Sentences with phrase «as higher household»

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YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories, May 1 (Reuters)- Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz said on Tuesday there is good reason to believe the central bank can manage the risks of Canada's high household debt, even as he signaled that interest rate hikes will continue, increasing the cost of that debt.

«In general, higher income households receive larger average tax cuts as a percent age of after - tax income, with the largest cuts as a share of income going to taxpayers in the 95th to 99th percentiles of the income distribution,» TPC's report said.

TORONTO, May 1 - The Canadian dollar fell to a four - week low against its U.S. counterpart on Tuesday before paring its decline, as Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz said the outlook for the domestic economy is good despite the overhang of high household debt.

Hourglass Cosmetics isn't exactly a household name, but the high - end brand is starting to make its mark as a reliable, high - quality standard in Sephora, Nordstrom, or Bergdorf Goodman stores.

He said the concern for highly indebted households will become larger as rates rise, but said higher rates will also reflect an economy on solid ground.

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories, May 1 - Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz said on Tuesday there is good reason to believe the central bank can manage the risks of Canada's high household debt, even as he signaled that interest rate hikes will continue, increasing the cost of that debt.

In many cases, rural households don't have the necessary speeds to stream high - definition video or they're saddled with low monthly usage caps that don't play well with the heavy bandwidth demands that HD content such as House of Cards have.

And as organizations such as the IMF and the OECD have constantly warned, high household debt renders the country far more vulnerable to economic shocks.

The mountainous «spine» of central California, as Ms. Eggman likes to call it, is very different from the coast: there are more low - income households, higher electricity bills, and more expensive estimates for solar panel installation.

U.K. PMI services data also came in lower than expected as a national election has derailed investment decisions and higher inflation has hit households, Reuters reported.

«I also found households in the highest - income bracket that when you examined their other circumstances it would be difficult to think of them as high income or «rich.»»

In the October report, there were five: stronger - than - expected U.S. growth; higher - than - expected oil prices; the possibility that weak business investment had altered the economy's potential; slower growth in less advanced economies such as China; and a tilt to saving from spending by Canada's heavily indebted households.

As the demand for housing has grown to far exceed the existing supply, many urban neighborhoods that have long served as a home for mostly low - and moderate - income households are now seeing an influx of higher - income households; in other words, they are experiencing gentrificatioAs the demand for housing has grown to far exceed the existing supply, many urban neighborhoods that have long served as a home for mostly low - and moderate - income households are now seeing an influx of higher - income households; in other words, they are experiencing gentrificatioas a home for mostly low - and moderate - income households are now seeing an influx of higher - income households; in other words, they are experiencing gentrification.

«For decades, households in Ontario had incomes as much as 20 per cent above the Canada average, and 10 per cent higher as recently as the turn of the century.

For these households, the proportion of their income going to energy is three times as high as it is for households with an income above $ 50,000.

Not only is she setting an example for her daughter as a busy executive who prioritizes spending high quality time with her children, her son sees his father helping in the kitchen and with other household matters.

Consumer purchases have been slowing down in recent months as households face higher costs for borrowing, stricter mortgage rules and large debt loads.

Her TriLinc Global Impact Fund, with individual investments as low as $ 2,000, is among only a handful of financial vehicles available to «retail» investors, the approximately 50 million U.S. households who don't qualify as high net - worth, or «accredited,» investors.

The International Monetary Fund is the latest voice to suggest high household debt will act as a drag on economic growth in the years ahead.

The central bank has concerns about the ability of households to keep paying down their high levels of debt when interest rates continue their rise, as is widely expected over the coming months.

On the household - debt - to - disposable - income ratio, some experts see it as just one number out of many and insist that consideration must be given to the composition of the debt, such as how much of it is high risk.

At a price tag roughly $ 15,000 higher than the median household income in the U.S., I guess you'd expect as much.

The Rock, a household name and one of the highest - grossing actors in Hollywood, is singing his 16 - year - old daughter's praises as she takes on an exciting new role during this year's award season.

Poloz said there is good reason to believe the central bank can manage the risks of Canada's high household debt, even as he signaled that interest rate hikes will continue, increasing the cost of that debt.

However, it actually has the lowest tax as a percentage of income — 14.5 percent — because the median household income is higher here than in West Virginia.

Georgia ranks 17th for total taxes paid but 15th for taxes paid as a percentage of income because the median household income is higher here than in some states with lower tax burdens.

Vulnerabilities in the household sector continue to edge higher while overall risks to financial stability are evolving as expected.

Housing affordability is calculated as a share of household income, so a higher number means housing is less affordable.

However, in comparison to households that only hold owner - occupier debt, there is evidence that investors tend to accumulate higher savings in the form of other assets (such as paying ahead of schedule on a loan for their own home, as well as accumulating equities, bank accounts and other financial instruments).

At first, ordinary and poor households are worse off and wealthy households are better off, in other words, but as the benefits of higher investment are realized, wealth trickles down to ordinary and poor households so all are better off.

But if households retain a low share of everything they produce, with governments and businesses getting the rest, then again, whether they are as thrifty as ants or as spendthrift as grasshoppers, their total consumption will be a low share of total GDP, and the country's total savings, which is equal to GDP minus consumption, will be a high share.

Likewise, the disinflationary tailwind of lower oil and gas prices should provide a much greater disposable income boost to lower income households than higher income groups, as the former generally spend a larger share of income on energy.

Median home values are 613 percent higher and median household incomes are 328 percent higher than Ohio as a whole, but the cost of living in The Village of Indian Hill is just 108 percent higher than the rest of the state, according to AreaVibes.

Although homes in California — the city, not the state — are a bit pricey, the median home price is not as high as it could be, especially considering how high the city's median household income is.

This he presents unequivocally as good news, since it suggests an easing of high, mortgage - driven household debt levels that have been among Carney's more acute longstanding concerns about the Canadian economy.

In addition, rising home prices can create positive spillovers to the rest of the economy as higher home prices lift household wealth and reduce the number of homeowners with negative equity.

If we assume that disposable household income is currently half of GDP, eight years of real GDP growth of 6.9 % and real disposable household income growth of 7.7 % will only raise the household income share of GDP to 53.1 % in 2023, a little more than 3 percentage points higher and still below its 21st Century average and leaving China as dependent as ever on investment and the current account surplus.

Spain's household savings rate fell to its lowest level on record in the third quarter of last year as high unemployment and wage deflation in the latest recession obliged them to devote more of their disposable income to consumption, according to figures released Wednesday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).

Unless China is able, very improbably as I have argued, to reform the financial sector deeply enough and quickly enough, the cost of a more competitive (i.e. more highly subsidized) export sector is ultimately a rise in the debt burden, unless of course Beijing is willing to tolerate higher unemployment or to implement greater wealth transfers from the state to the household sector.

Meanwhile, as financial vulnerabilities in the household sector continue to edge higher, risks to financial stability are evolving as expected.

I have not seen addressed in Dr. Pettis» writing but given several statistics I have seen, I believe the business share of GDP is high at the expense of household's as a results of decades of policies.

In March 2013, as the stock market's Dow Jones Industrial Average set record highs, household and personal income were both down sharply from their 2007 peaks.

As the congressional debate over President Donald Trump's tax overhaul begins, more Americans say tax rates on corporations and higher - income households should be raised rather than lowered.

That said, I still agree that maxing out a 401K for low income households may not be as realistic as for higher earners.

Kevin Milligan says the case for raising the annual TFSA limit is shaky as the benefit will be mostly to high wealth households rather than those at the middle or bottom of the wealth distribution.

The small business tax rate, which is really the taxation rate for a Canadian - controlled private corporation (known as CCPC), is also used by high - income households as a form of income splitting with dividend distributions shared between spouses, Mintz said.

A substantial pickup in household formation has bolstered demand, which is expected to stay high through 2016, as millennials hunt for their own homes.

«The largest cuts, in dollars and as a percentage of after - tax income, would accrue to higher - income households,» TPC said.

Home buyers today have historically high levels of house - purchasing power, and that's one important reason why, even as unadjusted house price growth exceeds household income growth, the talk of an affordability crisis is over-stated for now.»

And, despite historically low interest rates, affordability measures such as the RBC Housing Affordability Index, which measures home ownership costs as a percentage of household income, remain stubbornly high.