RBC's capital markets division saw a 13 per
cent jump year - on - year in net income to $ 748 million, primarily due to a lower effective tax rate largely due to U.S. tax changes and higher results in corporate and investment banking and global markets.
Not exact matches
Wynne also appointed a panel last month to examine those proposals, which included a
jump in the HST, a five -
cent - a-litre regional gas tax, a $ 350 - million - a-
year business parking levy and $ 100 million a
year in development charges.
The Canadian dollar has been very volatile so far this
year,
jumping from a low of 68
cents (U.S.) on Jan. 20 to a short - lived 80
cents on April 29.
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.
Waste management and industrial services company Toxfree has reported a 33 per
cent jump in net profit to $ 10.5 million for the first half of the financial
year.
Today's Globe and Mail reported that CEO's at Canada's 100 largest companies «saw their compensation
jump 13 per
cent last
year, led higher by a 20 - per -
cent increase in annual cash bonuses».
The Federal government has sought to allay community concerns about tree farms - which have
jumped 20 per
cent in five
years in Western Australia to reach almost 400,000 hectares - releasing a report on the impact of timber plantation.
Gold miner Northern Star Resources has increased its dividend payout after confirming a 65 per
cent jump in full -
year profit, on the back of higher gold prices and a reduction in costs.
Corey Davis, an analyst with investment firm Jefferies & Co., estimates shares will rise to $ 1.44 in 2014 (about a 60
cents jump from the current price) after the combined company has a full
year of operations under its belt.
Even fans of wage hikes acknowledge that they must be done in steps — say, an $ 1.00 per hour
jump the first
year, and 75
cents the second.
The government data showed that average hourly earnings grew by 6
cents or 0.4 %, the biggest
jump this
year, while the SurePayroll pay index increased for the second straight month.
The following
year, the company's profits had increased by $ 454 million and subsequently its stock price more than doubled,
jumping from 45
cents a share to 96
cents a share.
The Ottawa - based online store platform hinted at the potential move after it reported a better - than - expected fourth quarter on Thursday, during which revenue
jumped 71 per
cent compared with a
year ago.
The poll also found that 31 per
cent of those surveyed say they aren't planning on putting away retirements savings at all this
year, a
jump from 28 per
cent in 2012.
The Australian share market is at its highest level in almost 10
years, with the benchmark S&P / ASX200 index closing 1 per
cent higher today and the Western Australia - focused BN30 index
jumping 1.8 per
cent to a new high.
But the average rate on the 30 -
year mortgage has
jumped more than a full percentage point since May and was 4.57 per
cent last week — just below the two -
year high.
In his first full
year as president and CEO of Royal Bank (TSX: RY), David McKay saw his total direct compensation
jump 44 per
cent to $ 10.9 million.
Reversing a trend towards soft - pricing in the commercial market, Steadfast said prices in its Australian small business portfolio had
jumped 4.4 per
cent in the half, compared with last
year.
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.
According to this June's Financial Times «Expenditure by local and central governments in China
jumped nearly 25 per
cent from the same month a
year earlier, a sharp acceleration from the 9.6 per
cent growth registered in the first four months of the
year, according to figures released by the finance ministry,» and HSBC's Flash PMI index suggests for the first time in six months that there has been an expansion in manufacturing, although the flash index is, of course, preliminary and may be revised.
Consumer prices as measured by the personal consumption expenditures (PCE) price index
jumped 2.0 per
cent on a
year - on -
year basis last month.
Macquarie's profit soars to record $ 2.6 b: Macquarie Group's full -
year net profit
jumped 15 per
cent to a record $ 2.56 billion, buoyed by debt capital markets income and asset management performance fees.
That was driven by a 14.8 per
cent jump in vegetable prices after the coldest winter in seven
years led to smaller harvests.
A study published in Financial Management in 2008 found stocks that traded for at least one
year without research coverage
jumped by an average of 4.8 per
cent once an analyst began tracking the company.
Vancouver home sales
jumped 35 per
cent from a
year ago and the average price of a detached home has climbed to $ C1.6 million.
New figures from Korea's National Statistical Office showed output
jump 1.8 per
cent in August, pulling up the
year - over-
year gain to 3.3 per
cent from 0.9 per
cent in July.
Tim Reid, the founder of Phoenix Real Estate Investing, which works with distressed homeowners, says the number of foreclosure notices issued by Alberta courts in Calgary and Edmonton
jumped by about 15 per
cent from November to December, and is up as much as 40 per
cent on the
year.
Canada's housing market may be gradually cooling, but Toronto home sales are expected to remain so «brisk» over the coming months, prices could
jump seven or eight per
cent by the end of this
year, says a new report from real estate giant ReMax.
«The combination of more home flips and a greater share of financing for flip purchases resulted in an 18 per
cent jump in the estimated dollar volume of financing for home flip purchases, up to $ 12.2 billion for the flips completed in 2016 — a nine -
year high.»
For the full
year, the net profit
jumped by 58 per
cent to Rs 829.4 crore from Rs 523.7 crore in 2016 - 17.
On the U.S. side, TD's retail unit recorded a 28 - per -
cent jump in quarterly adjusted net income compared to last
year, to $ 1.02 billion.
The monthly payment on a $ 250,000 mortgage taken out when five -
year mortgage rates were four per
cent would
jump from $ 1,319 to nearly $ 2,000 if rates rose to just eight per
cent, where they were earlier this decade.
Treasury shares
jumped more than 11 per
cent on Thursday to climb above $ 10.60 after the wine group reported a net profit after tax of $ 179.4 million for the
year ended June 30, up from $ 77.6 million a
year earlier.
This meant that the share of the top five European producers - Italy, Spain, France, Germany and Portugal - in world exports fell to 62 per
cent, from 65 per
cent last
year, to the benefit of South America as well as the United States whose crop
jumped 7 per
cent last
year, the OIV said.
Sales to China had
jumped by more than 50 per
cent year - on -
year off a low base and this had resulted in a range of approaches from both Chinese private equity firms and companies involved in the wine business.
A 20 per
cent jump in feed and energy costs, a hard, dry summer and lower farmgate milk payments have triggered a new exodus of dairy farmers from the industry this
year.
Beef and veal imports will
jump 24 per
cent this
year to 825,000 metric tons, according to US Department of Agriculture data.
Projected growth in the wine industry comes after the value of wine exports
jumped 15 per
cent to be worth $ 2.56 billion last
year.
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Turnover at Google Ireland Limited
jumped to $ 10.9 billion last
year, from $ 7.9 billion in 2009, and now accounts for roughly 40 per
cent of the search engine giant's global earnings.
Figures released following a Freedom of Information request show that bars, cafes and vending machines across the UK parliament sold 8,708 cans or bottles in the financial
year 2015 - 16, up from 5,452 the
year before - a
jump of 60 per
cent.
But Andrew Lilico of Europe Economics says that inflation has tended to
jump up to five per
cent whenever the economy has been growing in the last four
years.
The deal the governor and Flanagan cut meant the Upstate minimum wage would increase to $ 9.70 at the end of 2016, and then
jump by 70
cents an hour each
year until it hits $ 12.50 at the end of 2020.
For men under 50, the rate has
jumped by 67 per
cent in the last 20 years2 — going up from around 340 cases to around 640 cases each
year.
Gonorrhoea rates went up 31 per
cent in the Sunshine State last
year, chlamydia has climbed 48 per
cent in four
years and syphilis has
jumped 70 per
cent in the past four
years.
Encouragingly this
jumped to 72 per
cent in this
year's survey, so the message about the reliability, ease and simplicity of travelling with accredited providers is getting through.
The education sector also supports around 130,000 local jobs through tourism, retail and hospitality and recent data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics has shown the value of international education
jumped 22 per
cent from 2016 to $ 32.2 billion last
year,» Mr Birmingham said.
Last
year the school had a record number of students attaining five or more A * - C grades,
jumping by a staggering 18 per
cent — from 59 per
cent to 77 per
cent.
Arguably, the Grand Caravan's combination of its relatively low - price and plenty of family - friendly features were just some of the reasons its sales
jumped in 2014 by 11 per
cent, to 51,759 copies sold in Canada last
year compared to 46,732 units in 2013.