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Ontario's nine million motorists get a crowd - pleasing pledge to reduce their auto insurance premiums by 15 per cent on average, but it's unclear when that will happen since they must pass the legislation first.

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.

Gasoline prices have dropped an average of 67 cents per gallon since the start of the year, saving consumers tens of billions of dollars at the pump.

A PwC director has claimed the productivity of iron ore mining equipment in Australia has fallen 40 per cent in the last four years, and has sat behind the global average since 2012.

But then the average home price soared more than 30 per cent since the start of 2016 alone.

The sales last month were the second lowest March total in Greater Vancouver since 2001 and 30.2 per cent below the 10 - year sales average for the month, the board said.

It's an important question, and one that could go some way toward explaining why GDP growth has averaged just 1.4 per cent in developed economies since 2010, compared to an average of 3.6 per cent between 1985 and 2007.

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.

Economists surveyed last week predict inflation will average 2.3 per cent in the second quarter and 2.4 per cent in the third — the highest levels since 2011.

Since the mid 2000s, the unemployment rate has averaged 5 1/4 per cent, a better outcome than in the previous three decades.

Since the mid 2000s, the available internationally comparable data suggest that average annual bond issuance by Australian corporations has been the equivalent of just under 1 per cent of GDP, with around two - thirds of total issuance taking place offshore, rather than in the domestic market (Graph 1).

At the current level of 5.5 per cent, the cash rate is in line with its average over the low inflation period since 1993.

Since the beginning of 2014, though, the Australian dollar has on average been 18 per cent below the peaks it reached in 2013, on a trade - weighted basis.

Since 1993, when the 2 — 3 per cent objective was first articulated, average CPI inflation (excluding the one - off GST effect) has been 2.5 per cent.

Growth in household credit has remained relatively stable at around 5.5 per cent since the beginning of the year, a pace below the historical average (Chart 22), following an extended period of rapid growth that led to a substantial buildup in household debt.

The Canadian dollar has averaged 101 cents U.S. since the July Report, higher than the 98 cents U.S. assumed in July (Chart 18), and is assumed to average 101 cents U.S. over the projection horizon.

A moving average of quarter - over-quarter changes shows a similar pattern, with the 1.62 - per - cent increase in the latest period the fastest since 2008.

That framework's been in place since the early 1990s, we have hit the target over that 20 year period, the average inflation rate's pretty close to 2.5 per cent, so we regard that as successful by the terms of the definition that we set ourselves and I think that's made a big contribution to economic stability more generally and I don't think it's an accident that that period of fairly low predictable inflation has coincided with pretty good sustained growth in the economy.

Since 1976, the average after - tax income of all Canadian families grew 18 per cent in real terms (adjusting for inflation) to $ 61,000 in 2010 (most recent data available), say the documents.

-- Since 1976, the average after - tax income of all Canadian families grew 18 per cent in real terms (adjusting for inflation) to $ 61,000 in 2010 (most recent data available)

Average hourly wages were $ 26.12 last month, a meagre 1.1 per cent increase from year earlier and the weakest gain since the late 1990s.

Non-mining investment, in contrast, grew by 10 per cent per annum, on average, over this period, and as a share of GDP it rose to around its average level since 1980.

The Canadian dollar soared on the news, moving up 0.71 cents U.S. to an average trading price of 81.54 cents U.S.. It's the first time the loonie has closed above 81 cents U.S. since June 26, 2015.

There's nowhere in Canada where prices are down that much from their peak, however in the GTA the average price for a detached home is down more than 16 per cent since the high in April.

The Nasdaq Composite Index turned positive for 2018, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the S&P 500 now down less than 1 per cent since the end of December.

As you know, since 1993 the Bank has been framing its monetary policy around a medium - term target for inflation of 2 — 3 per cent, on average, «over the cycle».

While a low unemployment rate can indicate tight labour - market conditions, the 2017 average hourly wage of full - time and part - time employees combined grew by only 1.7 per cent — the lowest year - over-year growth since 1998 and more or less at the same rate as consumer price inflation.

Canada generated more than 420,000 new jobs in 2017, while the average annual unemployment rate fell to 6.4 per cent — the lowest rate since 2008.

Overall, Australia has maintained its share of Chinese imports since the late 1980s, with Australia accounting for around 10 per cent of China's resource and rural - based imports on average.

Household credit has grown at an average annual rate of 14 per cent since the mid 1990s, and by almost 20 per cent over the past year.

In comparison, growth in nominal GDP has averaged 6 per cent since 1995.

While the average indicator rate on large business variable - rate loans, at 8.0 per cent, is now higher than the corresponding rate for small businesses, the all - up borrowing cost to large business remains lower than for small businesses since customer risk margins for the former are, on average, finer than those for the latter.

Growth in non-farm GDP per hour worked — a broad measure of labour productivity — has averaged 1.8 per cent per annum since the start of the recovery, a higher rate than in the corresponding phase of the previous cycle, but slightly lower than in the 1970s cycle.

Total profitability of the corporate sector, as measured by gross operating surplus, has been gradually declining as a share of GDP since the peak reached in 1996, and is now, at 15 per cent, around its decade average.

This recovery is most evident in earnings from service exports, which rebounded strongly in the September quarter, to be about 3 1/2 per cent higher than the average level since the 2000 Sydney Olympics (Graph 45).

Since the start of the economic recovery in 1991, annual productivity growth has averaged just under 2 per cent.

The investment bank also notes that 70 per cent of fund managers view the global economy as «late - cycle,» the highest level since January 2008 and expect, on average, an S&P 500 peak of 3,100, which is 16 per cent higher than its level at the time of writing.

ICBC — Basic rates have gone up 30 per cent since Clark became premier, or about $ 180 more per year for the average customer.

Bank of America Merrill Lynch notes that since 1930 the U.S. stock market has fallen by at least 5 per cent three times a year on average.

Before fees and tax, the LIC's closed - end fund exits since inception has benefited from «realisations» at a weighted average 3 per cent premium to carrying value, a weighted average internal rate of return of 21 per cent, and return on equity invested of 1.6 times.

Annual revenue growth has averaged 55 per cent since 2010.

Wine Australia's acting chief executive Andreas Clark said while wine exports to the US were lower, the average value increased by 9 per cent to $ 2.53 per litre, which marked the first increase in average value since 2007.

This increase in cash costs contributed to a decrease in average farm business profit for vegetable growers by 53 per cent since 2007 - 08.

Employment in the sector has reduced at an average rate of 1.4 per cent annually since 2009, while in 2013 imports grew by 1.6 per cent.

Since 2007 - 08, Australian vegetable growers» average cash receipts increased by 48 per cent to $ 711,000; however, this was disproportionately offset by an increase in vegetable growers» total cash costs by 71 per cent to $ 641,000.

[24] Since the federal reimbursement for a free meal is $ 2.68 (see Table 1), the revenue generated by each paid meal in these districts falls 61 cents short in elementary schools and 27 cents short in high schools, on average.

I looked up the COLA for the past decade and found that on average the reimbursement rate for free has gone up 7 cents a year since the 2000 - 01 school year; in recent years it was higher than average (up 11 cents from 08 - 09 to 09 - 10, up 10 cents the year before that) but it was lower in other years (up 5 cents each year from 01 - 02 to 04 - 05).

The cost per diaper for the average size 4 baby is.21 cents per diaper since a box of size 4 is available in 180 counts.

The average council tax bill in Britain has risen by 121 per cent since 1993/94, according to research from Halifax - and pensioners are feeling the strain.

Similarly, the statewide average price of gasoline has risen 23 cents per gallon since Harvey made landfall in Texas over a week ago.