Sentences with phrase «last dollar makes»

You may find a better deal by shopping around, and when money is tight, every last dollar makes a difference.

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We should naturally be skeptical of any deal that sees taxpayer dollars go to a firm that made over $ 2 billion in profit just last quarter.

Over the last five years, Catamaran has grown from an $ 80 million revenue business into a $ 9 billion dollar revenue generating company and he expects it to make $ 16 billion by the end of next year.

Teachers Pay Teachers Last year, TeachersPayTeachers.com (TpT) made headlines when a teacher earned a million dollars selling her lesson plans through the website.

Last year alone, the Caisse injected half a billion dollars into Quebec businesses making global acquisitions.

He said the company failed to properly pay his taxes on his behalf, made unauthorised loans, and overpaid for «security and other services,» costing him «tens of millions of dollars» and leading to financial trouble, of which he claims to have only become aware of in March of last year.

«It's getting to a level, actually slightly above a level, that it reached last fall just as the dollar was starting to finish off its little bit of a rally here and then rolled back over and made new lows,» said Maley.

In the last couple of months, oil has tended to move inversely to the dollar, as weakness in the currency makes it cheaper for non-U.S. investors in crude to buy and vice versa.

Fennell said that the U.S. dollar's appreciation against the euro in the last few months has also made Europe a good buying opportunity.

Consider Dollar General, whichoperates 8,700 stores in the United States and announced its third - quarter results on the same day last month that Dollarama made its first quarterly report since going public.

He estimates that private equity firms have made more than $ 2 billion dollars in transaction fees over the last 10 years without being properly registered as broker dealers.

Europe's technology sector has made «a lot of progress» in the last five years, says Clif Marriott of the Technology, Media and Telecom group in Goldman Sachs» Investment Banking Division, evidenced by the increasing number of unicorns — private companies valued at over one billion dollars — in the European tech scene, the homecoming of the continent's top talent and the high number of successful IPOs of European companies.

• The $ 702 million worth of bonds that WeWork sold last week have dropped in price to as low as 95.25 cents on the dollar, which may make future borrowing harder.

Also, the awareness that astronomical gains don't continue forever doesn't mean that bitcoin won't last as a digital currency and as an alternative to using dollars and other currencies to make purchases.

Mobile advertising represented just over half of all Facebook's marketing dollars in the last quarter of 2013, and for the same period in 2014, analysts expect mobile ads to make up at least two - thirds of all ad revenue, making Facebook primarily a mobile ad company.

The declining value of the dollar last year, which makes American products cheaper to buy overseas, also helped to lift exports, but not enough to prevent the gap from widening.

Even RBC made 594 million Canadian dollars trading equities last year.

China outstripped Australia as New Zealand's largest trading partner last year thanks to dairy exports, whereby milk powder made up for approximately 40 % of Chinese imports.1 Furthermore, a mutual agreement now makes direct Chinese Yuan - New Zealand Dollar trading possible.

Relative to Q2 last year, the greenback is roughly 20 % stronger across the board; this means that foreign sales at many of the large, multinational firms that make up the index are worth «less» when translated back into U.S. dollars.

Of course, the big brands are spending millions of dollars to get their short lived moments of fame with the hope of making a lasting impression, earning loyal brand evangelists and inspiring people to talk about them, share their message and become a viral hit sensation.

Partly because the strong dollar has made it easier for foreign companies to lower prices in the United States, auto makers increased their rebates and discounted lease deals last year.

I am convinced the Euro has been riding high these last few years due to currency manipulators and a few key players who had enough green backs to short the dollar, prop up the Euro, and make a ton of money in the process (George Soros comes to mind).

But the two sources said he made the request in a call initiated by VA Press Secretary Curt Cashour on Feb. 15, the day after the release of an inspector general's report that concluded Shulkin had misused taxpayer dollars during a European trip last year.

In making their decision, the BOJ is likely to consider its impact upon the market as well as price expectations; it will ask whether a boost to dollar - yen and the Nikkei that would accompany additional monetary stimulus would last long enough to justify the increasing costs and risks of easing; each of the above strategies is associated with both.

A combination of bad economic news from Germany, hawkish comments from key Federal Reserve committee members that appeared to contravene Janet Yellen's doctrine, and the continued bullish endeavours of the markets ensured that the dollar started this week in a very similar position to last, as demonstrated by the chart (from IG's global forex trading system) that shows AUD, GBP and EUR retracing gains made on Wednesday October 8 by Sunday 12..

«We are convinced that «quant» funds», which have attracted hundreds of billions of dollars in the last few years and a significant portion of which use leverage, and whose models and various strategies are largely based on price action and correlations extracted from the reasonably - recent past when volatility has been low (largely of their own making), have contributed mightily to the illusion that market risk is low.

Now thousands of years later we have lawyers making a killing off divorce, unequal child support and alimony laws, weddings costing hundreds of thousands of dollars that if lucky will last five years.

We had 8 years of the last bible beating nitwit, George W., who got us involved in a trillion dollar war based on a lie and his goofy belief that Gog and Magog, a couple of make believe biblical bad guys, were loose in the Middle East and had to be stopped (Google Bush, Gog and Magog).

Christian doctrine has become a tool of speakers to get financial gain For their profession and to buy people for thsir trade.We have a proof that so many millions of dollars spent in India Bangalore have made people miserable because last stage of fake Christians are worst.

Although that might seem like a minor concern in the full spectrum of apple sauce production, it is that «last mile» to the consumer that can make this a half - million - dollar question.

Last Saturday seemed to be the perfect day to make silver dollar pancakes.

I took all the decorating classes and love to decorate cakes, so when I got layed off my job last year I wanted to open my own cake shop, and its not as easy as you think at least were i live in pa you have to contact the health dept plus you have to make sure your house is zoned commerical contact your local borough office if your not you will have to have a hearing and it cost about 300 dollars for that, plus i couldn't have the bake shop in my house unless i had a separate kitchen for the bake shop, and one for my family plus no pets aloud, i am lucky enough that i have a rental house next to mine that i'm turning into a bakeshop but i have to turn it into a business, i've been working with the small business assoc. and the health dept plus there are permits i need, electric has to be updated and new lighting, plus the plummer has to do alot because i have to have a 3 bay sink and a grease trap, gas lines need to be ran for the oven,

However, I recently tried to make this recipe again (2 times actually) in the last month and I can not seem to get the consistency for the «round» doughnut holes... instead they looked like silver dollars.

, so at the last minute I made a desperate cake carrier purchase at the dollar store.

Strong Yellow Tail sales growth in the United States meant Casella could post profits even when most of its large rivals struggled during the last decade but the family business no longer makes money selling wine in the US due to the strong dollar.

Steve Lohr, who helped his father, Jerry — the «J» in J. Lohr — plant the family vineyards when he was 10 years old, speaks proudly of his dad's decision to leave the oak trees on the vast tracts of property that make up J. Lohr Vineyards, rather than squeezing every last dollar from the ground.

The day is heating up as the riders make their way along the Last Chance - Deadwood Trail, over which millions of dollars in gold were once packed out by mule trains.

29.79 to 1 Ratio of career dollars fined ($ 185,500) to career points scored (6,225) for the Chicago Bulls» Dennis Rodman after he was zapped for $ 50,000 last week for disparaging remarks he made about Mormons.

Barry Jackson of The Miami Herald notes that the best backup quarterbacks, such as Kyle Orton, are paid handsomely, as Orton made over $ 3 million dollars last season while serving as Tony Romo's backup.

UC has made a «half a billion dollar commitment» to athletes over the last decade.

I also must take issue with you over another point you made i.e. the club has indeed developed a 4th place mentality slowly (at first) over the last 10 years and it is become ever more obvious that Stan is happy with that while charging the fans top dollar.

Likewise, when he chartered an Aerolineas Argentinas Boeing 747 and flew a few hundred friends from Rome to Buenos Aires for his million - dollar wedding last November in that inflation - wracked country, it made the gossip sheets everywhere.

I do not understand the economics of the business well enough and there always seems to be contradictory reports about everything (dollars, skills, scheme fit etc.) From my admittedly naive, fan - based vantage point, we needed to strengthen the offensive line and the linebacker corp, add some punch to the running game (while keeping an eye on the draft for a fleet - footed youngster), and bring some leadership to a clubhouse that was akin to Animal House last year (of course, winning makes grown ups out of everyone).

I'm a firm believer in the fact that social media can make me anyone I want to be, so you better believe I'm going to throw a Pinterest - worthy party with no visual evidence of any last minute dollar store purchases.

So as much as I agree it's what you do as a family on a family vacation — beaches turks and caicos makes it easy on the parents to make the vacations the best and I feel it is worth every dollar, the memories we have will last forever.

Made from recycled materials such as dollar bills, flax fiber or wood, these toothbrushes also last much longer than the average toothbrush.

They won't tell you about humongous amounts of money made from oil, which stood at over $ 100 dollars per barrel for about six years, and which they looted to the last cent.

In that state those in the state government like this only make a few HUNDRED dollars a year the last I checked.

It's also the date for an $ 8 billion bailout of some upstate nuclear power plants to begin, and more than 80 local government leaders are making a last - ditch effort to stop a plan that they say will cost electric utility ratepayers billions of dollars.

Elected officials joined in Manhattan Sunday with advocacy group Riders Alliance and Metropolitan Transportation Authority board member Allen Cappelli over the weekend with their eyes on the new state dollars made possible through the 2013 - 14 budget passed last month, which included an increase of more than $ 358 million for transit.