Sentences with phrase «of dollars of profits»

Joseph's letter wondered why the Competition Bureau doesn't go after the oil industry that rakes in billions of dollars of profits and negatively impact the lives of every Canadian.

These same companies have made hundreds of billions of dollars of profits from selling oil, gas, and coal — knowing (since at least the 1960s) that these products would cause serious climate impacts.

Thus far fossil fuel companies have been able to reap billions of dollars of profits from their fossil fuel sales, all the while banking on the assumption that taxpayers and victims of climate change will pay the price.

plausible «conspiracy theory»: that fossil energy companies, driven by the need to protect hundreds of billions of dollars of profits, encourage obfuscation of the inconvenient scientific results... Challenging vested interests as powerful as the oil and coal lobbies was never going to be easy... Scientists are not naturally aggressive defenders of arguments... The skeptics are far, far more determined and expert propagandists to boot.

«Oil, coal and gas companies that extract fossil fuels from the ground sell it for trillions of dollars of profits a year, and essentially outsource the true cost of their products onto the poor people who face climate change loss and damage,» she says.

A look at their financial statements in the 2009 to 2012 period shows they cumulatively reported billions of dollars of profits from «securitization» at a time when there was no private sector securitization to speak of.

For the first time in more than 75 years, the electricity and oil sectors are opening up to private investors, introducing competition to its energy - producing stalwarts, putting billions of dollars of profits and tax revenue into play.

Joseph Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy's father, sold his stocks before the 1929 stock market crash and kept millions of dollars of profit.

How to make hundreds of dollars of profit each day as a skilled day trader, using your own trading system — no matter if the market is up or down!

Given the many millions of dollars of profit that are lost when books, movies and music are stolen online, a bill to stop that sounds like great idea... but many tech companies (like Wikipedia and Google) believe that these particular laws are too broad and that enforcing them would constitute Internet censorship and violate the First Amendment.

Google doesn't makes tens of billions of dollars of profit each year because it can sell software well or even make software well.

Only with a call to action will potential customers be able to reach out to you with their leads that you can then turn into thousands of dollars of profit!

Not exact matches

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.

From gold to gas to S&P, the «Futures Now» crew will teach you how to harness the power of the multi-trillion dollar futures market, and turn today's events into tomorrow's profits.

«If I did a remarkable job, I would add a couple million dollars to the bottom line of a company that's throwing off billions a quarter in profit,» he remembers thinking.

Operating profit fell 8 percent to 12.4 billion Danish crowns ($ 2.00 billion) in the January to March quarter compared with a year ago, hit by the depreciation of the U.S. dollar, but beat an average 11.8 billion crown forecast in a Reuters poll of analysts.

Operating profit fell 8 percent to 12.4 billion Danish crowns ($ 2.00 billion) in the January to March quarter compared with a year ago, hit by the depreciation of the U.S. dollar.

The show that once made billions of dollars in profits will actually lose money in its current 13th season, multiple sources connected with the show tell TMZ.

Now, with a majority interest in Skype slated to be sold to a collection of private investors, they're using their stake in Joltid to try to block the sale and recover millions of dollars in what they say are lost profits.

It's possible to imagine Estonia's idea becoming a multibillion - dollar business in the years ahead — turning the whole view of government as a bureaucracy offering public services into an entity generating profits.

Although many of the companies going public lack profits — Twitter and Box, as just two recent examples, reported hundreds of millions of dollars worth of losses in their Securities and Exchange Commission filings — they are a far cry from many of the hollow IPOs of the 1990s, experts say.

Apple under Cook has doubled its revenues to $ 200 billion while doubling profit and tripling the amount of cash it has in the bank (now a quarter of trillion dollars).

Torrone thinks you could spend thousands of dollars on parts and build a device less powerful than Kinect, and suggests that Microsoft almost certainly subsidizes the $ 149 cost of the unit, hoping to profit via game sales.

Oil fell Tuesday as a stronger dollar prompted investors to take profits from a two - week rally ahead of weekly data that analysts have forecast will indicate an uptick crude inventories.

But the wealth generated by oil far outstrips the wealth of alternatives, and until that profit flow reverses then the status quo in the U.S. will pursue Oil and Empire until the U.S. economy and dollar implode.

Mineral sands miner Iluka Resources has lifted its first - half profit by 74 per cent, to $ 20.4 million, on the back of a weaker Australian dollar.

With the help of statistics PhDs, we applied complex statistical models to customer data to identify small tweaks in marketing campaigns — to the tune of millions of dollars of incremental profits.

The dollar weakened by 8.5 percent in 2017, creating a tailwind for the technology sector and certain multinational companies that should benefit from lower tax rates on the repatriation of foreign profits.

For large institutional traders, transactions a few milliseconds faster can mean millions of extra dollars in profit each year.

And, Time Warner (twx) is also likely to post a dip in profit, as the company contends with a strong U.S. dollar amid activist pressure to spin - off HBO and the return of Fox takeover rumors.

Measure the increase or decrease in the volume of services you sell and the total gross profit dollars you generate.

Regulators alleged that divisional managers at investment firm Credit Suisse First Boston participated in a «pervasive» scheme to siphon tens of millions of dollars of their customers» trading profits during the Internet boom of 1999 and early 2000 by demanding excessive trading fees.

Apple (aapl) saves billions of dollars in taxes through subsidiaries in Ireland, where it declares much of its overseas profit.

That's a lot of money, but the real reason for the Facebook brouhaha is the valuation: $ 15 billion dollars for a company that has revenues estimated at $ 150 million, profits of approximately $ 30 million, a flip - flop wearing 23 year old of a CEO.

I've heard of a small company that missed its profit - sharing trigger by just a few thousand dollars due to an employee who was stealing merchandise; as a result, the company didn't give out bonuses and ended up with a very bitter staff.

For Schultz, though, doing the right thing for its own sake — which these days costs a quarter - billion dollars annually in health insurance premiums — wasn't inconsistent with the corporate mission of turning a profit.

Though it is rare, if not unheard - of, for a charitable foundation to donate tax - advantaged dollars to for - profit companies, the Thiel Foundation is no ordinary charity.

Generating millions of dollars in revenue each month was the only way to turn a profit.

COPENHAGEN, Feb 1 - Novo Nordisk operating profit fell short of expectations in the fourth quarter as it felt the effects of price pressure in the United States and it warned that a weak dollar would hit earnings this year more than expected.

Couche - Tard, which keeps its books in U.S. dollars, reported a profit of US$ 146.4 million in its latest quarter, or 77 cents per diluted share for the 12 weeks ended April 28 compared with a profit of $ 117.8 million or 65 cents per share a year ago.

The letter made several allegations of fraud at Silvercorp — most importantly, that its reported profit of US$ 66 million in 2010 was a lie and it had instead lost half a million dollars, plus that its reserve estimates were exaggerated.

(Updates prices, market activity and comments to U.S. market open, new byline, changes dateline, previous LONDON) NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters)- The U.S. dollar was little changed in choppy trading on Thursday as investors took profits from a rally that sent the greenback to its highest levels of the year and awaited Fridays payrolls data for April.

Now that Facebook is finally several dollars north of its May 2012 IPO price, investors are seeing profits.

The impact of a stronger U.S. dollar is expected to weigh on profit growth as it drives up the cost of doing business overseas.

Dupont, which receives 60 % of its sales from outside the United States, said it expects a strong dollar to reduce its 2015 profit by 80 cents per share, higher than its earlier forecast of 60 cents.

He argued the drug companies spent millions of dollars to promote the drugs for profit while denying or trivializing their potential addictive qualities.

German lighting group Osram Licht sank 17.1 percent to a 16 - month low after cutting its profit guidance because of slower trading and a weak dollar.

As for your disrespect on display towards «a profit motive», I take it part of your philosophy was receiving a salary that barely met your basic needs for a spartan living and not a dollar more, right?

When your entire paychecks derive from other peoples» work, and the government is always standing in the shadows, ready to bail out your profits with the tax dollars of actual workers, you're not a «risk taker» — you're a parasite!

These companies will one day need real earnings and real profits, and if the company does not proactively address this, you should not be giving them millions of dollars in late stage financings.