Sentences with phrase «of cents less»

I used to have a choice to go across the street for a couple of cents less when they did compete.

Not exact matches

The final thing to say is that those «officials» should pay closer attention to what the Bank of Canada actually says, and less to the over-interpretation of those words by the currency traders who have driven the Canadian dollar to 80 U.S. cents in recent days, a 10 - percent increase since May.

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.

Ottawa recently began allowing foreign takeovers of telecom companies that have a 10 per cent or less share of the market.

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.

For the quarter ended July 20, Dick's adjusted earnings were 96 cents a share, up from 82 cents a year ago, but less than the $ 1.00 expected by Wall Street and even its own forecast of $ 1.02 a share to $ 1.07 a share.

The biggest casualty of that shakeout has unquestionably been Canada's BlackBerry, which has seen its once - commanding position atop the smartphone pile dwindle to less than one per cent global market share.

In July, the Bank of Canada estimated that 47 per cent of residential mortgages with the Big Six banks will be up for renewal in less than a year, with another 31 per cent due in the next one to three years.

Less than 1 per cent of businesses paid half of Australia's corporate tax take in the year to June 2016, according to ATO data, while the financial services and resources industries were the biggest contributors.

• Even though Canadians have a lot of mortgage debt, national mortgage - in - arrears numbers remain very low, at less than half of one per cent.

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.

A recent survey published by insolvency trustee MNP Ltd. found 48 per cent of Canadian respondents were $ 200 or less away from being unable to fulfill their monthly financial obligations, an eight point increase since September.

The TPP is highly contentious, as it would foster greater trade with countries such as Malaysia and Vietnam, which can pay workers an hourly wage of less than 50 cents.

Vigilance pays: Dean says Couche - Tard manages to keep roughly 2.5 cents on every dollar of revenue, while others can average roughly a penny less.

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.

Despite the passage of the Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, women still make 79 cents on the dollar on average (or less if you're a woman of color).

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).

Less than half of 1 per cent of Australia's agricultural land is owned by Chinese investors, while UK investors make up the largest proportion of overseas interest in Australia, according to a new report.

Its profitability depends greatly on energy costs and, while Fundstrat's model uses a global average of 6 cents per kilowatt hour, Chinese miners apparently only have to pay 4 cents or less.

At first glance, the planned $ 600 million expansion of Perth's Karrinyup Shopping Centre seems to run counter to the relentless march of internet retailing, especially as a fresh report predicts that 50 per cent of all retail sales will be made over the internet in less than 10 years.

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.»

By contrast, the 2012 Pillar of Defense interceptions apparently blocked less than 32 per cent of threatening rockets.

Anything less only requires the old minimum down payment of five per cent.

Making less of an impact than Amazon hoped, the company dropped the price of the Fire Phone from $ 199 to 99 cents.

We flew to Hong Kong to meet with key vendors to see if there was an opportunity to improve pricing, and we tested the integrity of the current vendor's price with a second manufacturer and found we could get the balls for 3 cents less per ball.

The state average of 9.87 cents per watt puts the average cost of mining at $ 3,224 per Bitcoin — substantially less than the over $ 16,000 the cryptocurrency is currently trading at on the open market.

«We are changing the rules for three per cent of private corporations, because the wealthiest Canadians should not be able to use private corporations to pay less tax than the middle class,» Morneau said.

Ian de Verteuil of CIBC World Markets says the drop in the U.S. corporate tax rate to 21 per cent from 35 per cent makes Canada a less attractive destination to locate a head office.

Put 10 cents of every dollar that comes into your hands somewhere where you are less likely to spend it.

The Tampa Bay Times, for instance, reported that Kids Wish Network was spending less than 3 cents of every donated dollar on the children it promises to provide for.

Their plan proved difficult to execute: less than two cents of every dollar spent by blacks in the U.S. goes to black - owned businesses, and it's hard to say what's cause and what is eff ect.

The agreement comes after recent changes by Industry Canada allowing telecom companies with less than 10 per cent of the market to have no restrictions on foreign investment.

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.

It was the opinion of 95 per cent of those questioned in October, 1935, by the National Conference of Jews and Christians that there was less anti-Semitism in their communities at that time than there had been at the beginning of the depression.

Of 80,000 individual names listed in Poor's Register of Directors 4.7 per cent appear to be Jewish as against a Jewish population percentage of about 4 or a little lesOf 80,000 individual names listed in Poor's Register of Directors 4.7 per cent appear to be Jewish as against a Jewish population percentage of about 4 or a little lesof Directors 4.7 per cent appear to be Jewish as against a Jewish population percentage of about 4 or a little lesof about 4 or a little less.

During the first few months of the year the S&P 500 rose by less than 2 %, but Canadians who invested in the index are up more than 5 %, thanks to the loonie's fall to 90 cents (U.S.).

The federal government announced initial changes in April, scrapping an aspect of the program that allowed employers to pay foreign workers as much as 15 per cent less than the average wage for a job.

In the span of less than a month, the S&P 500 index has shed seven per cent of its value.

Last week, Shell Canada Ltd. said it was cutting its workforce of 3,000 at its Albian Sands mining operation north of Fort McMurray by less than 10 per cent.

At the same time, there are significant minorities whose incomes are less than 60 per cent of pre-retirement earnings.

The cash - guzzling Tesla's market capitalisation is slightly ahead of Ford and slightly lower than General Motors, despite it producing less than 10 per cent as many cars and failing to deliver profits.

Same - store sales, a key performance metric that strips out volume at stores open for less than a year, grew 0.3 per cent at Tim Hortons, reversing two consecutive quarters of...

Many own less than 10 per cent of their own companies.

FTC and state investigations in the U.S. have found that less than 10 per cent of consumers typically complete debt settlement programs there, according to the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

At age 65, 27.4 per cent of the top quintile had a replacement rate of less than 60 per cent, as did more than 30 per cent at ages 69 to 71 and 74 to 76.

In October of last year, the loonie was trading at 77 cents to the U.S. dollar; today it's worth a dime less.

Exports have never been a big part of the U.S. economy, they make up 10 per cent of GDP, less than half the slice of the pie they account for in Canada.

That is less than half the earnings per share of 31 cents in the same period a year ago, and down from FactSet's consensus estimate of 21 cents as of June 30.

-- for nickels, it costs 11.2 cents to MAKE a nickel, but the actual materials used is less than the marked coin of 5cents.