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«As a result, the 13.1 per cent figure for vacancy rates across Avison Young's North American markets masks the fact that Canada is outperforming the U.S. by a wide margin.»

The three per cent figure for 2017 matches the projection by private - sector economists that was included in the federal budget Tuesday.

Not exact matches

Figures also show that in 2009, 1.8 million Canadians worked in some type of temporary job, which accounted for 12.5 per cent of paid employment, with contract positions accounting for just over one - half of temporary jobs and professionals making up a large proportion of contract employees.

The comparable figures for Canada are 3,136,000 bbl / day of crude oil production and 1,918,000 bbl / day of refinery capacity — about 61 per cent of crude oil production.

NEW YORK, N.Y. — Yum Brands says a key sales figure for China dropped 19 per cent in May, as the parent company of KFC began to see signs of recovery from the double whammy of a bird flu scare and an earlier controversy over its chicken supply.

For the China division's second quarter — which includes March, April and May — Yum says the sales figure fell 20 per cent.

New vehicle sales in Western Australia continue to perform far below last year, with year - to - date sales down 7.9 per cent for the same period in 2013, according to new figures from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries.

The centre says CEO pay for Canadian public companies listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange has ballooned by 73 per cent between 1998 and 2012, the latest figures available.

The December quarter consumer price index showed a rise of 0.9 per cent in the quarter, for an annual figure of 3 per cent (Graph 13).

Another report from the Commission for Environmental Co-operation, pegs this figure at 35 per cent.

According to this June's Financial Times «Expenditure by local and central governments in China jumped nearly 25 per cent from the same month a year earlier, a sharp acceleration from the 9.6 per cent growth registered in the first four months of the year, according to figures released by the finance ministry,» and HSBC's Flash PMI index suggests for the first time in six months that there has been an expansion in manufacturing, although the flash index is, of course, preliminary and may be revised.

Mr Grantley said new figures from Urbis showing a rapid contraction in new Brisbane apartment market sales to just 302 sales in the March quarter, down 37 per cent on the previous quarter and well down from the 1032 sales in the previous corresponding period last year, was also due to tightening in available new apartment stock for sale.

Our new annual growth forecast for 2016 is 1.4 per cent; however, much of the downward revision in that figure is because of the weakness we saw in the final quarter of last year.

In January, Deutsche Bank's top economists offered an even more alarming figure, saying that, relative to historical averages, houses are selling for 60 per cent more than they're worth — the highest overvaluation in the world.

This figure is a good deal higher than the 1.7 per cent for the latest year - ended rise in the CPI, but the pick - up includes the effect of dropping out the impact of the health insurance rebate, which reduced the CPI in the March quarter 1999, some further effects from past movements in crude oil prices, and an increase in tobacco taxes in the December quarter.

Official figures show that in 2011, Australian banks accounted for 78 per cent of the local business credit market, but that proportion fell to 74 per cent last year and shows no signs of picking up.

In contrast, in 2015, the most recent year for which statistics are available, the figure was 38.6 per cent.

Nearly 40 per cent of indigenous Canadians do not graduate from high school, and the figure is nearly 60 per cent for First Nations people on reserves, rates that far exceed the Canadian average.

Based on my experience in the manufacturing industry, I would bet the people who don't think they needed financing are the same ones that went out and spent a significant chunk of their working capital on a new machine, figuring they would save themselves the interest, and then the following year they were part of the 49 per cent of respondents who said they needed to borrow money for working capital.

Given this path for underlying inflation, CPI inflation is expected to dip temporarily below 2 per cent in early 2004 as the large March 2003 CPI figure drops out of the year - ended calculation.

GDP increased by 1.2 per cent in the September quarter, and while GDP figures are not yet available for the December quarter, other data for this period are consistent with above - trend growth, and an economy entering 2004 with considerable momentum.

For the following year, underlying inflation of 2.6 per cent is expected, with a similar figure for the headline rate as mortgage interest reductions drop out of the calculatiFor the following year, underlying inflation of 2.6 per cent is expected, with a similar figure for the headline rate as mortgage interest reductions drop out of the calculatifor the headline rate as mortgage interest reductions drop out of the calculation.

A measure of this discounting is only available with a significant lag, but the latest figures suggest that around 80 per cent of borrowers taking out variable - rate housing loans pay less than the indicator rate for these loans.

Sales figures released by the B.C. Real Estate Association for March show 7,409 homes changed hands last month, a decline of 24.6 per cent over March 2017, while average property prices climbed 5.3 per cent over the same period.

Sales figures released by the association for March show 7,409 homes changed hands last month, a decline of 24.6 per cent over March 2017, while average property prices climbed 5.3 per cent over the same period.

Handguns were responsible for the murders of 9,200 persons in the United States in 1976 — a figure amounting to 49 per cent of all murders committed that year.

For example, between 1960 and 1980, the figure above quoted had fallen to around 25 per cent, but the following decades of aggressive neo-liberal economic - corporate globalization we could witness alarming inequalities in the distribution of wealth and income that we have ever witnessed in the history of humankind.

In the first report by Alfred C. Kinsey and his colleagues on male sexual behavior in the U.S., one of the items that provided maximum shock value was the «cumulative incidence» figure of 37 per cent for homosexual acts.

If the figures for men and women are true (6 and 4 per cent respectively) then the actual figure overall, if men and women are roughly equal in thepopulation, will be 5 per cent.

New figures released by the Office for National Statistics reveal the number of opposite - sex marriages decreased by 3.4 per cent between 2014 and 2015, to 239,020.

In contrasts, the figure for youngsters at Church of England and Catholic schools is 78 per cent.

In Australia, in the range 15 - 20 years of age the figures were 58 per cent for males and 47 per cent for females.

In Kenya the figure for males up to age 19 years was 80 per cent.

An analysis of the 1926 Religious Census figures for seventeen of the largest white Protestant denominations in the United States showed that over 40 per cent of all the ministers of these denominations were graduates neither of college nor of theological seminary, while only 33 per cent were graduates of both.

In Kankakee, where only 15 to 20 per cent of the city population is black, these figures could represent a guiding ratio for the project.

England's «waste from households» recycling rate has increased to 45.1 per cent for the financial year 2016/17, up 0.7 per cent on the rate for 2015/16, according to the latest figures.

On Friday, after management had reviewed the April sales figures, Murray Goulburn was plunged into a trading halt, which lasted for three days and led to a 38 per cent plunge in its profit estimate, and Mr Helou and chief financial officer Brad Hingle departing the co-operative.

The Australian dollar hit a fresh four - month low, to US73.53 cents, after the release of the disappointing retail sales figures, which reinforced expectations of steady interest rates for months to come.

NSW accounts for 34 per cent of that figure, using almost 3 billion.

The soy threat, however, has alerted dairy industry figures towards the more lucrative value - added dairy health products and convenience foods sectors across the world's developed dairy markets - something which has helped Fonterra become the world's biggest dairy ingredients company, accounting for 60 per cent of its annual turnover of approximately AUS$ 1.4 billion.

According to Nielsen figures, more than 5 per cent of all Australian households bought Coke Ginger in the final quarter of 2016 and the variant drove a 4 per cent increase in overall household penetration for the Coke range, the strongest in three years.

The latest market share figures for Australian pharmacies and supermarkets in April showed A2's market share had nearly doubled over the last year to 32.8 per cent, while Bellamy's has seen its share more than halve over the same period to 10 per cent.

Figures from IRI Worldwide for 2017 showed Australian sales in the off - trade market in the US declined by 1 per cent in value.

Official figures out on Monday showed Australia's wine exports slipped by 5 per cent to $ 1.76 billion for calendar 2013 compared with 2012.

The company's shares have soared 16 per cent in the past two weeks to $ 17 on the expectation of a stellar result from the China region, after export figures announced by Wine Australia for all Australia wine companies showed extremely strong growth to China.

Of the latter figure, only 6 - 8 per cent went into fresh milk, with the remaining used for products such as cheese and butter which were subject to external currency fluctuations.

OMSCo considers its figures, which were collated by AC Nielsen, more accurate because they are based on checkout sales, which account for 96 per cent of organic milk purchases.

His comments come as new figures show cabernet merlot exports to China passed the one million litre mark for the first time in 2012, a 50 per cent increase on the previous year.

It's worth noting that these implied odds add up to 120 % in each division, meaning that Bovada is currently charging a 20 - cent juice (a very respectable figure for such an early prop bet).

Tottenham will be embarrassed to see that there are nearly twice as many Arsenal fans in their borough as their own, with figures showing 18.92 per cent support for the Gunners and 10.81 for Spurs.