Sentences with phrase «of a cent more»

The researchers found that in Berkeley, soft drink prices increased by about seven - tenths of a cent more per ounce than in other cities.

The Bitcoin mining industry has a razor - thin profit margin as it is and having a price of electricity that is even a few tenths of a cent more expensive over the competition can mean getting beaten out of the market.

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News of Brazil - focused miner Crusader Resources achieving its first iron ore sales has excited the market with its share price jumping more than 16 per cent today.

The investment indicator in the Business Outlook Survey weakened significantly from the summer report, as the balance of opinion between firms planning more spending on machinery and equipment versus those predicting less dropped to 17 per cent from 29 per cent in the summer and 35 per cent at the start of the year.

THE use of migrant workers to bolster the workforce in Western Australia is becoming more commonplace, with a 12 per cent increase in the number of temporary visa holders in the state.

According to the latest Census of Agriculture, more than 80 per cent of Canada's dairy farms are located in Ontario and Quebec and half are found in fewer than three dozen Census Divisions.

HOW is it possible for 11 nations that, on a combined basis, command very little more than 15 pert cent of the world's capitalisation, hold the rest of the world to ransom?

Walter Spracklin of RBC Capital Markets said increased costs from the delay means that Bombardier will need to sell more than 800 aircraft to break even, or 12 per cent market share over the next 20 years.

The stock has soared more than eight per cent over the past week on speculation the company could buy the retail operations of oil and gas giant Hess, which owns about 1,350 gasoline stations in 16 East Coast states.

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

Shares dropped more than 5 per cent in morning trading Tuesday and one analyst that follows the company stripped it of its «Buy» rating.

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.

More than 74 per cent of the 4.3 million BlackBerry devices that landed in user's hands in the quarter were its older BlackBerry 7 models, the financial report showed.

With more than 200 titles, Shudder's library is considerably smaller than the thousands of shows and movies available on Netflix, but the service does boast that 85 per cent of it is exclusive.

Retail, not mining, has borne the brunt of the slowdown in Western Australia during the past 12 months, with a study of the state's economy by the investment bank Goldman Sachs revealing a startling decline in retail jobs of more than 20 per cent.

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.

The fewer the jolts, the less money, while sending more of them to their partner meant a profit that ranged from 15 cents to $ 15.

MGM Resorts, for example, agreed to pay employees an extra 35 cents per hour in the first year of the contract, 50 cents more in the second year and an additional 55 cents in the third.

T - Mobile US — T - Mobile reported quarterly profit of 78 cents per share, 7 cents a share above estimates, with the wireless carrier's revenue also above forecasts as it added more subscribers.

The funeral industry in WA is increasingly dominated by a handful of big players, including two listed companies that hold more than 50 per cent of the market after buying some of the state's oldest operators.

• According to the same report, 21 per cent of Canadians who purchased their home before 1990 still haven't paid it off after more than 27 years, while one per cent of Canadians who purchased homes between 2014 and 2016 have negative equity in their property.

Shares in national window dressings company Kresta Holdings have soared more than 20 per cent after raising its profit forecast on the back of an improved trading period in the second half of 2009.

• More than half (58 per cent) of Canadians pay their credit card balance in full each month, avoiding credit card debt and interest payments altogether.

This was due mainly to the fall in crush of white grape varieties, which fell more than 12 per cent to 22,709 t, while the red grape crush was up almost 10 per cent to 28,538 t.

Idaho's exports to China totalled $ 560 million in 2015 — an increase of more than 16 per cent from 2014 that makes China the second - largest export market for Idaho.

Home sales across the country have dropped in the wake of several government policy measures, including a stress test for home buyers with a down payment of more than 20 per cent, that were implemented to cool the country's hot housing market.

The company is also disclosing that it generated $ 317 million in revenue in 2012 and that it had more than 218 million active users as of the end of June, up 44 per cent from a year earlier.

More than half (54 per cent) of small and medium businesses across the country are engaging with e-commerce.

Unfortunately, 40 per cent of shoppers said the Canadian store experience didn't match the U.S. one and 89 per cent said the chain didn't live up to its tagline: «Expect More.

Toy makers count on the November and December holiday season to make 40 per cent or more of annual revenue.

Margaret River heads the regions in terms of wine grape crush numbers, accounting for more than 22,000 t, or 43.7 per cent, of the State's crush, followed by the Great Southern area with 10,594 t.

One survey conducted by industry research site Retail Dive suggests that more than 55 per cent of shoppers visit stores before buying online.

Shares in Rox Resources more than doubled today on the back of a strong zinc and lead drilling result at a project in the Northern Territory, while Dacian Gold was up 7 per cent following results in Western Australia.

He confirmed that the U.S. had been willing to drop its demand that 50 per cent of every car consist of American parts, in exchange for a new system that credits parts - makers when they pay more than $ 15 an hour.

The layoffs represent less than five per cent of the more than 35,000 global workforce at Bombardier Aerospace, one of the company's two main divisions.

Citrix Systems jumped more than 6 percent after the IT services provider handed in third - quarter adjusted earnings of $ 1.04 a share on $ 813 million in revenue, topping estimates of 84 cents on $ 786 million.

Perhaps more importantly, if we take his new statements literally he is now predicting that installation of a Tory government will immediately cause the economy to grow at an absurd 10 per cent per year, 5 times the current rate by implementing only three - tenths of the Million Jobs Plan.

The U.S. has proposed a more flexible formula for ensuring production in the U.S., rather than a hard rule demanding 50 per cent of every car to have American content.

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.

Some publicly traded companies have boasted that their all - in costs are in the range of 70 cents to $ 1.75 per gram which translates into profit margins of more than 80 per cent.

«Several decades back, a return on equity of as little as 10 percent enabled a corporation to be classified as a «good» business — i.e., one in which a dollar reinvested in the business logically could be expected to be valued by the market at more than 100 cents.

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.»

This year's awards are open to all Australian business women that meet the entry criteria in the following categories: * Westpac Group Business Owner Award (owners with a 50 per cent share or more in a business, with responsibility for key management decision making); * Australian Government Private and Corporate Sector Award (employees in the private and corporate sectors, or owners with less than a 50 per cent share of a business); * Hudson Community and Government Award (employees of government departments, statutory bodies and not - for - profit organisations); * Panasonic Young Business Women's Award (women aged 30 years and under, with any of the above criteria).

Tap Oil shareholders have lodged a big protest vote, with more than 35 per cent of votes cast against three resolutions at today's annual meeting, with dissident shareholder Chatchai Yenbamroong accounting for a large share of the opposition.

A recent survey conducted by the Asia Pacific Foundation shows a slim majority of Canadians (55 per cent) support the pursuit of a free - trade agreement and that 64 per cent are concerned Canada will become more susceptible to economic and political pressure from Beijing.

Shares in Mungana Gold Mines rose by more than 25 per cent after the company announced it would move ahead with its North Queensland zinc strategy, following shareholder support for the $ 15 million acquisition of the Chilagoe base metal assets from the liquidators of Kagara, originally announced in December last year.

The rising cost of homeownership is pushing more people to rent, and the vacancy rate in Toronto has tightened over the past few years to 1.3 per cent, according to CMHC.

There was a lot of money made on residential property sales around Australia in the June quarter, but the joy wasn't spread around evenly, with more than 10 per cent of all houses and about 20 per cent of all units sold in Western Australia during the quarter selling at a loss.

A 2013 survey conducted near its Tasiast mine in Mauritania by local sociologists found that the number of households living below the poverty line had been cut by more than half since 2011 and the unemployment rate had declined from 47 per cent to 24 per cent.

According to the organization, the national price of regular gasoline is hovering above $ 2 per gallon, down more than 30 cents from the comparable period last year.