Sentences with phrase «spent on capital investment»

These spending levels all fall far below the $ 462 million Intelsat spent on capital investment in 2017, and even farther below the $ 684 million investment laid out in 2016.

Not exact matches

Over the past 30 years, policymakers from around the United States have spent countless hours and numerous dollars on programs, policies, and incentives to create venture - capital clusters and to stimulate investments in their cities and regions.

The planned capital investments follow backlogs that choked UPS» network during last year's holiday shopping surge, which led to shipping delays and forced UPS to spend $ 125 million on leasing additional planes and trucks, cutting into the company's Q4 profits.

During his tenure, conservative groups like the Cato Institute lauded his prolific tax cutting on personal and business investments, property, and some business capital investment, though they criticized his increases in state spending.

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.

Such risks, uncertainties and other factors include, without limitation: (1) the effect of economic conditions in the industries and markets in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate in the U.S. and globally and any changes therein, including financial market conditions, fluctuations in commodity prices, interest rates and foreign currency exchange rates, levels of end market demand in construction and in both the commercial and defense segments of the aerospace industry, levels of air travel, financial condition of commercial airlines, the impact of weather conditions and natural disasters and the financial condition of our customers and suppliers; (2) challenges in the development, production, delivery, support, performance and realization of the anticipated benefits of advanced technologies and new products and services; (3) the scope, nature, impact or timing of acquisition and divestiture or restructuring activity, including the pending acquisition of Rockwell Collins, including among other things integration of acquired businesses into United Technologies» existing businesses and realization of synergies and opportunities for growth and innovation; (4) future timing and levels of indebtedness, including indebtedness expected to be incurred by United Technologies in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition, and capital spending and research and development spending, including in connection with the pending Rockwell Collins acquisition; (5) future availability of credit and factors that may affect such availability, including credit market conditions and our capital structure; (6) the timing and scope of future repurchases of United Technologies» common stock, which may be suspended at any time due to various factors, including market conditions and the level of other investing activities and uses of cash, including in connection with the proposed acquisition of Rockwell; (7) delays and disruption in delivery of materials and services from suppliers; (8) company and customer - directed cost reduction efforts and restructuring costs and savings and other consequences thereof; (9) new business and investment opportunities; (10) our ability to realize the intended benefits of organizational changes; (11) the anticipated benefits of diversification and balance of operations across product lines, regions and industries; (12) the outcome of legal proceedings, investigations and other contingencies; (13) pension plan assumptions and future contributions; (14) the impact of the negotiation of collective bargaining agreements and labor disputes; (15) the effect of changes in political conditions in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate, including the effect of changes in U.S. trade policies or the U.K.'s pending withdrawal from the EU, on general market conditions, global trade policies and currency exchange rates in the near term and beyond; (16) the effect of changes in tax (including U.S. tax reform enacted on December 22, 2017, which is commonly referred to as the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017), environmental, regulatory (including among other things import / export) and other laws and regulations in the U.S. and other countries in which United Technologies and Rockwell Collins operate; (17) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins to receive the required regulatory approvals (and the risk that such approvals may result in the imposition of conditions that could adversely affect the combined company or the expected benefits of the merger) and to satisfy the other conditions to the closing of the pending acquisition on a timely basis or at all; (18) the occurrence of events that may give rise to a right of one or both of United Technologies or Rockwell Collins to terminate the merger agreement, including in circumstances that might require Rockwell Collins to pay a termination fee of $ 695 million to United Technologies or $ 50 million of expense reimbursement; (19) negative effects of the announcement or the completion of the merger on the market price of United Technologies» and / or Rockwell Collins» common stock and / or on their respective financial performance; (20) risks related to Rockwell Collins and United Technologies being restricted in their operation of their businesses while the merger agreement is in effect; (21) risks relating to the value of the United Technologies» shares to be issued in connection with the pending Rockwell acquisition, significant merger costs and / or unknown liabilities; (22) risks associated with third party contracts containing consent and / or other provisions that may be triggered by the Rockwell merger agreement; (23) risks associated with merger - related litigation or appraisal proceedings; and (24) the ability of United Technologies and Rockwell Collins, or the combined company, to retain and hire key personnel.

Three initiatives tied for most popular among the CEOs: increasing the income eligible for the reduced small business tax rate to $ 500,000 from $ 400,000, extending the capital cost allowance on investment in manufacturing, and the $ 12 billion committed to infrastructure spending.

Franchisors can grow to hundreds or even thousands of units with limited investment and without spending any of their own capital on unit expansion.

And note that our major investors will have included in their agreements full involvement in the spending decisions regarding all their investment capital, and our larger investors will each have a seat on the Board of Directors.

Investment in this case means current spending on new physical, human and intangible capital.

Let me briefly mention a few steps that could be taken to increase the economy's potential over time — immigration policies that attract workers with scarce skills to the United States; education policies and job retraining programs that build and replenish human capital; spending on infrastructure to remove bottlenecks; tax simplification and the elimination of tax policies that distort investment and saving decisions; regulatory policies that are attentive to costs and benefits and that emphasize getting the incentives right.

According to an analysis by Barclays (NYSE: BCS), North American drillers plan to spend $ 84 billion on capital investment this year, up 32 % over last year.

Overall, Apple will spend $ 10 billion on building data centers as part of a $ 30 billion investment in capital expenditures.

According to the ABS Capital Expenditure Survey, firms expect to increase spending on machinery and equipment investment in nominal terms by only 1 1/2 per cent in 2000/01, once average realisation ratios are applied.

The government, it said, remained on course for a # 10 billion surplus in 2019 - 20, but only by delaying capital investment, promising further cuts in spending on public services, and bringing forward a one - off boost to corporation tax receipts into 2019 - 20.

In 2016, for every $ 1.00 spent on wages, industry operators will typically only spend $ 0.017 on capital investment.

Over the past year, capital spending rose by more than 17 per cent, with the main categories of investment — machinery and equipment investment (abstracting from civil aircraft deliveries), buildings and structures, and spending on computer software — all recording robust growth in the quarter and over the year.

Though it's likely that we'll observe increasing pressure on other forms of investment such as capital spending, my impression is that housing, commercial real estate, and factory investment will continue to be the areas of greatest downward pressure.

With his focus now on developing markets, Ashok will spend the majority of his time working closely with Unreasonable Capital portfolio companies to pick up where investment dollars often stop — hands - on organizational development and in - market identification of growth opportunities.

A consumption tax is on the flow of spending and by taxing consumption you raise its price relative to saving thereby fostering more saving resulting in greater investment in productive capital and higher long - term economic growth.

Unreasonable Capital's ability to support investments and generate insights is unmatched because we (i) spend less time on deal flow generation and more on investment support, and (ii) are a global investment fund, sharing best practices across geographies and industries.

Along those lines, manufacturers continue to increase capital spending, investment and wages because of tax reform and the changed regulatory environment, and the NAM has highlighted those stories on its «Keeping Our Promise» web page.

Fixed - asset investment expanded 19.6 % on - year in 2013, down from 19.9 % from the first 11 months of the year, indicating slowing capital spending, according toANZ Bank.

In recent months alone, the USHydrations has spent more than $ 15 million on capital investments — mainly on processing and packaging improvements and manufacturing equipment.

Arsenal capital will maintain their leadership position as the best managed sports investment vehicle as they are on track to lead the world with regards to net spend per point earned.

Despite our tough plans for cuts in public spending, we have stuck to the previous Government's commitments on capital investment, apart from some small savings made in May.

«We particularly welcome the new emphasis on capital spending, and the measures to leverage private sector investment on infrastructure for roads and energy,» director - general John Cridland said.

We go on equipping Britain to succeed in the global race by switching from current spending to capital investment in science, roads and education.

Osborne appears to recognise that he was wrong to cut capital spending in 2010, but his new boost of # 50 billion in 2015/16 is all based on gross investment, not the net figures you'd typically use for this sort of thing.

Fiddling with the fringes of the issue, with fairly miserly funding of R&D and transport, fails to address the fundamental underlying causes: the recent relative atrophy of infrastructure spending and capital investment and a relentless focus since 2010 purely on the number of jobs, rather than quality, skilled, well - paid jobs.

The data series in which we found serious discontinuities or complete breaks are not trivial or obscure, but are (or should be) of major importance to the evaluation of government of any political stripe, such as total public sector capital investment, local government spending (on which the Office for Budget Responsibility and the government differ whether it is rising or falling), how much the government costs to run, and how much the civil service costs to employ.

Mr. Denham: As the hon. Gentleman knows very well from my having made a written ministerial statement last Wednesday as promised, we will spend the # 2.3 billion that we have been allocated in this spending review period on capital investment in FE colleges.

But higher public spending and borrowing on capital investment today means lower borrowing tomorrow with the economy growing and tax revenues rising.

Hartzog touted the city's «targeted, prudent investments» in the new budget, including the expansion of pre-kindergarten for more three - year - olds in the city, efforts to increase the city's affordable housing stock, funding to protect tenants from construction harassment, increased capital funding for the New York City Housing Authority, spending on mental health services and the full rollout of the NYPD's body camera program, among others.

Venditto has defended the town's capital spending on infrastructure as being sound investments, but said last Tuesday the town will reduce its borrowing and that the fiscal problems can be fixed.

The proposal, for the final budget of Mr. de Blasio's first term, provided a blueprint of sorts for a potential second term with big - ticket investments — including an additional $ 1.9 billion in capital spending to create more apartments for some of the poorest New Yorkers — and long - term plans, like tens of millions of dollars to start a preschool program for 3 - year - olds in city public schools, and new spending on homeless shelters.

Under the plan, the government believes it will be able to spend more annually on capital investment, as a proportion of GDP, than Labour did when it was in power.

In North Carolina, Filardo suggested a policy wherein state officials step in to offer capital assistance if a district spends more than a certain percentage of its infrastructure dollars on short - term maintenance, rather than speeding long - term, fiscally responsible investments.

The Fordham Institute estimated that the CCSS cost $ 12.1 billion from 2012 to 2015.27 The conservative Pioneer Institute and American Principles Project estimate a mid-range cost of $ 15.8 billion over seven years for the CCSS, with $ 1.2 billion spent on assessments, $ 5.3 billion on professional development, and $ 6.9 billion for tech infrastructure and support.28 According to the New York Times, in part due to the CCSS, venture capital investment in public education has increased 80 percent since 2005, to a total of $ 632 million in 2012, a figure that has no doubt increased since.29 Bill Gates and Microsoft have cashed in on this lucrative market: in February 2014, Microsoft announced it was partnering with Pearson to install Pearson's Common Core materials onto Microsoft's Surface tablet.30

According to FCA research, mainstream OEMs last year spent $ 113.8 billion on capital investment and R&D.

They are invariably driven by swings in gross domestic investment - capital spending, autos, housing, factories, and other outlays that are heavily reliant on debt financing.

He spent over 11 years on the sell - side at a boutique investment bank helping raise capital for small and micro-cap public companies.

After spending too much time doing analysis and research (I have a PhD to do) I decided to invest in Cadence Capital, a Listed Investment Company run by Karl Siegling whose investment philosophy I thought a good one (to buy undervalued and well run companies, only when prices were already on the rise or short overpriced equities, only when prices were declining)-- I still think this is an excellent LIC, and it has returned over 18 % p.a. since inception over 10 Investment Company run by Karl Siegling whose investment philosophy I thought a good one (to buy undervalued and well run companies, only when prices were already on the rise or short overpriced equities, only when prices were declining)-- I still think this is an excellent LIC, and it has returned over 18 % p.a. since inception over 10 investment philosophy I thought a good one (to buy undervalued and well run companies, only when prices were already on the rise or short overpriced equities, only when prices were declining)-- I still think this is an excellent LIC, and it has returned over 18 % p.a. since inception over 10 years ago.

EACH AND EVERY YEAR, the average individual investor spends about 2 % to 3 % of their TOTAL investment portfolio ASSETS on excessive investment management fees, unnecessarily high securities trading costs, unjustifiably high investment custody fees, and completely avoidable usually short - term capital gains investment taxes.

Prior to joining Chautauqua Capital Management in 2009, Michael spent eight years as a senior investment analyst at American Century Investments where he served on Ultra, a large - cap growth fund and the company's flagship product.

While the card's 1 % cash back awards on most spending is definitely less than you would earn with flat rate cash back cards like the Capital One ® Quicksilver ® Cash Rewards Credit Card or Fidelity Investment Rewards, it really doesn't take much spending in the bonus categories to come out ahead overall.

As a result, companies today do not need to spend as heavily on capital investment to grow, leading to the generation of excess cash flow.

New & required capital spending on infrastructure will inevitably demand massive private, or public - private, investment.

• 25 - year time - weighted rate of return calculator that tells the rate of return each year, and averages for multiple years, considering all of the unequal monthly cash flows that happen with investment portfolios in the Real World: Dividends / capital gains / spent withdrawals and taxes on them, as well as contributions.

This is where the theory and reality diverge: The majority of companies that don't pay out a significant portion of cash flows in dividends (or stock buybacks, though I place more value on dividends, as stock buybacks could be postponed) more often than not end up destroying shareholder wealth in empire - building acquisitions or marginal capital investments (if they had better investments to begin with they would spend cash right away).