Sentences with phrase «with rivals funded»

The issue with their structure at present is the lack of enormous commercial deals to ensure the money generated is enough to compete with rivals funded by oil money.

Not exact matches

LONDON, April 30 - A popular hedge fund bet on a fall in Sainsbury's shares came unstuck on Monday after the supermarket group announced plans to merge with Walmart - owned rival Asda.

LONDON, April 30 (Reuters)- A popular hedge fund bet on a fall in Sainsbury's shares came unstuck on Monday after the supermarket group announced plans to merge with Walmart - owned rival Asda.

BEIJING, Sept 21 (Reuters)- Chinese search engine Baidu Inc announced a 10 billion yuan ($ 1.52 billion) autonomous driving fund on Thursday as part of a wider plan to speed up its technical development and compete with U.S. rivals.

Ackman's Pershing Square Capital teamed up with Valeant to mount a failed hostile takeover of rival pharmaceutical company Allergan, and at the time, the famed fund manager credited Pearson for being able to spot opportunities where others couldn't, much like business legend Warren Buffett.

Of course, Apple is also looking to compete more with tech rivals like Amazon and Google on several entertainment fronts, especially after reportedly allocating $ 1 billion to fund production of original video content over the next year.

The fund, which in London is led by Singer's son Gordon, manages $ 35 billion in assets, dwarfing European rivals, like TCI Fund Management, with $ 17.5 billion, and Cevian Capital, with assets of more than 13 billion euros ($ 15.6 billifund, which in London is led by Singer's son Gordon, manages $ 35 billion in assets, dwarfing European rivals, like TCI Fund Management, with $ 17.5 billion, and Cevian Capital, with assets of more than 13 billion euros ($ 15.6 billiFund Management, with $ 17.5 billion, and Cevian Capital, with assets of more than 13 billion euros ($ 15.6 billion).

Local rivals like Didi Kuaidi — itself valued at $ 16.5 billion with backing from Chinese behemoths like Tencent and Alibaba (baba)-- have kept pace with Uber's investment in the country (Uber's China business is valued at around $ 8 billion based on its latest funding round in January).

How shareholders will vote — either with DuPont or its rival, activist hedge fund Trian Fund Management — will come down to how well they believe DuPont has performed under Kullman, who got the job at the start of 2fund Trian Fund Management — will come down to how well they believe DuPont has performed under Kullman, who got the job at the start of 2Fund Management — will come down to how well they believe DuPont has performed under Kullman, who got the job at the start of 2009.

Still, Airbnb faces tough competition from local, well - funded rivals Xiaozhu and Tujia, and must also comply with stringent government regulations.

LONDON A popular hedge fund bet on a fall in Sainsbury's shares came unstuck on Monday after the supermarket group announced plans to merge with Walmart - owned rival Asda.

Another leading rival in the field Tujia is also fully loaded with $ 300 million fresh funding to explore this market.

There has even been talk of the public broadcaster, (CBC) which receives over $ 1 billion in public funding annually, dropping advertising and ceasing to compete for ad dollars with its private sector rivals.

The funding will help Pepperfry compete with not only direct rivals such as Urban Ladder but also with horizontal e-commerce players such as Flipkart and Amazon, which have been ramping up their furniture business.

Active managers for U.S. stock - market portfolios, who have struggled amid a decade - long exodus from their funds, are gunning for something of a detente with their increasingly dominant passive - investing rivals, putting out a new message for investors: it isn't us or them, it's us and them.

Blues owner Roman Abramovich has made it crystal clear to gaffer Antonio Conte that he will be backed with funds in the coming transfer windows — especially after the gulf in class between his side and Premier League title rivals Arsenal and Liverpool was made clear in early defeats.

This could boost the role of private technology companies as states expand funding for military research in order to keep pace with their rivals.

Trump is pressing congressional Republicans to oppose funding for a new rail tunnel between New York and New Jersey, using the power of his office to block a key priority for the region and his Democratic rivals, according to several people with knowledge of his actions.

It is rumored that John Haggerty may share a cell with political rival and former disgraced Comptroller of New York, Alan Hevesi who is serving a one to four years at the Ulster Correctional Facility in upstate Napanoch for a pension fund pay - to - play scandal.

The non-Murdoch media have their guns trained on Murdoch, while the Beeb continues to destroy the business case of its private sector rivals with taxpayer - funded websites and electronic media of all kinds.

Doe Fund founder George McDonald asked his GOP mayoral rival, supermarket mogul John Catsimatidis, whether Catsimatidis was threatening him with Mafia - like language when Catsimatidis, in a radio interview, said he would make McDonald «disappear.»

The race for the Republican nomination in the 19th congressional district grew more heated this week with John Faso's campaign alleging in a letter to rival Andrew Heaney that he is illegally coordinating with a super PAC that is funding misleading advertisements.

A who's who of top lobbyists served on the host committee of de Blasio's $ 1 million fund - raiser with Hillary Clinton, causing Lhota to accuse his rival of hypocrisy.

And Cuomo traded blows with two other rival Democrats, Comptroller Thomas DiNapoli and Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, blaming them most recently for not catching on to a bribery scheme involving state pension fund investments.

(CNN)-- The group tasked with electing Democrats to the House of Representatives said Monday it broke fund - raising records in the third quarter of 2012, bringing in $ 35.1 million over the past three months, ahead of their Republican rivals.

The rival pols have been locked in a feud over who should pay for the transit agency's capital plan to fund expansion and maintenance projects, with Cuomo demanding de Blasio increase the city's contribution to $ 3.2 billion.

Founded in 1987 to help the industry compete with its rivals in Japan, the consortium has been funded equally by the federal government and industry.

There's the ongoing special - counsel investigation into whether the Trump campaign aided a Russian campaign to aid Trump's candidacy and defeat his Democratic rival, Hillary Clinton; there's the associated inquiry into whether the president obstructed justice when he fired former FBI Director James Comey, whom he had asked not to investigate his former national - security adviser; there are the president's hush - money payments to women with whom he allegedly had extramarital affairs, made through his personal attorney, Michael Cohen, and facilitated by corporate cash paid to influence the White House; there is his ongoing effort to interfere with the Russia inquiry and politicize federal law enforcement; there are the foreign governments that seem to be utilizing the president's properties as vehicles for influencing administration policy; there's the emerging evidence that Trump campaign officials sought aid not only from Russia, but from other foreign countries, which may have affected Trump's foreign policy; there are the ongoing revelations of the president's Cabinet officials» misusing taxpayer funds; there is the accumulating evidence that administration decisions are made at the behest of private industry, in particular those in which Republican donors have significant interests.

The college president is putting pressure on him to make the band more contemporary so they may better compete with rival Morris Brown College and appeal to funding alumni.

In Florida, where the affiliate the NEA controls with the AFT is battling fiercely with Gov. Rick Scott and reformers unified under Scott's predecessor (and rival), Jeb Bush, the union gave $ 250,000 to progressive outfit Florida Watch Action, and handed over $ 500,000 to the state affiliate's Public Education Defense Fund.

Trump's remarks put him at odds with his Republican rivals, who favor some continued public funding of NASA.

At the turn of the century, MG wasn't particularly flush with development funds so while rivals were releasing new models, the MGF received a huge number of upgrades and clever development, turning it into something that looked a bit sharper, and drove a lot better.

The Cold War's long reach meant that the United States and the USSR used Jamaica as their playground, with the U.S. funding the JLP (and the Shower Posse) and the USSR funding rival gangs in communities set up by Michael Manley, the PNP leader.

The article profiled seven funds with 10 - year track records of outperformance that «leave index - hugging rivals behind.»

Pimco Total Return, the world's biggest mutual fund until October 2013, had more than doubled from $ 132 billion at the end of 2008, after weathering the financial crisis with returns that beat 82 % of rivals.

The fund had more than doubled from $ 132 billion at the end of 2008, after navigating the financial crisis with returns that beat 82 % of rivals.

As a pioneer in digital investment advice, it «encourage (s) BMO to join us in our mission to help Canadians understand the trouble with traditional high - fee mutual funds and the benefits of platforms» like his and his rivals.

A similar thing is happening with Bayonetta 2 — although under very different circumstances, with reports of Nintendo needing to the fund the project in order for it to even be made — where series fans are located on a rival console, with the sequel arriving on the Wii U.

The tournament features both classic Draft Champions and the new Salary Cap Ranked experience, which challenges gamers to work with limited funds to create a competitive team and then rival friends.

France has provided 90 % tax incentives to companies on gifts of works of art to national museums, commissioned works from leading contemporary artists and is funding the new European Centre for Contemporary Creation on the Île Seguin with the aim of making Paris a contemporary arts hub to rival London.

Ola scored $ 2 billion in new funding from a group of investors including SoftBank Group Corp. and Tencent Holdings Ltd., a person familiar with the matter said, helping bankroll Uber Technologies Inc.'s fiercest rival in India.

The company also recently closed a $ 526 million round of funding to help the company do battle with its new rival, according to The Wall Street Journal.

The Coinbase Index Fund has one quality that will help it compete with rival products: It's cheaper.

Great B to B relationships among MLSs — more cooperation, more collaboration, more consolidation of services — will be required to keep up with better funded rivals who don't have the interests of brokers at heart.