A billion means: 1,000 million. 1,000,000,000.
At an exchange rate of $2 to £1; it is the equivalent of $2,000,000,000
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'Of the billionaires I have known, money just brings out the basic traits in them. If they were jerks before they had money, they are simply jerks with a billion dollars', quoted Warren Buffet.
Billions of dollars are spent annually on magazine advertising. Because of the amount of money involved, the brands that are being advertised, more often than not, have a say in what will be in the magazine.
billion, Yahoo! has not moved toward accepting our offer. After careful consideration, we believe the economics demanded by Yahoo! ...
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Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, calling the current board irrational in its approach to talks with Microsoft, launched a proxy fight to replace Yahoo!'s board. On July 21, 2008 Yahoo! ...
The billionaire founder of Swedish furniture store giant IKEA, and one of the world's richest people according to Forbes. IKEA is known for stylish, functional and affordable self-assembled furniture.
Parts Per Billion (PPB)
the concentration of a contaminant; the number of molecules of contamination expressed as a proportion of the total volume.
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Loans of $1 billion or more. Or, loans that exceed the statutory size limit eligible for purchase or securitization by the federal agencies.
Junior debt (subordinate debt) ...
... over $5 billion are referred to as large caps.
Mutual fund companies offer funds for investors who want to invest in companies of a certain size. Not surprisingly, these are known as small cap funds, mid cap funds, and large cap funds! ...
Ninety-five billion kilowatt-hours (kWh) were generated by oil out of a total of 3,858 billion kWh in 2002. See Energy Information Administration, Electric Power Annual 2002, pp. 1-3.
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Slang for one billion dollars. Used particularly in currency trading, e.g. for Japanese yen since on
billion yen only equals approximately US$10 million. It is clearer to say, " I'm a buyer of a yard of yen," than ...
If you had one billion dollars and spent $1,000 a day, it would take you 2,749 years to spend it all.
A Quarter has 119 grooves on its edge, one more than a dime.
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8 billion (so far so good), but liabilities total $263.6 billion and owners equity or net worth is a comparatively tiny $9.3 billion. So that means that the equity is just 3.4% of assets. That's pretty hilarious isn't it?
Another term for a billion.
Yellow Sheets
Wholesale quote sheet for corporate bonds used by dealers.
FIRREA provided $50 billion to close failed banks and stop further losses.
GIGAWATT (GW) - One billion watts.
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GILT - a bond issued by the UK government. Gilts are equivalent to a U.S. Treasury security.
Small-capitalization (small-cap) fund A mutual fund that invests primarily in stocks of companies whose market value is less than $1 billion.
The debt subject to limitation includes most of the Treasury's public debt except securities issued to the Federal Financing Bank, upon which there is a limitation of $15 billion, ...
Large-cap A stock with a high level of capitalization, usually at least $5 billion market value. Lagging indicators Economic indicators that follow rather than precede the country's overall pace of economic activity.
medium of exchange Any unit that is widely accepted in exchange for the goods and services offered to consumers in a given market (i.e. currency) medium-cap A firm with a market capitalization of over $1 billion, but below $5 billion....
Mid cap A stock with a capitalization usually between $1 billion and $5 billion. Mid-cap SPDRs This is the same as a SPDR except the index it tracks is Standard&Poor's Mid-cap 400. This SPDR also trades on the AMEX, under the symbol MDY.
The ALA contract was designed for asset pools with an aggregate book value in excess of $1 billion.
$1 billion for both entry and exit. This index currently comprises only U.S. Treasury Securities. This index serves as the benchmark for the CREF Inflation-Linked Bond Account.
Recent data indicate a global energy consume of 11 billion of Gtoe (GigaTons Oil Equivalent) per year, divided into oil (40%), carbon (25%), gas (25%), water and nuclear (each one around 5%).
Also called the European Recovery Program, it was initiated in 1947 and it dispersed over $12 billion before it was completed in 1952.
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Yard Slang for one billion currency units. Used particularly in currency trading, e.g. for Japanese yen since on billion yen only equals approximately US$10 million.
Major insurance companies are sueing al-Qaida and Middle Eastern governments in a bid to recover billions of dollars in losses related to the September 11 attacks. [138] ...
8 billion in 2006 and will continue to grow at rate of 9% per year through 2014, a rate that "outpaces the growth in spending projected for hospital, physicians, skilled nursing facilit[ies], and home health services", ...
General Electric, for instance, has $515 billion in debt and only $16 billion in cash in the bank. This is appropriate because GE uses the debt appropriately to build their business.
The value of the goods exchanged between states using the waterways exceeds $100 billion annually.
5 billion on telemarketing in 1999; by the end of the 1990s the value of goods and services sold by telephone had reached $150 billion in the United States and $750 billion worldwide.
3 billion in 1995 to $797.8 billion in 1996. That is an increase of 2.8 per cent -- the nominal rate of growth for 1996.
25 billion (CAD) agreement to refurbish, restart, operate and maintain the Bruce A nuclear facility (the largest nuclear facility in North America) ...
Treasury purchasing power of $700 billion to buy up mortgage backed securities (MBS) from institutions across the country, in an attempt to create liquidity and un-seize the money markets.
" This financing can often result in gross asset, principal or market values of $10 billion for an initial cash/equity position of $1 billion dollars. In some respects it is comparable to buying a house with borrowed money.
5-$2 billion. Mid-caps are larger than small-caps, but usually have a capitalization between $2-10 billion. Large-caps have a capitalization of over $10 billion. Many large-caps are also blue chip stocks.
These mantras are so ingrained in Wall Street and investor's minds that they have created multi-billion dollar industries.
Coca-Cola, the multi-billion-dollar empire, owes its astonishing business success almost entirely to the high value of its brand name. Here is another more down-to-earth example.
01 billion. Much of the hit was due to writing down bad investments, including Azurix and the bandwidth venture. USD 35MM of it was due to losses on transactions with LJM.
2 billion in the last quarter of 2008. In September 2008 Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were taken over by the U.S. government.
With billions of investment dollars going into mutual funds, insurance companies created a competing product called Variable Annuities that allows you to invest your money within investment portfolios called subaccounts.
You know the logic of ‘there are 80 billion Chinese people, if we sell just one tea bag to only 10% of them we'll make a lot of money'. Justify your assumptions, base them on as much research as you can.
Other major provisions of FIRREA include: $50 billion of new borrowing authority, with most financed from general revenues and the industry; meaningful net worth requirements and regulation by the OTS and FDIC; ...
With million in equity and billion in assets, Maple Trust is a growing national trust company focused on residential mortgage lending and deposit products.
In 2001, official aid was a little over $50 billion, roughly one quarter of the GDP of donor countries. On top of this were private-sector donations from NGOs (non-government organisations) worth an estimated $6 billion.
Apple's sales were about $12 billion in 1995. Over the next six years, the company's sales gradually declined, leveling to about $5 billion in 2001, when it introduced the iPod.
Everyday trade to the amount of billions of dollars takes place in markets around the world; this trade could be of currency (foreign exchange), goods or commodities and stocks of different companies.
The Collections System, a part of Customs' Automated Commercial System, controls and accounts for the billions of dollars in payments collected by Customs each year and the millions in refunds processed each year.
Lynch's strong track record at Magellan drew investors at a rapid rate, and by 1983 the fund's assets topped $1 billion. During the 13 years Lynch ran the fund, Magellan outperformed the annual return of the S&P 500 stock index 11 years.
The numbers are expressed in millions, so $10,000 means $10 billion. You can use this number to determine the relative size of a company and as a tool to help you diversify among companies of different sizes.
During the 1970s and 80s, the WPPSS financed the construction of five nuclear power plants through the issuance of billions of dollars worth of municipal bonds.
There are no fixed cutoff points for large-, mid-, or small-cap companies, but you may see a small-cap company valued at less than $1 billion, mid-cap companies between $1 billion and $5 billion, ...
Russell manages US$910 billion in assets (as of Sept 30, 2008) and advises clients worldwide whose assets represent more than US$910 billion (as of Sept. 30, 2007).
NYSE Euronext has the capacity to trade up to 10 billion shares per day.
This is the stock of large, established companies, with market capitalizations in the billions of dollars.
For example, Fund A has more than $2 billion in net assets, with a median market cap of $863 million.
Motorola developed a quality-focused management approach that is responsible for billions of dollars in savings. So popular is the approach, that it has been trademarked by Motorola.
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