Sentences with phrase «large holdings by»

The value of stock in a multiple sclerosis drug company - which includes large holdings by members of Congress - collapsed Tuesday when company officials announced the drug failed during recent clinical trials.
This represents my largest holding by market value.
This represents my largest holding by market value.
Next year I'll aim to focus more on diversification, balancing my largest holdings by building my Loyal3 portfolio.

Not exact matches

Unhindered by the same tethers that hold down big businesses, these companies are able to innovate in ways that their larger counterparts can not.
The refugee program was put on hold in June for four months as part of the larger travel ban ordered by the president with the aim of stopping potential terrorists.
But this by no way means the end of on - demand startups in India as it still remains one of the largest disorganized industry which holds a market opportunity ranging from $ 100 Bn - $ 400 Bn as quoted by an article.
Shares of IBM (IBM), one of Berkshire's largest holdings, fell by just over 12 % last year.
Swiss banks have been prohibited by law from revealing information about their clients since 1934, and as a result, Switzerland now holds the largest pool of off shore wealth in the world — US$ 2.7 trillion.
Today, the Osoyoos band holds 51 % of Nk» Mip Cellars, while 49 % is owned by Vincor and its parent company Constellation, one of the world's largest wine and spirit producers.
According to the most recent filings from the Securities and Exchange Commission, GM was Greenlight Capital's third largest holding and was worth $ 458.7 million by the end of 2016.
One thing I can say, however, is that I have had the good fortune of interviewing and seeing how one or two excellent board or committee chairs, or directors on a board, can completely reform and turn around risk management of an entire large, complex organization by pressing management and holding them accountable.
It now had a lock hold on both Whistler and Blackcomb mountains, together the largest ski resort by every measure — skier visits, resort beds, lifts, terrain and vertical drop — outside of the Alps.
FMG, Mineral Resources, Hancock prospecting have fewer Australian Shareholders, with large shareholdings held by the billionaires and millionaires, Forrest, Rinehart and Ellison.
The third aspect is the large portion of global nuclear arms held by the US and Russia.
Last year's surprising acquisition of Country Style Food Services Holdings, Ontario's second - largest coffee chain, boosted MTY's store count by nearly 50 %, and the most recent addition — Quebec hot - dogs - and - fries specialist Groupe Valentine, a deal that closed earlier this month — has brought the total to more than 1,700 restaurants that ring in about US$ 400 million in annual sales.
It's a view held by a large minority of CEOs, despite the fact they remain divided on whether the recession is over.
Legere has generally held the upper hand in the competition between the two companies performance in the market, as T - Mobile has added by far the most new subscribers over the past few years and surpassed Sprint last year to become the third - largest U.S. carrier.
A share surge at Country Garden Holdings, China's largest developer by sales, has sent Vice Chairman Yang Huiyan's wealth up by $ 2.1 billion — and that's just in the first four trading days of the year.
Recently several large banks tested a trading system built by a competitor to Digital Asset Holdings called R3, that used Ethereum's block chain technology.
If this trade fight escalates, China could fire back by selling a large chunk of the $ 1.17 trillion of U.S. treasury bonds it holds.
The latest pharma innovation report from Deloitte holds some pretty grim news for pharma: returns on R&D investments by large cap companies slid to a mere 3.7 % in 2016, down from the 10.1 % returns seen in 2010 (although the cost of bringing a drug to market is beginning to stabilize).
Meanwhile, he shrugged off concerns about the joint venture (JV) with Leighton Holdings, Australia's largest construction firm, and insisted it was «successful» despite the challenges brought on by the 2008 crisis.
Dell Technologies, run by Dell founder and PC pioneer Michael Dell, is the result of the $ 67 billion merger between the two companies in 2015, which created the largest privately held technology company in the world.
Sears Canada is controlled by U.S. financier Edward Lampert, who directly and indirectly owns a large majority of its stock including through his stake in Sears Holdings Corp. (Nasdaq: SHLD).
According to Browder's testimony, Putin amassed his vast wealth by using political clout to coerce Russians who made similar investments to simply hand over large chunks of their holdings to him.
SpaceX, the closely held company founded and led by chief executive officer Elon Musk — who also heads the electric auto manufacturer Tesla (tsla)-- is slated to demonstrate the maiden flight of Falcon Heavy, a larger and more powerful rocket, later this month.
The investor also noted some of Berkshire's large stock holdings were managed by Todd Combs or Ted Weschler.
Following the revelations that the U.S. National Security Agency had secured all - but - unfettered access to user data held by the largest U.S. tech companies, including Microsoft, Google and Yahoo, politicians and businesses around the world were struggling to figure out what exactly this news meant for them.
Most importantly, they won't have their holdings diluted by underwriters or large institutions.
Out of the 223 largest publicly traded companies headquartered in the Bay Area, more than one third had either zero or just one top position held by a woman, the study found.
And of the 5,415 board seats on America's largest corporations, 1,057 (20 %) of them are currently held by females — up 4 % from February.
Annual inflation readings in March of last year were held down by large declines in the price of cell phone service plans.
Of the thousands of stocks in the market, Valeant had the distinction of being held by a large number of hedge funds.
The bulk of Salix's remaining shares were held by institutional investors, large mutual and hedge funds.
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).
By historical standards, this implies sustained double - digit losses on bond holdings, subpar growth in developed markets, and balance sheet risks for banking systems with a large home bias.
The Congress faces an array of policy choices as it confronts the challenges posed by the amount of federal debt held by the public — which has more than doubled relative to the size of the economy since 2007 — and the prospect of continued growth in that debt over the coming decades if the large annual budget deficits projected under current law come to pass.
Ether Capital is seeking to become a major player in the ethereum ecosystem by investing in startups and holding large amounts of the token.
Bengaluru: Another mutual fund, this time one managed by US - based investment firm Vanguard Group, has marked down the value of shares it holds in India's largest e-commerce firm Flipkart Ltd..
If disruption theory is correct, Tesla's future holds either acquisition by a much larger incumbent or a years - long and hard - fought battle for market significance.
Ripple, which focuses on blockchain - based cross border payments, works with many large banks and is backed by firms including Standard Chartered Plc (STAN.L), Accenture Plc (ACN.N), and SBI Holdings.
Because nominal wage growth for a large fraction of workers has been held to zero, a somewhat higher rate of inflation would grease the wheels of the labor market by allowing real wages to fall (Akerlof, Dickens, and Perry 1996).
First, by the end of 2014, following the large - scale asset purchase programs, the Federal Reserve balance sheet was funded by about $ 3.1 trillion in liabilities other than Federal Reserve notes, which were mostly in the form of reserves in excess of the amount banks were required to hold; in contrast, there were only $ 64 billion of non-Federal Reserve note liabilities in June 2007, of which only about $ 2 billion were excess reserves.
On November 3, 2012, Baidu acquired the shares held by Providence Equity Partners LLC, the second - largest shareholder of the iQiyi, to become its single largest shareholder.
Bank of America, the largest servicer after buying Countrywide in 2008, held $ 1.77 trillion in mortgage servicing volume, followed by JPMorgan Chase & Co (JPM.N), the largest U.S. bank, with $ 1.17 trillion.
Second, the broad market, including much of the portfolio held by Strategic Growth, has had a harder time since April 5th than very large cap stocks have experienced.
The project is detailed in the contract as a seven step process — with Kogan's company, GSR, generating an initial seed sample (though it does not specify how large this is here) using «online panels»; analyzing this seed training data using its own «psychometric inventories» to try to determine personality categories; the next step is Kogan's personality quiz app being deployed on Facebook to gather the full dataset from respondents and also to scrape a subset of data from their Facebook friends (here it notes: «upon consent of the respondent, the GS Technology scrapes and retains the respondent's Facebook profile and a quantity of data on that respondent's Facebook friends»); step 4 involves the psychometric data from the seed sample, plus the Facebook profile data and friend data all being run through proprietary modeling algorithms — which the contract specifies are based on using Facebook likes to predict personality scores, with the stated aim of predicting the «psychological, dispositional and / or attitudinal facets of each Facebook record»; this then generates a series of scores per Facebook profile; step 6 is to match these psychometrically scored profiles with voter record data held by SCL — with the goal of matching (and thus scoring) at least 2M voter records for targeting voters across the 11 states; the final step is for matched records to be returned to SCL, which would then be in a position to craft messages to voters based on their modeled psychometric scores.
«Hack the Pentagon» is modeled after similar competitions known as «bug bounties» conducted by many large U.S. companies, including United Continental Holdings Inc (UAL.N), to discover security gaps in their networks.
Oppenheimer, the large mutual fund company, also owned some of the bonds issued by Remington, but said it sold its debt holdings last year.
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