Sentences with phrase «cents would now»

At this point, the contracts that you bought for a few cents would now be priced more than a dollar.

I think if I had left the price at 99 cents I would now also be at 14 e-books a day.

Not exact matches

Existing generators that now need 6 cents to cover fuel and operating costs would have to drastically cut costs, possibly restructure and surely pressure the fuel suppliers to slash prices in order to remain competitive.

Now, according to sources familiar with the latest developments, the U.S. has offered to replace the 50 - per - cent requirement with another idea designed to encourage American manufacturing: a formula that credits car companies for paying more than $ 15 per hour.

In an effort to get that deal, the U.S. appears to have backed away from one of its most contentious demands and is no longer insisting that 50 per cent of cars be made in the U.S., and is now floating a different formula based on autoworker salaries.

«We look at people who bought two years ago and they've now made 30 per cent on their purchase.

«Oil prices used to have an 80 per cent correlation with the loonie and now it is a 94 per cent relationship.

To this day WANdisco has not taken a cent of venture capital funds and it's now listed on the London Stock Exchange.

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.

Now workers in Shake Shack's New York City locations have a starting hourly wage of $ 12.50, which is 50 cents more than the city's fast food minimum wage of $ 12.

«Rather than waiting until after your death to leave the company to your adult child — who might have to pay 55 cents in tax on every $ 1 of its value — you want to start transferring a minority stake now, let's say 30 % of the stock.»

They have now plunged 78 % since September 4, when they were still trading at 97 cents on the dollar.

The suggested fixes include capping loans at 65 per cent of the home value, introducing new and more conservative means of estimating how much a residence is worth, and amortizing the loans (meaning that borrowers would have to repay the principal within a certain time frame, as in a mortgage, whereas now they can simply keep paying interest on their HELOCs).

For a mine project like Suncor's Fort Hills, with about 25 per cent of construction already completed, the forward - looking decision would imply a return on the balance of capital invested of 12.5 per cent — now, the project returns overall might be lower than that, but when you're considering a decision to abandon a partially built mine, you're not likely to get much of a return on they money you've already invested in it if you don't continue building.

The stock found support near 70 cents in the second half of the year, testing that level three times ahead of a March 2017 uptick that has now reached ranged resistance.

Fast - forward to 2010, now, when Canada pledged to the United Nations it would reduce GHGs by 17 per cent below its 2005 level by 2020, on par with what the U.S. promised.

«Right now, you have a steel worker, maybe from the south side of Chicago here... He lost his job, he lost his health care, he got 30 cents on the dollar for his pension.

They have now reached levels equivalent to 20 or 30 per cent of GDP.

Given the movements in interest rates in the past year along with the dollar's fall it is reasonable to estimate that expectations of exchange rates of the dollar against the euro 10 years from now have fallen by perhaps 15 per cent.

Suppose now that nominal wages have risen by 5 per cent, reaching $ 21 per hour a year later.

As a result, financial traders, who have no intention of ever actually buying or selling any barrels of oil, now account for 70 per cent of the market.

Business credit has thus strengthened quite markedly, so that it is now growing at a rate of 16 per cent, well above that for the household sector.

Thus, even though the Fed has now restored the funds rate to a relatively normal level of 4.5 per cent, world policy interest rates on average remain well below normal.

Gasoline prices have been moving up steadily with the price of oil, and are now up 33 cents from last year's levels and almost 20 cents from just a month ago, according to AAA data.

As it now stands, the four provinces that have joined forces represent nearly 53 per cent of market capitalization of Canadian companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange and TSX Venture Exchange.

Rebar stocks have now fallen 27 per cent from a five - year high of close to 10 million tonnes in mid-March.

Thus, the period where the Australian economy was experiencing a contractionary impact from abroad and where the outlook was for weaker growth and sub-2 per cent inflation has now well and truly passed.

What this country needed was a good 5 - cent kWh, and now we have it.

Now, as the debate has heated up, support has risen to 54 per cent while opposition has dropped to 38 per cent.

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.

Now the provincial Liberals have introduced a 15 per cent tax on foreigners who buy property in Metro Vancouver.

However the gaming group said it had changed its dividend policy and will now pay 60 cents a year, subject to its financial performance.

Team members in New York City now have a starting hourly rate of $ 12.50, 50 cents more than the state's prevailing fast food wage of $ 12 — which translates to about an extra $ 1,000 over the course of a standard work year.

SDM, he said, now has 28 per cent market share in prestige cosmetics sales in Canada.

It said it would now not proceed with its plan to spin off a 49 per cent interest in some of its Australian hotels and retail property in to a real estate investment trust.

It has now wiped off over 83 per cent of investors» wealth from the January high.

B.C.'s new tax has driven speculation that foreign investors may now be looking to buy properties in Toronto instead, where homes sales in the Greater Toronto Area jumped 21.5 per cent in September, according to Toronto Real Estate Board data released earlier this month.

In our March statement we indicated that our current monetary policy stance remained appropriate to achieve our 2 per cent inflation target on a sustainable basis by around the middle of 2018, whereas US authorities have now begun to tighten.

Despite the nervousness in the market, Bangsund said her firm believes there is strong support for the Canadian dollar right now and has increased her 12 - month target for the loonie to 85 cents US from 82 cents US.

Although the percentage of Canadians who accept the modest proposal of putting more content about Asia in the curriculum has now grown to 50 per cent, a stunning 58 per cent oppose putting more emphasis on Asian languages in the school system.

Back then we can have up to 20 per cent of transaction in branches, now it is no more than six per cent.

After the last update of «Byzantium» on the Ethereum network, the transaction processing fee of the gambling smart - contract has dropped to a few cents and now is less than 0.5 % of the minimum bet.

The exchange rate has declined recently and is now around 9 per cent below its mid-February peak against the US dollar; in trade - weighted terms it has fallen by a smaller amount, as some of the fall against the US dollar has been a reflection of recent US dollar strength.

As a result of these trends, the external trade deficit has widened to 5.7 per cent of GDP, and imports are now around 60 per cent larger than the level of exports.

«Budgets have been missed by up to 81 per cent and roughly $ 540 million on the Northwest Transmission Line, Dawson Creek / Chetwynd line, Iskut Extension, and now the Interior - Lower Mainland transmission line.

The pace of growth in housing credit nonetheless remains brisk, and now appears to have stabilised, at an annual rate of around 12 1/2 per cent over the six months to December.

The economy is now at an advanced stage of its current expansion and has continued to show greater strength than had been generally expected, with real GDP growing at an average annual rate of more than 4 1/2 per cent, and domestic final demand at over 5 per cent, for the past three years.

The ratio of household sector interest payments to disposable income has fallen steadily over the past year and is now below 6 per cent.

Inflation has, nonetheless, edged higher over the past year or two, with underlying measures having increased from a low of around 1 1/2 per cent in late 1997 to around 2 per cent now.

Prices of imported consumption goods at the docks increased by almost 4 per cent in the June quarter, after a very modest rise in the March quarter, and have now regained their level of nearly two years ago.