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Comparatively, the MSCI World Index gained 1 per cent in Q3 2017, a decline from 1.3 per cent in Q2 2017.

The growth rate of potential output is expected to increase gradually from 2.0 per cent in 2012 to 2.2 per cent in 2014, reflecting higher trend productivity growth, before edging down to 2.1 per cent in 2015 (Table 2 - A).

Figures Tuesday showed inflation running at 2.9 per cent in the year to June.

As a share of GDP, program expenses are projected to decline from 13.1 per cent in 2013 - 14 to 12.7 per cent in 2019 - 2020.

Although bonds rated at AAA still dominate, the proportion of new issues of bonds rated A + or below has increased from 15 per cent in 1996 to 30 per cent in 1999 (Graph 8).

The rate was 4.1 per cent in March, holding at the lowest since 2000.

In the 2006 Budget, the Government also committed to reducing the debt - to - GDP ratio to 25 per cent in 2013 - 14.

The U.S. dollar continued to slide against the Canadian dollar, falling further into the red at -3.7 per cent, down from -2.6 per cent in Q2 2017.

Canadian equity returns reverted to positive territory with returns of 3.8 per cent in Q3 2017, compared with -1.9 in Q2 2017.

WestJet, too, says its performance has improved this spring, hitting nearly 80 per cent in April.

According to Elections Canada, the number of voters aged 18 to 24 spiked by almost 7 per cent in the 2006 federal election.

The committee was glad to see no increase to business tax rates, however, the budget proposes that the small business rate will remain at 10.5 per cent (the rate was set to decrease to 9 per cent in 2019).

In North America, for example, U.S. clean energy spending grew by seven per cent in 2015, while Mexico's more than doubled.

According to Statistics Canada, total payments on debt made by Canadian households rose 6.7 per cent in the fourth quarter from a year earlier, and the interest - paid component climbed 9.2 per cent.

The Commerce Department's report on Monday also showed consumer spending, which accounts for more than two - thirds of US economic activity, increased 0.4 per cent in March after being unchanged in February.

Excluding the volatile food and energy components, the PCE price index soared 1.9 per cent in the 12 months through March, also the biggest increase since February 2017, after increasing 1.6 per cent in February.

The Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate in May fell to 7.8 per cent in the three months to May, 0.2 percentage point lower than the previous two - month period.

Subsequently, in 1995, inflation did indeed rise to slightly above 3 per cent in underlying terms, but by less than would have been the case had the tightening in monetary policy not taken place.

As set out in our latest Statement on Monetary Policy, we expect inflation in both headline and underlying terms to be around 2 1/2 per cent in 2010, and just a little higher in 2011.

The so - called real consumer spending fell 0.2 per cent in February.

Banks were rapidly losing market share in the financial system; by the early 1980s their share had fallen to 40 per cent, compared with 70 per cent in the early 1950s.

The third is the introduction of the goods and services tax in 2000 which boosted the price level by 3 per cent in one quarter.

Since the 1980s, when turnout was 75 per cent, it's sagged to a low of 61 per cent in 2004 with a slight uptick to 64 per cent in 2006.

The drop has come after an incredible run for the stock, which has risen almost 400 per cent in the last 12 months, and hit a record high of $ 9.40 last week.

Apple's 75 per cent share is expected to fall to 39 per cent in 2015, when Android's will grow to 38 per cent, according to Informa.

A few months ago, the French government decided to hold on to a 10.1 per cent in the Toulouse - Blagnac airport — denying a purchase by Casil, the Chinese consortium which already owns 49.9 per cent of the airport.

In a recent CBC interview, Thomas Mulcair committed the NDP to an even faster timeline to get to 9 per cent in a year.

In 2009, according to the Edelman study, 64 per cent of global respondents said they would recommend a brand that supports a good cause, up from 52 per cent in 2008.

In the case of private sector workers, the decline is even more severe from just 28 per cent with an RPP in 2000 to 24 per cent in 2010.

Under the Canada Economic Action Plan the deficit will be eliminated by 2015 - 16; although total net public debt will have increased by $ 150 billion, the debt ratio will have declined to 33.0 per cent in 2015 - 16 and reach the government's target of 25 percent by 2019 - 20; program spending will fall to below 13 percent of GDP and will continue to fall thereafter; public sector jobs have been eliminated; and income and corporate taxes have been cut.

They then seem to expect a fall back to close to 3 per cent in the following year.

The Bank of Canada predicts growth of 3.1 per cent this year will be followed by expansions of 2.1 per cent in 2018 and 1.5 per cent in 2019.

«It's really hard to budget when gas prices have gone up by 40 per cent in a year,» says Terry LeClair, a Barrie real estate broker.

Statistics Canada says last month's increase of 22,200 jobs also helped nudge the unemployment rate down from 6.3 per cent in July to a nine - year low of 6.2.

The good news culminated this summer with a StatsCan report that showed gross domestic product expanded at an annual rate of 4.5 per cent in the second quarter.

Although Australia avoided the recession that engulfed many developed countries at the start of this decade, it was not totally unaffected by world events, and the Bank found it necessary in 2001 to cut the cash rate to 4.25 per cent in a series of steps.

In Canada, the federal government currently has a sustainable fiscal structure, but one built around a relatively small federal government, and a stable debt - to - GDP ratio, that averaged around 33 per cent between 2009 - 10 and 2012 - 13, and 29.6 per cent in the three previous years, before the 2008 - 09 recession

While the U.S. Department of Agriculture forecasts Canadian exports of skimmed - milk powder are poised to grow 13 per cent in 2018, the nation's shipments account for less than 4 per cent of world trade.

Revenues decline by 45 per cent in 2008.

When they ran the printing presses to pay for the Korean War, it jumped from negative territory to nine per cent in less than a year.

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.

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.

In the U.S., sales of compact cars and small crossovers jumped 40 per cent in March and April from the year before, and now account for nearly one - quarter of all sales, up from less than than 20 per cent last year, according to a report from Scotia Economics.

All the major countries had reduced interest rates to unprecedented levels in the early part of this decade — 0 per cent in Japan, 1 per cent in the United States and 2 per cent in the euro area — and they maintained this position for a prolonged period.

Again, latest figures from the Office of the Chief Actuary show that the number of Canadians who contributed to their RRSP has decreased from 29 per cent in 2000 to 24 per cent in 2010.

The debt to GDP ratio had fallen steadily from a high of 67.1 per cent in 1995 - 96 to 28.2 percent in 2008 - 09.

BC Hydro expects British Columbia's electricity forecast to increase by up to 40 per cent in the next 20 years.

While that was a new low for Australian official interest rates — the previous low had been 4.75 per cent in the late 1990s — it was a relatively muted response compared with the very large cuts in interest rates that occurred elsewhere in the world.

This would represent a reduction of 1 per cent in potential output growth since the year 2000.

The Bank decided to double short - term interest rates from seven to nearly 14 per cent in the late 1980s, thus inducing our longest economic recession ever between 1990 and 1992.