Sentences with phrase «per cent points»

Cameron continues to be an electoral asset to the Conservative party; on the «forced choice» question of a Cameron - led or Miliband - led government, the Conservative leader pulls ahead by five per cent points — well ahead of his party's traditional polling.

About 40 per cent say they find legal news, and business and industry information from LinkedIn and 20 per cent pointed to Twitter.

Not exact matches

The OECD data shows that 72.4 per cent of Canadians aged 15 - 64, what is normally considered the working age, were employed in the fourth quarter of 2013, compared to 73.7 per cent who had a job in the second quarter of 2008, for a differential of minus 1.3 percentage points.

The Dow Jones industrials fell 66.79 points to 15,334.59 as the Standard & Poor's / Case - Shiller 20 - city home price index rose 12.4 per cent in July compared with a year ago, the most since February 2006.

On Wednesday afternoon, the benchmark U.S. 10 - year bond was yielding 2.35 per cent, up 15 basis points from before the Fed statement and up sharply from about 1.6 per cent at the beginning of May.

Even before Wednesday's decision, five of the country's largest banks hiked five - year fixed rates 15 basis points to 5.14 per cent last week.

The savings rate is close to the 25 - year average of five per cent, which doesn't point to a consumer debt apocalypse.

But he points to a report from the Parliamentary Budget Officer released earlier this year showing that, since 2009, the debt service ratio — a measure of income spent to pay debt — has remained steady at around 14 per cent, not much higher than the long - term average.

It would increase the replacement rate by 10 percentage points to 35 per cent, lift the earnings cap by $ 10,000 (to $ 61,100), and be phased in over 10 years.

If the Bank of Canada ultimately raises its benchmark rate by 50 basis points from the start of the year, that could increase borrowers» monthly payments by approximately 5 per cent, according to Rob McLister, founder of comparison site RateSpy.com.

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.

OTTAWA — Rising gasoline and car prices fuelled the first significant spike in Canada's cost of living since February last month, lifting the annual inflation by half a point to 1.2 per cent — still low by historial standards.

Manitoba saw the biggest jump in inflation, rising almost a full point to 2.7 per cent as gasoline prices rose 10.7 per cent.

Just 10 per cent of fatal accidents occur at that point, according to a safety analysis by Boeing.

The Nasdaq composite gained 18.80 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 4,557.35.

The Dow Jones industrial average rose 75.65 points, or 0.4 per cent, to 17,076.87.

Travel website The Points Guy lists a valuation of 1.9 cents per Membership Rewards point; based on that, the welcome offer is worth around $ 1,140.

It also reported a 1.01 per cent postpaid subscriber churn rate, which was a seven - basis - point increase over the previous year.

Performance of the different offerings was uneven; two large funds launched at the company's peak tumbled by 20 per cent at one point, damaging the nascent firm's reputation.

A recent survey from the Canadian Bankers Association found that nearly 70 per cent of Canadians do most of their banking on their computer or mobile device — up almost 15 percentage points since 2015.

Real estate assets in Canada accounted for 40 per cent of total wealth in 2012, he pointed out, as opposed to only 32 per cent in 1999.

Users of Cumberland Farms SmartPay save 10 cents per gallon at the chain's stations, for example, while Exxon customers using its SpeedPass + app can redeem Plenti reward points to cut the total price of their fill - up.

For business - or first - class flights under 1,000 miles, points averaged 0.72 cent in value; for flights over 1,000 miles, it was 1.13 cents per point.

He points to Trump's pledge to lower the federal corporate tax rate from 35 per cent to 15 per cent.

Under this scenario, increasing the rate by one percentage point would increase revenues by one per cent of the original tax base.

Decades ago, those statements would've been big news: a 200 point move when the index was at 1,000 would be 20 per cent.

The Munk Debates website has announced that the «Pros» managed to add 12percentage points to their portion of the opinion pie, as 70 per cent of those polled after the debate last night decided that we should indeed, tax the rich (more).

Gasoline October futures were up 4 cents on Friday to $ 1.58 per gallon, their highest point in four months.

According to IDC, Samsung's share of the global smartphone market fell 7 percentage points to 25 per cent.

But the analysis says raising the work - force participation rate of women by 4.5 percentage points by 2032 would lift Canada's potential growth to about 1.9 per cent.

Fan also pointed out that Verizon Wireless can not invest outside of the continental U.S. due to a shareholder agreement with British telecom company Vodafone (which owns a 45 per cent stake in Verizon Wireless), and that it would be unlikely that any wireless investment by Verizon Communications Inc. would occur outside of Verizon Wireless.

Raymond James, which has an outperform on the company, pointed out in a note that its Q4 adjusted earnings per share was 67 cents, compared to a consensus estimate of 63 cents.

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.

The CCPA report also pointed out that 41 per cent of Canadian exports enjoy MFN rates of zero.

The S&P / TSX composite index was down 228.57 points to 15,442.68, led by a more than six per cent decline in the energy sector.

The share of part - time work among university - educated Canadians also rose from 10 per cent in the 1990s to 13.5 per cent today, with the gap relative to high - school graduates narrowing to only one percentage point.

In New York, the Dow Jones industrial average soared 410.37 points or 1.70 per cent to 24,601.27.

The S&P / TSX composite index advanced 207.35 points or 1.38 per cent to 15,241.88, with materials and gold stocks leading the way.

As a result, it has shaved three - tenths of a point off its projections for growth for both 2012 and 2013, to 1.9 per cent and 2.0 per cent respectively.

But only 8.8 per cent of prospective homebuyers pointed to education as a factor when considering Calgary, compared to 20.6 per cent who cited investment.

Longer term, it would mean missing the stated 2021 target of reducing the national debt - to - GDP to 25 per cent by only a single percentage point.

While that pointed to an economic recovery, analysts had expected to see a 3.6 per cent increase.

Two out of 10 Canadians (21 per cent) planned to travel on reward points this year, up seven per cent over last year.

Perth - based exploration junior Alkane Exploration NL is on the point of proving up the marketability of product from its 100 per cent held Dubbo Zirconia project, located twenty kilometres south of Dubbo and 400 km north - west of Sydney.

Ultra high - definition screens have fallen around 85 per cent in the past two years, to the point where they're just about affordable for the average household.

But the average rate on the 30 - year mortgage has jumped more than a full percentage point since May and was 4.57 per cent last week — just below the two - year high.

Bartlett said growth is tracking well below the 1.9 per cent pace expected by the Bank of Canada with the first half rate roughly 1.8 percentage points below the bank's latest forecast.

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Single - detached homes led the climb (up 1.4 percentage points to 47.8 per cent), followed by condo apartments (up 0.4 percentage points to 34.4 per cent).

On the cost side, the same increase in the policy rate might cut output by up to 1 per cent and push inflation down by 0.5 percentage point relative to what it would have been otherwise.