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The 0.4 per cent growth rate for the gross domestic product, the economy's total output of goods and services, was the weakest quarterly performance in almost two years and followed a much faster 3.1 per cent increase in the third quarter.

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And the growth rate is 270 per cent for those aged 25 to 34 (to about 19 per cent).

For all of 2017, retail sales increased 6.7 per cent to reach $ 588 billion, the highest annual growth rate since 1997.

CIBC World Markets analyst Robert Sedran lifted the assumed average growth rate for the sector in fiscal 2018 from seven per cent to nine per cent, «turning what was already expected to be a good year into a better one.»

After accounting for the impacts of measures and adjustments, the Sales Tax revenue base is projected to grow at an average annual rate of 4.3 per cent over the forecast period, roughly consistent with the average annual growth in nominal consumption of 4.0 per cent over this period.

Nationwide house prices increased strongly for several years up to late 2003, reaching a peak growth rate of around 20 per cent in that year.

That said, the equation fits the cycle pretty well (see Graph 5)[8] and Graph 6 shows the impact on GDP growth of a 1 per cent increase in the real cash rate, maintained for two years.

It is not surprising therefore that growth of the economy over the latest year for which data are available was 2.6 per cent, or an annualised rate of 3 per cent for the latest half - year.

He has said that he is quite comfortable with economic growth of around 2 per cent or less for 2013, even though this would not reduce the unemployment rate, currently stuck at 7.2 per cent.

«Overall, a report showing strong job growth, a falling unemployment rate, and steady wage gains should be mildly hawkish for markets and supportive of continued but gradual Fed rate hikes, keeping a June hike well priced above 90 per cent,» TD said.

The annual growth rate for coal production varied between 1.2 and 1.9 per cent per annum throughout the period from the 1560s to 1800, with only limited variation.

Personal income taxes were up only 2.3 per cent, about half the rate of growth expected for the year as a whole.

Quebec's economy grew 3.1 per cent in 2017, the strongest pace for that province since 2000 and twice its rate of growth in 2016.

In Canada and the United States, for example, the annual growth rate of the labour force slowed from around 1 1/4 per cent in 2006 to less than 1/2 per cent in 2016.11 This decline has reduced potential output growth and investment demand.

The active platform development was slowed by the ETH rate growth, which led to the Ethereum network commission for processing one bet raise in price from several cents to several dollars.

Finally, the economy is on a hot streak: employers have been adding jobs steadily for a year, and growth is running at an annualized rate in excess of three per cent.

Growth in household disposable income picked up steadily over the past year, driven by solid employment growth, to be running at just under 6 per cent over the year to the June quarter, the highest rate of increase for almost three Growth in household disposable income picked up steadily over the past year, driven by solid employment growth, to be running at just under 6 per cent over the year to the June quarter, the highest rate of increase for almost three growth, to be running at just under 6 per cent over the year to the June quarter, the highest rate of increase for almost three years.

For Ontario in particular, he estimated, that means an annualized rate of real GDP growth of just 1.7 per cent for 10 yeaFor Ontario in particular, he estimated, that means an annualized rate of real GDP growth of just 1.7 per cent for 10 yeafor 10 years.

On Aug. 3, the Bank of England held interest rates steady and cut its economic growth forecasts for 2017 and 2018 to 1.7 per cent and 1.6 per cent, respectively.

Today's surprise hike of the central bank's overnight lending rate to 1.0 per cent comes less than a week after the latest data for economic growth showed an impressive expansion of 4.5 per cent for Canada in the second quarter.

The private sector economists are surveyed for only a selective number of aggregate economic and financial indicators: real gross domestic product (GDP) growth; GDP inflation, nominal GDP;, the 3 - month treasury bill rate;, the 10 - year government bond rate;, the unemployment rate; the, consumer price index; the exchange rate (US cents / Cdn $); and finally, and U.S. real GDP growth.

Manufacturing employment in Canada rose for the second straight month in October, adding 6,500 new jobs — good for a month - over-month growth rate of 0.4 per cent.

Currently, credit to the household sector is growing at an annual rate of about 20 per cent, well in excess of what could be considered sustainable in the medium to longer term (see the chapter on «Credit Growth» for a detailed discussion).

Stockland chief executive Mark Steinert this week said the national population growth rate of 1.6 per cent would keep driving demand for new facilities, even though traditional retailers were planning fewer new stores than they were five or six years ago.

Growth of non-farm GDP over the latest four quarters for which we have data was just over 4 per cent; domestic demand, while slowing a little from its most recent peak, expanded by 5 1/2 per cent over that period; employment growth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two deGrowth of non-farm GDP over the latest four quarters for which we have data was just over 4 per cent; domestic demand, while slowing a little from its most recent peak, expanded by 5 1/2 per cent over that period; employment growth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two degrowth over the past year has been around trend, though lower in recent months, and the unemployment rate has remained close to the lower end of the range in which it has fluctuated over the past two decades.

Looking forward, there is little evidence to suggest that the rate of credit growth is likely to slow in the near term, with new loan approvals for housing having increased by 24 per cent over the six months to August.

The February AWOTE increase suggests a pick - up in aggregate wages growth which, even allowing for a degree of overstatement, brings annual wages growth to a rate of over 4 per cent.

The UK has had quite robust growth for several years and unemployment has fallen steadily, reaching a rate of 6.1 per cent early in 1997.

For office workers, data from Mercer's December Quarterly Salary Review show a slight firming in the growth rate of base salaries, to around 4.3 per cent in year - ended terms, compared with slightly less than 4 per cent earlier in 2003.

The extraordinary tightness in the labour market has intensified in recent months; the unemployment rate, at 4.5 per cent in July, has now been below 5 per cent for the past year and earnings growth has picked up accordingly.

With a population of more than 600 million and annual growth rates near five per cent, ASEAN is a market rich in opportunities for Canadian exporters.»

The growth rate has slowed to a current 5.9 per cent and projected to be 5.5 per cent for 2018.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

Advent is betting that the $ 500 million Australian beer market can continue its double - digit growth rate, and achieve penetration similar to that in the United States, where craft beer accounts for 20 per cent of the total beer market.

For Mr Clarke to obtain 100 per cent of the performance rights, TWE's relative total shareholder return ranking against the peer group must be above the 75th percentile, and the compound annual growth rate of earnings per share over the performance period must be more than 15 per cent.

By 2021, markets for naturally healthy (US $ 291 billion), food intolerance (US $ 42 billion) and organic products (US $ 45 billion) are expected to have grown at up to 4.5 per cent compound annual growth rate.

The four per cent growth rate would not be exceptional — it is the average increase in funding for the NHS over the first 63 years of its history.

The African average growth rate predicted by the world bank and IMF is 3 per cent and for Ghana they predict 3.3 per cent, I'm more bullish, I believe that Ghana will grow closer to 4 per cent, maybe between 3.8 and 4 per cent, and we predict that in 2017, Ghana's economy is going to grow by about 6 per cent, and, so, this country is doing well, we have resolved the power crisis, we've been able to match demand to supply and so the electricity crisis that hit us is gradually becoming a thing of the past.

That was a one tenth of one per cent increase over 2016 but below growth rates for 2014 and 2015.

«As a simple matter of arithmetic, in order to get to 1.7 per cent now you'd be looking for quarter - on - quarter growth rates of 1 per cent in the second and third quarters of 2011, and there aren't many people out there expecting that.»

That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a year.

«I am happy to inform you that despite the general shrinking of the global economy by two per cent in year 2010 and a not too favourable outlook for 2012, Nigeria remains a growing economy, achieving an average growth rate of about six per cent in the last three years.

He expects an annual growth rate of four to five per cent for water consultancy services in the global market.

«Since 2009, taxpayer funding for teaching and learning has increased by 71 per cent, twice the rate of growth in the economy,» Mr Birmingham said.

Over half (52 per cent) of secondary school leaders told us they received more applications than they could accommodate for last year's admissions round, and the rate of growth is set to increase at secondary level as the current primary school population moves through the system.

Shanghai's GDP growth rate has been over 10 per cent for more than 15 years.

The report does contain some good news for Ontario, which will see an export - led revival to 2.3 per cent growth this year — the second - highest rate in the country — after advancing by a weak 1.3 per cent the previous two years.

The economy has seen an average annualized growth rate of about 3.7 per cent over the last four quarters, which more than doubles the Bank of Canada's estimate for that period.

Indeed, on June 1st, the Bank announced its decision to raise its trendsetting overnight lending rate by 25 basis points to a 1/2 a per cent, and indicated it expects the rate of growth to slow for consumer spending.

The couple's Tax - Free Savings Accounts with present balances of $ 85,000 soon to be bumped up to the present maximum limit of $ 52,000 each, $ 104,000 total, growing at the allowed rate maximum of $ 5,500 per person for nine years to their age 50, would have future balances, calculated at three per cent annual growth after inflation, of $ 251,000 and be able to support payouts of all income and capital in the following 45 years of $ 10,000 a year.