Sentences with phrase «cent of those interested in»

* 17 per cent of those interested in purchasing real estate are most interested in investment properties, followed by 15 per cent who want to downsize.

-- 53 per cent of those interested in timeshare make at least one trip per year — 46 per cent of those interested in fractional ownership make at least one trip per year.

Not exact matches

There was also a non-cash gain of $ 133 million from a deal to buy a 37 per cent interest in Canbriam Energy Inc. in exchange for northeastern B.C. mineral land holdings and $ 52 million.

TORONTO — Progressive Waste Solutions Ltd. (TSX: BIN) has acquired a 19.9 per cent interest in TerraCycle Canada, a specialty recycler that collects items such as cigarette butts, coffee capsules and drink pouches — sometimes as part of local fundraising campaigns.

An earlier survey this summer found 77 per cent of respondents would have trouble absorbing an additional $ 130 per month in interest payments.

• More than half (58 per cent) of Canadians pay their credit card balance in full each month, avoiding credit card debt and interest payments altogether.

The Smart Savings account, launched in Canada and the U.S. on Thursday, will offer a 1.7 per cent interest rate north of the border.

Nedlands - based explorer Bullabulling Gold has advised its shareholders to reject Norton Gold Fields» increased takeover offer of 8 cents per share to obtain a 30 per cent interest in the company.

The family that holds a majority interest in Diploma Group has formally launched a takeover offer for all shares it doesn't own in the business, at a bargain basement price of 1.5 cents per share.

Austbrokers Holdings has expanded into the Western Australian broking sector with the purchase of a 50 per cent interest in Bunbury - based insurance broker NEXUS Risk Services.

Less than half of 1 per cent of Australia's agricultural land is owned by Chinese investors, while UK investors make up the largest proportion of overseas interest in Australia, according to a new report.

Perth exploration firm Hannans Reward has entered into a joint venture agreement with Reed Resources for 20 per cent interest in its Lake Johnston nickel sulphide project west of Norseman.

«As our ownership interest in TC PipeLines is approximately 25 per cent, the impact of the FERC actions related to our MLP is not expected to be significant to our consolidated earnings or cash flow,» he said on the call.

Eighty per cent of CEIBS» international grads express interest in working in China after graduating, but, says MBA director of Admissions and Career Services Yvonne Li, «the successful staying rate is 50 %.»

The Canadian company said Thursday that it's co-operating with a previously announced Sears Holdings» strategic review of its 51 per cent interest in Sears Canada.

Placer can claw back its interest in these projects, or any of Templar's other gold exploration projects in Australia, to 70 per cent if further exploration proves them to be of a size and quality which would interest the gold giant.

Besides the Toronto Star newspaper and its affiliated website, Torstar owns daily and community newspapers throughout Ontario, a 56.4 per cent interest in VerticalScope and minority interests in a number of other companies.

Parents hoping to teach their children the power of compound interest on their savings today will have a harder time than parents in the 1970s and 1980s, when interest paid on savings accounts soared above 10 per cent compared with rates today, when even the highest - paying savings accounts sit in the low single digits.

But homebuying activity has also since been dampened by the Bank of Canada's move in January to hike interest rates to 1.25 per cent.

The company's search data, however, show interest in Calgary has been flat, while the number of inquiries for Edmonton is up 50 per cent in the first quarter compared to the year before.

There, about 85 per cent of men's clothing and about 95 per cent of women's dresses and about 95 per cent of furs and almost the whole wearing - apparel business are in Jewish hands with the interest of New York Jews predominating.

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.

There is an entire group of industries like wool, silk, cotton, and rayon weaving when the Jewish interest in production is small, being 5 to 10 per cent in wool (for example, L. Bachmann of Uxbridge Worsted, Austin T. Levy of Stillwater Worsted, and Allen and Bernard Goldfine), 15 per cent in silk (for example, Hess, Goldsmith & Co., David Silks, Inc., Widder Bros.), 5 per cent in cotton (the Cone family of North Carolina, Sigmund Odenheimer of New Orleans, Elias Reiss of New York), and 16 per cent in rayon - yarn production (Industrial Rayon and Celanese Corp.) But in these same industries the Jewish interest in distribution is large, half the wool sales agents and jobbers, three - quarters of the silk converters, and three - quarters of the cotton converters being Jews.

Meanwhile, the total household debt service ratio, measured as total obligated payments of principal and interest as a proportion of household disposable income for both mortgage and non-mortgage debt, remained flat at 13.8 per cent in the fourth quarter.

He said however that Mr Noonan «is against a write - down for the Greeks because it wouldn't be in the interest of his party», but it would in the interests of 99 per cent of Irish people who «share the same interests as Greece».

The suggested fixes include capping loans at 65 per cent of the home value, introducing new and more conservative means of estimating how much a residence is worth, and amortizing the loans (meaning that borrowers would have to repay the principal within a certain time frame, as in a mortgage, whereas now they can simply keep paying interest on their HELOCs).

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.

The speech makes clear that the Bank's monetary policy frameworks centres around a flexible inflation target that aims to deliver an average rate of inflation of between 2 - 3 per cent over time and in a way that best serves the public interest.

Given the movements in interest rates in the past year along with the dollar's fall it is reasonable to estimate that expectations of exchange rates of the dollar against the euro 10 years from now have fallen by perhaps 15 per cent.

This growing interest in India is not surprising; with average real annual growth of 8.75 per cent over the 2003 to 2007 period, India is emerging as an economic heavyweight in the region.

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.

[11] The left - hand side bar in Graph 6 shows the approximate interest payments (of 5 per cent) that such a borrower makes during the interest - only period.

All the major countries had reduced interest rates to unprecedented levels in the early part of this decade — 0 per cent in Japan, 1 per cent in the United States and 2 per cent in the euro area — and they maintained this position for a prolonged period.

[5] The share of interest - only loans in total housing credit then stabilised for a time at around 40 per cent, having increased steadily up to that point.

At about the same time, APRA acted to ensure that the interest rate «buffer» used in the serviceability assessments for all loans was at least 2 percentage points above the relevant benchmark rate (with an interest rate floor of at least 7 per cent).

The stock of interest - only loans in total housing credit has also declined noticeably, from close to 40 per cent to almost 30 per cent.

In effect, Russia has simply lost the money with which it has endowed these banks with government deposits that have been re-lent the government at annualized interest rates often in excess of 100 per cenIn effect, Russia has simply lost the money with which it has endowed these banks with government deposits that have been re-lent the government at annualized interest rates often in excess of 100 per cenin excess of 100 per cent.

A recent report by the Conference Board of Canada estimates that, based on the pace of the Canadian economy (and ignoring factors that are constraining our maneuvering space on monetary policy, such as the situation in Europe and the Fed's interest rate target), our key interest rate right now should be 2.5 per cent.

Recently, there has been some discussion, prompted by senior staff at the International Monetary Fund (IMF), that central banks might aim for high inflation — say 4 per cent — as a way of giving them more scope to reduce official interest rates in future downturns.

OTTAWA — The Bank of Canada is keeping its trendsetting interest rate anchored at one per cent for the remainder of the year and sending a message that it still believes the cost of borrowing will go up at some point in the future.

Could the economy have successfully negotiated the period of robust growth, and rising inflation, in the first half of 2000, in the face of strong downward pressure on the exchange rate, with interest rates maintained at 4 3/4 per cent?

For instance, for Canada and the U.S., we believe that the equilibrium interest rate in these conditions is on the order of 3 per cent, like a range of 2.5 per cent to 3.5 per cent, so much lower than what we used to think of as a normal, steady, straight interest rate.

Some 71 per cent of managers reported an increase in client interest in climate resilient products over the last 12 months, according to the survey.

Kirzner is also dropping money market funds from the mix, recommending instead that 10 per cent of your portfolio be kept in cash in a high - interest savings account.

If it so happens that the best and brightest begin utilizing Bitcoins in their interest of growing their share of the currency they believe in, it is likely that the use of the now disadvantaged currencies will be thwarted with extra fees, similar to the $ 0.35 cent fee we see because of merchant services.

It said it would now not proceed with its plan to spin off a 49 per cent interest in some of its Australian hotels and retail property in to a real estate investment trust.

The deal, which requires further approvals, would give the cable TV distributor 80 per cent of the voting interest and at least 20 per cent of the equity interest in a Canwest Global Communications Corp..

According to Laurentian Bank analyst Mona Nazir, the hotel business is expected to eventually rival its air and leisure business in terms earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization (EBITDA), though with significantly better margins of 25 per cent, as compared to Transat's margin of 3 per cent.

Futures markets are not expecting the ECB to raise interest rates from their current level of 2 per cent until at least the end of 2005, while a tightening is not expected in Japan until at least 2006.

Whereas in most markets an increase in short - selling puts pressure on the lending market and pushes up the interest rate at which short - sellers can borrow the underlying stock, the ready supply of gold loans from central banks seeking to earn some return on their gold holdings has, until recently, helped to keep lease rates low, generally in the range of 1 — 2 per cent (Graph B3).