Sentences with phrase «cents point of»

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The OECD data shows that 72.4 per cent of Canadians aged 15 - 64, what is normally considered the working age, were employed in the fourth quarter of 2013, compared to 73.7 per cent who had a job in the second quarter of 2008, for a differential of minus 1.3 percentage points.

On Wednesday afternoon, the benchmark U.S. 10 - year bond was yielding 2.35 per cent, up 15 basis points from before the Fed statement and up sharply from about 1.6 per cent at the beginning of May.

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.

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

But he points to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer released earlier this year showing that, since 2009, the debt service ratio — a measure of income spent to pay debt — has remained steady at around 14 per cent, not much higher than the long - term average.

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.

A recent survey published by insolvency trustee MNP Ltd. found 48 per cent of Canadian respondents were $ 200 or less away from being unable to fulfill their monthly financial obligations, an eight point increase since September.

OTTAWA — Rising gasoline and car prices fuelled the first significant spike in Canada's cost of living since February last month, lifting the annual inflation by half a point to 1.2 per cent — still low by historial standards.

We'll put put specific numbers on that bluebird view by creating a simple model that involves moving a few decimal points: Let's say that FAANG Inc's share price is $ 24 (based on $ 24 trillion valuation) and that it earns 80 cents (that's the $ 80 billion, many decimal points to the left), so it's selling at the FAANGs combined PE of 30.

Just 10 per cent of fatal accidents occur at that point, according to a safety analysis by Boeing.

Travel website The Points Guy lists a valuation of 1.9 cents per Membership Rewards point; based on that, the welcome offer is worth around $ 1,140.

The longest - term portion of the offering, $ 8 billion of bonds maturing in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.

Performance of the different offerings was uneven; two large funds launched at the company's peak tumbled by 20 per cent at one point, damaging the nascent firm's reputation.

That meant that, after factoring in those taxes and fees, each Chase point we redeemed for the flight effectively got us 13.3 cents worth of first class value.

A recent survey from the Canadian Bankers Association found that nearly 70 per cent of Canadians do most of their banking on their computer or mobile device — up almost 15 percentage points since 2015.

Real estate assets in Canada accounted for 40 per cent of total wealth in 2012, he pointed out, as opposed to only 32 per cent in 1999.

Users of Cumberland Farms SmartPay save 10 cents per gallon at the chain's stations, for example, while Exxon customers using its SpeedPass + app can redeem Plenti reward points to cut the total price of their fill - up.

As a simple rule of thumb, if the value of each point is less than 1 cent, use cash and keep your points for a higher - value opportunity.»

The company's lone outstanding junk bond, worth $ 1.8 billion and maturing in 2025, briefly dropped two points to as low as 85 cents on the dollar for a yield of around 8 percent on Monday, according to MarketAxess data.

Under this scenario, increasing the rate by one percentage point would increase revenues by one per cent of the original tax base.

Points were worth an average of 1.03 to 1.08 cents apiece on such round trips, more than the average for all economy flights.

The Munk Debates website has announced that the «Pros» managed to add 12percentage points to their portion of the opinion pie, as 70 per cent of those polled after the debate last night decided that we should indeed, tax the rich (more).

According to IDC, Samsung's share of the global smartphone market fell 7 percentage points to 25 per cent.

But the analysis says raising the work - force participation rate of women by 4.5 percentage points by 2032 would lift Canada's potential growth to about 1.9 per cent.

Fan also pointed out that Verizon Wireless can not invest outside of the continental U.S. due to a shareholder agreement with British telecom company Vodafone (which owns a 45 per cent stake in Verizon Wireless), and that it would be unlikely that any wireless investment by Verizon Communications Inc. would occur outside of Verizon Wireless.

Raymond James, which has an outperform on the company, pointed out in a note that its Q4 adjusted earnings per share was 67 cents, compared to a consensus estimate of 63 cents.

The Australian bourse has clocked up its best two - day gain in over 33 years after the market closed four per cent higher, following the biggest point gain ever on Wall Street and news of the federal government's $ 10.4 billion economic stimulus package.

Another data point from AppFigures showed that 39 % of apps are paid, with the most popular price being 99 cents.

The CCPA report also pointed out that 41 per cent of Canadian exports enjoy MFN rates of zero.

The share of part - time work among university - educated Canadians also rose from 10 per cent in the 1990s to 13.5 per cent today, with the gap relative to high - school graduates narrowing to only one percentage point.

When you exchange points for cash or as a statement credit, generally the best return you can get is one cent for each point applied towards the price of the ticket when you booked it.

In other terms, instead of each point being worth one cent, they're worth 1.25 cents.

The on - line publisher spends 10 cents a minute for the fax service instead of the 15 cents to 20 cents it used to pay, which CEO John Westergaard says he finds «very attractive from a financial point of view.»

As a result, it has shaved three - tenths of a point off its projections for growth for both 2012 and 2013, to 1.9 per cent and 2.0 per cent respectively.

But only 8.8 per cent of prospective homebuyers pointed to education as a factor when considering Calgary, compared to 20.6 per cent who cited investment.

Longer term, it would mean missing the stated 2021 target of reducing the national debt - to - GDP to 25 per cent by only a single percentage point.

Two out of 10 Canadians (21 per cent) planned to travel on reward points this year, up seven per cent over last year.

Perth - based exploration junior Alkane Exploration NL is on the point of proving up the marketability of product from its 100 per cent held Dubbo Zirconia project, located twenty kilometres south of Dubbo and 400 km north - west of Sydney.

Bartlett said growth is tracking well below the 1.9 per cent pace expected by the Bank of Canada with the first half rate roughly 1.8 percentage points below the bank's latest forecast.

Or sell with Square Register, our first fully integrated point of sale, for 2.5 % + 10 cents per tap, dip, or swipe.

The report points to a recent survey that found 70 per cent of Lower Mainland residents are in favour of allowing ridesharing services to operate in B.C. and notes that the municipalities of Coquitlam, Port Coquitlam, Port Moody and Langley Township have all come out in favour of ridesharing in recent weeks.

Because of the Durbin amendment, as of October 1, 2011, debit interchange is capped for transactions (21 cents, plus 5 basis points -LRB-.05 %), plus an additional penny for issuers that qualify for fraud) for debit cards issued by banks and credit unions with $ 10 billion in assets or more.

Global stock markets plunged from 5 to 9 per cent abroad, and there was talk of closing the New York market if stocks fell more than 1,000 points.

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.

[5] The share of interest - only loans in total housing credit then stabilised for a time at around 40 per cent, having increased steadily up to that point.

On the London Metal Exchange, it was nickel's turn in the spotlight as it soared 12 per cent at one point to a more than three - year high of $ US15, 875 a tonne, before closing up 7.5 per cent at $ US15, 275, its largest daily gain in 6-1/2 years, Reuters reported.

This means 1 Amex reward point is only worth 7/10 of one cent.

Insiders point to issuers who have been quoted in the press making comments along the lines of, «The proxy advisory firm is my number one shareholder because they control 50 per cent of my vote.»

At about the same time, APRA acted to ensure that the interest rate «buffer» used in the serviceability assessments for all loans was at least 2 percentage points above the relevant benchmark rate (with an interest rate floor of at least 7 per cent).

While Canada is ranked fifth in the world (behind the U.S., China, India and the U.K.) in terms of global venture capital investment, and many Canadian companies achieve success in their first five years, only three per cent of firms that survive beyond that point classify as high growth.