Sentences with phrase «of large purchases in»

I made a couple of large purchases in the Retirement portfolio over the past quarter to boost my November income.

I made a couple of large purchases in May for both of my portfolio so my forward income got a nice boost.

Along with supermarkets, cars and car culture begat a whole new range of places where a person could buy a cup of coffee; gas stations, roadside snack bars, diners, motels, and campgrounds all introduced the now normal practice of offering coffee, sometimes for sale and sometimes as part of a larger purchase in all sorts of places.

Not exact matches

Constellation Brands, the owner of Corona and a large number of wine and spirits labels, purchased a 9.9 per cent stake in Canopy Growth Corp. for $ 245 million this week.

But he has a «pattern» of using shell companies to purchase homes «in all - cash deals,» as WNYC has reported, and then transferring those properties into his name for no money and taking out large mortgages against them.

Investing for a future large purchase, your retirement, or to simply build your wealth is a smart financial decision, but factors such as lack of general knowledge and high costs of investing often deter people from jumping in the investment world.

The positive economic data, which included the release of better - than - expected purchasing managers» index (PMI) readings last Wednesday, and a large current account surplus in some euro zone economies, have given confidence to investors to buy euros.

«We expect the ECB to continue net asset purchases until around the third quarter of 2018, while the Fed will likely begin reducing its stock of quantitative easing assets early in 2018... These opposite moves mean that the ECB's balance sheet could be around 20 percent larger than the Fed's by around end - 2018, assuming constant FX rates,» he noted.

Three days later this week, in China, news surfaced that the country has removed from a central government purchase list some of the largest U.S tech firms implicated in the very affairs revealed by Snowden, including most notably Cisco Sistems (CSCO), but also Apple Inc (AAPL), Citrix Systems (CSTX), and Intel's (INTC) McAfee security business.

Linden Lab operates the virtual world called Second Life... Bolstering its rep for brash - to - the - point - of - crazy dealmaking, AOL purchased Bebo, the third - largest social network in the U.S., for $ 850 million.

Consider Putzmeister, a cement - pump maker in southern Germany, that was purchased last year by China's Sany Group, one of the world's largest heavy - equipment manufacturers.

In Oval Office talks, Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman discussed an agreement last year for $ 200 billion worth of Saudi investments with the United States, including large purchases of U.S. military equipment.

But it doesn't take a new homeowner long to discover just how large that premium can be in money and time: the constant outlays on maintenance and repairs (at least 1 % of the purchase price per year, experts estimate, and as much as 4 %), the chores and DIY projects that eat up weekends, the pressure to keep up with the ever - gentrifying Joneses.

«In contrast, I disagree with the notion that the large quantity of reserves resulting from our asset purchases poses some special barrier to removing policy stimulus when the right time comes.

Satterley Property Group will build its largest residential estate in Victoria after purchasing 214 hectares of land in a deal believed to be worth $ 100 million.

Amazon's purchase of Whole Foods is their biggest deal to date, and is 14 times as big as their second - largest acquisition of Twitch in 2014.

Smartphones are used namely as a research tool to help in purchasing things later online or when they actually go to the store, and tablets are sort of in that middle ground, because they provide the mobile experience but on a larger screen, which is appealing to many consumers.»

Recent reports that China's large state - owned oil companies are considering an outright purchase of 5 percent of Saudi Aramco, a move that Saudi Arabia is rumored to be considering in lieu of the Aramco IPO, should be seen in this context.

The company achieves this in large part by beginning the design of every product with a low price in mind, and by building its furniture using low - cost medium - density fiberboard (MDF), which the company purchases in large volumes.

In 1994, St. Jude, under pressure to diversify, completed a $ 500 million deal with Siemens to purchase Pacesetter, then the world's second - largest producer of pacemakers.

A large portion of the spread compression happened in reaction to two events: the Fed's decision to begin winding down its large - scale asset - purchase program known as quantitative easing on Dec. 18, and Janet Yellen's first meeting as Fed chair on March 19, which coincided with the release of forecasts by Fed officials who anticipated earlier rate hikes than before.

«In lieu of making a large purchase and consuming debt, he started with a two - passenger plane.

«It has more [monetization] than we expected; as users build their Pokémon inventory, spending money becomes needed to store, train, hatch and battle,» Macquarie Securities said in a note to clients, adding that purchases so far in Australia were not being driven by big spenders but by a large number of users.

The prior year, there were eight big deals, including Avago's $ 37 billion purchase of Broadcom, which at the time was the largest tech deal ever, until it was surpassed later in the year by Dell's $ 67 billion acquisition of EMC.

In June, Icahn presented the board with a counteroffer that would value shares at $ 14 and informed the board that he had purchased 72 million shares of Dell Inc. stock from Southeastern Asset management, the PC manufacturer's largest outside shareholder.

Most agree that a foreign - owned mobile provider should be able to grow a purchased Canadian company to larger than 10 % of the total market (61 %), and 4 - in - 10 agree strongly (39 %).

«It's this massive purchase, in many cases, the largest purchase of your life at that point, and it's something that you know nothing about,» he said.

Canada's fifth - largest lender said Thursday it continues to see benefits from the purchase of Chicago - based The PrivateBank, which CIBC acquired in June 2017 and rebranded in September as CIBC Bank USA.

In the early days of Amy's Kitchen, founder Andy Berliner got a few calls a year from large companies looking to purchase the budding maker of natural frozen foods.

There were only 12 public deals last year, for a total value of $ 50 billion, Yee wrote in a research note last week — and a large portion of that was made up of J&J's $ 30 billion purchase of Swiss biotech Actelion.

This is just another indication of Asia's growing affection for whisky (Singapore is now the world's largest consumer of Scotch and last week, news broke that Japanese drink group Suntory, of Lost in Translation fame, will purchase American Whiskey distillery Jim Beam for $ 16 billion.)

After large movie theater chains, like AMC (AMC.N) and Regal Entertainment (RGC.N), refused to screen the comedy following threats of violence from hackers who opposed the film, Sony stitched together a limited release in theaters and a $ 5.99 video - on - demand (VOD) rental and $ 14.99 purchase option on YouTube Movies, Google Play (GOOGL.O), Microsoft Xbox Video (MSFT.O) and a dedicated site starting Dec. 24.

In contrast, a business line of credit typically is used for several large purchases, spread out over time.

If you're in the market for a bunch of new appliances or other big - ticket items, it's common for consumers to walk into a retailer and be offered a discount and a good financing deal on a large purchase, if they open a charge or credit card account with that retailer.

The most recent batch of data from the American Apparel & Footwear Association suggests a large swath of U.S. consumers is opting for quality over quantity: in 2011, Americans spent 4.9 % more on apparel, while the number of items purchased dropped 5.3 %.

Today China's economy is already larger than the U.S. in terms of purchasing power parity.

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).

Camber Capital Management, a hedge fund with an activist history, has purchased 5.7 million shares of Tenet Healthcare Corp., or a 5.7 % stake in the money - losing hospital chain.The emergence of Camber was disclosed Monday, just three days after Tenet's largest shareholder, Glenview Capital Management, resigned two Tenet board seats, citing irreconcilable differences with management and the board.Glenview Capital, which owns an 18 % stake in Tenet, gave notice Friday that it would no longer participate in a stand - still agreement that had prevented it from launching a proxy fight for control of the company.Tenet investors welcomed the Camber disclosure Monday, driving up Tenet's stock price to $ 2.18, or 15 %, to $ 16.63 as of 12:30 p.m. ET.Tenet is the nation's third - largest investor - owned

Automobile companies, meanwhile, are not unlike CPG companies: they operate a «house of brands» to serve different demographics while benefitting from scale in production and distribution; the primary difference is that they make money through one large purchase instead of over many smaller purchases over time.

Pasquale said the Obama administration failed to realize the significance of two of Facebook's largest purchases: the photo - sharing app Instagram for $ 1 billion in 2012 and WhatsApp two years later for nearly $ 22 billion.

It is the country's fourth - largest seller of smartphones, with a 12 % share — despite its inclusion in a report from America's House Intelligence Committee in 2012 that urged domestic telecoms firms purchasing networking equipment to shun its products over espionage worries.

The CPM Group anticipates palladium demand to reach an all - time high this year, up 3 percent from last year, on tightened emissions standards and the purchase of larger cars and trucks in the U.S. on lower fuel costs.

During this period, the Federal Reserve tried to support employment by cutting its federal funds rate target nearly to zero; by creating a number of special liquidity facilities to support the extension of credit; and by engaging in a large scale asset purchase program, buying Treasuries, agency debt and agency mortgage - backed securities.

The Federal Reserve Bank of New York was directed in late 2008 to implement large - scale purchases of agency mortgage - backed securities (MBS).

The company merged with hybris Software in 2011 to become one of the largest providers of e-commerce solutions worldwide and was subsequently purchased by SAP in 2013.

The largest green power purchase program in the US, a sustainable public transit expansion and a low - energy LED overhaul of city - wide street lighting.

Home inspection is a professional consulting business that allows inspectors to work in the field, providing key information at a critical time for consumers who are making one of the largest purchases of their life.

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.

A surge in acquisitions by large Chinese companies in recent years has increased worries that several of them, which rely on borrowed money for their large purchases, could pose a risk to the banks that lend to them.

Neiderman then admitted that Silent Circle, in anticipation of fulfilling the large purchase orders, had to take out loans to purchase the inventory and materials ahead of time.