Sentences with phrase «cent a month ago»

Just 41 per cent of respondents in the Sunday Times poll said they thought he had been a good chancellor, down from 51 per cent a month ago, while 52 per cent think that he has done a bad job.

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The median household income in Canada is about $ 70,000, roughly 10 per cent more than a decade ago, according to census figures released last month.

This is up 6 cents from a week ago, 30 cents from a month ago and 97 cents from a year ago.

In Toronto, the report said prices increased 15 per cent, compared to 10 per cent six months ago.

The Toronto - based miner said adjusted net earnings for the quarter ended March 31 were $ 170 million, or 15 cents a share, compared with $ 162 million, or 14 cents a share in the same three - month period a year ago.

The miner said adjusted net earnings for the quarter ended March 31 rose to $ 170 million, or 15 cents a share, from $ 162 million or 14 cents a share in the same three - month period a year ago on the back of higher gold prices and lower depreciation.

TORONTO — Housing sales in the Greater Toronto Area were down by less than one per cent in June compared with the same month a year ago, while the average selling price was up by 4.7 per cent at $ 531,374, according to a report by Toronto Real Estate Board.

A recent study released by Nielsen Media Research showed that click - through rates for banner ads had dropped from 2 per cent to 0.5 per cent, and just months ago many were engraving tombstones for the five year old banner.

This is a much better outcome than was expected 12 months ago, when the IMF was forecasting growth of just 2 per cent.

That last drop, of nearly 13 per cent, occurred over four days, a shift that a decade ago might have occurred over the span of months.

A few months ago, the French government decided to hold on to a 10.1 per cent in the Toulouse - Blagnac airport — denying a purchase by Casil, the Chinese consortium which already owns 49.9 per cent of the airport.

Gasoline prices have been moving up steadily with the price of oil, and are now up 33 cents from last year's levels and almost 20 cents from just a month ago, according to AAA data.

Forecasters, including the Bank of Canada, are lowering their growth forecasts for 2015 to below 2 per cent, a far cry from the almost 2.5 per cent they were forecasting only a few months ago.

Today's national average is three cents cheaper than a week ago and eleven cents cheaper than a month ago.

Our forecast a few months ago for 2010 was that inflation, measured either in headline or underlying terms, would be in line with our 2 — 3 per cent target.

Just five months ago, the bank's new governor pledged that the BoE would not consider tightening monetary policy until unemployment fell to 7 per cent so long as inflationary pressures remained in check.

Inflation expectations of consumers, as measured by the Melbourne Institute, fell sharply from above 7 per cent in the months preceding the introduction of the GST to 4.6 per cent in July, around the levels recorded a year ago (Graph 42).

For the three months ended September, 2012, 35 per cent of new housing construction in Australia was in multiple units, up from 29 per cent five years early and 21 per cent two decades ago.

Just five months ago, Finance Minister Jim Flaherty publicly scolded both BMO and Manulife Financial for offering mortgages he deemed irresponsibly cheap, advising against a «race to the bottom,» as mortgage rates sank as low as 2.89 per cent.

Eighteen months ago, export values were growing at 25 — 30 per cent, with growth in prices and underlying quantities each contributing about half of the overall increase.

Inflation expectations, as measured by the difference between yields on 10 - year nominal Treasury notes and Treasury inflation protected securities (Tips), have risen to 2.25 per cent from a low of around 2.10 a month ago.

-- Frontier Communications (NYSE: FTR), now the largest rural telecom company in the U.S., has long been a favorite of mine, although it tested my devotion a few years ago when it cut its dividend twice in six months, from $ 1.00 a year to 40 cents.

In aggregate, commodity prices in the three months to July were 4.5 per cent lower than a year ago (Graph 41).

The RBA Commodity Price Index rose by 4.3 per cent in SDR terms in the three months to October, driven by rises in the prices of rural goods and base metals, to be 1.7 per cent higher than a year ago (Graph 48).

Moneris, which facilitates card payments for 220,000 Canadian merchants, said last month that its purchases over its systems increased by about 5 per cent in the first quarter from the same period a year ago, following the pattern that the company has observed for the past few years.

MONTREAL — The Greater Montreal Real Estate Board says area home sales in April were up 10 per cent compared with a year ago as they recorded their highest mark for the month in eight years.

Lion reported a 13 per cent drop in operating profit to $ 334.7 million for the six months ended March 31 after losing the rights to sell the imported beer brand Corona a year ago.

However, the price of CCA's Mt Franklin 1.5 - litre water has fallen by 18.5 per cent at Coles and the price of 750 ml Pump water is flat compared with a month ago, indicating a 6 per cent price reduction.

Longtable, which was previously known as Primary Opinion until a name change three months ago, paid $ 15 million for a 48 per cent stake in Maggie Beer Products in mid-2016.

Other companies such as goats milk formula company Nuchev and its Oli6 brand are making strong headway as they eye a potential ASX listing, while Bubs Australia has been on a wild ride from 14 cents in mid-June to $ 1.07 a month ago, and is now back to 75 cents.

Lion boss Stuart Irvine, who was in Geelong on Monday morning to launch the nation's biggest brewer's new Little Creatures brewery, said his company's lightening purchase of a 10 per cent stake in takeover target WCB two months ago would deliver it a «seat at the table» and influence over the direction of the outcome.

ComRes puts the possibility of a hung Parliament at about 35 per cent, up from 15 per cent six months ago.

Not bad for a party that slumped to 29 per cent of the vote less than nine months ago.

Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia on Saturday, announced a GH cents 185, 000 compensation package for the family of late Chief Inspector, Emmanuel Ashilevi who was killed by some armed robbers in a raid on the Kwabenya Police Station two months ago.

Twelve months ago half the patients admitted for routine surgery waited more than 18 weeks, 12 per cent of them for more than a year.

Apart from my hair, which, 18 months ago, I chopped myself from elbow - length to a one - length, slightly ragged (because cutting ones hair at 2 am does that, and I have continued to do so ever since but earlier in the day) bob just above my jawline and which I just sweep behind my ears everyday to air - dry, there are a few tried and trusted items I'll wear ninety per cent of my waking hours.

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80 per cent of respondents said they believed the situation was worse or significantly worse than 12 months ago, with 73 per cent reporting that they have had to use supply teachers to fill vacancies and 71 per cent saying they have had to use non-specialists — those without a degree in the relevant subject — to teach classes.

Some 8.6 per cent of students abandoned higher education after 12 months during the 2010/11 academic year - the highest figure since records began 10 years ago.

The government consulted 18 months ago on having 90 per cent of children study the EBacc subjects at GCSE.

The ASCL survey results, which have prompted a call for action from the union's interim general secretary Malcolm Trobe, pictured, also showed that nearly nine in 10 respondents had experienced difficulties in recruiting teachers, and almost 73 per cent said the situation was «worse» or «much worse» than 12 months ago.

The Jaguar brand sold 10,868 units in August, up 104 per cent from the year - ago month, reflecting the strong launch of the F - PACE as well as continued solid sales of the XE, it added.

Concerned with having enough gasoline this summer, companies are paying 91 cents to $ 1.30 a gallon on the spot market — up considerably from 77 cents to $ 1.11 cents a gallon only a month ago.

Florida gas prices barely budged in the past month, according to the American Automobile Association.The auto club's monthly survey showed that the average price for self - serve regular unleaded decreased only 0.1 cent from the January price of $ 1.292 per gallon.Prices remain about 18 cents higher than they were a year ago.

But I had a special promotion for my indie books with B&N about 16 months ago, a Nook Spotlight that featured a 99 - cent 1st - in - a-series book of mine and the three other books that followed in that series.

Vancouver, formerly Canada's hottest housing market, saw benchmark home prices rise 13 per cent last month from a year ago, the Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver said on Tuesday.

The MLS home price composite benchmark price for Metro Vancouver was $ 906,700, 14 per cent higher than what it was a year ago, but down 2.8 per cent from six months ago, after the tax on foreign buyers took effect.

TransUnion says the ratio of accounts 90 or more days past due increased to 2.52 per cent in the first three months of the year from 2.45 per cent in the same period a year ago.

It was just nine months ago that Ontario scrapped the Clean Energy Benefit, which provided a 10 - per - cent reduction on all parts of electricity bills, including the HST.

Royal LePage CEO Phil Soper says the housing correction in Vancouver began seven months ago, around the time that the B.C. government introduced a 15 per cent tax on foreign nationals buying real estate in the city.