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trillion

[tril-yuhn] / ˈtrɪl jən /


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More than half of that money, worth $3.9 trillion, is owned by foreigners, according to MUFG.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 3, 2026

Following on from the buyback bonanza noted above by Scott Rubner at Citadel Securities, here’s the breakdown of where this year’s $1.3 trillion of company share purchases may be going.

From MarketWatch ● Oct. 2, 2026

The San Francisco native built in just five years a company that could be valued at 2 trillion dollars when it goes public this fall.

From Barron's ● Oct. 2, 2026

Nuveen had already grown from $50 billion under management in 2008 to some $1.5 trillion this year, when the Schroders plan was announced.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026

In a year, it crosses nearly ten trillion kilometers, about six trillion miles, of intervening space.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan

The rate on the 10-year Treasury is closely watched, as it influences the cost of trillions of dollars in borrowing for consumers, companies and the U.S. government.

From MarketWatch ● Sep. 30, 2026

"This work opens a new direction to explore further the intricacies of the connection between the supermassive black holes trillions of miles from where we are to how we came to be here."

From Science Daily ● Sep. 30, 2026

Bets placed by traders on the central bank’s coming interest-rate decisions back futures contracts worth trillions.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026

“There are trillions and trillions of new images being generated now by AI,” Ingold said.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 28, 2026

Getting down to the level of quarks–the particles that make up particles–requires still more: trillions of volts of electricity and the budget of a small Central American nation.

From "A Short History of Nearly Everything" by Bill Bryson




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