Sentences with phrase «as cents on the dollar»

Have your lender explain your cost as cents on the dollar (you pay back 7 cents for every dollar borrowed) or as the total cost of the loan.

Have your lender explain your cost as cents on the dollar (you pay back 7 cents for every dollar borrowed) or as the total cost of the loan.

$ 209 / 20,000 miles would be a return of 1.05 %, or about the same as a cent on a dollar.

Not exact matches

U.S. welfare systems, Tanner says, tend to pull a person's benefits all at once as soon as they get a job — so much so that a person on welfare who gets a job will only see an increase of about five cents for every new dollar they earn from that job.

Oil prices slid more than one per cent on Tuesday as the US dollar remained near a four - month high, but worries that US President Donald Trump will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal underpinned the market.

While Chase markets the card as «cash back,» it actually earns Ultimate Rewards points that you can redeem for cash (1 point = 1 cents), so that's 1.5 Ultimate Rewards points on every dollar spent.

«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.

Margins are always expressed as cents on every sales dollar.

The company's lone outstanding junk bond, worth $ 1.8 billion and maturing in 2025, briefly dropped two points to as low as 85 cents on the dollar for a yield of around 8 percent on Monday, according to MarketAxess data.

With an eye to the future, he bought used furniture at auctions and from companies that were going out of business, for as little as 10 cents on the dollar.

As the Government Accountability Office explains, the markets began quoting prices in decimal increments rather than fractions of a dollar, while the minimum price increment was reduced to a penny on the stock market (and 5 or 10 cents on the options market).

Meanwhile, in Detroit, the city initially classified its general obligation bonds as unsecured debt before settling with creditors for less than 100 cents on the dollar.

Morneau said the numbers are startling as women still earn 88 cents for every dollar earned by men on an hourly basis.

Using the Plausible Deniability defense, they claimed that they weren't even in the loop when it came to paying AIG enough to turn around and pay Goldman Sachs and other arbitrageurs 100 cents on the dollar for securities worth about a fifth as much.

Australia's dollar is poised to drop another 5 per cent this year as the central bank stays on hold while the Federal Reserve keeps raising interest rates, Goldman Sachs Asset Management says.

• The $ 702 million worth of bonds that WeWork sold last week have dropped in price to as low as 95.25 cents on the dollar, which may make future borrowing harder.

Of every dollar a full - service restaurant brings in, it spends roughly a third on food and alcohol; another third on salaries, wages and benefits; up to 10 cents on rent; and up to 20 cents on other costs such as marketing, according to studies by restaurant associations.

Today's startups may take many forms: some are run as side hustles on shoestring budgets, while others may be backed by venture capitalists at multi-million dollar valuations even before a cent of revenue is generated.

The bulk of this has been due to the exchange rate against the Japanese yen, as the yen has fallen sharply on world markets, including a fall of about 50 per cent against the US dollar from its peaks in mid 1995.

As discussed in the chapter on «International and Foreign Exchange Markets», the Australian dollar has continued to appreciate over recent months, rising on a trade - weighted basis by 5 per cent since early November and 21 per cent over the past year.

Why couldn't the Fed and Treasury do for Lehman what they did with other Wall Street investment firms and stock brokers: let it reclassify itself as a bank so it could pawn off its junk mortgages at the Fed's discount window for 100 cents on the dollar, sticking taxpayers with the loss?

This means that other than BMI's operating expenses, which are approximately 12 cents on every dollar, all of the money collected from licensing fees is paid out as royalties to songwriters.

Accolade is still 20 per cent owned by New York Stock Exchange - listed Constellation Brands which bought the entire wine business for $ 1.9 billion in 2003 when it was known as BRL Hardy, and then sold down most of its stake in 2011 for a much lower multiple after a sustained slump in profits as the high Australian dollar hit profit margins on exports.

Shares in Treasury Wine Estates, the world's biggest listed winemaker and owner of brands such as Penfolds, Wolf Blass and Rosemount, have rocketed nearly 15 per cent this morning on rumors that global French drinks giant Pernod Ricard could be circling to snap up key assets of the business including its billion dollar US vineyards and wine labels.

Exports to China slipped by 7.6 per cent to $ 223 million as a combination of austerity measures imposed by the Chinese government to limit spending by government officials and organisations on luxury products, and a higher dollar, hit sales.

Not only will The Wellness Impact help you make your case for the positive impact school breakfast has on student cognition and behavior, it can help you make your «dollars and cents» case as well; BIC often has a dramatic impact on participation numbers at breakfast, which means leaving fewer federal reimbursement dollars on the table.

The notion that females earn 79 cents for every dollar earned by men for doing the same work, an article of faith for feminists and the Obama administration, has been debunked as often as the much - repeated nonsense that a «rape epidemic» exists on college and university campuses.

Take the money you'll save on the shorter coverage period and buy a shorter waiting period, benefit for home care (as many policies pay out only 50 cents on the dollar for long - term - care at home), and compound - inflation protection riders.

Almost all the clothes and accessories in the new Regent Street store are on sale for the same amount of pounds as dollars, meaning a $ 350 (# 219) black blazer is retailing at # 350 — an increase of 60 per cent.

Cite Coney Island, as writer scripter Nick Hornby does in a screenplay based on Colm Toibin's novel, and you think of how your dad gave you a dollar in 1945, about the same amount as your friends received from their folks, an amount which gave us four hours of fun in Coney Island where Nathan's hot dogs were fifteen cents and a bag of fries the same.

In Buffalo, charter kids are treated as 3/5 — receiving only 60 cents on the dollar compared to district students.

Charter educators and families in Buffalo (where the disparity is greatest at 60 cents on the dollar) recently held an event where they decried being treated as three - fifths of a person — harkening back to another kind of insidious discrimination enshrined in law.

These brave charter school parents argue the state funding formula results in their children receiving only 60 to 75 cents on every dollar and no facilities funding denies them access to a sound basic education, as required by the New York State Constitution.

These brave charter school parents argued the state funding formula results in their children receiving only 60 to 75 cents on every dollar and no facilities funding denies them access to a sound basic education, as required by the New York State Constitution.

I do think it means a little more when you're selling most of your books at 5 dollars instead of 99 cents as some of the indies on that list have done.

As a reference, I sell pdf and ePub versions of The Variant and only give up 11 cents on the dollar.1

It's not as good a reading experience as on the Kindle, but since I can get 99 cent books for 99 cents, and not 3.74 dollars which is what Amazon charges for them, then that's a saving worth making.

You note that print returns «20 cents of profit on each dollar» versus 52.5 cents for ebooks, more than 2-1/2 as much.

As I noted this past January in Sixteen Cents: Pushing the Unstable Limits of Monetary Policy, a collapse in short - term yields to nearly zero is a predictable outcome of QE2, based on the very robust historical relationship between short - term interest rates and the amount of cash and bank reserves (monetary base) that people are willing to hold per dollar of nominal GDP:

With only approximately $ 600 as a margin deposit, you could go long 1 corn futures contract with your Altavest Worldwide Trading, Inc. broker and if the price of the corn contract rose 30 - cents, you would reap the same dollar reward... $ 1,500... earning 250 % on margin, (less fees & commissions).

They simply sell these debts at a reduced price (sometimes as low as 5 cents on the dollar), knowing that if challenged, the third - party debt collection company may lose money due to the debt being legally uncollectible.

As an example, after an accounting scandal and a Chapter 11 bankruptcy at the giant telecommunications company Worldcom, in 2004 its bondholders ended up being paid 35.7 cents on the dollar [30].

The collection agency purchases bad debt for pennies on the dollar, literally pennies on the dollar (as low as 0.2 cents in some instances).

Credit card accounts are sold for as low as 5 - 10 cents on the dollar.

Cash buyers are able to buy properties directly from banks for as little as 50 cents on the dollar.

Recent debts can be purchased for.6 to.7 cents on the dollar and older accounts can be purchased for as little as.2 cents on the dollar.

okay here's my two cents worth folks im up for renewal and have just nagotiated a rate 5 yr variable1.75 persent or if i want a five yr fixed at 4.49 still quite a gap between fixed and variable here i believe i have a little lee way here apparently i was only interesed in variable and five yr fixed but i made it absulutly apparent to them that when lock in from a variable i get the whosale discounted rate at that time and written into the contract i kinda believe this the way the market is heading as we head out of ressesion and the bank of canada is going to make there move i believe coming up in june and just to make this firm i do not believe the boc will raise rates in fast mode far from it will be slow process i don't care what the ecconmists are thinking we have to remember manufactering sector is reallt taking a hit on the high dollar and don't forget our niegbours to the south how dependent our canada is with them i believe it will be a slow process a lot of people heve put themselves in a debt load over these enormously low interest rates but i may be wrong i think a variable is the way to go if you want to work on that princibal at least should i say the say the short to medium term and betting that the bond markets stay put for the short to medium term - i have given enough interest to the banks maybe i can pay a little less at least fot the short to mediun term here i have not completly decided yet put i think im going variable although i wish my mtge was up a year ago that would have been just great congradulations to all that did.

The CEO, Wasilenkoff, appears to be a great wheeler - dealer, buying assets for cents on the dollar, and hopefully a great capital allocator as well.

Women as a collective tend to earn much less than men (about 75 to 80 cents on the dollar).

Imagine that after only seeing a credit report and some preliminary information the creditors make what you might consider a high debt settlement offer such as 75 cents on the dollar.