ripple quotes an email from Rutter to the company's current CEO Brad Garlinghouse to allege R3 was not invested in the partnership:

Sources say the new auto rules will result in a modest increase in the required content from North America, slightly favouring companies that invest in research and pay higher wages.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Homeowners are investing in home security solutions in an a la carte manner — an alarm system from this company, a camera setup from another company, a garage door app from a third company, and so on.

The company expects to invest C$ 21 billion in the near term, down from the C$ 23 billion it had earmarked earlier.

Earlier this year, a company called Event Shares filed a prospectus for a Republican Policies and a Democratic Policies fund to invest in companies that will benefit from the respective parties» political agendas (neither has launched yet).

Under her leadership, the company invested $ 15 billion in modernizing its electricity infrastructure, including spending on «smart» meters (which allow companies to monitor use remotely), auto - switching devices that allow employees to monitor usage and outages from a distance, and technology that helps the grid «self - heal» by rerouting electricity around a damaged power line.

A spokesperson for the drug company told the Financial Times that revenue from increased prices would go to investing in «schemes that ensured more patients could access the medicine.»

But the Chinese company has also invested in a manufacturing facility in Harrisburg, Pa., upping the staff from 30 to 500 people.

Critics also routinely say that mandated wholesale arrangements discourage network owners from investing in upgrades, which is indeed what we've heard in just about every dispute between big companies and small ISPs in Canada.

Instead of hiring from outside of your company, why not utilize the skills of your employees you've already invested in?

The four conglomerates originated in different sectors, but their underlying business model is the same: cultivate powerful allies in the Communist Party; use those relationships to win regulatory and property concessions; gather investment from friends, family and other proxies of party elites into a murky, unregulated private holding company; borrow heavily from state - owed banks and other sources to finance prodigious growth plans; invest as aggressively as possible in stock and property overseas as a hedge against slower growth in China and the risk of a weaker Chinese currency.

The issue is that venture capitalists may balk at investing in companies that have hundreds of small and unsophisticated backers amassed from the «crowd round,» so you may want to consider this consequence before deciding to post on an equity portal.