Sentences with phrase «of a cent higher»

A week ago, the average price was one - tenth of a cent higher.

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After the bell, chip giant Intel posted quarterly earnings of 51 cents a share, a penny higher than forecast.

The Canadian dollar fell 0.6 of a cent to 97.34 cents US as the U.S. dollar and bond yields headed higher after the announcement.

Typically, inflation of one per cent signals economic weakness because there is too little demand to force prices higher.

But because operators bill at such a high rate for data roaming — at about 15 cents per kilobyte of information in France, for example, which is roughly the amount of information in this paragraph — consumers typically reach that limit within a few hours of downloading standard e-mails.

Brent crude oil futures were last up 12 cents at $ 73.98 a barrel at 0937 GMT, some 2 percent below the November - 2014 high of $ 75.47 reached on Tuesday.

Ripple's cryptocurrency, which hit a record high of $ 3.84 in January, has pulled back significantly to around 49 cents as of Wednesday, according to CoinMarketCap.com.

Continental posted net income of $ 233.9 million, or 63 cents per share, compared with $ 469,000, or less than a penny per share, in the year - ago quarter, when oil prices plummeted - and the company's production costs were higher.

Oil has dropped more than six per cent since closing at a two - year high of $ 110.53 on Sept. 6.

Brent crude settled 14 cents higher at $ 74.00 a barrel, below the November 2014 intraday high of $ 75.47 reached on Tuesday.

Brent crude oil futures were down 14 cents at $ 73.72 a barrel at 1128 GMT, some 2 percent below the November 2014 high of $ 75.47 reached on Tuesday.

Oil prices slid more than one per cent on Tuesday as the US dollar remained near a four - month high, but worries that US President Donald Trump will pull out of the Iran nuclear deal underpinned the market.

Personal income tax will hit a 20 - year high of 12.5 per cent of GDP by 2020 - 21 under the budget forecasts as the government relies on bracket creep and an increase in the Medicare levy to return the budget to surplus.

According to the Bank of Canada, close to half of all high - ratio mortgages originated in Toronto were to borrowers with loan - to - income ratios in excess of 450 per cent.

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.

But the same PBO report projects the debt service ratio will rise to an all - time high of 16.3 per cent by the end of 2021.

The fact is, a higher proportion of teenagers work at a minimum wage job in most provinces across Canada today than a decade ago (49 per cent across Canada, 70 per cent in Ontario in 2016), but a growing proportion of adults have been doing so as well.

Aside borrowers, investors benefit from regular monthly returns at an average rate of 15.5 per cent, which is significantly higher than other asset classes.

«(With an alternative lender), the interest rates are higher, the qualifying rate is higher than if you were going with a traditional bank and they are going to charge one per cent of the mortgage amount (as a lender's fee) for closing, so that means your closing costs increase.»

The problem was that analysts had expected a slightly higher profit of 24 cents per share on revenue of $ 2.13 billion.

Regionally, prices were higher in all provinces except British Columbia, which recorded its third consecutive month of disinflation, chiefly attributed to a one - per - cent decrease in food costs.

Though, the strong revenues won't off set higher costs, with an estimated loss per share of 31 cents.

The Tax Foundation recently published research that found America's top rate of business tax — 35 per cent — is the highest amongst the 34 industrialized nations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

Because the average salary for a woman still lags behind men's (the American Association of University Women says women earn 82 cents for every dollar a man makes one year after graduation) and lenders favor two - income households over single earners, Lautz says women are «making the most sacrifices to get into a home, but they're still placing a high value on owning a home of their own.»

The whole concept of inversion, and the simpler relocation of smaller firms» HQs, is driven by one simple desire — to avoid America's corporate tax rate which headlines at 35 per cent, which is the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world.

Gold miner Northern Star Resources has increased its dividend payout after confirming a 65 per cent jump in full - year profit, on the back of higher gold prices and a reduction in costs.

The loonie's plunge below 70 cents against the U.S. dollar in mid-January was bad news for energy companies but will boost the competitiveness of our high - tech firms.

The state's rural confidence is at its highest level in over two years after a rainy autumn has found 84 per cent of farmers expecting this year to be better or as good as last year's season.

Perth - based Excalibur Mining Corporation's shares closed over 150 per cent higher on news it was considering an acquisition of Singapore - based tech company Dropmysite for an undisclosed sum.

Fueled by low prices, and an improving job market, consumption of gasoline in the U.S. rose by 2.6 per cent last year to 9.2 million barrels a day, the highest level since 2007, the government said.

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.»

Analysts expected earnings of 12 cents per share on much higher revenue of $ 740.1 million, according to a consensus estimate from Thomson Reuters.

Valeant stock was up $ 8.83 or 10.15 per cent to $ 95.85 after earlier hitting an all - time high of $ 96.25.

West Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil futures for April delivery traded 6 cents higher near $ 61.25 a barrel as of 11:05 a.m., ET, after settling up 23 cents on Thursday.

«While the so - called «value - added» data transmission sector of the Australian telecommunications market is growing rapidly — at rates of up to 25 per cent per annum — the demand for new high - speed services is not being met in rural and remote regions of the country,» Mr Woods said.

«For decades, households in Ontario had incomes as much as 20 per cent above the Canada average, and 10 per cent higher as recently as the turn of the century.

«From 1980 to 2007, in that period, revenues from the top 1 per cent of income earners went from 1.6 per cent of GDP, to 3.1 per cent of GDP, a huge surge of revenues from the highest income earners,» he said, crediting tax cuts with generating that wealth during those years.

High - grade hits of copper and gold from the maiden drill program at Jubilee sent Hammer's share price soaring from 3.4 cents in mid-December to a peak of 5 cents early in the new year.

The change would be eliminating the dividend refund that comes later, which could bump the effective tax rate on passive income, in cases of high income earners, to the 70 - per - cent - plus level Poilievre talks about.

Rive argues that when the factory is up and running it will be able to produce high - output PV cells at about 55 cents a watt — about a 20 % reduction from current prices, which will help Rive get closer to his goal of making solar cheaper than fossil fuels.

John Boyd opened a winery in 1972 with prices of $ 1 to $ 1.50 a bottle — low enough to grab market share but high enough to cover variable costs (which he figured at about 35 cents a bottle) and make a profit.

Aéropostale's shares have slipped from an all - time high of $ 29.90 in 2010, to 15 cents when the stock stopped trading Thursday.

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.

For all of 2017, retail sales increased 6.7 per cent to reach $ 588 billion, the highest annual growth rate since 1997.

The dollar has eased off in the last couple of days since Trump complained about it being too strong, but, after rising half a cent on the back of Draghi's press conference, it's still close to a 14 - year high against the euro.

Higher costs will hurt its ability to grow profits in the first three months of the year, it said, forecasting earnings of between 60 and 80 cents a share, below the 83 cents a share forecast by analysts polled by Thomson Reuters.

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 %).

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.

Local listed leader, Evans & Tate, has been trading at 52 - week highs of around $ 1.35, close to double the 78 cent low the stock slumped to in June.

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.