Sentences with phrase «values by millions of dollars»

A recent decision by the federal Department of Justice to scale back and eventually end the use of private prisons indirectly impacted New York City's pension funds, reducing holding values by millions of dollars and leading to renewed calls from activists for the city to divest from the for - profit corporations that operate these prisons.

Not exact matches

Even in the current market I have been able to generate several hundred thousand in net loss carry forward from the stock portfolio, while the value of the portfolio has gone up by several million dollars.

The new contracts will come when oil is roughly half that price, a drop in value that could reduce pipeline operating revenue by millions of dollars a day and ruin the pipeline's business strategy.

he can count the value of his «family Radio» media empire, estimated by the IRS to be worth $ 72 million dollars.

The litigation involves competing allegations of financial mismanagement of the ministry's assets, valued at hundreds of millions of dollars, as well as the alleged personal use of ministry resources by insiders.

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.»

De Bortoli wines, one of Australia's largest family - owned wine groups, has slumped to a $ 24.7 million full - year loss after export sales were crunched by the strengthening dollar and the value of its equities investment portfolio sank by nearly $ 50 million.

Noting the potential of gene therapy to be a one - time treatment for rare and serious diseases that otherwise cost hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars in chronic care over a lifetime, Stuart Orkin, MD, and co-author Philip Reilly, MD, JD, of Third Rock Ventures, seek to «catalyze the discussion» by suggesting several new models for valuing, pricing and developing gene therapy.

Called the Italia Classic, the shape was inspired by Ferrari's rare 275 GTB NART Spider, which is now valued at many millions of dollars.

Specifically, the complaint alleges that defendants misrepresented or failed to disclose: (1) Barnes & Noble's Nook e-book reader sales had dramatically declined; (2) the Company would shutter its Nook manufacturing operations altogether; (3) the carrying value of the Nook assets were impaired by millions of dollars; (4) the carrying value of the Nook inventory was overstated by $ 133 million; (5) the Company was expecting fiscal 2014 retail losses in the high single digits; (6) Barnes & Noble had over-accrued certain accounts receivables; (7) Barnes & Noble was unable to provide timely audited financial results for fiscal 2013; and (8) the Company might be forced to restate its previously reported financial results.

If a company pays twenty million dollars to its shareholders as a dividend, the remaining value of the company has to decrease by twenty millions dollars.

The index measures the performance of US dollar - denominated, investment - grade, corporate bond securities publicly issued by non financial companies that have $ 250 million or more of outstanding face value at the time of inclusion and mature between March 31, 2015 and April 1, 2016.

The example was used to show how irrational some clients can be; even when your returns are in the top 1 % of all investment managers out there, some people can still find something to complain about (as an aside, that is why the truly successful mutual fund managers quickly exit the public domain once they have made «enough», and then they tend to go super private by either managing their own money or investing privately on behalf of some particular clients that they know to be rational — when you're worth tens and tens of millions of dollars, you don't need to deal with people that don't truly believe that good value investing often means underperforming the S&P 500 at least one out of every three years).

According to the Company's 2009 proxy statement, ModusLink paid out more than $ 13.8 million to its top three senior executives over a period of three years while Company's market value declined by hundreds of millions of dollars.

In 20 years3, 1.02 % fee would reduce the value of a million dollar portfolio by $ 238,801 more than the same portfolio with 0.50 % fee.

Alaska USA transfers tens of millions of dollars in value to members each year by way of lower fees, higher dividends on deposits, and lower loan rates.

 The vessel is being captained by Sergiy Pashchenko; it has an estimated value of two hundred and fifty million dollars and can accommodate up to thirty - six guests along with the crew.

There are conflicting reports on the value of the grant given by Ontario to Silicon Knights, with the fund put between three and four million Canadian dollars.

[4] By the 1920s, space had become critical: «Collections to the value of several millions of dollars are in storage or temporarily on exhibition and are crowding out important exhibits and producing a congested condition in the Natural History, Industrial Arts, and Smithsonian Buildings».

The billionaire has made hundreds of millions of dollars selling art, including works by Jackson Pollack, Jasper Johns and David Hockney, according to a person familiar with the collection who says he still maintains art assets valued at more than $ 2 billion.

Headlines revealing the discovery that the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reduced the value of a statistical life by almost a million dollars abound.

Some of the most valued services activists provide the Billionaire's Club includes promulgation of propaganda, which creates an artificial echo chamber; appearance of a faux grassroots movement; access to nimble and transient groups under fiscal sponsorship arrangements; distance / anonymity between donations made by well - known donors and activities of risky activist groups; and above all — the ability to leverage tens of millions of dollars in questionable foreign funding.

Wetland restoration techniques identified in this study could potentially generate $ 400 million to $ 1 billion in offset revenue depending on the dollar value of the carbon offset — with the potential for almost $ 630 million more by including prevented wetland loss in the carbon accounting.

Contract disputes are typically limited by the value of the contract itself — you won't be getting sued for millions of dollars over a sales deal worth a few thousand.

Next in the rating system is the Financial Size Category (FSC), which is indicated by a Roman numeral between I (the lowest), and XV (adjusted policyholder surplus of greater than 2,000); with the indicated numbers being equivalent to perceived value in terms of millions of dollars multiplied by the FSC of the company.

Patent law basically boils down to a pissing contest, and the pissing is done by lawyers who are payed millions of dollars despite never accomplishing anything of technical value themselves.

Matsumura's example can be confirmed by recent investors getting burned trying to short GBTC's stock and the millions of dollars liquidated from Bitmex, Bitfinex, and Okcoin traders trying to bet against bitcoin's value every day.

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This prevented not only failure of equipment valued at greater than 1.2 million dollars, but also increased effectiveness of our aviators by reducing fatigue associated with wearing 40 pounds of additional survival gear.

Over the course of their marriage, they developed several companies, valued at several million dollars by the separation date in 2009.

We are especially appreciative that Congress recognized the growing value of health centers by including an additional $ 600 million dollars to further support health center operations and address unmet need in communities across the country, as well as $ 60 million dollars to assist health centers in areas impacted by recent natural disasters.

That, I believe, gets at one of the key values of «FamilyTime,» a program originated by Million Dollar Roundtable, a Park Ridge, Ill. — based insurance group, and updated with NAR's input late last year.

The biggest holiday gift this year for millions of Americans does not fit under a tree and can be a little hard to grasp, but it may be of exceptional value: If you own a home, the odds are good that your equity holdings increased by thousands of dollars over the past year.