Sentences with phrase «cent have large»

It's no surprise that the richest 1 per cent have large ecological footprints.

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.

Tap Oil shareholders have lodged a big protest vote, with more than 35 per cent of votes cast against three resolutions at today's annual meeting, with dissident shareholder Chatchai Yenbamroong accounting for a large share of the opposition.

In a speech in August, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Canada's economy is 2.5 per cent larger every year than it would be without NAFTA: «It is as if Canada has been receiving a $ 20 - billion cheque each year since NAFTA was ratified.»

As more and more bookstores have closed, Amazon is now believed to be the nation's largest bookseller, with an estimated 30 per cent of a total book market that PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates hit $ 34.9 billion last year, and 60 per cent of an e-book market that PwC pegged at $ 7.9 billion.

While Ja Rule had a larger following and more resources at the time, 50 Cent was able to use Ja Rule's success as a way to build credibility for himself.

«One of the largest increases in cocaine seizures in the past five years has been observed in Ecuador, where the amount of cocaine seized rose by over 242 per cent, amounting to 50 metric tons in 2014,» the UN's International Narcotics Control Board wrote in its 2015 report.

Shares of Potash Corp. and Mosaic Co., Canada's largest potash producers, both tumbled about 20 per cent after Uralkali forecast that its actions, including a plan to ship more potash to China, would result in a US$ 300 per tonne potash price, a far cry from the usual floor price of US$ 400.

«If you're saying is this something that really should be zero and even one or two per cent would offensive — and in fact it's five or 10 per cent — then that five or 10 could be a large number.

A company can run along, not making a cent, but if it has a large user base and reams of private information about those users, then it's valuable — and can be sold for millions.

Shorten told Nine last week that PHIs «are making 25 per cent profits» — which is just wrong (though why would we expect a former director of AustralianSuper with fiduciary duties over the nation's largest retirement fund to know the difference between a profit margin and a return on equity?)

As opposed to publicly listed private hospital operators Healthscope and Ramsay, whose margins have steadily grown from 15 per cent in FY11 to 18 and 17 per cent in FY17 collectively (bear in mind their vastly larger fixed - asset bases skew these figures in comparison with the capital - light insurers).

The critical issue here is that even though inflation rose and fell over the course of the cycle, price expectations did not move — even when inflation was running at 5 per cent, the community at large expected it would soon be back to its normal lower pace.

While that was a new low for Australian official interest rates — the previous low had been 4.75 per cent in the late 1990s — it was a relatively muted response compared with the very large cuts in interest rates that occurred elsewhere in the world.

The company claims to have captured over 60 per cent of the organised retail sector (over the past 4 years) to become the largest retail CRM provider in India.

Relative to the July Report, U.S. GDP growth in 2013 and 2014 has been revised up to 2.3 per cent and 3.2 per cent, respectively, owing to a larger policy response by the Federal Reserve than was previously expected.

A company insider told TTG Asia while it's true that smaller companies like Movenpick would benefit from a larger chain's distribution, clustering, procurement, HR strategies, customer retention, loyalty programmes, cash for key money to secure a trophy hotel in a key destination and so on, the source believed the sale was triggered by Kingdom Holding, which holds 33.3 per cent in Movenpick, not Swiss - based Movenpick Holding.

At the same time, some 70 per cent of government - issued bonds are yielding 1 per cent or less, and when you combine the equity / bond value of the 15 largest global markets they've never been more expensive.

If wage negotiations, for example, were to build in current low expected price increases — of the order of 2 to 3 per cent — that kind of behaviour would clearly produce better national outcomes than if larger increases (not backed by genuine productivity gains) were pursued and granted, only to be followed by a tightening of policy.

We have learned that the interest rates associated with 2 per cent inflation leave very little room to manoeuvre in response to large shocks.

«If a 25 per cent tariff is imposed on a large amount of goods... and the trade war perpetuates, collateral damage to Hong Kong would be unavoidable since we are an entrepôt and there are a lot of direct investments between us.»

Certainly, China's import market has grown, and thus 1.39 per cent today is larger in value than in 1999.

Goods and services exports account for 32 per cent of gross domestic product in Canada versus 13 per cent in the United States, which has the largest domestic economy in the world.

Turkey's largest city racks up a massive 55 per cent of the country's total trade production and although 35 billionaires — more than Paris, Tokyo or Dubai — have made their homes here, it is micro services that are forging ahead.

Recent negotiations have secured large increases in steaming coal contract prices for 2004 — reportedly as high as 70 per cent in US dollar terms — which will substantially increase prices received by exporters in coming months.

As a result of these trends, the external trade deficit has widened to 5.7 per cent of GDP, and imports are now around 60 per cent larger than the level of exports.

Highest Income Inequality — In January, B.C. Stats reviewed the data and found that B.C. has the largest income gap in Canada, with the bottom 20 per cent of British Columbians earning just 7.7 per cent of what the top 20 percent make, and well down from the 22 per cent seen in the 1990s.

Similarly, the Swedish Riksbank has cut its policy rate by a total of 75 basis points (in two steps) to 2 per cent, in the face of a larger - than - expected fall in inflation.

The unemployment rate in non-metropolitan areas has fallen more modestly, to 8.1 per cent, associated with a larger rise in labour force participation in non-metropolitan areas.

In the US, the S&P 500 is about 4 per cent below its July peak, but the bulk of stocks in the index have fallen by significantly more than this as investors, possibly reacting to concerns that share prices are overvalued, have tended to move into the larger «blue chip» stocks.

Comparing investor loans with owner - occupier loans, we can see that investors have a larger share of outstanding loans with current LVRs of 75 per cent or higher.

As a result, the relative wage in mining — that is, resource extraction — has risen by about 10 per cent (by far the largest increase of any single industry), after having trended lower over the decade leading up to the boom (Figure 12).

The central bank's foreign reserves have dropped by $ 36bn, or 5 per cent, over the past two months, as newly crowned King Salman bin Abdulaziz Al Saud dips into Riyadh's rainy - day fund and increases domestic borrowing to fund public - sector salaries and large development projects.

-- 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.

With most Asian currencies moving closely with the US dollar over the period, and these currencies having a large weight in the Australian dollar TWI, over 70 per cent of the TWI was in effect determined by movements in the US dollar.

Under this scenario, the cumulative decline in approvals would be 44 per cent, which, while large, would not be inconsistent with declines in previous cycles.

The small business indicator rate has been reduced to 9.8 per cent, from 11.3 per cent, while the large business indicator rate has fallen to 9.3 per cent from 10.8 per cent.

Another important, although more temporary influence on inflation recently has been a large rise in the price of food, which was up by 1.8 per cent in the December quarter, and by 3.4 per cent over the year.

The largest increase has taken place in Indonesia, where consumer prices over the year to July rose by around 70 per cent.

Corporate profits are very large as a share of GDP, having increased by 13.5 per cent in the December quarter, after being adversely affected in the previous quarter by hurricane - related losses (Graph 4).

Somewhat unusually, movements in the current account deficit (CAD) have recently been dominated by developments in the net income deficit (NID), with its sharp increase in the second half of 2004 pushing the CAD to 7.1 per cent of GDP in the December quarter, the largest since quarterly ABS data began in 1959.

Average equity prices in Asia are now 52 per cent above their 2003 lows, while Latin American equity prices have shown the largest rises, up an average 120 per cent from recent lows.

The profits recovery has been driven by continued strong productivity growth in conjunction with subdued compensation growth (due to the weak labour market), which has seen unit labour costs fall by 5 per cent since June 2001 — the largest fall on record (Graph A4).

The Wage Price Index (WPI) grew by 1.0 per cent in the December quarter, a slightly larger increase than had been seen in recent quarters, with the index 3.6 per cent higher over the year (Graph 58).

The report calculates that under a large - scale shift to renewable energy, power prices would climb by 6.3 per cent by 2023.

All three bidders have been drawn to AWE by its 50 per cent stake in Waitsia, where reserves are put at 820 petajoules and potentially much larger.

However, Ms Lacaze told The Australian Financial Review if two of the largest bondholders, Mt Kellett and Fortress, which formed a strategic alliance in 2015, were to convert 100 per cent of the bonds and exercise all of their warrants they would emerge with more than 40 per cent of the company's equity but she added a further shareholder approval would have to be sought for a conversion of that extent.

Half a century after Independence, as of now, we have the largest population of poor people in the world, one third of our rural population is below the poverty line and despite the UN agencies» massive aid projects, the development assistance of the World Bank, bilateral aid, the Center and State governments» intervention, the gap between the rich and the poor has doubled in the last three decades - fifteen years ago the lowest 20 per cent of global population received 2.5 per cent of global wealth whereas at present, the share has been reduced to less than 1.3 per cent.

Humanitarian charity Christian Aid has urged the government to crack down on tax avoidance after a new poll found 89 per cent of British adults say tax avoidance by large companies is morally wrong even if it's legal.

Listen I keep seeing bumper stickers like «you can't be both Catholic and pro-choice» these are not reflective of my faith, theser are slogans made for propaganda, I have 2 beautiful children and I have never been on a position where abortion could even play a part, but it is a legal option to the public at large; this being said even the bible calls for us to be good citizens, and to obey the law, I believe that this is a matter that belongs with the family and not the state; no matter how we criminalize abortion, they will not stop, but people will go under - ground and more fatalities will occur, I rather see the government placing incentives on more conseling for these expectant mothers and more outreach done at church levels, to reduce the debate to a single slogan is dangerous and will not accomplish the ultimately goal of preventing abortions my two humble cents