Only 21 per cent of mortgage holders would see a significant impact on their standard of living for a monthly mortgage rate increase of $ 100; 53 per
cent would see an impact, with an increase of $ 200, the study says.
Of the 500 members we asked, just 7 per
cent would see someone merely for their money.
Holding a «buy» on Qantas as it rallied 34 per
cent has seen CIMB's Mark Williams named top stock - picker analyst in the 2014 StarMine Awards.
But the top 10 per
cent have seen their incomes increase more quickly, and the top couple of per cent even more rapidly, than the rest of their fellow top earners.
It also revealed that 59 per
cent had seen airbrushed images in the media in the week before they were questioned, and had consequently felt under pressure to change the way that they look.
Another question found more than half, 55 per cent, had seen a large increase in the number of students experiencing anxiety or stress and 38 per
cent has seen a large increase in students having a low mood or depression.
The survey recorded the response of over 400 NUT representatives and found that 67 per
cent have seen or expect to see reduced funds for books and resources in their schools.
One Australian survey of 9 - 16 year olds found that 44 per
cent had seen sexual images online.5 Another study found that among 13 to 16 year olds in Australian schools, 93 per cent of males, and 62 per cent of females had seen pornography.6 Sexualisation is rife, billboards advertising everything from perfume to jeans are overtly sexual, popular song lyrics are saturated with sexual references and this exposure can drive natural curiosity.
The results showed that 44 per
cent have seen a major decline in the amount of people who are travelling.
Not exact matches
The biggest casualty of that shakeout
has unquestionably been Canada's BlackBerry, which
has seen its once - commanding position atop the smartphone pile dwindle to less than one per
cent global market share.
In the decade he's been at the company, Violi
has seen the Canadian dollar go from around 75
cents to over a dollar and back to its current perch around 84
cents.
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.
«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 company, which
has seen its shares soar 31 per
cent in value so far this year, estimates that deal will translate into a retail value of $ 40 million to $ 60 million.
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.»
Exploration firm Red River Resources
has seen its share price jump by over 80 per
cent after it entered into a $ 6.5 million agreement with the administrators of collapsed explorer Kagara, for the sale of its projects in northern Queensland.
Microsoft was discovering that it couldn't even give the service away and, for my two
cents, I didn't
see any realistic prospect that things
would get better.
«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.
«About 60 per
cent of goods sent from Canada and Mexico to the U.S.
would see virtually no change in the tariffs assessed on them if the U.S. were to withdraw from NAFTA,» the Scotiabank economists conclude.
A Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives report from July calculated that three per
cent of companies
would see tariffs jump from zero to 10 per
cent.
CIBC also found that real weekly wages of high school and college graduates
have risen by 13 per
cent versus eight per
cent among undergraduate degree holders and more than double the rate
seen among MA and PhD holders.
The Chick»n Shack rose 26
cents as well, but other items like fries and the classic shakes
have not
seen their prices rise.
Goods - producing industries
saw a contraction of 0.5 per
cent in July while service industries
had overall growth of 0.2 per
cent.
While that pointed to an economic recovery, analysts
had expected to
see a 3.6 per
cent increase.
EY found in a survey that 64 % of companies deemed to be such best in class cases
have seen 10 to 30 per
cent revenue growth over the past three years.
-LSB-...] «About 60 per
cent of goods sent from Canada and Mexico to the U.S.
would see virtually no change in the tariffs assessed on them if the U.S. were to withdraw from NAFTA,» the Scotiabank economists conclude.
Months after Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc. said it
would make discounts available to U.S. hospitals for two high - priced heart drugs, some medical centers say they
have yet to
see a
cent of savings.
One very concrete example of this can be
seen in divergent movement in the price of health services — a non-tradable — which
has increased by 6 per
cent over the past year, and the price of clothing — a tradable — which
has fallen by 3 per
cent over the same period.
The remaining 82 per
cent is
seeing steady growth, although it
has moderated slightly so far this year, due to the setback in the U.S and spillovers from the resource sector.
Even though the research studied 30,000 cases, «there are still a lot of things that need to be looked at,» he said, «but based on our research and what our testing
has shown, we are able to predict the future success of a new campaign that the machine - learning algorithm
has never
seen before with up to 80 per
cent accuracy.»
The ratio of debt - to - GDP is at already at 30 per
cent and, without any reduction in debt, is forecast to decline to levels that haven't been
seen in half a century.
If you look back over the past 20 years, you will
see that the Australian current account deficit
has fluctuated between about 3 1/2 per
cent and 6 1/2 per
cent of GDP.
They will
see that their mutual funds will
have been badly hit and those retired may
see their pensions diminished and their personal savings down perhaps 50 per
cent.
RBC
has seen an increase of more than 30 per
cent in active mobile users over the past year, a clear indication that more Canadians are using the RBC Mobile app to bank whenever and wherever they want.
In a 2016 survey of our Members, 80 per
cent of respondents indicated that they
would like to
see the government introduce regulations that
would allow ride - hailing services, such as Uber and Lyft, to operate in British Columbia (B.C.).
A number of countries
have been affected by the demand side of China's expansion, not least Australia, where we now
see China accounting for about 10 per
cent of our foreign trade, up from 5 per
cent as recently as 1998.
The left - leaning think tank said the finding was «worrisome» because Toronto and Vancouver
have seen some of the biggest increases in cost of living over the same period, with the price of houses, in particular, skyrocketing by 37 per
cent in Toronto and 62 per
cent in Vancouver.
The proposed 2013 B.C. Budget
would see this drop further to 17.9 per
cent of GDP in 2015/16.
We
've seen how supply management for dairy, poultry and eggs hurts a) consumers through artificially high prices; b) food processors (and the jobs they could be creating in Canada) because of their inability to compete internationally; c) exporters of all kinds looking for more international trade access, but which Canada is denied because of supply management;
d) the majority of Canadian farmers (over 90 per
cent)-- those who grow and produce beef, pork, grains, oilseeds, pulses, and who are not supply managed — who
would also benefit from more international trade access; and finally e) most ironically, dairy farmers themselves, also prevented from exploiting international growth opportunities.
Similarly, India, which
saw annual GDP growth near 9 per
cent from 2005 to 2010,
has also moderated since 2012.
I
have had some business leaders tell me that they
have been surprised to
see, for example, companies in Asia pursuing investments with implicit returns of around 3 to 4 per
cent, well below most companies» hurdle rates.
Markets for ether, the cryptocurrency linked to the ethereum distributed computing platform, were rocked yesterday by a huge flash crash that
saw prices fall from over $ 365 down to as low as 10
cents on one exchange before bouncing back shortly afterwards — an event that is mildly worrying for anyone concerned about cryptocurrency volatility, but
has had devastating consequences for some professional traders who
have seen their holdings wiped out.
In 2016, the U.S.'s biggest beer brands
saw sales volumes down between 2.4 per
cent and 4.4 per
cent in states that
had legalized cannabis.
By 2017, B.C. families and industries will
have seen their power costs increase by 80 per
cent on the B.C. Liberal's watch, including as a result of Premier Clark's broken election promises on hydro rates.
In pre-election documents
seen by The Australian Financial Review, the WA racing industry outlined that it wanted continued financial support, and that uncertainty over the future of the TAB
had caused a 40 per
cent decline in confidence and investment in thoroughbred, harness and greyhound ownership.
For example, Overseas Shipholding Group (equity ticker OSG) is a deeply junk rated oil tanker company that
has seen its bonds drop from trading around par (par means 100
cents on the dollar when comparing the market price to the face amount of the bonds) to distressed levels between 60 and 70
cents on the dollar.
And I
've just
seen recently just today a message of somebody who paid eight
cents for a transaction.
So it is easy to
see why the ranks of the SJP Partnership
have swelled from below 1,900 in 2010, and is approaching 3,500 today — representing 10 per
cent of all UK financial advisers.
Weak economic conditions in the past couple of years
have seen growth in labour costs slow to 2 1/2 per
cent over the year to the December quarter, from 3 1/2 per
cent a year earlier.
Alternative lender First National Financial Corp.
has seen almost 20 per
cent of its value vanish during a three - day slide and mortgage financing firm Equitable Group Inc.
has dropped 8.6 per
cent over two days, the worst slide since 2012.