Sentences with phrase «spent big the year»

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It's a big win for Hong Kong Exchanges & Clearing Ltd., whose officials spent years pushing to scrap a ban on weighted - voting rights, which give founders and executives control even with minority ownership.

The five biggest insurance companies in the U.S. spent around $ 3 billion on advertising last year, which of course got passed on to customers.

Big commodities players, hit hard by falling prices in recent years, are also eagerly awaiting Belt and Road, since so much of the early spending will flow toward raw materials.

MUMBAI, April 19 - India's Tata Consultancy Services Ltd expects a rebound in spending by its key banking, financial services and insurance clients this financial year, it said on Monday, as it posted its biggest - ever profit, helped by deal wins.

A tax hike in Western Australia stands to lower the value of a massive gold deposit and further drive apart its owners: the world's biggest producers of the metal who have spent the last two years debating what the mine is worth.

If your goal is to be a homeowner in five years or to purchase a car next year, then you probably want to stop spending on little items so you can save up for the big ones.

For bigger businesses, this means if one thousand of your employees spend just one hour per day «cyberloafing,» it could cost you $ 35 million each year.

Last spring, Salesforce (crm), which sells customer management and sales software to big companies, committed to spending $ 400 million over four years to host new software on AWS rather than in its own data centers.

According to Industry Canada, Big Pharma spends more than $ 1.3 billion a year on R&D — and many global drug makers are increasingly looking at Canada for top talent and a cost - competitive advantage over the United States.

The national average for a gallon of regular gasoline is at its lowest level in four years, giving U.S. consumers billions more to spend this holiday season, but that extra money is being offset by higher food costs, which account for a bigger chunk of most consumers» budgets.

Manley contends the explosion in sovereign debt caused by all the stimulus spending over the past two years is the biggest issue facing both the Canadian government and the world's other major economies.

Summer is almost over, and it's already time to start thinking about the holidays — otherwise known as the biggest spending season of the year.

Finally, after having spent a small - fortune and many years of your life, the day comes for you to prep for the big journey.

And I was completely happy with my Windows laptop (believe it or not, I'm a big Windows 10 fan) until the hardware broke, less than two years after I spent a thousand bucks on it.

U.S. consumer spending barely rose in February amid delays in the payment of income tax refunds, but the biggest annual jump in inflation in nearly five years supported expectations of further interest rate hikes this year.

The latest figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau show that the third quarter last year was the biggest ever, with a total of $ 17.6 billion spent on digital ads.

It lowers projected Medicaid spending by $ 880 billion or 25 % over the 10 - year window, the biggest source of savings in the AHCA.

The Liberals made a few big - ticket election campaign spending promises, but, on the tax side, they also indicated they intend to pad revenues over the next few years with higher tax rates for personal and corporate income.

The single biggest element is $ 17.6 billion over five years in spending restraint, including anticipated lowered operating costs of $ 6.8 billion over the same time period.

Two years ago it was spending hundreds of millions of dollars on venture capital investments in food delivery, group buying, and house cleaning — not to bet on the next big thing, but to add users for its payment system.

What's more, those three big streaming services are also facing a growing list of competitors, including some with very deep pockets, as Apple and Facebook have reportedly committed to spending $ 1 billion apiece on original series in the next year to build up their own streaming video businesses.

Mark Bello (above) opened Pizza a Casa on New York City's Lower East Side, he says, after spending nearly five years as a «nomadic pizza - teacher - for - hire,» sharing his pizza skills at various locations around the Big Apple.

Furthermore, Boris Schlossberg, managing director at BK Asset Management, said Tuesday on «Trading Nation» that while neither stock is a buy right now, «the bullish case for both is if you're truly a big believer in a massive bull move this year in the market, and that the tax cut is going to increase spending on travel.»

William Yeomans, a former deputy assistant attorney general who spent 26 years at the Justice Department, said Flynn's guilty plea «is likely big trouble for several members of the Trump administration.»

«With the myriad of sophisticated attacks and the ad infinitum game of «cat and mouse» between hackers and security software vendors, we believe a big ramp in cybersecurity spending will continue in the coming years as «cyber warfare» heats up, adding to growth prospects at next - generation security software companies,» said Daniel Ives, an analyst at FBR Capital Markets, in a recent note.

It can be easier for small businesses to track and report spending throughout the year, but at the end of the year, it's time to collect everything and look at the big picture.

In retrospect, he says his biggest mistake was to spend an entire year looking for a job, instead of exploring his entrepreneurial options early on.

Livingston made a lot of money, but she also used a variety of strategies to save big over the years, such as tracking her spending and automating her savings, but it was one mental trick that made the biggest difference: Think about purchases in terms of cost per hour.

Here are some of my biggest takeaways from spending big on Facebook ads over the last year.

As Uber's biggest competitor, Lyft has spent the past two years defining itself — with the most obvious example being the fuzzy pink mustache.

Biggest failure: We spent a year attempting to create a new human potential oriented internet portal, and we never got it off the ground.

The biggest one to date for a biosimilar product in the U.S. — the treatments have only been around for a handful of years in America despite widespread and long - standing availability in Europe and other regions — Renflexis may ultimately not do much to curb health care and patient spending, as the Wall Street Journal «s Charley Grant points out in an astute note.

After spending 17 years developing and marketing products at Avon, Revlon, and other big brand marketers, Donald Lepone in 1987 founded NutraMax, where he could develop his own brand - name products.

Others spend big bucks to pull off elaborate multi-day affairs, such as the planned three - day New York celebration for 83 - year old billionaire investor George Soros starting Friday that will be attended by more than 500 guests, including hedge fund titans and prominent political leaders.

China's increase in military spending, the biggest rise in three years, was proportionate and low, state media said.

A weaker picture emerged for construction spending, which the government said recorded its biggest decline in a year in August.

The deal, which is still making its way through Congress after an eleventh hour push from party bigs, has three main components: It immediately raises the debt ceiling, includes around $ 2.1 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years, and creates a special Congressional committee to come up with long term deficit - reduction suggestions by this Thanksgiving.

But Job's successor, Tim Cook, has instead spent much of the past three years tinkering with Apple's existing product line - up — bigger iPhones, smaller iPads, improved software — and massively growing sales by pushing into huge new markets like China.

Eagle's Sassouni pointed out that since the big drug companies are losing billions of dollars every year to generic versions and have little to spend on their own research and development, they are looking to buy smaller biotechnology companies that are developing their own products.

Some said it would be from tax cuts (unlikely to pass this year), others said it would be from infrastructure spending (also unlikely), and then there were those like Buiter who saw a trade war as the biggest threat.

NATO Europe's spending is rising again and Germany, Europe's biggest economy, has been increasing its defense budget, which will see its spending quota rise to 1.3 percent next year.

Now Pfizer CEO Ian Read has to eat crow and prove to the market that his company can be great on its own, after pretty much spending the past two years saying it was a big deal or bust.

Intrigued, former Walrus staffer Knelman spent much of the eight years following this conversation digging into an illegal industry that treats the world's cultural heritage like «one big department store.»

Over the past decade and a half, they and the major insurers have snapped up most of the biggest properties — OMERS bought Brookfield Place in Toronto four years ago, for example, while London Life and Great - West Life jointly spent $ 382 million on Calgary's Gulf Canada Square in 2007 — and today are believed to own almost 90 % of downtown Toronto's commercial space.

That is four times the $ 3 billion research firm comScore says Americans spent in total last year on Cyber Monday, the country's biggest online shopping day.

This year's Olympic games is shaping up to be one big cupping club, with swimmer Pavel Sankovich and U.S. gymnast Alexander Naddour — who told USA Today the therapy is «better than any money I've spent on anything else» — also competing with visible, bruise - colored disks.

The average person will spent over five years of their life on social media, with Facebook being the second - biggest offender behind Pinterest.

DUBNER: So Justin Humphries stared right into the dark heart of his sunk costs, all those years he spent pursuing his dream — and he made the big quit.

Healthcare's piece in the consumer spending pie has grown for years, up from 15 percent in 1990, and it remains a big concern especially as baby boomers enter their retirement years.

It is also fair to point out that this move continues a three - or four - year long period in which the biggest public cloud providers got bigger by virtue of massive spending on their own data center infrastructure and smaller players scrambled to stay relevant.