Sentences with phrase «cent of the market there»

In 1988, multi-national tobacco firms controlled 3 per cent of the market there.

Not exact matches

«Those together would be about 20 to 25 per cent of the market to be honest, and there would be enough trading up to support the relatively small numbers they are selling, probably.»

On the contrary the Jewish interest is solely in the marketing of petroleum products and even there it is probably no more than 5 per cent, the chief marketer being American Oil of Baltimore, and American Oil, though still managed by the Blausteins, who founded it, is now controlled by a Standard of Indiana subsidiary.

RESEARCH shows 87 per cent of newcomers to the net are there to make money, yet most new entries to this market make two fundamental mistakes in web design.

The US export sector is getting the benefit of a lower dollar; there's a significant fiscal package in the pipeline, which will add more than 1 per cent of GDP to private spending power; and sharp cuts have been made in US official interest rates, with financial markets expecting more to come.

Global stock markets plunged from 5 to 9 per cent abroad, and there was talk of closing the New York market if stocks fell more than 1,000 points.

If banks are extending credit limits that are too high so that a poor guy gets a 90 or 95 per cent mortgage, then all of a sudden there is a drop of 20 per cent in the market and he has to renew his mortgage, he is done like dinner.

Given that more than 30 per cent of Japan's beef imports come from the U.S. while Canada supplies about two per cent, there is a lot of room for Canada to take market share (sales) away from the U.S..

In contrast, Mexico is Canada's fifth largest export market (behind the US, China, the UK and Japan), with only one per cent of Canada's total $ 474.8 billion exports going there in 2014.

«Given that the US garnered nearly 77 per cent of this total — followed by China at 3.7 per cent, the UK at 2.9 per cent, and Japan at 2 per cent — there is room for substantial growth by Canada exporters in the Mexican market.»

It is also important to note that at the beginning of the current boom, the unemployment rate was around 6 per cent, suggesting that there was some excess capacity in the labour market at the outset of the adjustment to the mining investment boom (this is another point of departure from the theory presented in Section 2, which assumes that the economy is in equilibrium prior to the boom).

Its teachings are very, very simple: There really are free and natural markets where the optimum value of things is assigned to them; everyone must compete with everyone; the worthy will prosper and the unworthy fail; those who succeed while others fail will be made deeply and justly happy by this experience, having had no other object in life; each of us is poorer for every cent that is used toward the wealth of all of us; governments are instituted among people chiefly to interfere with the working out of these splendid principles.

It also holds a 10 per cent share of the UK gum market since its entry there in January.

There is market speculation that WCB board members, who combined control about 2 per cent of the company's shares, have accepted the Saputo bid for their personal holdings.

Luca Mignini, president of Campbell International, which owns the Arnott's biscuit range that controls 60 per cent of the $ 1.3 billion local sweet biscuit market, said there were other strategies to lure in consumers other than slashing prices.

With 71 per cent of families in owner occupation - the highest in the Western world - the private sector is not far from market saturation, with penal income / price ratios putting first time buyers at increasing risk should there be an economic slow down.

The new standard will now ensure our produce is 100 per cent certified organic, but there is still a range of confusing food labels on the market.

Like with any other diet, there are many supplement companies that are trying to penetrate the market with useless magic powders that are overpriced anyways (the production of these powders just costs a few cents).

Also highlighted in the analysis are worrying trends in terms of the teacher labour market; exit rates, it notes, have been edging up over time — between 2010 and 2016, there was an increase from around eight per cent to nine per cent in primaries and from 9.5 % to 10.5 % in secondaries.

E-Books costs vary from 99 cents to $ 3.99 at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt though there are four other publishers that have lined up to provide content once the tablet reaches markets, which is likely to happen towards the middle of 2011.

Please note: While we'd all like to believe that there is some magical fix for buying a.99 cent e-book that happens to be badly formatted, the truth of the matter is that there is not a new magical system that will pull books with spelling and grammar erroros off the market.

This price point of 99 cents works for my offerings as my continued sales indicate there is currently still a market for short stories.

Obviously, it will have to be 20 per cent (ignoring fees) and so there is no way that a comparison between the average return earned by the active managers with the index return will make investors aware that markets have become efficient.1 In other words, the warning light to signal that markets have become inefficient will never light up and so there is no reason to expect that investors will come to a realisation that the flow of investment funds to index investing has gone too far — meaning that the envisaged constraint on the flow of funds to index investing is unlikely to eventuate.»

okay here's my two cents worth folks im up for renewal and have just nagotiated a rate 5 yr variable1.75 persent or if i want a five yr fixed at 4.49 still quite a gap between fixed and variable here i believe i have a little lee way here apparently i was only interesed in variable and five yr fixed but i made it absulutly apparent to them that when lock in from a variable i get the whosale discounted rate at that time and written into the contract i kinda believe this the way the market is heading as we head out of ressesion and the bank of canada is going to make there move i believe coming up in june and just to make this firm i do not believe the boc will raise rates in fast mode far from it will be slow process i don't care what the ecconmists are thinking we have to remember manufactering sector is reallt taking a hit on the high dollar and don't forget our niegbours to the south how dependent our canada is with them i believe it will be a slow process a lot of people heve put themselves in a debt load over these enormously low interest rates but i may be wrong i think a variable is the way to go if you want to work on that princibal at least should i say the say the short to medium term and betting that the bond markets stay put for the short to medium term - i have given enough interest to the banks maybe i can pay a little less at least fot the short to mediun term here i have not completly decided yet put i think im going variable although i wish my mtge was up a year ago that would have been just great congradulations to all that did.

For example, if particular corn futures contract happens to be trading at $ 3.50, while the current market price of the commodity today is $ 3.10, there is a 40 - cent cost basis.

«While it is difficult to know for certain,» the financial review stated, «the wide range of estimates, including new research done at the Bank of Canada, suggests that there is some risk that housing markets are overvalued» by between 10 and 30 per cent.

There's more of a discrepancy between the average price of a first home and all homes in Vancouver, where average first home prices are about 20 per cent below the average for the overall market.

«With the number of Chinese visitors to Cairns and surrounding region up 39 per cent last year, the market is clearly there and I'm very hopeful that we'll see China Eastern quickly ramp up its initial seasonal foray into more permanent arrangements,» Mr McEvoy said.

Using off - peak power would then equate to being able to buy 25 - to - 50 cent / gallon gasoline... the possibility of powering one's family vehicle with fuel that can cost as little as one - tenth of today's gasoline (in the U.S. market) should solve rapidly the question whether there would be public interest in and acceptability of plug - in hybrids.

That was one of those things where there's no marketing message that we could have put out there that would have turned these people on, so to speak, in a magazine or a newspaper like that image of making something, whatever, the couple cents of electrical that it cost us for that electricity, the impact that that had on someone's life at that moment.

«There will be great consolidation in the market and it would not surprise me if there are just six to ten personal injury firms that dominate 70 per cent of the market in two to three years» time.&rThere will be great consolidation in the market and it would not surprise me if there are just six to ten personal injury firms that dominate 70 per cent of the market in two to three years» time.&rthere are just six to ten personal injury firms that dominate 70 per cent of the market in two to three years» time.»

There are many potential customers, roughly 50 - 90 per cent of customers who aren't being serviced (depending on practice area) and that's a heck of an untapped market if you can unlock it using technology.

Rather encouragingly, 41 per cent of oil and gas employers believe business will rise in 2017 and I don't know if there's another sector that's as ready to respond to the market as they are.»

He says around the same time, there was a tightening of mortgage qualifications, which squeezed out about 15 per cent of previous would - be buyers, creating a whole new market of RTO clients.

It doesn't matter a whit if the market increases or decreases 20 per cent, there will still be plenty of opportunities to meet your personal goals.

There has been no notable increase in the average gross rent and vacancy on the street remains low (5.2 per cent) in relation to the rest of the market (7.8 per cent), says JLL.

There isn't even a month and a half of inventory in the condo market, and the sales - to - new - listing ratio is an astounding 96 per cent in that sector.»

Municipalities around Toronto have seen a sharp drop in sales and prices following implementation of a 15 per cent non-resident speculation tax in April, but there are indications the market is beginning to absorb the impact of the tax.

Although there have been regulations in place to thwart speculators, still about 25 per cent of the condo market is currently held by investors.

«The market is very strong for first - time home buyers, and in Scarborough, 75 per cent of the homes are priced at less than $ 250,000,» says Alex. «There's an expression that you are either busy born or busy dying — and our case, we had to decide if we should expand to handle demand, or just hunker down.