Sentences with phrase «cent mark of»

Previously, KDP Select authors would get a royalty payment if a reader made it past the 10 - per - cent mark of their book.

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CREA said Friday the level of sales activity marked a four - year low for the month of March and was seven per cent below the 10 - year average.

That marks a 4.4 per cent drop from roughly $ 10.46 billion in the first quarter of 2017.

TD, the last of the big banks to report its results, said Thursday it earned $ 2.353 billion for the period ended Jan. 31, marking a seven per cent drop from the same period in 2017.

Soon after he spoke, the Canadian dollar tumbled two - thirds of a cent against the U.S. dollar, dropping below the 90 - cent mark.

The Bank of Nova Scotia's Brian Porter was second - highest paid at $ 10.86 million in total direct compensation, marking a 7.4 per cent increase from fiscal 2016.

Equifax Canada said in a new report Monday Canadian consumers now owe $ 1.821 trillion including mortgages as of the fourth - quarter of 2017, marking a six per cent increase from a year earlier.

«They're very data dependent and... potentially we could have more rate hikes in order to keep inflation close to that two per cent mark,» James Marple, senior economist for TD Bank, said of the Bank of Canada.

He said in New Brunswick, where the sale of liquor must be through NB Liquor outlets, the corporation adds a mark - up of as much as 89.8 per cent.

The Ottawa - based agency says gross domestic product was essentially unchanged, at 0 per cent growth in July compared with June, which marked the eighth month in a row of GDP growth.

Mid-tier iron ore miner Mineral Resources has increased its full - year net profit by 28 per cent, but has missed its mark of about $ 250 million outlined in its half - yearly report.

The Bank of England's Mark Carney has promised the same until the British unemployment rate falls below 7 per cent.

Sixty - six per cent of Atlantic Canadians and 63 per cent of British Columbians also gave the Tories poor marks.

-- for nickels, it costs 11.2 cents to MAKE a nickel, but the actual materials used is less than the marked coin of 5cents.

The net worths of top tech entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos have rocketed by a combined 21 per cent over the past year to reach $ 1.08 trillion, according to Forbes newly released 100 richest people in tech list.

These, and other recent data, are consistent with the Reserve Bank's central scenario for GDP growth averaging around the 3 per cent mark over the next couple of years.

In terms of debt reduction, we are very encouraged to see that B.C.'s direct operating debt is forecast to be $ 1.1 billion by the end of the current fiscal plan period, which marks a 90 per cent reduction since 2013 - 14.

Accreditation by the AACSB is a mark of excellence earned by fewer than five per cent of the world's business schools.

Within this, the share of short - term bank paper has declined from more than 50 per cent to just 15 per cent, with a particularly marked shift into government securities (Table 1).

Twitter posted net income of $ 61 million, or 8 cents a share, in the first quarter, Marking its second quarter of profit under generally accepted accounting principles.

Over the next couple of years we expect GDP growth to be around the 3 per cent mark.

The Schulich School of Business at York University earned the top mark of 86 per cent, receiving a high grade in all three evaluated categories that continues a nine - year reign on top of our rankings.

Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has kept the bank's main interest rate at a record low of 0.25 per cent as the economy weakens ahead of Britain's departure from the European Union.

Stockland chief executive Mark Steinert this week said the national population growth rate of 1.6 per cent would keep driving demand for new facilities, even though traditional retailers were planning fewer new stores than they were five or six years ago.

Toronto home sales fell 35 per cent in February from a year earlier, marking the weakest month of sales in nine years, though benchmark prices were up 3.2 per cent on the year, according to data released Tuesday by the Toronto Real Estate Board.

For the rest of this article, I'll focus on the Shopify and BigCommerce's plans around the $ 79 / month mark, with a price difference of only 95 cents and what appears to be a nearly equal set of features described on each store builder's site, let's see how they differ in use, and how those differences can affect your business.

Conversely, more respondents plan on sending the same number of employees to conferences in 2018 (88 per cent); this is a marked increase over the 24 per cent who gave a similar response in 2015

This stands in marked contrast to average annual growth of over 10 per cent in the 1990s.

In contrast to housing credit, the growth rate of personal credit has slowed somewhat over recent months, to an annualised rate of around 12 per cent over the six months to December, compared with 16 per cent over the six months to September; the slowdown in the growth rate of fixed - term and credit card lending was particularly marked.

This measure has fluctuated around the 3 per cent mark for much of the past year, but is well below the levels of the previous two years.

New research by the Centre for Social Justice revealed that more than 75 per cent of teenagers aspire to be married, but Rt Rev Mark Davies said the reality of married life today is bleak.

The list of billionaires includes Bill Gates - founder of Microsoft and the Gates Foundation who has already given away billions of dollars to charity as well as Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg who pledged to give away 99 per cent of his wealth during his life time in 2015.

I am told that perhaps only 50 per cent of the youngest generations of Pentecostals cultivate the distinguishing mark of speaking in tongues.

46 Mark A. May estimated in 1933 that «since 1870 the number of college - graduate men entering the ministry relative to the needs as measured by increasing population, churches, and clergymen has declined at least forty per cent and possibly as much as seventy per cent.»

In a mark of the allegation's seriousness, the ACCC is seeking pecuniary penalties, which could run to as high as $ 10 million or 10 per cent of each company's annual turnover, against Woolworths, Colgage - Palmolive and Cussons.

Speculation intensified in December when TCCC sold 51 per cent of its Philippines bottler to Mexican bottler Coca - Cola FEMSA, which marks its first expansion beyond Latin America.

Treasury shares jumped more than 4 per cent on Monday but didn't manage to reach the $ 5.20 mark, hitting an intra-day high of $ 5.18, before closing at $ 5.15, up 20 cents for the day.

«I think it's going to be the most dynamic period Australian retail has ever experienced,» Mr MacKinnon told The Australian Financial Review ahead of the launch of the delivery guarantee and a four - hour 18 per cent site - wide sale on Thursday to mark eBay Australia's 18th anniversary.

The company's shares are trading about the 85 cents mark instead of 3.4 cents.

It will also prevent other WCB shareholders from receiving an additional 20 cents a share, for a total of $ 9.60 a share in cash, that Saputo will pay if it gets to the 90 per cent mark.

Murray Goulburn is pressing ahead with its proposed acquisition of Warrnambool Cheese and Butter, despite growing expectation that rival Canadian dairy giant Saputo will pass the 50 per cent mark before the deadline for its $ 533 million offer lapses.

However, public opinion shows he would have public backing over the remaining eight British managers in the top division where he pips the likes of fellow Englishmen Eddie Howe (five per cent) and Sean Dyche (four per cent), Scot David Moyes (four per cent) and Welshmen Tony Pulis (four per cent) and Mark Hughes (three per cent).

The day before, on April 2, I had gone to a Goodwill store in the city of Orange and purchased a disguise, clothes that would have suited any bum wandering around nearby MacArthur Park or the broken - bottle district of downtown L.A.: a $ 5 pair of baggy brown pants, marked down to $ 2.50, whose cuffs scraped the floor; a large gold shirt for $ 3; a white tie, with a bright yellow stain, for 15 cents; a pair of brown shoes, which I wore without socks or laces, for $ 5; and the ugliest sports coat in the store, a black number with red and white flecks, for $ 2.50.

Schneiderlin found the mark with 78.6 per cent of his 42 passes — a hit - rate equal to that of Theo Walcott, who fired 11 of his 14 passes on target.

In Sweden and Hungary, the two most industrialized of the nine countries, only 7 per cent and 3 per cent respectively of the mothers studied had never breastfed their youngest child, a marked improvement from 25 years ago.

It was only in the run - up to the ultimately failed referendum in 2014 that support for both the SNP in the House of Commons and their raison d'etre of independence soared to the crucial 50 per cent mark.

The liberal proponents of the proposal struggled for more than two years to push a 10 - cent surcharge, before cutting the toll in half and winning the support of Council Speaker Melissa Mark - Viverito.

Ukip candidate Mark Reckless's margin of victory was eight per cent, not the 15 per cent forecast by many pollsters.

Although 40 per cent is regarded as the «election winning» mark, the weighting of the electoral system means today's poll would result in a hung parliament if translated into votes.

As the UK marks 200 days until the start of the Olympic and Paralympic Games, the FSB's «Voice of Small Business» Survey Panel shows that 62 per cent of small firms believe that the Games will have no long term positive impact on their business, despite promises that the legacy of the London 2012 Games will continue for years.