Sentences with phrase «cent rates of»

While we used to think of new mines as projects that required WTI prices near $ 100 per barrel to be viable, we can see 10 per cent rates of return on investment at WTI prices below $ US65 per barrel for a new build.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

The loans were given at a very favourable two per cent rate of interest and under the agreement Britain was allowed to defer payments whenever it wanted.

Alistair Darling's attempts to simplify the CGT system with a flat 18 per cent rate of tax have been met with fierce opposition by business leaders, prompting speculation the Treasury would be forced to make some concessions.

One important moment came in last year's pre-Budget report, when Darling announced a plan to bring in a new 45 per cent rate of income tax on earnings above # 150,000 a year in 2011.

The 17.5 per cent rate of VAT has been in place since 1991, except for the temporary reduction to 15 per cent introduced by Alistair Darling as the last Labour government sought to tackle the recession.

In other words, paying off a credit card balance is equivalent to earning a guaranteed 30 per cent rate of return, assuming you are in a 33.5 per cent income tax bracket.

If a 40 - year old earns an 4 per cent rate of return on their $ 100,000 RRSP instead of 5 per cent, their RRSP will be 21 per cent smaller at age 65 — $ 266,584 instead of $ 338,635.

As a result, the full $ 5,000 is invested in his RRSP, grows to $ 9,031 (also compounded at a three per cent rate of return) and is ultimately taxed in 20 years» time at 40 per cent, netting Jake exactly the same after - tax amount as Isaac, or $ 5,418.

The calculator they have on their website does not allow for variations in the per cent rate of commissions despite the fact not all brokers charge five per cent — some charge more, some charge less.

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 global market for voice AI speakers is expected to grow at a compound annual rate of 43 per cent to reach US$ 2.1 billion by 2020, according to analysis firm Gartner.

The economy grew at an annual rate of 0.4 per cent in the October - December quarter, the Commerce Department said Thursday.

Yet the Prime Minister's Office appears to think an economy that has been growing at an annual rate of around three per cent for nearly a year is too weak to absorb interest rates that still are near record lows.

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.

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.

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.

At that rate, the cost of a typical 12 - ounce can of soda would rise by 21 cents.

Even before Wednesday's decision, five of the country's largest banks hiked five - year fixed rates 15 basis points to 5.14 per cent last week.

• 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.

The savings rate is close to the 25 - year average of five per cent, which doesn't point to a consumer debt apocalypse.

About 70 per cent of mortgages in Canada are fixed rate, with the majority of those loans set for five - year terms.

When those prices collapsed anew a few years later, the central bank dropped the benchmark interest rate back to its crisis - era setting of 0.5 per cent %.

Between 2000 and 2010, HELOC balances soared from $ 35 billion to $ 186 billion, according to the Financial Consumer Agency of Canada, an average annual growth rate of 20 per cent.

If the Bank of Canada ultimately raises its benchmark rate by 50 basis points from the start of the year, that could increase borrowers» monthly payments by approximately 5 per cent, according to Rob McLister, founder of comparison site RateSpy.com.

«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.

Aside borrowers, investors benefit from regular monthly returns at an average rate of 15.5 per cent, which is significantly higher than other asset classes.

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.

«(With an alternative lender), the interest rates are higher, the qualifying rate is higher than if you were going with a traditional bank and they are going to charge one per cent of the mortgage amount (as a lender's fee) for closing, so that means your closing costs increase.»

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.

Perhaps more importantly, if we take his new statements literally he is now predicting that installation of a Tory government will immediately cause the economy to grow at an absurd 10 per cent per year, 5 times the current rate by implementing only three - tenths of the Million Jobs Plan.

The Tax Foundation recently published research that found America's top rate of business tax — 35 per cent — is the highest amongst the 34 industrialized nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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 Commerce Department said Monday that new - home sales fell 2.4 per cent last month to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 412,000.

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.

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.

As universally expected, the Federal Reserve left things as they were after yesterday's Federal Open Market Committee meeting: the target for the Fed funds rate stays between 0 and 0.25 per cent and the bank will continue to buy $ 40 billion - worth of mortgage - backed securities, plus $ 45 billion of longer - term treasuries per month.

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 has maintained the country's fastest annual population growth rate of 2.9 per cent, however the rate of growth has slowed compared with last year's figures.

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.

Richard Tse, an analyst with National Bank Financial, put out a research note this week estimating that Shopify's churn rate is 25 per cent, and that «transient subscribers» account for between 5 per cent and 10 per cent of revenue.

Condo prices are growing at a rate of 19 per cent year - over-year too, even though a record number of units are under construction relative to the population, according to TD Economics.

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.