Sentences with phrase «say about the average»

However, let's open it up to readers and see what they have to say about the average amount spent during Christmas.

Those are the pro's, so what does that say about the average Joe's?

Regardless of what statistics say about the average tenure of employees dropping year after year, recruiters who look at your resume want to know you're going to stay for a while.

Not exact matches

Some experts call this dollar - cost averaging, says Daniel Laverdière, senior manager of financial planning and advisory services with National Bank Financial, but it's really about making sure that some saving is occurring on a regular basis.

«The user, on average, can delete something they are going to delete in about three and a half seconds,» Moore says.

With that 10 percent average annual return, an investor can double his money in about seven years, Cramer said.

The firm's mortgage investment corporation has about 2,400 such loans in its portfolio, with an average size of $ 85,000, and says it maintained a $ 4.3 - million loan loss provision on a $ 214 - million portfolio last year.

As an example, a cap of $ 500,000 in tax - free capital gains on any principal residence means that a home sold for $ 1 million that was purchased for $ 100,000 in 1985 say, would have $ 400,000 taxed at the owner's tax rate at the time of the sale (about 35 % for the average middle class Canadian).

That month, the combined supply at all of California's biggest reservoirs stood at about 78 % of their average levels, but officials remained cautiously optimistic, saying there was no guarantee that the state would see enough storms to fully raise water levels.

If Twitter can manage to average a mere 500,000 viewers per minute for its broadcasts — which is about a 10th of 1 percent of its total active user base — that would constitute a success, said Phil Davis, CEO of PhilStockWorld.com and PSW Investments.

Whether an average shortfall of 37 % says more about the analysis or the device is a question I leave to the reader.

«On average, she is shopping our stores about three times a month,» said Todd Vasos, CEO of Dollar General, in company's latest earnings call.

«My philosophy is that if you take an average work force and give them a great process, you can accomplish tremendous things and make them feel really good about what they do,» says Virts Mozer.

For the average healthy adult who lives in a temperate climate, the Institute of Medicine recommends around 3 liters (about 13 cups) of total water intake a day for men and 2.2 liters (about 9 cups) of total water intake a day for women,» she says.

Each of its 44 menu items average about $ 66,000 in sales per store — more than three times the average for McDonald's, Allen says.

Tony Roberts, a fund manager with Invesco Perpetual, says average earnings - per - share growth in the country will be about 60 %, versus a global average of 10 %.

«It's your closest friends and family,» she says, noting that the average «big» wedding at Sandals resorts is only about 52 people.

There's no question that it today's valuation — if you look at the S&P overall, forward PE's are about 18.5, the long - term average is more like 15.5 — you could say that it looks a little bit rich.

When we say the residents of this upscale Westmount neighbourhood are blessed, we're not just talking about their $ 590,000 average annual household income; this leafy enclave is tucked into the hill directly behind Montreal's spectacular St. Joseph's Oratory, giving them easy access to the divine and a sweeping view of the city as well.

For the second month in a row, we had a higher than average number of small business owners saying they feel good about the economy in March — 69 %.

On average, it's about seven times more expensive to get a new customer than it is to get a repeat purchase from an existing client, says Alan Middleton, assistant professor of marketing at York University.

The average chief — let's call him Larry, and say he lives in Ontario — made $ 6.6 million in 2009, about a third of that from stock options.

Now, the firm is said to manage about $ 42 billion, with Medallion enjoying average annual returns of 40 % since 1988.

Between 2002 and 2008, an average of about 100,000 new Canadian businesses were launched each year, says Industry Canada.

But against the backdrop of slow average wage gains and record levels of household debt, she says, «it looks like the average Canadian is about to get into a pretty serious squeeze play.»

That massively exceeded Wall Street projections, which the Wall Street Journal said averaged about 40,000 lost subscribers ahead of the earnings report.

«We see on average about a 40 % decrease in severity,» she said.

Network viewership increased 93 percent or by about 2 million more viewers on average during the first four events this season that Woods finished inside the top 25, Nielsen said.

«Our illustrative estimate of the long term impact of reduced net migration from the EU27 on UK GDP per capita after Brexit is negative, but relatively small compared to many other uncertainties about average UK income levels in 2030,» said Hawksworth.

Most projections say Canada's economy will average annual economic growth of about 1.6 % over the next couple of decades, compared with 2 % since 2000.

«There really isn't an average trade size — we have ordinary investors buying say # 5,000 in gold at the cash window while the next guy in the queue wants a chat about a purchase for # 750,000.»

When deciding whether to bring e-mail archiving in house or go with an outside vendor, companies need to think about how many employees they need to cover, average e-mail volumes, if their company is growing and how much work they want to take on themselves, says Sean Hegarty, messaging senior product manager at Iron Mountain, the information storage company.

Still, he says ongoing uncertainty about a potential strike could hurt WestJet revenue per average seat mile, also known as RASM.

He said they began buying bitcoin in 2014 or 2015, at an average cost of about $ 350.

Robert Shiller says his calculations suggest stocks will rise about 2.5 % a year for the next decade, plus inflation, which has recently been averaging 1.5 %.

Dollar General slashed prices 10 % on average on about 450 of its best - selling items across 2,200 stores during the quarter, Chief Executive Todd Vasos said on a conference call.

Pavlovsky said Chanel still relied on about 15 different tanneries and noted that the average price of high quality lamb leather was rising as people were eating less meat and demand kept growing — a trend which also applied to calf hides.

FORTUNE — Talk about a tough gig: The average tenure of a chief marketing officer — the corporate executive charged with branding, communications, and other activities — is less than four years, in large part because of the increasing complexity of the job, says executive search firm Spencer Stuart.

HMD Global said the phones would cost on average of 70 Euros, which equates to about $ 80, and come in four colors — yellow, red, blue, and black.

Luciano Siracusano, chief investment strategist at ETF and index developer WisdomTree (wetf), says the 1,400 dividend - paying stocks in the company's WT Dividend index now have average yields of about 3 %, twice the yield of 10 - year Treasuries.

The average supermarket gets about 20 % of its sales from private label, says Neil Stern of retail consulting firm McMillanDoolittle.

Morrison said the month ended about three - per - cent below the 10 - year average for sales in August, signalling a return to historically normal activity after record - breaking sales earlier this year.

Now, the office - cum - showroom is in a slightly larger space, where Blumenthal says, about 1,000 customers come through on the average Saturday.

The average video length on Our Broken Hearts is about 55 seconds, Seay says, while the average audio length is 35 seconds, and the average note is 580 characters — about 120 words.

He says an average wholesale price in Vancouver (not including tax and retail markup) is about 98 cents a litre, about 10 cents higher than in Winnipeg.

The cost of producing an average, $ 36,000 car would go up by about $ 160 — less than 1/2 of 1 percent, he said.

Trotsky said the pension has about 10 percent of its money in PE — around the national average for large public retirement funds — and has no plans to change that.

On average, people booked accommodation for three nights and paid about $ 170 a night, the firm said.

That removes some of bitcoin's appeal as an alternative to, say, Visa, which charges merchants about 10 cents for small transactions or about $ 1 for the average swipe.

Morgan Stanley said in December that it will defer future bonus pools at an average rate of 50 percent, down from about 80 percent for 2013.