Six days and 85 billion euros later, I stand by that assessment.
"We have already in the first few days identified several billion pounds of costs involved in those regulations, " Business Minister Mark Prisk told MPs.
Volume had surged in recent days, topping 6 billion shares on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Soros buys 811 million stocks in pertobras 2 days before the 2 billion loan is given.
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Now multiply by 250 trading days and you hit a billion bucks just from BAC's daily paper chase.
These three billion dollar spending days currently rank as three of the four heaviest online spending days in history.
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Barra also revealed that while the first billion (of the 4.5 billion total) app downloads took two years, the most recent billion took just 60 days.
In a matter of days equity values shrank by several hundred billion dollars.
Capital One said its Venture card offer to match up to 100, 000 miles per customer hit one billion miles in just 25 days.
How on earth does one deploy a billion-dollar fund these days?
Technically, volume in the rally is very light, less than 0.8 billion shares traded daily on the NYSE, compared to as many as 1.6 billion on the down-days during the correction.
In fact, some reports suggest 1 billion euros had fled the country in recent days.
These days, people all over the earth generate more than 1 billion photos per day (using data from Jonathan Good).
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So when they lost their AAA rating they had to post a hundred billion dollars and change of collateral in a few days: enough to darn near bankrupt anyone.
But think again: The Earth has been around for 4.5 billion years -- which is 1.6 trillion days.
Linked into a 72-box system, video enough for 184 days on DVDs could be shipped in a second, or 3 billion phone calls could be connected at once.
And if 6 billion people used calculators 24 hours a day, seven days a week, it would take them 46 years to do what Roadrunner covers in a day.
The billion dollar question is THE question for consumer web startups these days.
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To put it into perspective, if you were to count one number every second, it would take you 31 years, 251 days, 7 hours, 46 minutes and 40 seconds to reach a billion.
What Gordon Moore observed back in the mid-1960s was that each generation of memory chips (in those days they could store a few thousand bits, compared to a few billion today), which appeared about every 18 months, had twice the storage capacity of the generation before.
This appears to be the mindset of the Air Force regarding its experimental X-37B space plane, the billion-dollar robotic vehicle's orbital flight being extended beyond the 270 days it was initially designed for.
In the waning days of the Clinton administration, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an edict that General Electric spend nearly half a billion dollars dredging the Hudson River to remove PCBs, which are supposedly carcinogenic.
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