Sentences with phrase «of cents just»

Making Sense of Cents just had a great article today that 56 % of American's have less than $ 10,000 saved for retirement!

Not exact matches

A $ 400 pair of snow tires rung through with a debit card would cost the merchant just 12 cents; a credit card could top $ 12.

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.

Figures also show that in 2009, 1.8 million Canadians worked in some type of temporary job, which accounted for 12.5 per cent of paid employment, with contract positions accounting for just over one - half of temporary jobs and professionals making up a large proportion of contract employees.

Edibles account for about 15 per cent of sales in the U.S., and infused beverages account for just seven per cent of that share.

In many cases the costs of use and adoption have a lot more to do with the calculated allocation of scarce personal time and precious resources rather than with just dollars and cents.

Neither existed in Germany or the Netherlands just a few years ago, but they now account for 17 per cent and 32 per cent of their respective markets, the analysis firm says.

The cost of live customer care averages at about $ 7.5 per call as against the cost of automated customer care systems that are pegged at just 35 cents per call.

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

Telus (TSX: T) reported Thursday that net profits in the final three months of 2015 dropped 16.3 per cent to $ 261 million from $ 312 million a year earlier, although adjusted net income slipped just 1.2 per cent to $ 324 million from $ 328 million.

Just as Torontonians were getting used to shelling out 5 cents for plastic bags, Mayor Rob Ford — possibly angered by having to carry so many nickels and unwilling to suffer the indignity of paying for a reusable shopping bag — put forth a motion to do away with the city's plastic - bag fee as of July 1.

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.»

Perth's established suburbs accounted for just 28 per cent of all urban land development in 2012, well below the long - term «infill» target of 47 per cent, prompting calls for regulatory reform from the Property Council of Australia.

While downloads still command 40 per cent of the market, streaming revenue now accounts for 20 per cent of total revenue, up from just 3 per cent in 2007.

About 250,000 people use Dwolla, a payment network that charges just 25 cents for transactions of $ 10 or more.

Potter built KHI on the promise of supplying e-learning programs to schools, colleges and universities, and shares trading at 9 cents in 1997 peaked just shy of $ 10 in March 2000.

For men, this has been one of our most successful ads, with a click - through rate of more than 3 percent and a cost of download of just 58 cents.

After just two months on the market, Amazon dropped the price of the $ 199 32 - gigabyte model to 99 cents, with a two - year contract.

We rage against out - of - control CEO pay, demand stricter corporate governance, and yet we love the dominant leader who cuts through the noise, gives us something we didn't know we wanted and creates the most valuable company in the world in an industry — consumer electronics and entertainment — that commands just two or three per cent of household budgets and GDP.

Instagram, a start - up which had existed for a mere 551 days, which had never made a cent in revenue, and which employed just a dozen people, had pulled off one of the most impressive exits in recent memory.

After investing $ 240 million in Facebook in 2007, Microsoft reaped a $ 249 million windfall last year by selling just 20 per cent of its holdings in Facebook's IPO.

The world's largest producer of gasoline engines posted earnings on Wednesday, delivering a 1 - cent earnings beat off of an 83 - cent basis and revenue up just 1.2 percent year over year.

It's a damning assessment that helps to explain the latest round of bleak stats on women's compensation: According to Statistics Canada data, full - time female employees earn just 74.3 cents for every dollar earned by a full - time male employee.

In 2005, according to documents supplied recently to Congress, GM failed to make a repair of the switch that would have cost just 57 cents.

The company posted earnings of $ 1.52 a share, beating analysts» estimates by one cent, and revenue of $ 7.32 billion, just shy of the $ 7.34 billion expected.

It's an important question, and one that could go some way toward explaining why GDP growth has averaged just 1.4 per cent in developed economies since 2010, compared to an average of 3.6 per cent between 1985 and 2007.

Curtis Jackson, aka 50 Cent, isn't just a multi-platinum rapper, he's also a successful entrepreneur with a range of businesses.

CGI (TSX: GIB.A) said the net loss in its fiscal 2012 fourth quarter was just under $ 170 million or 58 cents per diluted share, compared with a profit of $ 69.6 million or 26 cents per share in the year - earlier period.

Although it commands just 15 per cent of the smartphone market, compared to more than 80 per cent for devices running Google's Android software, the company is responsible for more than half the profits earned by smartphone manufacturers worldwide (some estimates now put the number as high as 93 %).

It's no secret that women have it worse than men in the workplace: Consider that women today earn just 78 cents for every male dollar, according to the Department of Labor.

Let's assume that if every one of those 19 transactions had a purchase amount with one penny over the dollar (e.g., $ 3.01) with a 99 - cent round - up, the average American would save just $ 18.81 per month with Acorns.

The book lists for $ 12.95, but corporations that ordered it within four months of publication would pay just 90 cents a copy for a minimum order of 30.

«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.»

McGuigan Simeon Wines has risen from $ 3.69 to $ 4.57, Cockatoo Ridge is up from 47 cents to 70 cents, just short of its high of 75 cents.

On Thursday, the latest figures showed the ratio hit 170.4 per cent in the final three months of 2017, just below its historical peak of 170.

A poll of 1,000 Texans last year for Texas Lyceum found 43 per cent of respondents saying NAFTA has been good for the Texas economy and just 24 per cent saying it was bad.

Total mortgage debt at the end of the third quarter stood at just over $ 1.1 trillion, up 1.8 per cent from the second quarter.

Women of colour, she writes, hold just 4 per cent of top corporate jobs and 3 per cent of board seats.

After all, just 55 per cent of businesses that existed five years ago are still alive today.

Bryant Simon, a professor at Temple University, whose book Boardwalk of Dreams chronicles the history of Atlantic City, including Trump's business dealings there, says business owners who worked on the Taj Mahal were often paid just 10 cents to 20 cents on the dollar in the bankruptcy.

According to the GAO report, public companies with $ 75 million or less in market capitalization paid a median of $ 1.14 in audit fees for every $ 100 in revenue under the act, compared to just 13 cents for every $ 100 by companies with over $ 1 billion in market capitalization.

That was just 2 per cent more than it was 12 months earlier and was slightly below inflation of 2.1 per cent.

Just more than half of StateWest's membership voted on the issue, with 90 per cent of the 30,366 votes cast favouring the end to mutual status.

Just five per cent of companies that have won a Best Managed award have gone out of business, compared to an estimated 72 per cent of average Canadian firms in a comparable period of time.

However, the spectacular success of digital photography could be just the trick SOG needs to complete its revival especially as it produces 60 per cent of the world's tantalum.

«After years of fighting through bankruptcy court, the Jenkins ended up with just 30 cents on the dollar.

Apple ascended to its lofty heights on the backs of the iPod, iPhone and iPad, which collectively account for about 70 per cent of its revenue (the iPod is actually just a smidgen of that now).

Across the United States, the American Automobile Association reports, gas prices are down just 12 cents a gallon since the beginning of August.

Online sales account for just two per cent of the company's business, but Rosen notes that «there's not an hour that goes by in our store without someone showing us our website on their iPhone and asking us where to find something on the floor.»

Markets are assigning just a 20 - per - cent chance of an increase at the April 18 decision, and only two hikes for 2018 — in July and October.