Sentences with phrase «cent interest rate beginning»

The couple's combined credit card debt, $ 9,500, will have a 20 per cent interest rate beginning in February.

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Back in November 1979, six months after Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, interest rates hit 17 per cent, the highest since records began in 1694.

Following nearly a decade of low interest rates, the Bank of Canada began increasing its central rate last July, eventually pushing it to 1.25 per cent from 0.5 per cent.

After a slowdown that began in the second half of last year, most economists are anticipating growth will return to an above 2 - per cent pace in coming months and continue to put pressure on Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz to raise interest rates.