(1) Several selling VCs were also Google investors; one sat on Google's board.
(2) But not only did it post a larger loss than expected, Amazon also projected 7% to 18% revenue growth over the busiest shopping period of the year, a far cry from the 20%-plus pace that had convinced investors to overlook its persistent lack of profit in the past.
(3) We know that several hundred thousand investors are likely to want to access their pension pots in the first weeks and months after the start of the new tax year.
(4) James Cameron, vice-chairman of Climate Change Capital , an environmental investment group, and a member of the prime minister's Business Advisory Group , says: "I think the UK has, in essence, become a better place for green investors.
(5) After two placings of shares with institutional investors which began two years ago, the government has been selling shares by “dribbling” them into the market.
(6) We know that from the rapid take up of crowd funded renewables investors are actively looking for a more secure option.
(7) After contributions from other investors, she estimates the fund will have between $80m to $100m for projects in infrastructure, health, manufacturing and education.
(8) I'm just saying, in your … Instagrams, you don't have to have yourself with, walking with black people.” The male voice singles out Magic Johnson, the retired basketball star and investor: "Don't put him on an Instagram for the world to have to see so they have to call me.
(9) Tomorrow the courts are expected to sign off a $97.5m payment by the company to its shareholders, after investors took a class action lawsuit against the company.
(10) Nintendo’s share price on the Tokyo Stock Exchange has plummeted 17% in one day, apparently due to investors belatedly discovering that the company doesn’t actually make Pokémon Go , the latest mobile gaming phenomenon.
(11) Obasanjo was in the UK to promote investment in Nigeria, sub-Saharan Africa's most populous country and its second biggest economy, not to mention one of the world's most promising emerging destinations for international investors.
(12) Cable, once a leading critic of City speculation, insists the shares will go to responsible investors.
(13) Osborne sought to turn the crisis to his advantage, however, telling parliament that falls in bond yields – the interest rate the government pays on its debts – were a "huge vote of confidence" by international investors in the coalition's plans to repair the public finances.
(14) Cable says that institutional investors would have been inspecting Royal Mail for some time, adding that it's a standard length document for an IPO of this type.
(15) If they included a warning in the package ‘tamper resistance’ feature that works by non-Apple-authorised repair services may be mistaken for tampering attempts, and lead to the phone being disabled’, then it would be purely a feature ... By concealing the feature prior to sales, and only even revealing it after being repeatedly pressured over it, Apple turned what could have been a feature into a landmine.” Apple shares have fallen more than 20% in the past three months as investors begin to doubt whether it can maintain the stellar growth posted since the iPhone first went on sale eight years ago.
(16) According to shareholder Marvin Pearlstein, in a lawsuit filed in a federal court in Manhattan on Friday, the Canadian-based BlackBerry, formerly Research In Motion Ltd, misled investors last year by saying the company was "progressing on its financial and operational commitments," and that previews of its BlackBerry 10 platform had been well received by developers.
(17) Virgin investors will receive $17.50 in cash and own 36% of Liberty's shares once the deal is complete.
(18) Japan's debt-to-GDP ratio is widely seen as sustainable, at least in the short term, as its bonds are bought up in large part by domestic investors.
(19) Investors recognised the true horror of Europe’s toxic bank debts, and the restrictions imposed by the single currency.
(20) The decision to split up News Corp followed the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, which focused the attention of investors on the company's newspaper assets, which are far less profitable than its film and TV businesses.
Rentier
Definition:
(n.) One who has a fixed income, as from lands, stocks, or the like.
Example Sentences:
(1) There is no longer a sharp dividing line between working and rentiering.
(2) Most rentiers are not as easily identified as the greedy banker or manager.
(3) Graeber discusses the role of a 1% parasitical rentier class presiding over an ever-increasing unequal social order and pinpoints the disappearance of opposing political systems and decline of oppositional movements as crucial factors in that process.
(4) From Wall Street to Silicon Valley , from big pharma to the lobby machines in Washington and Westminster, zoom in and you’ll see rentiers everywhere.
(5) If he is worried about banks over-lending to small rentiers, he should let the banks take the risk.
(6) Think back a minute to the definition of a rentier: someone who uses their control over something that already exists in order to increase their own wealth.
(7) But in the modern economy, making rentierism work is a great deal more complicated.
(8) Far from a Keynesian "euthanasia of the rentier" , we are seeing the triumph of a rentier economy: in such conditions, rather than further accumulation by the sons and daughters of the wealthy, we should instead demand an end to inherited wealth entirely.
(9) Many modern rentiers have convinced even themselves that they are bona fide value creators.
(10) That’s the rentier way : by leveraging control over something that already exists, such as land, knowledge, or money, to increase your wealth.
(11) The irony, however, is that their best innovations only make the rentier economy even bigger.
(12) Not much room for the PM to argue he’s not part of the “rentier” class.
(13) Meet the rightwing power players lurking beneath Silicon Valley's liberal facade Read more One thing is certain: countries where rentiers gain the upper hand gradually fall into decline.
(14) Even paragons of modern progress like Apple, Amazon, Google , Facebook, Uber and Airbnb are woven from the fabric of rentierism.
(15) Meanwhile, those same authorities prostrate themselves before luxury property developers, Chinese business conglomerates and buy-to-let rentiers.
(16) But as Thomas Piketty suggests in his study of inequality in the late capitalist age, there is something decidedly pre-modern about this phase neoliberalism, with its plutocrats, oligarchs and rentiers back in full swing.
(17) When a subsistence minimum is needed at every period of life, the rentier paradoxically is least risk tolerant in youth--the Robert C. Merton paradox that traces to the decline with age of the present discounted value of the subsistence-consumption requirements.
(18) There's no hit on inheritance and capital gains of the very comfortable; little will to ensure corporations pay more taxes; and no blows to the rentier class that exploits our housing shortage.
(19) He just wishes to provide a check on capitalism's tendency to create a useless class of parasitical rentiers.
(20) Wiener, like many a leftwinger, argued that this came from the English middle class's love affair with its betters, the usually fulfilled desire of every factory owner to become a country gent, a rentier rather than producer.