The bank raised concerns from Ottawa when it offered the 2.99 per
cent rate in March 2013.
Toronto - Dominion Bank followed on May 15, matching the 2.45 per
cent rate in a special available until May 31.
A report from the Labor Department showed hourly worker compensation accelerated at a 3.4 per
cent rate in the first quarter after rising at a 2.4 per cent pace in the October - December period.
Not exact matches
But because operators bill at such a high
rate for data roaming — at about 15
cents per kilobyte of information
in France, for example, which is roughly the amount of information
in this paragraph — consumers typically reach that limit within a few hours of downloading standard e-mails.
The unemployment
rate (6.2 per
cent in August) is about as low is it ever gets, and could push lower still.
That helped lower the unemployment
rate in February to 7.7 per
cent, a four - year low.
The economy grew at an annual
rate of 0.4 per
cent in the October - December quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday.
Analysts think the economy is growing at a
rate of around 2.5 per
cent in the current January - March quarter, which ends this week.
Perth has suffered the biggest drop
in house prices, falling 2.4 per
cent in the June quarter, as capital city house prices across Australia decline by the sharpest
rate in nearly than three years.
The 0.4 per
cent growth
rate for the gross domestic product, the economy's total output of goods and services, was the weakest quarterly performance
in almost two years and followed a much faster 3.1 per
cent increase
in the third quarter.
Shares dropped more than 5 per
cent in morning trading Tuesday and one analyst that follows the company stripped it of its «Buy»
rating.
The Canadian dollar was up 0.08 of a
cent to 96.46
cents US as inflation came
in at an annualized
rate of 1.2 per
cent, which was
in line with expectations.
In Canada, the latest data from Statistics Canada shows that self - employment rose by 23,400 in June as the unemployment rate rose to 7.1 per cent in Jun
In Canada, the latest data from Statistics Canada shows that self - employment rose by 23,400
in June as the unemployment rate rose to 7.1 per cent in Jun
in June as the unemployment
rate rose to 7.1 per
cent in Jun
in June.
WESTERN Australia's hotels increased their total earnings by 20 per
cent in the past financial year despite low occupancy
rates.
On the economic front, the U.S. consumer price index rose a slight 0.3 per
cent in December, translating into an annualized
rate of 1.5 per
cent.
THE unemployment
rate in Australia is currently 6.9 per
cent, according to figures released by the Australian Bureau of Statistics last week.
A 60 per
cent replacement
rate means that someone who earned $ 40,000 on average while working would receive $ 24,000
in retirement income from public sources.
• Credit card delinquency
rates remain low, at only 0.87 per
cent of total outstanding balances as of April 2016, while credit card debt only makes up five per
cent of total household debt
in Canada.
Rate hikes
in the U.S. cause the greenback to appreciate against the loonie, which currently stands at around US77
cents.
About 70 per
cent of mortgages
in Canada are fixed
rate, with the majority of those loans set for five - year terms.
In 2013, the average
rate was 3.23 per
cent.
In 2013, the average
rate on a five - year fixed mortgage was 2.99 per
cent.
It would increase the replacement
rate by 10 percentage points to 35 per
cent, lift the earnings cap by $ 10,000 (to $ 61,100), and be phased
in over 10 years.
Note also that the marginal tax
rates faced by high earners
in Canada are already
in this range: the top
rates in Ontario and Quebec are just under 50 per
cent.
«There are 70,000 books
in the British Library with leadership
in the title,» the blog reports Furnham remarking, «but most leaders don't succeed, they fail, with a base
rate of bad leadership collated from various studies of 50 per
cent.»
The range of parameter values consistent with Canadian data are
in red; they are all much smaller than the 73 per
cent rate obtained by Diamond and Saez using U.S. data.
The increase from 0.7 per
cent in May put Canadian inflation
rate back into the desired range of between one and three per
cent that the Bank of Canada strives to achieve.
In 2007, the rate stood at 11.2 per cent, and it was only slightly lower in 1989 at 10.9 per cen
In 2007, the
rate stood at 11.2 per
cent, and it was only slightly lower
in 1989 at 10.9 per cen
in 1989 at 10.9 per
cent.
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.
«
In essence, the bank's saying what it has been saying — it needs to see the economy grow a little more quickly, [and] inflation move toward that 2 per
cent target before we can look forward to interest
rates going up.»
The gains were enough to lower the unemployment
rate to a 4 1/2 - year low of 7.4 per
cent, a good sign
in an otherwise lacklustre report.
The economy grew at a subpar 1.7 per
cent annual
rate in April - June quarter, the government said Wednesday.
In Britain the corporate tax rate is just 21 per cent and the government is lowering it further to 20 per cent in 201
In Britain the corporate tax
rate is just 21 per
cent and the government is lowering it further to 20 per
cent in 201
in 2015.
The whole concept of inversion, and the simpler relocation of smaller firms» HQs, is driven by one simple desire — to avoid America's corporate tax
rate which headlines at 35 per
cent, which is the highest corporate tax
rate in the industrialized world.
This group of occupations has an unemployment
rate of just over 1 per
cent and wages that are «rising by an average annual
rate of 3.9 per
cent — more than double the
rate seen
in the economy as a whole.»
The Reserve Bank of Australia has left the cash
rate unchanged at 2.25 per
cent after cutting it
in February.
The unemployment
rate in Western Australia was unchanged at 6.1 per
cent in September, however it disguised a fall
in employment as the number of people working fell by over 9,000 during the month.
Western Australia's unemployment
rate has remained at 4.9 per
cent in April,
in line with the national
rate which has held steady at 5.8 per
cent.
The rising cost of homeownership is pushing more people to rent, and the vacancy
rate in Toronto has tightened over the past few years to 1.3 per
cent, according to CMHC.
Outback Western Australia is the worst - performing property market
in the nation, according to a new report by
ratings agency Moody's, which also found housing prices
in Perth have fallen by 8 per
cent since peaking
in December 2014.
A 2013 survey conducted near its Tasiast mine
in Mauritania by local sociologists found that the number of households living below the poverty line had been cut by more than half since 2011 and the unemployment
rate had declined from 47 per
cent to 24 per
cent.
In turn, Bolger added, the bank's effective tax
rate after one fiscal year will move to the lower end of its range of 22 per
cent to 24 per
cent.
In terms of straight - up storage, B2 will cost a flat
rate of $.005 (or half a
cent) per gigabyte per month.
As much as 3.9 per
cent of B.C.'s population is employed by a startup company, defined as a company under two years of age, and that's nearly double the share
in Manitoba, the province with the lowest relative
rate of startup activity.
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.
RBC's wealth management division reported a 39 per
cent increase
in net income to $ 597 million from $ 167 million
in the same quarter one year ago,
in part reflecting a lower effective tax
rate.
In Canada, it's 26.3 per
cent (the federal
rate of 15 per
cent plus an average provincial
rate of 11.3 per
cent.)
In Toronto, information on foreign buyers is more scarce, although a report from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation in April pegged the rate of foreign ownership in the city's condo market at 3.3 per cen
In Toronto, information on foreign buyers is more scarce, although a report from Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation
in April pegged the rate of foreign ownership in the city's condo market at 3.3 per cen
in April pegged the
rate of foreign ownership
in the city's condo market at 3.3 per cen
in the city's condo market at 3.3 per
cent.
The
rate will rise to five per
cent in 2037 once the industry is established
To put that
in context, the OECD says that the current combined (that is, federal plus state / provincial) corporate income tax
rate in the US is 39 per
cent.