Sentences with phrase «said his group backs»

But in the eight most competitive races identified so far, he said the group backed the Democrat because the candidate had a better record than the Republican on the issue of campaign finance reform.

Not exact matches

And civil society groups in Myanmar have hit back at Zuckerberg's claim that the company is able to use monitoring to stop hate speech messages spreading like wildfire through its services — they say such messages spread for days, leading to violence.

Capping off 2017, the company say its stock jump 3.9 % when Metro Inc. began selling back the majority of its Couche - Tard shares — about $ 1.55 billion worth — to help fund its purchase of sister drug store chain Jean Coutu Group Inc..

Cohn's departure would further set back those efforts and perhaps give the upper hand in the White House to a group of advisers seeking to scale back foreign trade, said a Wall Street executive who asked not to be named.

Backed by Star Trek actor Sir Patrick Stewart and former Labour spin - doctor Alastair Campbell, the group said it is also planning marches in Europe, to political party conferences and organising for stalls to be set up in busy town centres.

Founded only in 2008 but measured earlier this year as the third-most valuable venture capital - backed group in the world at over $ 25 billion, Airbnb also said it would help prevent its service from causing housing shortages by «ensuring hosts agree to a policy of listing only permanent homes on a short - term basis».

BMO Financial Group says it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy the fixed income broker - dealer, which specializes in the institutional investor market for U.S. mortgage - backed and asset - backed securities.

Ben Dutton, president and CEO of the Casman Group of companies, said about half of the 200 workers employed by his Fort McMurray - based general construction firm are already back in town and working on restoring heating - ventilation and other systems for commercial and industrial customers.

Property investor and developer Aspen Group says it is likely to post a half - year loss of up to $ 72 million on the back of impairments on a number of its assets.

«In addition, the group bought back a further $ 300 million of shares to return to shareholders part of the benefit realized from higher oil prices,» Pouyanne said.

«We're bouncing back,» says Orla Carroll, the director of strategic development at Failte Ireland, a Dublin tourism development group.

«As the group most impacted by the outcome of the U.K.'s exit from the European Union, a bounce back amongst these investors will very much depend on the result of on - going negotiations,» Heaton said.

The groups came back and reported their answers, Ward says, describing the difference that quickly emerged: «The men all agreed that success is winning,» he says.

A spokesman for the Iranian - backed paramilitary groups said the advance toward the Islamic State - held town of Tal Afar, about 55 km (35 miles) west of Mosul, would start within «a few days or hours».

Stephen Brudner, the founder of Merchant Services Consulting Group who helps companies find merchant payment processors, says that in February, all of a sudden, dozens of small businesses were calling him to see if he could help their business get back on a payment processors.

The Russian air raids, launched ostensibly to target Islamic State, have mostly hit other, foreign - backed rebel groups, the United States says.

While Bitcoin is often criticized because it's not backed by a physical commodity, that's not an issue for Michael Lee, an economist in the New York Fed's Research and Statistics Group, who says that neither is the dollar and most modern currencies.

Jack Ma - backed Yunfeng Financial Group said it will lead $ 1.7 billion acquisition of U.S. - based insurer MassMutual International's Asia unit

Toshiba has more leverage in its deal with a Bain - led group after moving back into positive equity territory, says Seth Fischer, CIO of Oasis Management.

U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm raised its offer to buy NXP Semiconductors to $ 127.50 per share on Tuesday, and said it has the backing of the shareholder group led by hedge fund Elliott Management that opposed its previous proposal.

«U.S. growth of 0.6 million barrels a day in 2017 beat all expectations, even with a moderate price response to the output deal as the shale industry bounced back — profiting from cost cuts, stepped up drilling activity and efficiency measures enforced during the downturn,» the group said.

U.K. luxury group Burberry Plc's (burby) shares leapt 4 % after it said that Chinese sales had started growing again (although they fell back after the market digested that its Hong Kong sales had taken a pounding).

Man Group also announced its intention to buy back up to $ 100 million of shares and said it continues to review potential acquisition opportunities.

A new report from NBC News said Mueller was scrutinizing what Trump knew about the Russian - backed campaign to hack into the Democratic National Committee in the summer of 2016, and whether Trump had any role in the radical pro-transparency group WikiLeaks» subsequent dissemination of the stolen emails.

The world's largest private equity fund, backed by Japan's SoftBank Group and Saudi Arabia's main sovereign wealth fund, said on Saturday it had raised over $ 93 billion to invest in technology sectors such as artificial intelligence and robotics.

«The NY Fed should go back to the drawing board and draw from the deep, diverse, and highly qualified list of candidates provided to it by the Fed Up coalition (as well as surveying the views of other public interest groups),» the Economic Policy Institute's Josh Bivens said in a recent statement.

«If we feel he crosses a line, we'll fire back,» said Ed Rollins, chief strategist of Great America PAC, the political arm of the group airing the Comey ad.

Yesterday, Luckey confirmed that he had made a $ 10,000 donation to the group, while seeming to walk back any support for Trump himself, saying he would be voting for Libertarian Gary Johnson.

Republicans and trade groups like the U.S. Chamber of Commerce have fought back against the measure at every turn, saying it will be too expensive, could mislead investors and is not material to a company's financial statements.

This year's show comes just as intimate apparel sales are beginning to come back following a slowdown during the recession, said Marshal Cohen, retail industry analyst with NPD Group.

Trump is likely to continue to push back against Iran's influence, particularly in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, and Yemen, Eurasia Group says.

Eshel cautioned residents in southern Lebanon, a Hezbollah stronghold, to leave their homes if a new conflict erupts, saying the Iranian - backed group uses civilian homes as «launching bases for missiles and rockets»

Mallouk, president and CIO of Creative Planning, and Carson, CEO and founder of the Carson Group, both said they would tell Trump not to roll back regulations on the Department of Labor's fiduciary rule, which says if an advisor is working with a client on a retirement plan, they need to act in the client's best interest.

Wal - Mart's critics — including a group of its workers backed by labor unions - say the retailer pays its hourly workers too little, forcing some to seek government assistance that effectively provides the company with an indirect taxpayer subsidy.

Wylie has said he «made Steve Bannon's psychological warfare tool,» referring to Trump's former chief strategist's involvement with the group, backed by the GOP megadonor Robert Mercer and his family.

Research firm NPD Group earlier this month warned much of the same would continue in 2017: it sees stalled growth and says those cutting back on restaurant visits are doing so because they think prices are too high.

Vivendi's chances of securing a board majority are fading, especially after three proxy advisors recommended backing Elliott's candidates ahead of the April vote, saying the French group had been damaging for governance and shareholder returns.

Turkish authorities have detained or dismissed more than 125,000 people - including soldiers, academics, judges, journalists and Kurdish leaders - over their alleged backing for the coup, in what opponents, rights groups and some Western allies say is an attempt to crush all dissent.

Thomson said he also discovered that the PR group was uncreative and unresponsive when faced with challenges or requests to help the campaign get back on track.

«The minute there are questions about your practices that appear in any way credible, that can be devastating to consumer trust and extremely difficult to get back,» said Shanghai - based James Roy, a senior analyst at China Market Research Group.

«In my community, there were two groups: those who didn't die, and those who came back to life,» she says in an explosively popular TED talk on desire.

«The type of hidden fees annuity investors should pay attention to are separate account [investment funds] expense ratios; back - end sales charges; annual administration fees; mortality and expense costs; any rider fees, such as guaranteed income rider, death benefit riders [and] principal protection riders, to name a few,» says financial planner Joseph Carbone of Focus Planning Group.

A senior official from one G7 nation said ministers were deeply worried about what the group saw as a pattern of Russia misbehavior going back years.

«It strikes me as a company that is trying to weather a PR storm and then get back to business as usual and hoping their users forget this ever happened,» said Nate Cardozo, a senior staff attorney for Electronic Frontier Foundation, a privacy group based in San Francisco.

On its relationship with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, the conglomerate said, «With the exception of some modest asset - backed financing provided to some of our leasing subsidiaries, where business continues as usual, HNA Group has never engaged B.A.M.L. for any significant business.»

«A lot of cash sitting idle is now getting back in,» said Tom Wynn, director of research at Spectrem Group, which conducts the Millionaire Survey for CNBC.

Although Uber faces stiff competition from Chinese market leader Didi Kuaidi, a firm valued at $ 16 billion and backed by Chinese Internet giants Alibaba Group Holding Ltd and Tencent Holdings Ltd, Kalanick said he relishes the challenge.

«They are worried that another wave of imports could throw the industry back into crisis mode,» Martin Theuringer, the managing director of the German Steel Federation, an industry group, said of European steel makers.

Kevin Sabet, co-founder of anti-legalization group Smart Approaches to Marijuana, said his group would redouble efforts to build a broader coalition to beat back better - funded pro-cannabis groups ahead of 2016.

For example, in December 2017, China Merchants Group, a state - owned firm, said it would work with China Construction Bank to issue asset - backed notes worth Rmb20 billion to be sold in the interbank market, in what would be China's largest rental housing securitization.