Sentences with phrase «of smaller households»

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CONVINCING Australia about the merits of what's potentially the world's smallest and smartest kitchen appliance has been no mean feat - but the mother - daughter team that has made Thermomix a household

Every household has a number of appliances, large and small.

The combination of lower property prices, low interest rates and small increases in household incomes has made housing affordability in Perth the best it has been for 10 years, and the best of any mai

The founder of Adafruit Industries offers insights into how she managed to build a small empire from castaway Altoid tins and other common household items — and secure the title of Entrepreneur of 20...

«Distinctive ringing,» an inexpensive household service in which each of up to four incoming numbers has an individual ring pattern, can now be adapted to a small office, thanks to an easily installed switch.

Prime Pantry includes small, light objects like groceries and household items, (Amazon uses the example of a box of cereal).

More than half of American households with an Amazon Prime membership will bundle up and head to their local mom - and - pop shops on Small Business Saturday, according to the latest CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey, released Friday.

Ted Mallett, VP and chief economist at the Canadian Federation of Independent Business, says the difference for common household goods like detergent and diapers is largely due to the fact that retailers need higher margins in the smaller Canadian market; there are no tariffs on most items like these.

The statistics say that JP Morgan lost the details of 70 million households and seven million small businesses.

«Smaller - format stores have appeal for obvious reasons, driven by urbanization, a rise in smaller households and consumers» changing notion of convenience,» according to a recent report by consulting firm Daymon WorSmaller - format stores have appeal for obvious reasons, driven by urbanization, a rise in smaller households and consumers» changing notion of convenience,» according to a recent report by consulting firm Daymon Worsmaller households and consumers» changing notion of convenience,» according to a recent report by consulting firm Daymon Worldwide.

He said a small and slow - growing population, low median after - tax household income and a tiny group of high - income earners made it a less desirable place for the NHL to relocate than, say, Hamilton or London, Ont.

That's because you tend to have a relatively high number of high - income households who own small businesses.»

The Census Bureau data also indicate that among less affluent households, fewer directly owned stocks and mutual fund shares in 2011 (13 %) than in 2009 (16 %), meaning a smaller share enjoyed the fruits of the stock market rally.

Although economic growth in the United States continues to be as strong as in many other countries, or stronger, a small percentage of American households is fully benefiting from it.

If Prime membership is starting to plateau, according to the Wall Street firm, Amazon needs to target lower - income households and those with older consumers residing in them — two segments of the market that have historically been a small percentage of Amazon's vast population of Prime users.

By the middle of March, there were 715 households in FEMA - funded hotels and 3,749 Small Business Administration low - interest disaster loans - the majority granted to homeowners and renters.

From Persia to Italy, palace workshops and temple households gave way to smaller ‑ scale and less formal family ‑ based estates (oikoi) of warrior aristocracies.

The Prime Minister's Office explained, «Like all families of prime ministers, a small number of staff provide assistance,» and, «Given the nature of the Prime Minister's responsibilities and his young family, the Trudeaus employ two household employees who, in addition to performing other duties around the house, act as secondary caregivers to the three children.»

Households» direct exposure to equity prices is relatively small, notwithstanding their large share of turnover.

Switching even a small part of a typical household's financial transactions to Bitcoins must therefore entail a massive increase in electricity use.

Among them: more modest growth, low - for - long interest rates and a household sector that comprises a relatively smaller percentage of the economy than it did at the peak in 2007.

Further reinforcing my thesis that the average household has largely reached a point of «saturation» on the amount of debt that it can support, the Federal Reserve reported that credit card delinquencies on credit cards issued by small banks have risen sharply over the last year.

In the case of China, for example, whatever GDP growth turns out to be, and again this is just arithmetic, Chinese household income growth will be higher and investment growth lower — after nearly thirty years of the reverse relationship — so that the impact of slower growth will be disproportionately smaller on consumption growth and larger on investment growth.

According to this model, a small amount of deceleration in credit growth can occur as additional credit efficiency is squeezed out of the system, but without a sharp decline in GDP growth, substantial and sustainable credit growth deceleration can not occur except after a major transformation of China's growth model, one condition of which is net wealth transfers from local governments to median households of at least one to two percentage points of GDP annually.

«We find that 60 per cent of the small business deduction goes to households with more than $ 150,000 in income,» Mintz said, of research he has previously done on the subject.

The small business tax rate, which is really the taxation rate for a Canadian - controlled private corporation (known as CCPC), is also used by high - income households as a form of income splitting with dividend distributions shared between spouses, Mintz said.

My experience so far is that each household has its own level of spending for maximum happiness, and that it's rather smaller on average than this.

«That's because you tend to have a relatively high number of high - income households who own small businesses,» he said.

Many people who no longer itemize would continue to give, and the charitable contribution deduction would still be available to the small fraction of people who do itemize — who would tend to be higher - income households.

That cutback has left a broader number of small - cap companies - including household names Tootsie Roll Industries, Revlon, and Ruby Tuesday - essentially a black box for investors without the time or resources to analyse a company.

Targeted clientele include small businesses, unorganized sector enterprises, low - income households, farmers and a substantial migrant workforce, whose members may avail themselves of loans of up to $ 2,000 each.

The level of intermediaries» interest rates for households and small businesses remains historically low — in particular, notwithstanding the fact that the cash rate exceeds by 1.5 percentage points its level at the previous cyclical trough in 1993/94, rates paid by borrowers, especially for housing, typically remain below their level at that time.

The demutualisation of NRMA may also provide a small boost to household spending, although the payment of the final instalment of the second Telstra float in November may have a negative short - term effect on household cash flows.

Smaller percentages of households make payments into government, railroad or private retirement plans.

One thing holding back household spending in smaller cities is the lack of physical retail infrastructure and product availability, in part due to the sheer geographic scope of the market — while UBS determined China has four tier 1 cities (Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou and Shenzhen) there are nearly 200 tier 4 cities alone.

As you note, it is a small number of households.

The demographic and psychographic composition of those who hire the services of gutter cleaning companies cut across all households, estates and corporate organizations both big and small that have the capacity to pay for their services, hence the demographic composition of a gutter cleaning business is all encompassing.

Small wonder that couples with children, according to Statistics Canada, account for half of all the household debt in Canada.

Broadly steady dwelling prices and a small rise in equity markets over the March quarter are suggestive of a small quarterly increase in household assets.

TOKYO (MNI)- The impact of the scheduled consumption tax hike in Oct 2019, in terms of the net burden on households, is expected to be about Y2.2 trillion, smaller than the previous hikes of Y8.0 trillion in fiscal 2014 and Y8.5 trillion in 1997, according to the full text of the Bank of Japan's Outlook Report, released Saturday.

Details of the report were upbeat, even though a smaller and more volatile survey of households showed mild job gains after robust increases in prior months.

Despite steady job creation, record stock market gains and faster economic growth in recent months, new consumer findings surprisingly show that a smaller share of households believe that now is a good time to buy or sell a home.

To this day Judaism remains a religion of the individual household wherein responsibility to the covenant is not the responsibility of a small priestly elite but the obligation of the individual.

In the chapel, the pope might say Mass every day for his small household, said Monsignor Rick Hilgartner, executive director of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops» Secretariat of Divine Worship.

Aristotle wrote that «the smallest and primary parts of the household are master and slave, husband and wife, father and children» and devoted several sections of his Politics to the importance of free men ruling over their wives, children, and slaves.

The small family that is formed by this task offers hospitality to the Lord of all, while God offers all humanity hospitality by inviting us to join the household of heaven.

(CNN)- Todd Stiefel is far from a household name, and the odds he gets recognized on a street corner, even in his hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina, are small.

The familial group is smaller, not only because family planning has become a matter of ordinary practice but also because economic and social conditions have made large households almost impossible to maintain.

The small, isolated private household in many ways is not up to the hard work of hospitality to the poor and those in need, especially now when most homes are empty all day.

The bottom line is that every organization and institution — whether political, economic, or religious, from large corporations and entire nations to small country churches and individual households — have a «tenor» or a «way of doing things» that define, characterize, guide, and even justify the actions and attitudes of that particular structure.