Financing might be about one per
cent a month on a construction loan of 12 months.
The quarter one results were aided by a healthy March performance when guest arrivals rose nine per cent on the same month in 2012 to stand at 230,974 which translated into 761,834 guest nights - a 26 per
cent month on month increase with total revenues climbing 18 per cent, average length of stay edging up 16 per cent and occupancy rising seven per cent to 74 per cent.
Western Australian retail spending rose 0.2 per
cent month on month in January, to $ 2.8 billion, slightly below the national average of 0.3 per cent.
To put this in perspective, the new portfolios will reduce your management fees by 0.03 % annually, which works out to 25
cents a month on every $ 10,000 invested.
Not exact matches
The budget includes a one per
cent increase for people
on welfare and disability support, who will also be allowed to keep the first $ 200 of earnings each
month before their benefits are reduced.
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.
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.
The pickup in the state's economy revealed in the latest GDP data hasn't flowed through to spending
on new cars, with vehicle sales in February 13.7 per
cent lower than the same
month in 2016.
Oil prices slid more than one per
cent on Tuesday as the US dollar remained near a four -
month high, but worries that US President Donald Trump will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal underpinned the market.
New vehicle sales are
on the rise, with new data showing 4.8 per
cent more cars were sold in the six
months to June 30 than the same six
month period last year.
Swan Taxis has announced a 10 per
cent discount for the next three
months on bookings made through its flat fare app as it continues to battle for market share against Uber.
Western Australian automotive sales have gone against the national trend for the
month of July, down nearly 13 per
cent on those of July 2014, despite a national increase in sales.
Home values in Perth were up 0.2 per
cent over the past three
months, but were 3.1 per
cent lower year -
on - year.
On the other hand, the sell - through rate of new launches has plummeted, with 65 per
cent recorded this
month, against 90 per
cent last
month.
Sales of new cars fell 10.5 per
cent across Western Australia in October
on the previous corresponding period, despite a 3.4 per
cent uptick nationally for the
month.
Engineering services company RCR Tomlinson has increased profit by 3.9 per
cent to $ 19 million for the six
months to December,
on the back of sales in the infrastructure and energy markets.
(Listing a $ 25 item
on the site costs 50
cents plus a commission of 8 percent to 15 percent, and maintaining the most basic storefront costs $ 16 a
month.)
Gold and nickel producer Independence Group has posted a 264 per
cent increase in profit for the six
months to December,
on the back of increased production from its Jaguar and Tropicana operations and at lower costs.
After just two
months on the market, Amazon dropped the price of the $ 199 32 - gigabyte model to 99
cents, with a two - year contract.
Gasoline October futures were up 4
cents on Friday to $ 1.58 per gallon, their highest point in four
months.
The Liberals sold the first of their infrastructure program by saying that the money, $ 11.3 billion of which was committed
on a cash basis between April 2016 and this Saturday, would grow the economy by 0.2 per
cent in the first 12 -
months and then by 0.4 per
cent in the ensuing 12
months.
But at that bank, receivables financing involved cash - management fees: $ 85 a
month for a lock box, 40
cents per check deposited in the lock box, $ 16 a
month for account processing, and $ 75 a
month for the ability to check postings
on - line.
Of those, 32 per
cent worked 61 - 80 hours week (and usually goes
on for
months).»
Downward pressure
on home prices tends to happen when the ratio dips below 12 per
cent for a sustained period, while upward pressure tends to occur when it falls above 20 per
cent for several
months.
The miner said adjusted net earnings for the quarter ended March 31 rose to $ 170 million, or 15
cents a share, from $ 162 million or 14
cents a share in the same three -
month period a year ago
on the back of higher gold prices and lower depreciation.
On Thursday, the latest figures showed the ratio hit 170.4 per
cent in the final three
months of 2017, just below its historical peak of 170.
The Real Estate Board of Greater Vancouver released the data a
month after the British Columbia government implemented a 15 - per -
cent tax
on foreign buyers in Metro Vancouver in an effort to chill one of the hottest markets in North America.
The Perth Convention Bureau has secured confirmed business worth more than $ 72 million for the State in the past twelve
months — a 21 per
cent increase
on the previous year.
WE ARE continuing to see good news
on the export front for Western Australia with the value of our exports nearly double that of any other State.Western Australia's exports grew by a strong 42.8 per
cent in the three
months to August, 2000, compared wit
PORTMAN Limited is
on track to boost the capacity of its Koolyanobbing Iron ore project in WA to 3.5 million tonnes per annum in 2001 after completing key infrastructure changes and posting a 65 per
cent increase in iron ore sales during the six
months to
Amazon unveiled its Fire Phone with much fanfare in June, but after only two
months on the market, the company has dropped the price of the $ 199 32 - gigabyte model to 99
cents, with a two - year contract.
If they bought the machines with a 6 -
month loan for $ 10,000 at 1.19
Cents on the Dollar (CoD), their daily payment would be $ 95 / day.
For the six
months to December 31, it reported a 9.1 per
cent rise in underlying earnings before interest, taxes, and amortisation to $ 72.8 million,
on the back of record gross written premium (GWP) growth across both its underwriting and broker network units.
Gulf diesel ULSD - DIFF - USG hit its strongest levels in seven
months in early April and has since weakened slightly to 4
cents per gallon below the futures benchmark
on the New York Mercantile Exchange.
A few
months ago, the French government decided to hold
on to a 10.1 per
cent in the Toulouse - Blagnac airport — denying a purchase by Casil, the Chinese consortium which already owns 49.9 per
cent of the airport.
The Star reports Tuesday that BlackBerry has cut its smartphone production by another 10 per
cent on top of a 50 per
cent drop in June that lowered output to one million units a
month.
The so - called core PCE price index rose 0.2 per
cent on a
month -
on -
month basis in March after a similar gain in February.
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.
ANZ Banking Group said growing revenue will be harder for banks, as it delivered a cash profit up 4.1 per
cent to $ 3.49 billion for the past six
months driven by a strategy of reducing complexity and costs and honing its focus
on home loan lending.
Last
month, Air Canada said more than 80 per
cent of its planes arrived
on time.
On Tuesday came the announcement of Citigroup losing 53 per
cent of an internal hedge fund's money in a
month and bringing $ 17 billion of assets that had been hiding out in the Cayman Islands back onto its balance sheet.
The fears of an impending trade war have rocked markets since last
month when Trump announced 25 per
cent tariffs
on steel and 10 per
cent on aluminum that the U.S. imports.
Loeb, he recalls, bought the debt at 17
cents on the dollar and sold it for 34
cents a few
months later.
«Inflation
on a 12 -
month basis is expected to run near the committee's symmetric 2 per
cent objective over the medium term,» the policy - setting Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) said in a statement
on Wednesday in Washington.
It is left to the employee alone to decide if and when he or she feels like taking a few hours, a day, a week or a
month off, the assumption being that they are only going to do it when they feel a hundred per
cent comfortable that they and their team are up to date
on every project and that their absence will not in any way damage the business — or, for that matter, their careers!
The Australian Bureau of Statistics said last week that gross domestic product expanded 1.1 per
cent in the first three
months of the year, while year -
on - year headline growth accelerated to 3.1 per
cent, its fastest pace in almost four years.
Soyabean prices have risen more than 10 per
cent in the past
month to hit a peak of $ 15.09 a bushel
on Friday, the highest in four years.
The yield
on 10 - year bonds was 6.60 per
cent in early November, a rise of 1.1 percentage points over the past six
months (Graph 30).
The prices of other resource commodities increased
on average by 5.8 per
cent over the three
months to April, driven by increases in the prices of alumina, coal and iron ore.
Commodity prices have changed little
on average over recent
months and remain at high levels; the RBA Index of Commodity Prices fell by 0.8 per
cent in SDR terms over the three
months to January to be 10.2 per
cent higher over the year.