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«About 30 per cent of all workers» compensation claims are to do with manual handling, for example back injuries,» Ms McGowan said.

More than 74 per cent of the 4.3 million BlackBerry devices that landed in user's hands in the quarter were its older BlackBerry 7 models, the financial report showed.

The biggest casualty of that shakeout has unquestionably been Canada's BlackBerry, which has seen its once - commanding position atop the smartphone pile dwindle to less than one per cent global market share.

A «currently discussed» option is for first home buyers to receive interest rates at two per cent below the standard variable rate for up to two or three years.

According to WorkSafe statistics, there are about 126,000 small businesses in WA, accounting for 96.5 per cent of all private sector businesses.

For all of 2012, the economy grew 2.2 per cent after a 1.8 per cent increase in 2011 and a 2.4 per cent advance in 2010.

Neither existed in Germany or the Netherlands just a few years ago, but they now account for 17 per cent and 32 per cent of their respective markets, the analysis firm says.

China's share of value - added in U.S. automobile imports rose to 7.3 per cent in 2011 from almost nothing in 1995.

Henderson - based contractor Civmec lifted profit to $ S10.4 million ($ A10 million) for the first half of the financial year, up 59 per cent, on the back of a big surge in revenue.

Another 16 per cent said the time they spent watching content online and on TV was about the same.

Cartwright is part of a growing trend of self - employed and contract workers which, according to some US figures, make up nearly 15 per cent of the workforce and is expected to climb to nearly 20 per cent by 2020.

-- one per cent in the near future, we're in a lot of trouble.

Constellation Brands, the owner of Corona and a large number of wine and spirits labels, purchased a 9.9 per cent stake in Canopy Growth Corp. for $ 245 million this week.

It said production in the three months ended March 31 fell by about 10 per cent to 300,400 boe / d compared to the first quarter of 2017.

Consumer spending drives 70 per cent of economic activity.

WESTERN Australia's hotels increased their total earnings by 20 per cent in the past financial year despite low occupancy rates.

On a per - share basis, the New York - based company said it had a loss of 1 cent.

Microcap fund manager Acorn Capital has increased its stake in listed Perth - based financial planning firm Plan B Group Holdings to control almost 10 per cent of the voting power.

Its closest rival, AT&T, is seeing revenue increases of around four per cent.

Even though they're spending $ 900 million over five years to satisfy the NDP, the cash - strapped Liberals are making right - leaning promises to limit spending growth to 1.8 per cent a year, rebalance the books in 2017 - 18 and have no new taxes.

For the poorest 20 per cent among us, that's roughly 2.4 per cent of income; for the richest 20 per cent, it's barely 0.5 per cent.

In Canada, the latest data from Statistics Canada shows that self - employment rose by 23,400 in June as the unemployment rate rose to 7.1 per cent in June.

Chinese direct investment in the European Union jumped by 77 per cent last year to more than 35 billion euros (US$ 38 billion), compared with 2015, while EU acquisitions in China fell for the second consecutive year, according to the Rhodium Group.

The Canadian dollar was up 0.08 of a cent to 96.46 cents US as inflation came in at an annualized rate of 1.2 per cent, which was in line with expectations.

Western Australia's house price index has risen 2.7 per cent in the June quarter, in line with the national upward trend, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said today.

Shares in scooter manufacturer Vmoto have dived 20 per cent today after the company announced on Friday it expected to record a $ 2.24 million loss for the first half of the 2011 financial year.

Shares dropped more than 5 per cent in morning trading Tuesday and one analyst that follows the company stripped it of its «Buy» rating.

The 13.16 per cent tax rate for incomes above $ 514,000 will now apply to incomes above $ 220,000.

That's down 5.5 per cent since 2008.

That's led to cases where some firms, such as Canopy Growth Corp., have reported gross margins in excess of 100 per cent.

The last time prices were increasing at a slower rate than one per cent was May 2015, when the headline CPI increased only 0.9 per cent.

The company insisted it had not changed the specifications for the clothing, but is warning of a shortage of the extraordinarily popular clothing items, which make up about 17 per cent of all women's pants and crop pants in its stores.

Oil has dropped more than six per cent since closing at a two - year high of $ 110.53 on Sept. 6.

The stock lost 6.3 per cent at C$ 93.93, just above a 52 - week low.

Statistics Canada's Consumer Price Index rose one per cent in June from a year earlier, as cheaper gasoline allowed Canadians to stretch their paycheques, the agency reported July 21.

The 0.4 per cent growth rate for the gross domestic product, the economy's total output of goods and services, was the weakest quarterly performance in almost two years and followed a much faster 3.1 per cent increase in the third quarter.

(Prices of passenger vehicles dropped 0.2 per cent in June, the first decline since February 2015.)

The Bombardier announcement helped push the industrial segment down almost one per cent.

New vehicle sales in Western Australia registered a slight increase in March compared with the same month last year, while sales for the 12 months to March were up 5.3 per cent on the prior year, according to the latest data from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries.

Zions Bancorp — Zions reported quarterly profit of $ 1.09 per share, beating the 82 cent consensus estimate.

With 90 per cent of Australians at risk of developing a chronic disease and the workplace being where most of us spend up to half our waking hours, it's only right employers become drivers of change.

Professional services firm Deloitte has posted a 15 per cent increase in revenue for the 12 months to May, as strong performance in its east coast operations offset challenging conditions in Western Australia.

Last week it stood by its plan to keep a key short - term interest rate near zero until unemployment drops below 6.5 per cent.

Edibles account for about 15 per cent of sales in the U.S., and infused beverages account for just seven per cent of that share.

Canadian sales decreased 2.5 per cent to US$ 283.8 million.

Rather, the board's official go - ahead will hinge on whether customers agree to sign long - term contracts covering 60 per cent of the plant's planned production.

Statoil has a 65 per cent interest in the Harpoon discovery and the remaining 35 per cent is owned by Calgary - based Husky Energy (TSX: HSE).

The tech component fell 0.8 per cent with BlackBerry (TSX: BB) down 55 cents to $ 14.58.

A poll commissioned by Google and released in May suggested only 20 per cent of Canadians had ever made a mobile purchase and only 16 per cent expected to boost their mobile shopping in the following year.

Hiring intentions also slipped; the balance of opinion on adding workers versusus getting rid of them was 34 per cent compared with an off - the - charts 59 per cent in the previous quarter.