Sentences with phrase «half of all household»

In the case of household repairs, there are only a couple of ways to minimize the financial impact.

The IIF said Argentina, Nigeria, Turkey and China recorded the largest buildup in debt ratios over the year, the latter fueled by ongoing growth in indebtedness of households and the nation's finance sector.

It suggests the weight of a record level of household debt is starting to feel heavy.

Here are three off the top of my head: Record levels of household debt threaten future spending, too many of our companies need a weaker currency to be competitive, and international energy companies are giving up on Canada as a place to invest.

Most of those households are in Alberta, British Columbia and Ontario.

He included original research that suggests a looser fiscal policy after 2010 may have resulted in a lower level of household debt today.

In contrast, 93 % of households lost money.

If it seems like the price of household goods — everything from gas to clothing to food — is going up, that's because it is.

YELLOWKNIFE, Northwest Territories, May 1 - Bank of Canada Governor Stephen Poloz said on Tuesday that the view of the Canadian economy is quite good despite record levels of household debt, and he was confident the central bank can manage the risk of that debt even as interest rates rise.

However, according to NYU economist Edward Wolff, the wealthiest 1 % of households own 38 % of all shares of stock.

This week's batch of entrepreneurs will pitch updates to a variety of household products, many involving food.

While some monthly expenses appeal to a frugal sensibility — you might score discounts by signing up for regular deliveries of household staples through an Amazon subscription, for example — there are also plenty of regularly incurring costs that might seem like they'll save you money but actually do just the opposite.

Their newest paper uses historical data from multiple countries to show that an increase in the ratio of household debt to gross domestic product over a three - to - four - year period predicts a decline in economic growth.

According to the Canadian Bankers Association, 69 per cent of household debt in Canada is made up of residential mortgage debt, while 18 per cent comes from lines of credit and five per cent is credit card debt.

There's an economic imperative at play, of course: thanks to steadily increasing costs of living, and record levels of household debt, many sexagenarians and even septuagenarians simply can't afford to stop working.

Added discounts and exclusive options in Prime Pantry: You can do a free 30 - day trial, but Prime members can tack on $ 4.99 per month for access to thousands of household essentials, many of which are not available elsewhere on Amazon.

The home equity line of credit has allowed millions of households to borrow against their properties, providing cash for everything from renovations to investing to debt consolidation.

The house - price bubble, combined with record levels of household debt, represent the biggest threat facing the Canadian economy; the sooner real - estate markets mellow and Canadians lower their debt burdens, the better.

What troubles the Bank of Canada, Poloz said, is what would become of those households if there was another recession?

If one member of the household makes a good enough living, a cost - benefit analysis will often conclude that it makes economic sense for the second earner to stay at home or work part - time.

Despite the force of habit keeping desk phones intact, Goldberg predicts that businesses, like growing numbers of households, will eventually rely only on mobile and internet for their communications.

In 2013, only 3.6 percent of households headed by adults younger than 30 owned stakes in private companies — a 24 - year low.

Empathy - driven, customer - first decision making The rise of women in all areas of business, in addition to females making the majority of household buying decisions, has created an interesting shift in how to approach customers.

The percentage of households without a car has increased slightly in the last five years, the most recent data from the American Census Bureau shows.

It is set to increase to $ 12,000 for individuals, $ 18,000 for heads of household, and $ 24,000 for joint filers.

That's because homeowners — by far the majority of households in Canada — have a substantial amount of equity they can bring to the purchase of a residential property.

«The 60 % of households that make $ 50,000 a year or less are still quite strapped,» said Kraft Chief Executive Tony Vernon in a recent conference call.

Moreover, most of the household names we're familiar with in the startup world hail from tech companies (e.g., Mark Zuckerberg, Larry Page and Sergey Brin).

Meanwhile, the corporation has been conducting town halls across the country in recent months, trying to gauge public reaction to the prospect of significant reductions in service levels, especially in those older urban areas where homeowners still get (costly) delivery to the door (equivalent of about 40 % of households).

While $ 1.3 trillion won't do much to change the outlook for inflation or future debt crises, it sure would give a lot of households one last chance to set things on a more positive course.

If the head of household is a man, and it is an intact household in the traditional sense, that man is usually motivated to obtain income to support his family.

That way, if your company loses value or even goes under, you'll still have sheltered a portion of your household's assets,» Ballentine says.

The number of households that have experienced «customer rage» has jumped from 60 percent to 68 percent since the 2011 «rage survey.»

The martini - sipping head of the household, doted upon by his apron - clad wife, is long gone.

A handful of household names, like Airbnb, Uber and Pinterest, returned to the list for a fifth straight year in 2017.

That also means that nearly half of all households are either just breaking even, or spending more money than they make in a year.

Last year, single female homeowners made up 18 percent of household composition in the association's Profile of Home Buyers and Sellers, compared to 10 percent for single men.

In 1976, 40 % of families were either elderly or had a single head of household.

A Prime Pantry membership ($ 4.99 / month) lets you shop thousands of household essentials, many of which are not available elsewhere on Amazon.

That says highly motivated heads of households, be they women or men, are seeking and obtaining jobs and gradually raising their incomes albeit at a slow pace.

Vulnerabilities linked to greater imbalances in regional housing markets and the continued rise of household debt were higher than they were six months ago, the bank said in its latest financial system review.

«There's a huge change in the composition of households,» said Paula England, a sociologist at New York University.

If your product is household cleaning services, why call a random neighborhood where you have no knowledge of income levels, the number of household wage earners or the number of children?

For example, 79 % of households paid for traditional cable or satellite service in last year's annual survey by the Leichtman Research Group, down from 84 % three years earlier and the all - time peak of 88 % in 2010.

The red line is the annualized growth rate of household credit since 2007.

Yet, as a country, we are probably more vulnerable than we were a decade ago because we failed to take seriously the most important lesson of the crisis: the dangers of housing mania and the perils of household debt.

In the CDC survey for the second half of 2016, 50.8 % of households had only mobile service, up from 48.3 % a year earlier.

A ratings point is 1 percent of the total number of households, according to the U.S. Census Bureau and Nielsen's national TV panel.

But that data also likely will show the extent to which Canada's economy is riding a wave of household debt.

Though this neighbourhood ranks 16th in terms of household net worth, the people in Britannia have the highest average annual household salaries of any neighbourhood on the list, at $ 1.45 million per year.