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Australia's dollar is poised to drop another 5 per cent this year as the central bank stays on hold while the Federal Reserve keeps raising interest rates, Goldman Sachs Asset Management says.

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The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance of opinion between firms planning more spending on machinery and equipment versus those predicting less dropped to 17 per cent from 29 per cent in the summer and 35 per cent at the start of the year.

And if U.S. giant Verizon provides coast - to - coast service north of the border, it could snatch up as much as 10 or 15 per cent of the market after a few years, he said.

Just three per cent of British households own a smart thermostat, up from two per cent last year, while a similar two per cent own phone - controlled lights — the same amount as a year earlier.

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 Dow Jones industrials fell 66.79 points to 15,334.59 as the Standard & Poor's / Case - Shiller 20 - city home price index rose 12.4 per cent in July compared with a year ago, the most since February 2006.

Statistics Canada's Consumer Price Index rose one per cent in June from a year earlier, as cheaper gasoline allowed Canadians to stretch their paycheques, the agency reported July 21.

As of the end of July, there were nearly 123,000 consumer proposals and personal bankruptcies filed by Canadians this year, a decline of 1.2 per cent from the same period last year.

Personal income tax will hit a 20 - year high of 12.5 per cent of GDP by 2020 - 21 under the budget forecasts as the government relies on bracket creep and an increase in the Medicare levy to return the budget to surplus.

New car sales in Western Australia started the 2018 financial year in the slow lane, falling 8 per cent in July as national sales continued to rise.

End - of - financial - year specials failed to maintain May's positive tone on new car sales for Western Australia, with numbers for June down 5.5 per cent as the financial year ended with a whimper.

Belarusian Potash Co. supplied about 42 per cent of the world's potash exports before it broke up and sent prices to a four - year low as major buyers like China and India waited to see how far prices would fall.

The company is also disclosing that it generated $ 317 million in revenue in 2012 and that it had more than 218 million active users as of the end of June, up 44 per cent from a year earlier.

On an adjusted basis to remove one - time items such as the tax charge, Canada's biggest lenders earned roughly $ 11.3 billion, up approximately 12.59 per cent from a year ago

As well, the company's gross margins before fair value adjustments shrunk from 58 per cent of sales or $ 12.5 million, compared to 64 per cent of sales or $ 6.2 million in the fiscal third quarter a year ago.

The number of applications for university places this year has fallen by 25.4 per cent in Western Australia, as a result of the change 12 years ago in the school starting age.

TD forecasts home prices will soar between 20 per cent and 25 per cent overall this year, and tick up as much as five per cent next year.

The state's rural confidence is at its highest level in over two years after a rainy autumn has found 84 per cent of farmers expecting this year to be better or as good as last year's season.

Perth dwelling values fell 1 per cent in January as Australia's combined capital cities showed a 0.9 per cent rise, with the local market expected to remain soft this year.

Mining services company Ausdrill has suffered a 148.5 per cent fall in full - year profit to make a loss of $ 43.9 million, on the back of $ 77.9 million in write - downs and impairment charges as a result of the diminished outlook for mining services.

According to TD, roughly 17 per cent of homes in the region were resold within two years as of March 2016, up from nine per cent a year earlier.

Perth residential property prices fell 2.4 per cent in the September quarter, as the Real Estate Institute of Western Australia tipped eight suburbs to watch next year.

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 activitAs 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 activitas 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 activitas 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.

At first glance, the planned $ 600 million expansion of Perth's Karrinyup Shopping Centre seems to run counter to the relentless march of internet retailing, especially as a fresh report predicts that 50 per cent of all retail sales will be made over the internet in less than 10 years.

In a speech in August, Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said Canada's economy is 2.5 per cent larger every year than it would be without NAFTA: «It is as if Canada has been receiving a $ 20 - billion cheque each year since NAFTA was ratified.»

A 2 per cent move today has the same significance as a 2 per cent move 50 years ago.

TD says as of Wednesday it increased its posted rate for five - year fixed mortgages to 5.59 per cent from 5.14 per cent.

Revenue was $ 4.61 billion, up from $ 3.54 billion a year ago and above analyst estimates, as oilsands volumes nearly doubled as a result of Cenovus buying out its 50 per cent partner, ConocoPhillips, in May of last year.

The increase came as Imperial reported it earned $ 516 million or 62 cents per share, up from $ 333 million or 39 cents per share a year ago.

As more and more bookstores have closed, Amazon is now believed to be the nation's largest bookseller, with an estimated 30 per cent of a total book market that PricewaterhouseCoopers estimates hit $ 34.9 billion last year, and 60 per cent of an e-book market that PwC pegged at $ 7.9 billion.

The March increase was the largest year - over-year move since it hit 2.4 per cent in October 2014, just as the oil - price slump was getting underway.

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«We have seen our online sales grow by more than 50 per cent in the past year and new services, such as in - store reserve and pickup, more than doubling,» said Best Buy Canada president Ron Wilson in a release.

The Wall Street Journal says executives are preparing to reduce the company's staff by as much as 40 per cent before the end of the year, citing people familiar with the matter.

MONTREAL — CGI Group Inc. still expects that the acquisition of U.K. - based Logica will deliver a 25 to 30 per cent boost to its earnings next year as the information technology company «aggressively» pursues cost savings.

The company completed a 15 per cent cut to its workforce in January and February, eliminating between 500 and 700 jobs, as part of its plan to trim $ 1 billion in cumulative capital, operating and administration costs over two years.

Equifax Canada said in a new report Monday Canadian consumers now owe $ 1.821 trillion including mortgages as of the fourth - quarter of 2017, marking a six per cent increase from a year earlier.

The total included $ 23.6 million generated during the last three months of last year, as a reduction of operating costs at Torstar's print divisions offset a 10 per cent decline in fourth - quarter revenue.

Last year, ECU was listed as the first - preference choice for 34 per cent of Year 12, the highest of WA's public universityear, ECU was listed as the first - preference choice for 34 per cent of Year 12, the highest of WA's public universitYear 12, the highest of WA's public universities.

«This bid seems to defy logic,» Peel Hunt analyst Paul Morland told the Financial Times, characterizing the 79 % premium HP paid as «an «amazing» premium for a company whose earnings grew by just 6 per cent in the first half of the year.»

The results also showed that Uber cut its fourth - quarter net loss by 25 per cent from the third quarter as new CEO Dara Khosrowshahi moves to make the company profitable ahead of a planned initial public stock offering sometime next year.

For fiscal 2017 as a whole, each of the five biggest Canadian lenders reported record annual profits for a collective total of $ 40.3 billion in net income, up nearly 13 per cent from a year earlier.

An oil price crash and an unemployment rate that spiked to nine per cent last year did not cause the residential real estate market to crater, as some feared.

TORONTO — Loblaw Companies Ltd. (TSX: L) plans to unveil about 700 Joe Fresh stores in the U.S. next year as Canada's largest grocery chain works to ramp up sales of its hip fashion line to help bolster earnings that dropped by 19 per cent in its most recent quarter.

Canadian Natural production averaged a record 1.02 million barrels of oil equivalent per day in the fourth quarter, a 19 per cent increase from the year - earlier period, as it ramped up the latest expansion of its Horizon oilsands mining and upgrading project.

Antares, which was known as Amity Oil until November last year, announced a half year profit to December 31 of $ 8.2 million, which was 15 per cent higher than the previous corresponding period.

As for operating system market share, comScore says that Google is first with 50.5 per cent of the market running some version of Android, up from 44 per cent a year ago.

All the «other» operating systems, such as BlackBerry 10 and Windows Phone, combined to comprise 11.2 per cent of the market, with BlackBerry representing 8.9 per cent overall, a decline of 6.1 per cent from a year earlier.

Over the year as a whole, it is expecting five per cent growth.