Sentences with phrase «only at the rate»

«Financial capital is very mobile and basically is looking only at rates of return,» says Chris Ragan, a professor of economics at McGill University and former adviser at the Bank of Canada.

Why would you assume that public spending should increase only at the rate of population growth?

Those who advocate sustainability in the sense of using renewable resources only at the rate at which they can be reproduced are not necessarily opposed to economic growth.

Cuomo called for replacing automatic increases in the budget on various items with a more reasonable formula, contending that if education and Medicaid rose only at the rate of inflation, there would be only a $ 1 billion deficit.

«Borrows» are only available to Amazon Prime members, and then only at the rate of one a month.

There are also lenders that provide lower than average rates in hopes that less sophisticated borrowers look only at the rate and payment structure of the financing and not the cost to arrange the financing.

Cash back is only at a rate of 1.3 % if you redeem less than 25,000 points at once.

You are able to use points to book travel on Chase Ultimate Rewards but only at the rate of 1 cent = 1 point (whereas your points are worth 25 % more with the Ink Preferred).

You are able to use points to book travel on Chase Ultimate Rewards but only at the rate of 1 cent = 1 point (whereas your points are worth 25 % more with the Ink Preferred).

Points can be redeemed for cash back in the form of a statement credit, but only at a rate of 0.6 cents per point.

They will let you use miles to cover the cost, but only at a rate of one cent per point, so you're usually better off just paying for it.

You can redeem for a statement credit to your card or for an Amazon purchase, but only at a rate of 0.005 cents per point.

If, for instance, the United States and India are required to reduce ghg emissions by the same percentage amount, for instance 90 %, then the US per capita emissions of approximately 20 tons CO2 per capita would allow US citizens to emit CO2 at the rate of 2 tons per capita while the current India per capita emissions of approximately 1.8 tons per capita would mean that the Indian citizens could emit only at the rate 0.18 tons per capita even though India needs to dramatically increase its energy use to assure that hundreds of millions of people economically rise out of grinding poverty and India has comparatively done little to cause the existing problem.

Not exact matches

The last time prices were increasing at a slower rate than one per cent was May 2015, when the headline CPI increased only 0.9 per cent.

Ultimately these green bonds will only truly be successful if they allow the province to finance transit projects at a lower interest rate than would otherwise be the case.

At the reduced rate, users in New York City, for example, only need to see one movie per month for the pass to more than pay for itself.

«We've not only heard of overnight dip - buying from real money in 10s and 30s, but the Ministry of Finance data confirms that Japanese buying is back,» wrote Ian Lyngen, head of U.S. rates strategy at BMO Capital Markets.

• Credit card delinquency rates remain low, at only 0.87 per cent of total outstanding balances as of April 2016, while credit card debt only makes up five per cent of total household debt in Canada.

It's long been the case that advertisers paid up to two to three times more for a top - rated sports event compared to a top - rated drama or sitcom, and sports value as real - time programming and its finite availability have only caused its status to grow, says Michael Neale, a managing partner for investment at Mediacom, a global media agency that co-ordinates and purchases advertising space on behalf of marketers.

«First, because it's a very limited downgrade, only on two out of three banks, and especially since Moody's rates them better than the other two agencies (Standard & Poor's and Fitch), so, in reality, it put them at the same level or even slightly higher than the other agencies.»

Some aren't taxed at all; others are taxed at discounted rates of 10 %, and only after shoppers purchase them.

In 2007, the rate stood at 11.2 per cent, and it was only slightly lower in 1989 at 10.9 per cent.

The Fed's latest round of bond buying and its plan to keep rates super-low into 2015 will likely provide only modest help, said David Jones, chief economist at DMJ Advisors.

The result was that nearly two - thirds of Japan's GDP grew only at an average annual rate of 0.5 percent.

From that date, funding would be capped at the rate of medical inflation, a pace slower than the rise in total health care costs because it considers only prices, not how many visits or procedures folks are consuming.

Such rates will generally be higher than what home buyers currently pay, not only because banks now offer substantial discounts from posted rates, but also because many buyers (40 % according to a July 2011 TD Bank report) take mortgages with variable rates, which are lower than fixed rates at least 85 % of the time.

One need only look at the relationship between cigarette sales and tax rates.

Meanwhile, there were only about 2,000 more new hires in the month of April, according to the Labor Department, leaving the hiring rate unchanged at 3.4 % for the third month in a row.

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.

«So the question that we're asking is not only is there a light - attack capability off the shelf that we can use that can increase lethality and readiness, but is there also a shareable network that allies and partners who are already with us and those that may choose to join us... in the campaign against violent extremism, can we actually get into a new, shareable network that allows information to flow at a far faster rate so we can take out the enemy?»

Only seven Brazilian companies still hold an investment - grade rating from at least two sources.

«The rate at which e-mails prompt purchases is not only estimated to be at least three times that of social media, but the average order value is 17 % higher,» the consulting firm reports.

There are those homeowners who can afford a $ 700,000 home today, but could only afford a $ 500,000 home at 6.5 %, which is where rates could conceivably sit in five years when new mortgages expire, says John Andrew, a real estate professor at Queen's University.

Timmer: Yeah, so last August which was a key inflection point for the market — because at that point, nobody was expecting tax cuts anymore and the 10 - year Treasury had fallen to 2 %, and the bond market which of course is always pricing in the potential future, was pricing in only one more rate hike over the subsequent two years.

Not only do credit cards have fraud protections in place in the event of theft, but they also offer some of the best currency exchange rates around — much better than you'd get changing bills at a bank or exchange kiosk.

Researchers found that companies using GitHub approved code written by women at a higher rate than code written by men, but only if the gender was not disclosed.

Cash flows are only discounted at the rate of inflation as they are reported above in constant 2013 dollars.

Second, rates aren't just low; we have been enjoying unprecedented clarity from the Bank of Canada, and now from the Federal Reserve as well, that there is only a negligible chance that administered interest rates will rise at least before the year is out, and possibly into 2014.

Not only isn't there anywhere near enough bank capital in the US to supplant securitization, it is difficult to conceive that the universe of «rates» buyers will become mortgage credit buyers or move over to covered bonds (which default to the issuing bank's credit ratings), at least not at the same price levels and in the same size.

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.

Instead of only logging my heart's activity only when prompted or at seemingly sporadic times, Fitbit has figured out a way to measure my heart rate using an optical heart monitor every five seconds without causing battery life to suffer.

Assuming the average spend per visit at these businesses is around $ 20, the average customer lifetime value of a typical small business is only around $ 50, but for the businesses with the lowest monthly churn rates, it could be 10 times higher -; or $ 200.

This prophecy will only become more relevant as new technologies continue to emerge at faster and faster rates.

Currently, the amount of venture capital money that's being invested in Bay Area startups is growing at a rate of about one percent per year — meaning that Silicon Valley will only take a bigger share of startup money.

Given persistently high rates of youth unemployment — at 13.6 percent, more than double the national average — selecting an entrepreneurial path represents not only an acceptable choice for youth, but a strategic decision.

On the surface, it's only logical to figure that sectors with the highest effective tax rate — what they pay after deductions — would stand to gain the most at least on proportion.

The truth of the matter is that there is a way to not only decrease stress levels at a rapid rate, but also transform the impact that you have in the world.

These corporate fixed - income instruments pay a dividend that is taxed at a more favourable rate than regular bond interest, but you only benefit from this if they are held outside of a registered account.

For example, if a driver gets a low rating and is accused of speeding or driving unsafely during the ride, Uber could look at the driving data to determine what happened.Though Uber could reserve looking at the data only when there is a complaint, nothing prevents it from actively monitoring its drivers to regularly conduct quality control and make sure there's no unsafe behavior.

With the rate of home ownership now close to 70 %, and with household debt at a record high, much of the financial health of Canadian households is inextricably linked to home values, making it the kind of dominant concern that not only affects household finances, but consumer psychology and confidence.