Sentences with phrase «than a dollar before»

When Enron, a huge energy company, had it's share price go from above $ 90.00 to less than a dollar before the company's eventual bankruptcy, the owners of Enron common stock faced the potential of receiving nothing in return for their worthless shares.

Not exact matches

Still, there's an ironic punch line to the case: Because the stolen Bitcoins were sold right away, allegedly by Vinnik and long before Mt. Gox disclosed the hack, victims lost much more, in dollar value, than the hackers ever made — which, according to Chainalysis, was only about $ 20 million.

To try to stop the destruction before the Great Barrier Reef — the largest, most extensive reef system in the world — is no more, the Australian government has announced that it plans to spend more than half a billion Australian dollars (about $ 379 million USD) on improving water quality to protect coral reefs; reef restoration; and helping to fight predatory starfish.

While the dollar figure dipped in 2008, First Data, a retail tracking service, found that shoppers actually bought more gift cards than the year before; they just loaded less money onto them.

The yen has already gone down more than 16 percent against the dollar since the beginning of the year, and it is now down 12 percent in trade - weighted terms compared with the year before.

Meanwhile, in Detroit, the city initially classified its general obligation bonds as unsecured debt before settling with creditors for less than 100 cents on the dollar.

They have more choices than ever before as to where to spend their advertising dollars and can cut through the noise to reach their exact target audience.

Benioff told Cramer that this quarter was boosted by Salesforce signing more million - dollar contracts than ever before.

«Put it all together, and Lang says that Red Hat really just needs to rally less than three dollars from here, to $ 100, at which point he expects the stock to roar higher before temporarily running out of steam at the $ 110 area.»

The retailer positions itself as offering a luxe dollar - store shopping experience, «unique» products and higher quality goods than homegrown Dollarama, Canada's king of knock - offs, but it does so by copying Japanese chains that came before it.

That's 24 % greater than if she had started collecting benefits at 62.2 (Note: All figures are in today's dollars and before tax; the actual benefit would be adjusted for inflation and would possibly be subject to income tax.)

I got started freelancing over online world, by doing some fundamental assignments which definitely wanted your personal computer and usage of broadband together with I am joyful than ever before... 6 months have surpassed when i started out this and also i had cash gain total of 36 thousand dollars... Normally I make eighty dollars each and every hour and even work for three to 4 hours majority of the days.And big plus with this is that you could keep control of valuable time whenever you work and also for how long as you like but you still get a take - home pay each week.

Retailers who accept payment in foreign currencies from foreign buyers understand currency risk: the prospect ending up with fewer dollars than anticipated if the foreign currency depreciates against the dollar before the sales proceeds are converted to dollars.

Markets are now pricing that close to 20 billion more dollars will come out of Puerto Rico to investors than they were at the end of 2017, following Puerto Rico's own government, which is inexplicably projecting a substantially greater ability to repay debt today than before the hurricane.

Historically volatility has been a bit higher for stocks and for the dollar and a bit lower for bonds after the Fed starts hiking than immediately before so I'm not sure of the basis for the belief that «getting it over with» would reduce uncertainty.

Having traded within one dollar of its 2017 high at US$ 53.40 on April 11, May 4 saw WTI close at US$ 45.52, 5 percent lower than the day before.

At 9 am on Monday morning, the Australian dollar was just a couple of pips higher than it had been a week before.

Some analysts think that China and Saudi Arabia have accumulated far more gold than they're reporting and are accumulating still more gold surreptitiously — China to hedge its dollar foreign exchange surplus, Saudi Arabia to hedge both its dollar surplus and the depletion of its oil reserves — but that China and Saudi Arabia can't acknowledge this accumulation lest they spook the currency markets and devalue their dollar surpluses before those surpluses are fully hedged.

After falling quite sharply in May — owing largely to weaker - than - expected US economic data and comments by US administration officials which were perceived by the market as a softening of the «strong dollar» stance of the US — the US dollar stabilised in early June before appreciating towards the end of the period.

Still, with less than $ 100 million in debt due before 2020, Barrick executives said the company is shifting to a growth strategy, focusing on Nevada and the Dominican Republic, and will no longer sell assets in order to reduce its billions of dollars in debt.

If it is spent on something that uses up as much or more energy per dollar as the original reduction, nothing has been gained in the energy budget at large (though this person may now own a more desirable mix of goods and services than before).

By keeping wine and beer together three years longer than it should, the board has destroyed millions of dollars in shareholder value and done what nobody had ever done before and damaged the beer business.»

I'll be posting an in - depth look at cloth diapers vs. disposable diapers soon, but for now, suffice it to say that cloth diapers, even the most expensive ones, are way cheaper than disposable diapers — we're talking thousands of dollars in savings before that little one is potty trained.

Before Benedict Donald's tax reform NY State sent $ 48B dollars to the Fed more than we received back in direct Federal benefits.

When the Common Council figures out how to spend nearly a half billion dollars this year, members plan to do it in a lot less time than before.

Yet perhaps the administration will not be so contemptuous or evasive when it goes Wednesday before the state's Public Authorities Control Board, which will consider whether the Environmental Facilities Corp. should loan more than a half - billion dollars to the Thruway Authority.

And yet almost 70 per cent of Nigeria's population live on less than a dollar a day, and 15 per cent of Nigerian children die before their fifth birthday.

Before going into public service, Cuomo was making more than a million dollars a year as an advisor to a real estate mogul.

While Mulrow was listed as a Blackstone lobbyist working to influence the $ 289 billion New York state pension system, Blackstone secured hundreds of millions of dollars in new pension investment commitments for the firm — far more than it had during the four - year period before Cuomo's first term.

Speaking at a press conference with Puerto Rico's Gov. Ricardo Rossello, Cuomo pledged New York's support and said a «silver lining» to the storm would be the flood of federal recovery dollars and the chance to build back the infrastructure better than it was before.

Long's latest finance numbers aren't out yet, but her last report from before the June primary showed she had about $ 112,000 dollars on hand and more than that in debt.

The Republican budget was assembled before the most recent numbers that show the state is projected to lose more than a billion dollars in tax revenue over the next two years.

De Blasio has drawn criticism from good government groups for his use of the Campaign for one New York, which allowed donors with business before the city to give in amounts far greater than the small dollar limits imposed by the city's campaign finance system.

A million dollars a month is at once an impressive and excessive amount of money for almost any politician to raise, especially one still quite popular more than a year before what would seem to be a rather easy path to re-election.

New York State received 84 cents for every dollar it sent in taxes to the federal government in 2016, a wider gap than three years before, according to a report released by State Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli.

More than 100 years later, attorneys for another powerful Manhattan politician, Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver, argued that his client's reaping millions of dollars in legal fees from entities with matters before state government was simply business as usual in Albany.

Before the agents pounded on his door and turned his life upside down, Xi oversaw a team of 10 graduate students, one undergraduate, three postdocs, and two non — tenure - track faculty at Temple and received more than a million dollars a year in research funding.

NASA then began to talk of a plan which would have a probe arrive before 2020 and that would cost less than $ 500 million (2002 dollars).

First things first: the PLANETS telescope has less than a million dollars of funding to go before construction can begin.

He did more than bounce back — he built a multimillion dollar online business, all before he was 30.

It's easier to invest in yourself and go deeper into Primal living than ever before with our Dollar Down Payment Plan.

More labels than ever before are offering affordable wedding dresses that look just as great as a million dollar gown.

In various city towers, bureaucrats are pondering to whom and when they should gift hundreds of millions of dollars, perhaps even billions, by the stroke People are buying bigger televisions than ever before, but getting a poorer viewing experience because many modern TVs are simply too large for our living

As the sequel formula tends to go, Magic Mike XXL promises to be bigger and better than ever before and it makes sure to earn every crumpled dollar bill the audience tosses on the stage for it.

There's no reason to see this other than as a curiosity, but if you do want to give Redbox a dollar for the pleasure, make sure you see Park Chan - Wook's original (conveniently available in the original Korean on Netflx) masterpiece before you do.

Throughout Washington, D.C., and around the country, parents are raising hundreds of thousands — even millions — of dollars to provide additional programs, services, and staff to some of their districts» least needy schools.7 They are investing more money than ever before: A recent study showed that, nationally, PTAs» revenues have almost tripled since the mid-1990s, reaching over $ 425 million in 2010.8 PTAs provide a small but growing slice of the funding for the nation's public education system.

With a relatively small price tag — less than 1 percent of all local, state, and federal education funding — RTT helped spur states to make most of these policy changes before one dollar of the federal program's money was spent.

Competition for state dollars has led the governor and the legislature to short the state education funding formula by more than $ 166 million for two years, and by more before that.

The voucher dollars received by the Catholic elementary school of fewer than 600 students jumped from $ 660,000 the year before Runyon's speech, to over $ 937,000 the year that the restructured tuition went into place.

As companies focus more on reducing costs than ever before, training budgets are shrinking and the demands for optimal use of the training dollar are increasing.