Sentences with phrase «cent a year less»

If Jason continues to add $ 116 per month to his $ 60,000 RRSP, it will rise to $ 124,000 in 2017 dollars at his age 65 assuming a return of 6 per cent a year less 3 per cent for inflation.

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The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance of opinion between firms planning more spending on machinery and equipment versus those predicting less dropped to 17 per cent from 29 per cent in the summer and 35 per cent at the start of the year.

Continental posted net income of $ 233.9 million, or 63 cents per share, compared with $ 469,000, or less than a penny per share, in the year - ago quarter, when oil prices plummeted - and the company's production costs were higher.

For the quarter ended July 20, Dick's adjusted earnings were 96 cents a share, up from 82 cents a year ago, but less than the $ 1.00 expected by Wall Street and even its own forecast of $ 1.02 a share to $ 1.07 a share.

In July, the Bank of Canada estimated that 47 per cent of residential mortgages with the Big Six banks will be up for renewal in less than a year, with another 31 per cent due in the next one to three years.

But over the next few years, growth will slow to less than 2 per cent, in part due to the cooling housing market.

Less than 1 per cent of businesses paid half of Australia's corporate tax take in the year to June 2016, according to ATO data, while the financial services and resources industries were the biggest contributors.

This year's awards are open to all Australian business women that meet the entry criteria in the following categories: * Westpac Group Business Owner Award (owners with a 50 per cent share or more in a business, with responsibility for key management decision making); * Australian Government Private and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above criteria).

At first glance, the planned $ 600 million expansion of Perth's Karrinyup Shopping Centre seems to run counter to the relentless march of internet retailing, especially as a fresh report predicts that 50 per cent of all retail sales will be made over the internet in less than 10 years.

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.

In the January - March quarter, earnings are expected to climb less than 1 per cent compared with the year earlier, according to FactSet, a financial data provider.

During the first few months of the year the S&P 500 rose by less than 2 %, but Canadians who invested in the index are up more than 5 %, thanks to the loonie's fall to 90 cents (U.S.).

Same - store sales, a key performance metric that strips out volume at stores open for less than a year, grew 0.3 per cent at Tim Hortons, reversing two consecutive quarters of...

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

In October of last year, the loonie was trading at 77 cents to the U.S. dollar; today it's worth a dime less.

That is less than half the earnings per share of 31 cents in the same period a year ago, and down from FactSet's consensus estimate of 21 cents as of June 30.

The PBO and private sector economists are predicting that Canada's economic potential will average less than 2 per cent per year over the period to 2014 and beyond.

In the U.S., sales of compact cars and small crossovers jumped 40 per cent in March and April from the year before, and now account for nearly one - quarter of all sales, up from less than than 20 per cent last year, according to a report from Scotia Economics.

When they ran the printing presses to pay for the Korean War, it jumped from negative territory to nine per cent in less than a year.

Between 2002 and 2005, employment growth was restrained to less than one per cent per year.

As a share of total household sector disposable income, the cash flow effect in this scenario is estimated be less than 0.2 per cent on average per annum over each of the next three years (Graph 7).

Insights West's poll for Maclean's — conducted just as Morneau's problems were dominating the news late last month — found that 39 per cent of Canadians expect the Liberals to lose steam and accomplish less in the next two years — but 47 per cent still anticipate that the Trudeau government will pick up momentum and achieve more.

That represents a downgrade from January's outlook of 2.3 per cent growth forecast for this year, and it's less than the strong three per cent growth Canada experienced in 2017.

The cost of local and international calls has dropped a lot in recent years; some operators charge less than five cents a minute for local calls and from seven cents a minute for international calls.

Only a small minority (roughly 15 to 20 per cent) of middle - income Canadians retiring without an employer pension plan have saved anywhere near enough for retirement and the vast majority of these families with annual incomes of $ 50,000 or more will be hard pressed to save enough in their remaining period to retirement (less than 10 years) to avoid significant fall in income.

The graduating classes of 61 of the 100 programmes listed in 2010 reported an average salary increase of 60 per cent or less... The biggest salary increases were reported by those who changed employer but stayed in the same industry; they achieved an average increase of 61 per cent, reaching a salary of $ 174,300 three years after graduation.»

Heading into Independence Day weekend, gasoline is four cents less than a year ago.

Various measures of core or underlying inflation, which are less affected by these temporary factors, are also gradually increasing, and over the year to September were around 2 per cent.

In New South Wales, which accounts for one - third of employment, employment growth slowed to less than 1 per cent over the year to the December quarter.

A clear, although gradual, shift has occurred in respondents» medium - term inflation expectations, with the share of respondents expecting inflation to be less than 3 per cent per annum declining steadily since early last year.

Medium - term inflation expectations of financial market participants, as implied by the difference between nominal and indexed bond yields, have risen to around 3 per cent in October, from less than 2 per cent at the beginning of the year.

The REIA series which, unlike the ABS series, does not exclude the upper end of the market, but uses unmatched samples, rose by slightly less than 2 per cent in the June quarter and by just under 9 per cent over the year.

The weighted average of the MERs charged by the component ETFs works out to about 21 basis points per year, which means the Sleepy Portfolio costs about $ 275 every year or about 75 cents a day — less than half the cost of a large double - double these days.

But those supply gains will taper off to 2.5 per cent next year and average less than 2 per cent annually through 2030 as pipeline and regulatory hurdles curtail investments in the world's third - largest oil reserves, CAPP said.

If undertaken over five years, the 1.5 percentage point hike for employers would be just 0.3 per cent per year, which is less than ordinary year - to - year variations in wages.

The previous Liberal government having increased spending 47 per cent in its last six years in office; the Conservatives having increased spending another 19 per cent in its first three years («good times»), and a further 20 per cent over the next two («bad times»); after doubling spending, in short, in the space of a decade, the government's notion of restraint is more or less to leave it there.

In Vancouver, however, the price increase was 6.4 per cent a year, and the income increase was just 3.5 per cent — 0.4 per cent less than in the country as a whole.

While a low unemployment rate can indicate tight labour - market conditions, the 2017 average hourly wage of full - time and part - time employees combined grew by only 1.7 per cent — the lowest year - over-year growth since 1998 and more or less at the same rate as consumer price inflation.

A recent study commissioned by Real Estate Webmasters says that last year, 53 per cent of real estate professionals spent less than $ 5,000 on their annual marketing efforts, including both online and offline avenues.

Discovered several years ago by Japanese industry, this innovative technology allows for the use of up to 90 per cent less water to clean products — from floors to industrial machinery — through the injection of ultra-fine air bubbles into the water.

Starting Oct. 17, all buyers with high - ratio mortgages — less than a 20 per cent down payment — must qualify based on the five - year benchmark posted rate, even if they have negotiated a lower five - year fixed - ate term.

The company's gearing after the purchase is lower than originally expected, at less than 33 per cent rather than 35 per cent thanks to Lattice's strong operations and cash generation since July 1 last year when the deal took effect.

Jessica @ Making Sense of Cents writes How I eliminated my debt in less than 1 year — And I'm not talking about you cracking under the pressure of being frugal and racking up a bunch of credit card debt after a blackout shopping spree at Nordstrom (though that very well could happen to you).

According to the NAB quarterly business survey, mining companies increased their hedging of exposures from less than 10 per cent a year ago to just under 30 per cent in June (Table 7).

The fixed - weight deflator for private consumption rose by 1.5 per cent over the year to the December quarter, while the broader fixed - weight deflators also showed increases of less than 2 per cent.

At the retail level, prices of imported consumer goods fell in the year to the March quarter by just over 1 per cent; domestically produced goods prices are also rising more slowly than a year ago, but the slowing is less pronounced and, in the year to March, domestic goods prices rose by about 3 per cent.

For office workers, data from Mercer's December Quarterly Salary Review show a slight firming in the growth rate of base salaries, to around 4.3 per cent in year - ended terms, compared with slightly less than 4 per cent earlier in 2003.

With imports increasing by 40 per cent over the past year, and exports expanding only slightly less rapidly, the current pace of growth in China is providing impetus to activity in the region.

The average home or condo sold for 12.4 per cent less year over year in April with all types of resale houses and condos averaging $ 804,584 across the region.

Barclays found in March this year found 42 per cent of Brits now carry less cash on them than they did three years ago.