Sentences with phrase «on their stake in»

But Jana sure had good timing, and now they're poised to make about $ 300 million on a stake in Whole Foods (wfm) they had only disclosed in April, Reuters reports.

His net worth, solely based on his stakes in Apple and Disney, is about $ 5 billion.

Some of Pershing's challenges over the past three years included a $ 4 billion loss on its stake in Valeant Pharmaceuticals.

He is also a multibillionaire, based on his stake in the company.

The sons were already dead, but sometimes criminals, after they were executed, were impaled on stakes in public places as reminders and examples, as visual warnings of what happens to those who disobey or displease the king, or just to further humiliate them and their families (cf. 2 Sam 21:12).

It's no more news worthy than George W. Bush's head being impaled on a stake in Game of Thrones

But it was an unsavoury affair that shone a light on the stakes in trading for young stars.

Those people are as investors as anyone else, and yes, depending on their stake in the company, they can influence its decisions.

Despite their charge on their stake in GWO's big losses they still made 141 million in Q4 selling financial products in this market so I think they are doing something right.

Instead, Ethereum will reward miners based on their stakes in the network.

Not exact matches

''... Because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it.»

His new fund comes on the heels of the news that he sold 29 % (worth about $ 1.4 billion) of his stake in Uber.

Shares in South Perth - based Noble Mineral Resources have surged more than 37 per cent on news Chinese group Zhongrun is to invest $ 87.7 million and take a 42 per cent stake in the company.

Tencent lost more than $ 51 billion in market value in two days last week on news of largest shareholder Nasper Inc's 2 percent stake reduction for $ 9.8 billion, and also management's warning of margin pressure.

Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump obviously have a lot at stake in the first presidential debate on Monday night, but it's clear so does Lester Holt.

BENGALURU / MUMBAI, May 2 - Amazon.com Inc has made a formal offer to buy a 60 percent stake in Flipkart, CNBC - TV18 reported on Wednesday, threatening to complicate Walmart Inc's bid to buy a majority stake in the Indian online retailer.

ATHENS, April 19 - Greece has accepted a 535 million euro offer from a consortium led by Italy's Snam for a majority stake in gas grid operator DESFA, naming it the «preferred investor,» its privatization agency said on Thursday.

May 2 (Reuters)- Amazon.com Inc has made a formal offer to buy a 60 percent stake in Indian online retailer Flipkart , CNBC - TV18 reported on Wednesday, citing sources.

Trump's name shows up in filings of less than 14 % of all companies, but the stakes are much higher for firms that have bet on the federal government taking a hands - off approach to marijuana policy.

Canadian pre-tax profits were US$ 9.1 million, down from US$ 20.9 million the prior year quarter when it gained US$ 8.1 million from a price adjustment on the sale of its stake in the Montreal Canadiens.

«Oddly because we can't hold public stock as a fund, it's sort of a bummer for me when the company goes public, because then it moves on to someone else's plate and we don't hold the stake in it,» he added.

«Now that we know which traits to look for, we can begin to make progress on how to best assess them in high - stakes settings such as hiring and promotion, where people are more inclined to hide the darker sides of their character,» she told The Huffington Post.

The White House opioid group laid out the dire stakes early on in an interim report released Monday.

Google also has a high - stakes courtroom battle on its docket, following an appeals court decision last month reviving Oracle's copyright claim against Google's use of the Java language in Android's operating system.

Elliott Advisors now has over a 6 percent stake in FTSE 100 - listed Whitbread, the hedge fund said in a statement on Saturday.

If you need evidence of this fact, consider China's massive state mining operations and stake in Bitcoin, undeniably viewed as a tool for leverage on a global scale.

From a purely financial point of view, there may have been companies and investors who were willing to buy a stake in Gawker before Peter Thiel's involvement became public on the assumption that it might win the Hogan case on appeal or that damages might be reduced.

OPINION: Wesfarmers has received some positive news on its move into UK hardware, but things are less rosy for investors in the local property trust in which it holds a major stake.

After all, you're the one in charge, who is staking your reputation on the success of the venture.

The most important advantage is diversification, which decreases the risk inherent in staking your company's success on just one product.

Earlier on Thursday, The Wall Street Journal reported that Pershing Square CEO Bill Ackman had exited the stake he acquired in the fourth quarter after earning about $ 100 million.

CNBC's Morgan Brennan reports on a statement from Elliot Management announcing a 6 % stake in Akamai.

Rio Tinto is reportedly reassessing its mining activities (in addition to its Diavik stake, its diamond assets include Australia's Argyle mine, the Murowa mine in Zimbabwe, and Bunder, an advanced project in India) and is expected to make a decision on them by the end of the year.

Spokesman Frank Shaw likens the deal to Microsoft's $ 240 million investment for a 1.6 % stake in Facebook in 2007 — now worth roughly $ 1.3 billion based on reports that put Facebook's value at about $ 80 billion.

The forthcoming film Molly's Game, which stars Jessica Chastain and arrives in theaters on Christmas Day, takes moviegoers on a high - stakes trip through the world of underground poker.

An associate of Sechin's, the dossier claims, «said that the Rosneft President was so keen to lift personal and corporate Western sanctions imposed on the company, that he offered Page and his associates the brokerage of up to a 19 percent (privatised) stake in Rosneft.»

Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A) owns a 10 % stake in electric automaker BYD, which is down by around 28 % on Friday.

In June 2010, it sold a 10 % stake directly to Toronto activist hedge fund, West Face Capital Inc., notorious for cracking the whip on troubled companies.

Around 90 % of all viruses that target mobile phones focus on Android, and that is an opportunity — especially given that the stakes for malfunctioning software are higher in cars than on smartphones.

On Wednesday, the board announced it had purchased a 15 per cent stake in ORPEA S.A., a long - term care provider in Europe, for approximately $ 468.2 million.

It asks those taking it to rate how likely it is that they would engage in a list of risky behaviors, such as wagering a day's income on a high - stakes poker game, choosing a ski run that's beyond their abilities, or driving without a seatbelt.

Based on this, Forbes concluded that Holmes» 50 percent stake in Theranos is worth nothing.

Several Democratic senators pressed billionaire investor Carl Icahn on Monday to clarify his role as an adviser to President Donald Trump, saying his position in the administration raised «alarming» questions about potential conflicts of interest with his stakes in the biofuels and pharmaceutical industries.

When the news broke late on Wednesday in Moscow, Russian and western media trumpeted it as the energy deal of the year: Glencore (glncy), the world's biggest commodities house, and the Qatar Investment Authority had agreed to buy a 19.5 % stake in Rosneft, Russia's national oil champion, for 10.5 billion euros ($ 11.1 billion).

One obstacle in Spotify's negotiations is over the share of revenue the service has to pass on record companies — some of which also own minority stakes in Spotify — and their musical acts.

Clark has staked her political legacy on the success of the LNG industry, which she has cast as a once - in - a-generation opportunity on the same level of the moon landing.

«Dataminr feeds are like table stakes right now: Most hedge funds need to have it,» says Santo Politi, a founder of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that was an early backer of Twitter and has a majority stake in a two - year - old hedge fund, Tashtego, that trades on signals from social media and other nontraditional data.

DS writes: If the Etsy founders held on to a larger stake in the company, Etsy's foray into B Corp. may have turned out different.

But then, in 2010, he abruptly sold his stake and moved to a little farm on the Lebanese border, where he opened a tiny catering company.

With an early success on its hands, Econet is staking much of its future growth in Zimbabwe — and other African countries in which it does business including Nigeria, South Africa, and Botswana — on non-voice revenues that come from programs like EcoCash.