There's a five per
cent rise for its capital spending which will be repeated every year until 2020, including a proposed Cross Rail 2 acting a bridge between north and south London.
Not exact matches
Net income
rose to C $ 734 million, or 83 Canadian
cents per share, in the first quarter from C $ 643 million, or 74 Canadian
cents per share,
for the same...
Shares in diversified explorer Mindax have
risen nearly 13 per
cent on news it's in talks with a potential partner
for its Mt Forrest Iron Project.
Household purchases account
for 57 per
cent of Canadian GDP, a
rising share of economic activity since the Great Recession of 2008 because business - to - business purchases, business investment and exports haven't found their mojo since.
Fourth - quarter revenue
rose 31 % to $ 895.2 million, while profit
for the period climbed to 40
cents a share from 30
cents a year ago.
Macy's, one of the few big winners last holiday, said on Wednesday that its earnings per share
rose 30 percent to 61
cents for the third quarter.
Shares in Perth gold miner Minera Gold
rose by over 33 per
cent after it announced it had signed an agreement to buy the San Santiago gold and copper processing plant in Peru
for $ US5.5 million.
Perth - based private mining contractor Barminco has posted a 30.7 per
cent rise in operating profit
for the 2016 financial year, with the company optimistic about prospects in the gold sector
for the year ahead.
Shares in Mungana Gold Mines
rose by more than 25 per
cent after the company announced it would move ahead with its North Queensland zinc strategy, following shareholder support
for the $ 15 million acquisition of the Chilagoe base metal assets from the liquidators of Kagara, originally announced in December last year.
Global Construction Services has continued to withhold declaring a dividend despite reporting a 7.1 per
cent rise in net profit to $ 8.7 million
for the 2015 financial year, but says it hopes to deliver a payout next year.
Perth - based engineering and construction contractor Civmec has reported a 37.7 per
cent rise in net profit
for the September quarter to $ S11 million, and a 140 per
cent leap in revenue to $ S170.2 million.
Financial services provider Pioneer Credit says it's on track
for a record FY16, after delivering a 105 per
cent rise in half - year profit.
Perth house prices
rose 0.5 per
cent last month, with an industry analyst suggesting the worst may be over
for local dwelling values.
The average selling price
for all homes in the Greater Toronto Area, including houses and condos, surged to $ 916,567 in March, a 33 per
cent rise from the year before, according to the Toronto Real Estate Board.
Service revenues at Verizon Wireless
rose 8.6 per
cent to $ 16.7 billion, accounting
for more than half of Verizon's overall revenue.
Net income
rose to C$ 734 million, or 83 Canadian
cents per share, in the first quarter from C$ 643 million, or 74 Canadian
cents per share,
for the same period in 2017.
Apple's profit
rose more than 12 per
cent for the three months that ended Sept. 27 to $ 8.47 billion, or $ 1.42 per share.
Michael Kiernan - chaired Territory Resources Ltd has acquired about 14 per
cent of Herdsman - based mineral sands miner Olympia Resources Ltd, causing Olympia's share price to
rise sharply
for the second day running.
For example, the average price of a two - storey home increased 5.4 per
cent to $ 428,943 in the quarter, while detached bungalows
rose 4.4 per
cent year - over-year to $ 380,765.
For instance, CCL Industries Inc. (TSX: CCL - B), a Toronto - based packaging company that makes most of its sales outside Canada, saw its earnings per share
rise 21
cents in the third quarter due to currency alone.
Bookings from fares
rose 14 per
cent to just over $ 11 billion
for the quarter.
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.
Tang said the wealth gap was actually widening at a slower pace compared with a
rise of 0.004 between 2006 and 2011, thanks to the government's increased efforts to help the impoverished, including an increase of over 40 per
cent in welfare spending on public housing and medical benefits
for the poor.
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 company's network of 376 brokers — which grew by 15
for the half — delivered GWP of $ 2.6 billion, up 8 per
cent driven by prices
rises and growth in the authorised representative network.
The December quarter consumer price index showed a
rise of 0.9 per
cent in the quarter,
for an annual figure of 3 per
cent (Graph 13).
For the last four years, our terms of trade have
risen at a rate of about 8 per
cent per annum.
RBC's aggregate measure
for housing affordability in Canada
rose by 1.2 percentage points in the second quarter to 42.8 per
cent, the biggest quarterly increase in six years.
Jeff
Rose from Good Financial
Cents talked to Amplify to give his tips
for saving
for retirement.
And a new Forum Research poll taken since Saturday's election call gives the Conservatives 41 per
cent, Liberals 24 per
cent and NDP 19 per
cent — suggesting a seat count in which the Tories win 19 new seats
for a majority with 162 seats, the Liberals lose 17 to 61, the Bloc
rises by seven to 51 and the NDP drops two to 24.
Since January alone, the
rise in the price of jet fuel from 70
cents a litre to 90
cents has taken $ 200 million off the company's bottom line on an annual basis, according to Robert Palmer, a spokesman
for WestJet.
The financial sector
rose nearly 1 per
cent, after the People's Bank of China said late on Tuesday it would slash reserve requirement ratios (RRRs)
for most banks by 100 basis points (bps), a move analysts say will reduce financing costs
for lenders.
What was
rising for the bottom 90 per
cent was debt, not asset - price gains from easy money.
A poll conducted by Associated Press - GfK in late March — when oil prices had already
risen 26 per
cent since the start of the year to US$ 108 a barrel — revealed that two - thirds of Americans expected
rising gasoline prices to cause hardship
for them or their families in the coming months.
The drop has come after an incredible run
for the stock, which has
risen almost 400 per
cent in the last 12 months, and hit a record high of $ 9.40 last week.
In fact, that was «spot on»
for the four quarters to the September quarter of 2001, but by the December quarter inflation had
risen to 3.1 per
cent, and by the March quarter 2002 it was 2.9 per
cent.
This time around, the inflation rate
rose to 5 per
cent for a year or so, but has since returned to the target.
«We expect average hourly earnings to
rise 0.2 per
cent month over month, as reference week effects suggest a high bar
for a 0.3 per cnet or higher print.
For boomers already holding a great deal of their portfolios in the stock market, Jeff
Rose, a certified financial planner and owner of investing blog Good Financial
Cents, recommended safe investing through peer - to - peer lending.
Today packages account
for 25 per
cent of the U.S. postal service's fixed costs, but the rates have not
risen to keep pace.
The proposals from the presidential campaign, reiterated last week by President - elect Donald Trump's choice
for Treasury secretary, will massively favour the top 1 per
cent of income earners, threaten an explosive
rise in federal debt, complicate the tax code and do little if anything to spur growth.
By the same token, an immediate
rise in our policy rate back to,
for example, the 4.25 per
cent that prevailed before the financial crisis would represent an extreme tightening of policy and would have significant consequences.
Net income
for the quarter to Feb. 3
rose to $ 116.0 million, or $ 1.11 a share, from $ 90.2 million, or 81
cents a share, in the same period a year ago.
Mr Cooke said the group had made a «powerful» start to 2018, benefiting from an Oz lotto jackpot run that helped deliver a 25 per
cent rise in after - tax profits
for July.
Tuesday's Statistics Canada release brought the welcome news that Canada's economy resumed growing again in June,
rising a solid 0.5 per
cent for the month.
The numbers show slight upticks in manufacturing employment, the average length of the workweek, and even a 7 -
cent rise in average hourly pay
for workers.
Among households where someone works
for a small business, this latter view
rises to 61 per
cent.
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for every 10,000 XLM or XRP one buys, every 1
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Late on Saturday, Deutsche Telekom, the German telephone company, agreed a 2.3 per
cent pay
rise for 17,000 staff this year, plus two increases of 2.1 per
cent each in 2013.
Although it is less than 2 per
cent of total household debt, growth in margin lending has accounted
for over a fifth of the
rise in banks» personal lending (excluding credit cards) since 1996.