«Sydney's median home price fell by just 0.3 per cent for the month, half the rate of decline over February and a third as large as the 0.9 per
cent falls recorded over January and December.
Not exact matches
Car dealers in Western Australia will be hoping for a pickup this year, after the release of data showing a 7.9 per
cent fall in new car sales in 2015 in WA, while the rest of the nation reported its best year on
record.
Power generator Pacific Energy has reported a 1 per
cent fall in profit over the last financial year despite
record earnings from its Kalgoorlie Power Systems and hydro - electric businesses.
Shipbuilder Austal reported an 11 per
cent fall in full - year profit to $ 31.9 million, despite
record revenue and a reduction in debt.
Western Australia's unemployment rate has
fallen by a surprising 0.9 per
cent in the month of December, while job numbers were up for a
record - equalling 15th consecutive month nationwide, with economists giving positive assessments of the labour market.
But net income
fell 28 percent to $ 53.7 million, or 31
cents per share, in the quarter ended March 31 as the company
recorded a $ 15 million restructuring charge and $ 23 million related to settlement of a legal dispute.
The country's currency slid below 70 U.S.
cents last week, causing some to recall early 2002, when Canadian officials were forced to beg international investors to recognize that the inherent value of Canada's currency was greater than 63 US
cents, the
record low to which it had
fallen at the time.
Vancouver region prices have spiked to all - time
record highs over $ 1.61 but will likely
fall by four to six
cents per litre over the next few weeks as two refineries in Washington state start up after maintenance shutdowns, said GasBuddy senior petroleum analyst Dan McTeague.
Program spending had
fallen to a
record low of 11.9 per
cent of GDP in 1999 - 00, down from a high of 17.0 percent in 1992 - 93.
The Reserve Bank of Australia cut the cash rate in May from 2 per
cent to a
record low 1.75 per
cent out of concern that inflation was trending too low, following first - quarter inflation data that showed prices had
fallen 0.2 per
cent in the first three months of the year.
In year - ended terms, inflation has
fallen significantly from 2.4 per
cent recorded in December and just over 3 per
cent a year or so ago (Graph 69).
The prices of imported goods and services,
recorded «at the docks», have moved broadly in line with the rise in the exchange rate (with a slight lag),
falling by about 6 per
cent (excluding petroleum) between the December quarter 1998 and the September quarter 1999.
Inflation expectations of consumers, as measured by the Melbourne Institute,
fell sharply from above 7 per
cent in the months preceding the introduction of the GST to 4.6 per
cent in July, around the levels
recorded a year ago (Graph 42).
Following
falls over the past two and a half years, business investment
recorded an increase of 1.7 per
cent in the June quarter (Graph 4).
National accounts data
record a GDP decline of 17 per
cent over the first two quarters of 1998, after a flat performance during the previous year, and imports have continued to
fall rapidly.
The result for the month of June, a
fall of 0.8 per
cent, incorporates a substantial decline in spending in department stores; this may partly reflect recent changes to the timing of mid-year sales, as there was a similar
fall recorded the previous June, followed by a strong bounce - back the next month (Graph 13).
Bond yields in Japan
fell to 1.125 per
cent, equal to the lowest
recorded by historians in the past 4,000 years, and well below the level of 1.75 per
cent reached by US bonds in the Great Depression (Graph 2).
Employment has been broadly unchanged over this period, although with the participation rate having
fallen, the unemployment rate has declined to around 5 per
cent from its
record high of 5 1/2 per
cent early in 2003.
National accounts data for the first quarter
recorded a
fall in GDP of 1.3 per
cent, confirming earlier signals of declining demand and output (Graph 8).
The profits recovery has been driven by continued strong productivity growth in conjunction with subdued compensation growth (due to the weak labour market), which has seen unit labour costs
fall by 5 per
cent since June 2001 — the largest
fall on
record (Graph A4).
The fish catch had been growing at a
record rate for two decades prior to 1970, but since 1970 the fish catch per person
fell by 13 per
cent or over 1 per
cent per year Then fifteen years later in the mid-1980s there was an upturn of nearly 20 per
cent due largely to the recovery of the depleted Peruvian anchoveta fishery.
The number of
recorded firearms offences also
fell by 29 per
cent and sexual offences by seven per
cent.
However, the Home Office statistics show overall there was a three per
cent fall in
recorded crime compared to 2007.
This reflects a general
fall in overall
recorded crime of three per
cent.
Earlier this week the yield on Italian ten - year debt rose to a
record seven per
cent before
falling back by around 0.5 percentage points.
That is still less than the six -
cent - a-gallon decrease they
recorded in the national average (AP)- New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo says a special legislative session may be needed this
fall...
By the time Labour entered office in 1997 this figure had
fallen to just 35 per
cent but by 2009, after a decade of increased spending and focus on targets to reduce waiting times, satisfaction stood at a
record high of 64 per
cent.
Real household disposable income looks as if it will
fall by almost five per
cent between 2009 and 2012 — easily the biggest three - year drop since
records began in the mid-Fifties.
Importantly, over this decade of clean air in pubs, the proportion of 16 to 24 year olds who smoke has
fallen to 17 per
cent from 26 per
cent in 2007 — a
record low.
(For the
record, Tinder launched in
fall 2012...) Taken overall, a full 15 per
cent of American adults have used online dating sites and / or...
Vancouver region prices have spiked to all - time
record highs over $ 1.61 but will likely
fall by four to six
cents per litre over the next few weeks as two refineries in Washington state start up after maintenance shutdowns, said GasBuddy senior petroleum analyst Dan McTeague.
In the second half of the 20th century, the levels of rain
recorded during the Northern Hemisphere's summer monsoon
fell by as much as 10 per
cent, researchers say.
In the two - week lead - up to Sunday's release of the full details of the government's carbon tax package, Labor's primary vote
fell three percentage points to a
record low of 27 per
cent.
I began following solar closely in 2014 when people across the world marveled how the
record low price for a solar farm
fell below 6
cents per kWh.
As the cost of clean technology continues to
fall, the world added
record levels of renewable energy capacity in 2016, at an investment level 23 per
cent lower than the previous year
According to the Carbon Brief, CO2 emissions
fell by 5.8 per
cent in 2016, after coal use
fell a
record 52 per
cent.
During the first quarter, HDFC Standard Life
recorded a 15 per
cent drop in new business premium, while Bajaj Allianz Life, an arm of Bajaj Finserv, reported a
fall of over 30 per
cent at Rs 577 crore as against Rs 828 crore in the corresponding quarter last year.
Concerns about the smartphone market and a subsequent
fall in demand for components like OLED screens — used in Apple's iPhone X — are behind a roughly 5.3 per
cent fall in Samsung Electronics» share price so far this year, from a
record high in November.