Sentences with phrase «terms of cents»

Even though the taxes and fees on premium cabins are naturally higher, first class flights still pack a powerful punch in terms of cents - per - mile value:

In October I wrote about the basic value of points in terms of cents per mile.

Calculate the redemption value in terms of cents per mile by dividing the cash price of the ticket by the number of miles required for an award.

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It's usually talked about in terms of cents per point because many banks set point values at one cent per point and it's one of the easiest ways to figure out different values when running calculations.

This hotel also offers the best value for Hilton Honors points in terms of cents per point since you can redeem 95,000 points for right at almost 1 cent per point.

Not exact matches

Rather, the board's official go - ahead will hinge on whether customers agree to sign long - term contracts covering 60 per cent of the plant's planned production.

About 70 per cent of mortgages in Canada are fixed rate, with the majority of those loans set for five - year terms.

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.

Margaret River heads the regions in terms of wine grape crush numbers, accounting for more than 22,000 t, or 43.7 per cent, of the State's crush, followed by the Great Southern area with 10,594 t.

Napa County Supervisor Bill Dodd says that since 80 per cent of the region's 500 wineries were unaffected, the long - term economic impact to businesses should be modest.

The longest - term portion of the offering, $ 8 billion of bonds maturing in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.

As universally expected, the Federal Reserve left things as they were after yesterday's Federal Open Market Committee meeting: the target for the Fed funds rate stays between 0 and 0.25 per cent and the bank will continue to buy $ 40 billion - worth of mortgage - backed securities, plus $ 45 billion of longer - term treasuries per month.

Perth's established suburbs accounted for just 28 per cent of all urban land development in 2012, well below the long - term «infill» target of 47 per cent, prompting calls for regulatory reform from the Property Council of Australia.

In terms of straight - up storage, B2 will cost a flat rate of $.005 (or half a cent) per gigabyte per month.

He believes about 20 % of the listings rapidly accumulating on the island arise from Americans who bought a decade ago when prices in Canada were much lower and the loonie was worth 65 cents in U.S. dollar terms.

Add to this the 7.7 per cent drop in Canada's terms of trade since 2014Q1, and you have a story in which much of the problem is being generated by a negative productivity shock.

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.

As China battles the seeming inevitability of a 19 per cent price hike in iron ore prices, the country's largest iron ore importer is moving quietly to stitch up more long - term supply from Western Australia.

«This encouraging start to the year shows that we are firmly on the path laid out in February that will take us above an eight per cent return on equity in the medium term,» said chief executive of the company Bill Winters.

Overall sales fell in six of 11 subsectors, while retail sales in volume terms fell 0.8 per cent in December.

' cents Investment credits: The stimulus will extend generous bonus depreciation terms included in the 2008 stimulus through 2010, and extends accelerated alternative minimum tax or research credits instead of taking bonus depreciation.

«We are presently waiting on confirmation for terms of trading in Sydney, and are about 99.9 per cent there.

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.

If you're skeptical about an «innovation index» meaning much in a practical sense, then consider this: in terms of productivity (measured by GDP per hour worked), Canada ranks far below the G7 average — a staggering 12 per cent below, in fact — and only marginally above that of the broader OECD.

In other terms, instead of each point being worth one cent, they're worth 1.25 cents.

However, Canada's market share in the global clean tech industry has fallen 12 per cent in the last decade, and will continue to contract without a solid, long - term commitment to growing the industry, said institute co-chair Stewart Elgie, a professor of law and economics at the University of Ottawa.

«This is one in the list of things that we are doing to remove costs from the system, whether it's the suspension of the long - term energy plan, whether it's renegotiating the Samsung (green energy) deal... and removing the eight per cent provincial portion of the HST (from hydro bills) as of January,» she said.

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.

If you're talking about a new project with no significant investment already deployed, building a new mine if you expect today's prices to hold in the long term is a tough call — a 50 year oil sands project is a lot of risk for less than a 10 per cent rate of return — but even there, you can see the impact of the lower Canadian dollar and the hedge provided by a royalty regime which lowers rates when prices are low.

The Fed left its key short - term rate at 1.5 per cent to 1.75 per cent — the level it set in March after its sixth increase since December 2015 — as it gradually tightens credit to control inflation against the backdrop of a tight labour market and a pickup in consumer prices.

An assessment paid for by DuPont said that the ethanol it will produce there could be more than 100 per cent better than gasoline in terms of greenhouse gas emissions.

For the last four years, our terms of trade have risen at a rate of about 8 per cent per annum.

Home resales were already on a downward track before the British Columbia government introduced a 15 per cent tax on home purchases by foreign nationals in Metro Vancouver, and area resales could see further significant weakness in the near term if there is a sharp downgrading of future price expectations and a drop in speculative activity.

We can also expect to see a gradual increase in inflation back towards the middle of the 2 to 3 per cent medium - term target range.

Australia's terms of trade are likely to be around 20 per cent lower than their peak last year.

Based on these developments, we expect Australia's terms of trade to rise by another 5 per cent or so this year, but to fall gradually thereafter (Graph 9).

He also concludes that «raising its (the government's) deficit target back up to 1 per cent (from zero) makes more sense when there are other short - term - pain - for - long - term - gain initiatives that are needed to address more pressing objectives than lowering a debt ratio that is already the envy of the world.»

Based on the current level of oil prices, this forecast implies that headline CPI inflation would remain close to 3 per cent in the short term.

Our RBC RRSP poll in 2011 determined that only half — about 51 per cent — of Canadians believe they are on target or ahead of where they need to be in terms of retirement savings.

Over the past three years Australia's terms of trade have increased by around 30 per cent.

In the latest year, inflation in underlying terms has been close to 2 1/2 per cent, though the headline CPI figure is higher, principally reflecting the effect of rising fuel prices.

However, only 17 per cent of Canadians think Canada should stick with fossil fuels for the long term in light of Mr. Trump's energy agenda.

While Canada is ranked fifth in the world (behind the U.S., China, India and the U.K.) in terms of global venture capital investment, and many Canadian companies achieve success in their first five years, only three per cent of firms that survive beyond that point classify as high growth.

The Australian dollar has remained in a relatively steady range over the past couple of years, at levels that are a little above average against the US dollar and about 10 per cent above average in trade - weighted terms.

Professor Scarthe also recommends that, once the deficit is eliminated in 2015 - 16, any future government should gradually start creating a deficit by, for example, spending on infrastructure and this could be done while at the same time maintaining a stable debt to GDP ratio of around 25 per cent over the medium to longer term.

Our impression of the structure and parameters of such models as these is that the result of the thought experiment above — a rise in short - term rates in real terms of 1 per cent — looks broadly similar in terms of its bottom line effect on activity.

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 per cent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

To achieve price stability, the Reserve Bank uses a flexible medium - term inflation target, with the goal of keeping inflation between 2 and 3 per cent, on average, over time.

For the 50 years leading up to the terms of trade boom, mining investment had averaged just over 1 1/2 per cent of GDP.