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Nanos Research, which conducts a weekly survey for Bloomberg, found that almost a quarter of respondents at the end of September said their personal financial situation had worsened over the past year, compared with about 20 per cent in early August.

The slowdown in mining project work has resulted in a 26 per cent fall in the number of environmental professionals employed at the state's biggest consulting firms over the past year.

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.

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.

Both cities are cooling — according to Realosophy, sales of freehold houses in the Greater Toronto Area are down 26 per cent over the past month — and prices could follow.

Seventy - five per cent of local businesses and 56 per cent of consumers believe the economy will deteriorate over the course of the new financial year.

A report from MNP Ltd., an insolvency trustee, released in October found 42 per cent of Canadians said they don't think they can cover basic expenses over the next year without going deeper into debt.

IHS believes GM could add about $ 439 million in profit over the same three - year time period, while Gartner thinks auto makers will be earning up to 10 per cent of their revenue from connected services by 2020.

The most recent estimates provided at the two - day meeting that started Tuesday suggest that up to 15 per cent of jobs in the G7 could disappear because of automation over the next two decades.

Chief executive Andrew Mackenzie reportedly told the London annual general meeting yesterday that BHP would achieve a 16 per cent production boost over two years to the end of the 2015 financial year.

Canada's dollar dropped two cents over the two days that followed the Bank of Canada's latest commentary.

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.»

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.»

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.

The chairman of Frankland River Olive Company looks set to wholly acquire and privatise the business, after Paul Letari increased his shareholding to over 90 per cent.

The unemployment rate in Western Australia was unchanged at 6.1 per cent in September, however it disguised a fall in employment as the number of people working fell by over 9,000 during the month.

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.

Exploration firm Red River Resources has seen its share price jump by over 80 per cent after it entered into a $ 6.5 million agreement with the administrators of collapsed explorer Kagara, for the sale of its projects in northern Queensland.

During that earlier period, American business earned an average of 11 percent or so on equity capital employed and stocks, in aggregate, sold at valuations far above that equity capital (book value), averaging over 150 cents on the dollar.

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.

A new report on small business banking in Australia has found that about 11 per cent of businesses changed their bank over the past two years.

That's according to new stats from app tracking firm SensorTower, which found that total installs of the top 15 apps in the United States dropped 20 per cent year over year in May.

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.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Yum Brands says a key sales figure for China dropped 19 per cent in May, as the parent company of KFC began to see signs of recovery from the double whammy of a bird flu scare and an earlier controversy over its chicken supply.

«The value of the Canadian dollar went up too much, too fast over the last few weeks,» Luc Vallée, chief strategist at Laurentian Bank Securities, said on July 17, when the exchange rate was around 78 U.S. cents.

Under the Osmere deal, Infobank will take up to 43 million shares at a price of 40 cents per share — representing a 33.3 per cent premium over the 30 cent issue price of a $ 7.5 million placement and rights issue announced during February.

Republicans talk of sparking economic growth rates in the range of four per cent, but models run by non-partisan forecasters, such as the Wharton business school at the University of Pennsylvania, predict only a modest increase over the shorter term.

But its retail and business banking segment reported net income of $ 546 million for the second quarter, down $ 26 million or five per cent year over year.

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.

Without increasing the tax share of output, 1 per cent real growth over the next 40 years will yield an inflation - adjusted increase in tax revenue per capita of about 50 per cent.

Excluding such items, CIBC's adjusted net income was $ 887 million, or $ 2.17 cents per share, up three per cent year over year and ahead of analysts» expectations of $ 2.07 per share.

Commercial rents in the Perth CBD have been tipped to fall by 9.4 per cent over the next 12 months, with the Western Australian capital one of only two major Australian cities to experience a contraction in office rental values.

Much of this contraction is due to the sharp pullback in investment in the oil patch, now expected to decline by 40 per cent over the course of the year.

Statistic Canada says 18 per cent of baby boomers are over 65.

Further, over 60 per cent of the «core» Consumer Price Index that excludes more volatile items is posting gains of 1.5 per cent or more and one - third of the basket exceeds the Bank of Canada's 2 per cent inflation target.

As a result, I have given out hundreds of loans over the years, ranging from $ 50 to $ 6,000, for a variety of à cents «emergencies.à cents» I almost always have been repaid.

They noted in a jointly issued statement that it «pinned its hopes on revenues growing at a robust average rate of 5.6 per cent over the next five years while holding program spending increases to an average rate of 1.6 per cent.»

Perth's small business count rose by 0.5 per cent over the five year study period, but the number of small businesses in the rest of the state fell by 1.5 per cent.

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.

Microsoft Corp., which is in Redmond, Washington, is paying $ 196 for each share of LinkedIn Corp., a 50 per cent premium over the stock's closing price of $ 131.08 on Friday.

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.

A BMO analysis last November predicted a NAFTA termination would hit Canadian GDP to the tune of between 0.7 per cent and 1.0 per cent in real terms over five years.

Louisiana - Pacific said it will pay C$ 3.76 per share for all of the remaining common shares in the Canadian lumber company, resulting in an approximate 30 per cent premium over the company's closing price of C$ 2.89 on Sept. 3.

The company completed a 15 per cent cut to its workforce in January and February, eliminating between 500 and 700 jobs, as part of its plan to trim $ 1 billion in cumulative capital, operating and administration costs over two years.

The income gap between the top one per cent and the rest of filers has widened over time, calculated in 2010 constant dollars.

Between 1976 and 2010, the median yearly earnings of men with full - time jobs barely moved at all while the median earnings for females jumped by over 25 per cent.

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.

Projections from Scotiabank and the Bank of Canada estimate that if ambiguity lingers over NAFTA into next year, the ensuing investment concerns would reduce Canada's GDP by about one - fifth of one per cent through 2019.

Today's market calm follows harrowing levels of market volatility over the last two weeks when the TSX fell more than five per cent and Wall Street indexes entered «correction» territory.