Sentences with phrase «of around a dollar»

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With their average annual income hovering around $ 6,000, farmers aren't a rich source of tax dollars.

I'm proud of all the work we did to turn around Reddit in the last three years, but I think about the impact I could have at one company versus the potential I could have investing in dozens of great, multibillion - dollar companies — and that's the way I want to scale my next decade.

But the recent bounce in the dollar shows that it has broken the downtrend line and is actually finding a key level of technical support around the 90.00 level.

Every dollar counts for business owners, so if you don't know where you stand on a monthly basis, you may not be around at the end of the year.

In addition to writing several best - selling books like The Road Ahead, The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has raised billions of dollars to combat infectious diseases and elevate the quality of life for impoverished nations around the globe.

-- Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, a data center backup company founded in 2006 that now employs more than 1,500 employees around the world and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, with its sights on reaching $ 1 billion in revenue in the next five years.

Aside from discussions on the Aramco IPO, were headlines of the Saudi prince eyeing billion - dollar investment deals for the U.K. Wednesday evening headlines verified the success of the trip, boasting a goal of around # 65 billion ($ 90.3 billion) of investment in the coming years.

While the uncertainty around NAFTA negotiations is likely keeping trade subdued, a lower dollar makes Canadian goods cheaper, potentially leading to greater exports and stoking a recovery in that part of the economy.

«It is not normal for people to walk around with millions of dollars of cash.

Some successful entrepreneurs today travel around the world, hang out with celebrities, buy properties, swanky cars, sports teams, and whatever their hearts desire because they earn millions (or billions) of dollars a year.

After news of the nomination, the yen was largely steady around 92.35 per dollar, while Japanese shares held onto their gains.

Marla Tabaka is a small - business adviser who helps entrepreneurs around the globe grow their businesses well into the millions of dollars.

«It's not about taking a bunch of dollar bills and spreading them around,» said Deep Nishar, SoftBank's managing director, noting that the company is looking at making similar investments in Europe and South America.

«By selling in - game bundles within the mobile game, consumers have spent around $ 6 million dollars in the game to date,» said Peter Warman, founder of Newzoo.

What a lot of businesses fail to see is that the cliche taglines come from billion - dollar companies that have been around for decades.

The investment manager referenced the rise of the dollar index in 2014 when it started at around $ 80 and rose quickly to $ 90 before hitting $ 100 in 2015.

We had millions of dollars in inventory just sitting around, hurting our bottom line.»

She noted that there was a lot of capital floating around and those getting allocations meant competing with trillion - dollar funds.

This level is above support near $ 0.93 but a rebound from $ 0.95 is consistent with the way the Dollar Index oscillates around the central midpoint of $ 0.97.

My company, Women Rocking Business, has raised over half a million dollars for women around the globe, women in the rainforest and in Indonesia, supporting them to build businesses that serve their communities and protect our ecosystems, this is something I'm deeply proud of.

«It's great to be part of a brand where everything we do is centered around the needs of the Member,» said Danny Miles, Chief Technology Officer, Dollar Shave Club.

To get around this constraint, McDonald's employs a barbell strategy for pricing — Dollar Menu items on one end of the spectrum and premium items (the McWrap, Mighty Wings) on the other.

«I couldn't be more excited about joining the Dollar Shave Club team with such a high level of growth and excitement around this industry - disrupting brand,» said Wizemann.

Failure now would put thousands of jobs and billions of dollars at risk, and SpaceX has become crucial not just to the U.S. space program but also to countries and companies around the world hoping to put up satellites.

Lewis managed to meet his goal of «one dollar more» than the previous year for all but six of his 45 years on air to date, earning around $ 60 million annually over the past decade, for a career total of nearly $ 2.5 billion.

Pavel Durav, the CEO and founder of chat app Telegram, has been building buzz around a billion - dollar «initial coin offering.»

Pro tip: Carry around lots of dollar bills, if paying by cash, to use as «extra» when going to the till so you don't break a big note.

«The acquisition of the Weather Channel is strategic, as we begin our process of investing billions of dollars over the next five years to acquire some of the best media assets around the world.»

The dollar has also long been one of the premier safe havens for investors around the world.

-- Ratmir Timashev, CEO of Veeam, a data center backup company founded in 2006 which now employs more than 1,500 employees around the world and brings in hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue, with its sights on reaching $ 1 billion in revenue in the next five years.

Brazil's currency, the real (pronounced «Hey - I»), fell as much as 30 % against the U.S. dollar in 2015, trading at around four reals to one U.S. dollar for most of the year.

The company's lone outstanding junk bond, worth $ 1.8 billion and maturing in 2025, briefly dropped two points to as low as 85 cents on the dollar for a yield of around 8 percent on Monday, according to MarketAxess data.

«The value of the Canadian dollar went up too much, too fast over the last few weeks,» Luc Vallée, chief strategist at Laurentian Bank Securities, said on July 17, when the exchange rate was around 78 U.S. cents.

The report points out that, although 68 % of billionaires hold at least a four - year degree, a sheepskin «is not a prerequisite to then go on and amass a billion - dollar fortune,» since one in three billionaires either never went to college at all or didn't stick around to finish.

Even though FanDuel has been around since 2009 and DraftKings launched in 2012, the regulatory scrutiny did not explode until this year, sparked both by the companies» aggressive advertising assault and by a September scandal around a DraftKings employee winning hundreds of thousands of dollars in a FanDuel contest.

China's central bank has issued Alipay a fine of around $ 28,500 US dollars for violating rules in three main aspects: failing to protect consumers» rights, improperly gathering and using personal data, and for misleading product promotion.

In 2007, the board of Goldman Sachs awarded its CEO, Lloyd Blankfein, a pay package of around $ 70 million dollars.

The cost of a telemedicine call is usually around $ 25 to $ 30 and can be covered with FSA or HSA dollars if it's not covered by insurance.

Revenues should come in at around $ 290 million — $ 168 million in box office dollars and $ 87 million in concession purchases (and $ 34 million of «other»)-- which would be a 24.4 % increase over Q1 2013, he says.

No more waiting around till your company hits the multimillion - dollar mark - now bonds are for businesses of all sizes.

He predicts that because of lower energy prices, our dollar will fall to around $ 0.90 next year.

Lemonis, the chairman and CEO of the billion - dollar recreational vehicle supplier Camping World, is not always able to turn around the companies he invests in, however.

Pepsi, Kraft, Coca - Cola, Tyson Foods and McDonald's are Fortune 500 companies that form the backbone of an industry that is worth nearly $ 5 trillion dollars, or around 10 % of global economic output.

«I went from just me in this business doing around three - to - five thousand dollars in sales per month and now, four years later, we're a team of 11 and we're doing well over $ 200,000 in sales per month,» Grant says.

The firm they're suing: Morrison & Foerster, which was ranked # 31 in the annual list of the world's most successful law firms by American Lawyer, with nearly a billion dollars in annual revenue and more than 1,000 lawyers around the world.

The dollar index, which compares it to a basket of global currencies, was down around 10 percent last year after several years of gains as the U.S. economy improved following the global economic crash.

Thanks to a burgeoning scene of business incubators in countries around the world — as well as a growing awareness that consumers outside the U.S. make up a potentially huge market — international startups are increasingly attracting millions of investor dollars from the Bay Area and beyond.

«Taking a focused look at clarifying the regulatory environment around online lending, reducing some of the burdens of regulation on small and community banks, and reducing the burdens on community banks so they can go back to making more small - dollar loans is a good thing,» she says.

The New Zealand dollar rose around 0.5 % after Wheeler effectively reiterated the 90 - day bank bill track — widely considered a proxy for interest rates — which was published in August and pointed to around 35 basis points of further easing.

While shoppers can easily enter Tiffany's store through its 57th Street entrance, the heavy security around Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue a block away has lowered visits by shoppers, many of whom are tourists from Europe and China who are already staying away from Fifth Avenue's luxury stores because of a strong U.S. dollar.