Sentences with phrase «cent cuts on»

A 25 per cent cut on our preferred baseline is at least as good as what any other country is offering.

In fact, a global agreement for a 15 per cent cut on 2000 emissions totals by 2020 may be overly optimistic given the world financial situation.

The Australian target of a 5 - 15 per cent cut on 2000 levels corresponds to a reduction of 4 - 14 per cent on 1990 levels.

Not exact matches

St. Louis - based Anheuser - Busch, the largest U.S. brewer, said earlier this month it had cut its water use by 32 per cent in the last five years by sponsoring preservation initiatives in water basins critical to its breweries, and by installing U.S. Department of Agriculture real - time weather and crop water - use data meters on suppliers» farms.

Fasten differentiates itself by taking a 99 - cent cut of every ride facilitated on its service, unlike Uber and Lyft, which both take percent cuts of every fare.

Kouzina takes a six per cent cut from every item sold on the app.

The app targets home cooks like parents who are making lunch for their kids and can easily put together a few more portions to «make some cash on the side,» said Puci, who will take a five per cent cut from chefs using the platform.

But his «safe hands on the economy» message cut through in the end, with the coalition winning a majority of seats in 1998 despite Labor winning 51 per cent of the two - party vote.

Failure of prices to recover raises the prospect of even deeper cuts to investment by oil and gas companies next year and would likely result in Canada's economy remaining on a slower growth path than the 2.2 per cent pace we are expecting.»

WestJet (TSX: WJA) says its entry into a new market typically lowers fares by up to 50 per cent and the arrival of Encore is already causing Air Canada to respond with its own fare cuts on some of the routes.

Earnings estimates for the 2018 fiscal year are being revised upwards by some analysts to account for the impending bump from recent interest rate hikes and a U.S. corporate tax cut from 35 per cent to 21 per cent that took effect on Jan. 1.

The price was above BlackBerry's recent value on public markets, following the company's announcement Friday that it will cut about 40 per cent of its global workforce, about 4,500 jobs, and record a writedown of nearly $ 1 billion.

Analyst Josh Sullivan at Sterne Agee CRT said that while Alcoa's value - added businesses gained ground in the aerospace and automotive markets during the third quarter, declines in premiums and alumina pricing keeps him cautious on the company, and prompted him to cut his 2015 EPS estimate this week to 71 cents from 83 cents and his 2016 outlook to 72 cents from 90 cents.

In the ads, Thicke — a Canadian who played the father on the hit»80s sitcom Growing Pains — pitches the idea that, with Cambridge Life, consumers can cut their unsecured debts by up to 70 per cent.

But instead of increasing spending on post-secondary education, Advanced Education Minister Murray Coell recently announced he's saving $ 16 million by cutting college and university budgets by 2.6 per cent.

On the cost side, the same increase in the policy rate might cut output by up to 1 per cent and push inflation down by 0.5 percentage point relative to what it would have been otherwise.

A new Melbourne hotel will set new design standards in energy efficiency to help cut as much as 25 per cent of its energy consumption, drawing on a $ 39 million investment commitment from the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC).

Seventy - one per cent said they'd been forced to cut back on other expenses, while 64 per cent were driving less and just over half cancelled their vacation plans to stay closer to home.

BC Hydro will cut its proposed rate hike in half over the next three years, from 30 per cent to 16 per cent, following a government panel review on Thursday.

The Star reports Tuesday that BlackBerry has cut its smartphone production by another 10 per cent on top of a 50 per cent drop in June that lowered output to one million units a month.

It also confirmed it would introduce a 3 per cent tax on company dividends, increase wealth and inheritance taxes and abolish a tax «shield» — or ceiling — for the wealthy in its effort to meet its targets of cutting the budget deficit to 4.5 per cent of gross domestic product this year and 3 per cent in 2013.

The minister who took an axe to the CBC this week, cutting its funding by 10 per cent, unapologetically clung to the idea of being a champion of the arts on Thursday, touting a budget that slashed his own department's operations while shielding the Canada Council for the Arts, national museums and others from funding cuts.

Most economists are tipping the central bank will stay on hold until at least August, while financial markets are pricing in an only 8 per cent chance of a rate cut tomorrow, moving up to a more than 100 per cent chance of more easing by the end of the year.

The Liberal government spends only five per cent of the province's GDP on agri - food (far below the national average of 14 per cent), cut thesuccessful Buy B.C. program, and in 2009 cut theAgriculture and Lands budget by 25.4 per cent.

Export growth has eased a little, following the surge in December 2003 as exporters sought to avoid the cut in tax rebates on 1 January, but growth over the year remains exceptionally strong at 43 per cent.

On Aug. 3, the Bank of England held interest rates steady and cut its economic growth forecasts for 2017 and 2018 to 1.7 per cent and 1.6 per cent, respectively.

The 10 per cent that we cut off has the most carbon in it, so we put that carbon back in the ground,» chief operating officer Mark Little told the company's annual meeting on Wednesday.

Values of imports and exports soared, rising by around 50 per cent over the year to December as firms rushed to fill export orders ahead of the cut in export rebates on 1 January 2004 (Graph 9).

Beleaguered dairy group Murray Goulburn's decision to reverse its cut to farmgate milk prices appears to have done little to stem the tide of supplier defections, with the company revealing on Monday its milk intake for the 2018 financial year will be about 18 per cent lower than in 2017.

The plant's water recovery plant exceeded its designers» high expectations in its first year of service while also providing valuable biogas for boiler heating, reducing its dependence on fossil fuels and ultimately cutting overall energy needs by 15 per cent.

Murray Goulburn slashed its full - year earnings forecasts by 40 per cent on Wednesday and said it would cut the price it pays farmers for their milk to $ 4.75 to $ 5 a kilogram just two months after saying it would maintain the farm-gate price at $ 5.60 this season.

Masters of Spice responded to the CHOICE investigation by saying it has since cut all ties with its original supplier and it is now confident the oregano it is selling on supermarket shelves are 100 per cent oregano only.

Cutting profit guidance in mid-June, for the second time in four months, Woolworths said Australian food and liquor sales had fallen 0.7 per cent on a same - store basis in the quarter to date.

On Wednesday, Coles unveiled another round of price cuts in key grocery lines, slashing the price of 34 San Remo pasta products by between 20 and 25 per cent and Coles» top - selling chocolate chip cookies by 25 per cent.

Schweppes has raised prices in the route trade by 4 per cent and has cut back the depth of promotions in supermarkets, citing higher costs for aluminium, PET and PVC plastics, utilities and distribution, according to a Citigroup report on Monday.

The waste water treatment and green energy plant at the $ 120 million Pacific Beverages» Bluetongue Brewery in NSW also provides valuable renewable energy for the brewery, reducing its dependence on fossil fuels and ultimately cutting overall energy needs by 15 per cent.

Metcash's first - half underlying net profit fell 9 per cent to $ 101.7 million as the grocery, liquor and hardware wholesaler cut prices and spent more on marketing to drive sales growth.

Resorts were still crowded, the New York World's Fair cut admissions to 40 cents to attract returning vacationers to Flushing Meadow, and on September 22, while Bob Feller was winning his 22nd game for Cleveland, there was the rare phenomenon of blue skies being reported over the entire U.S..

According to IndyCar the new bodywork generates a whopping 66 per cent of its downforce from underneath the car (19 percent up on the current cars) and following distances have been cut in half, which should lead to much closer racing and more passing opportunities.

While the club still has net debts of around # 57m, overall debt has been cut this year, on the back of a strong performance, with TV money doubling to # 100m, and commercial revenue increased by 5 per cent to # 104m.

The tax rate would be cut 3 cents, from $ 1.09 to $ 1.06 per $ 100 assessed valuation, and will result in a tax reduction of $ 4.65 on a home valued at $ 75,000.

A modelling exercise for the Resolution Foundation by the Institute for Employment Research and the Institute for Fiscal Studies finds that on the basis of annual average UK growth of 2.5 per cent from 2015 - 2020 — an optimistic scenario — and no further cuts in public spending, living standards will fall for low and middle income households by between 3 and 15 per cent (Brewer et al., 2012).

Ten per cent of respondents said Labour's tougher line on cuts would make them more likely to vote for the party but 13 % said it would make them less likely.

«With almost 90 per cent of the cuts still to come the UK government seems hell bent on kicking the stuffing out of Britain while doing nothing to sort out the mess left by casino capitalism.

On the environment, Europe's target under the Kyoto protocol is to cut carbon emission by eight per cent by 2012, but Mr Cameron will warn that with just six years to go, emissions are down less than one per cent on 1990 levelOn the environment, Europe's target under the Kyoto protocol is to cut carbon emission by eight per cent by 2012, but Mr Cameron will warn that with just six years to go, emissions are down less than one per cent on 1990 levelon 1990 levels.

The brunt of the cuts fell on lower civil service grades, with some losing over 30 per cent of staff (more than 60,000 posts were lost among administrative officers and assistants) while staff in top grades (Grade 7 and above) showed a small net increase.

Based on his experience at the IMF, he commented on the remarkable depth of some of the fiscal squeeze cases discussed in the conference, given the political difficulty of cutting expenditure by more than 1 per cent of GDP per year.

No one wants to cut anything, yet everyone agrees that we can't keep borrowing 40 cents on the dollar.

Gordon Brown has made a bid for the votes of British firms today by promising to cut the regulatory burden on business by 25 per cent.

And Mr Huhne warned that instead of taxing polluting behaviour, chancellor Gordon Brown had «done the opposite - he has cut taxes on polluters by 20 per cent and put up taxes on income».