Sentences with phrase «cent increase since»

Meanwhile, oil companies are recklessly developing the tar sands, with plans to increase production to a dangerous level of five million barrels per day or more by 2030, a 1500 per cent increase since 1999.

Gloucestershire county council told Schools Week there had been a 35 per cent rise in children with autism over the past three years, while there was a 39 per cent increase since 2012 in the Greater Manchester combined authority.

Food Banks Canada's HungerCount study reported that more than 860,000 men, women and children are helped by food banks each month, a 28 per cent increase since the 2008 economic downturn.

Fourteen countries have shown better than 20 per cent increases since 1995.

Not exact matches

The final thing to say is that those «officials» should pay closer attention to what the Bank of Canada actually says, and less to the over-interpretation of those words by the currency traders who have driven the Canadian dollar to 80 U.S. cents in recent days, a 10 - percent increase since May.

A recent survey published by insolvency trustee MNP Ltd. found 48 per cent of Canadian respondents were $ 200 or less away from being unable to fulfill their monthly financial obligations, an eight point increase since September.

The Financial Consumer Agency of Canada found the number of households with a HELOC and a mortgage against their home has increased nearly 40 per cent since 2011, prompting commissioner Lucie Tedesco to caution this month the trend «may lead Canadians to use their homes as ATMs.»

The March increase was the largest year - over-year move since it hit 2.4 per cent in October 2014, just as the oil - price slump was getting underway.

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

It's the biggest jump since April 2016 when food prices increased 3.2 per cent.

Since 2004, the number of taps harvested in Quebec has increased by 17 per cent compared with almost a 90 per cent hike in the United States, he said.

The federal gas tax stands at 18.4 cents and has not been increased since 1993.

The total of Jews on the land has increased about too per cent since 1900.

Tablet usage is also increasing in Canada with 9.3 million slates in - market, representing a 56 per cent increase in adoption since June 2013.

The Fed left its key short - term rate at 1.5 per cent to 1.75 per cent — the level it set in March after its sixth increase since December 2015 — as it gradually tightens credit to control inflation against the backdrop of a tight labour market and a pickup in consumer prices.

Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economic future.

The Institute claims that subsidies to Crown corporations have increased by 50 per cent since 2006 - 07 and propose, that to improve efficiencies, these subsidies should be reduced by 10 per cent from current levels.

Since few other countries produce these products, it will be nearly impossible for consumers to avoid a tariff that is increasing to 8 per cent from 5 per cent, costing consumers more than $ 1 - million a year.

The agency also said wages grew 1.8 per cent last month compared to a year earlier for the biggest increase since last October.

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.

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.

Two - in - three Canadians (65 per cent) now say the B.C. government is wrong to try to block the pipeline, a 10 - percentage - point increase since February.

The iPhone maker is raising its quarterly dividend by 16 percent to 73 cents per share, matching the largest increase since Apple restored the payment under shareholder pressure six years ago.

For the players, among the key issues is the NHL's request for wage rollbacks of around 19 per cent, something many players are resistant to, especially given the large increases in NHL revenue in recent years — up 50 per cent to $ 3.3 billion, in the years since the last lockout.

The iPhone maker is raising its quarterly dividend by 16 percent to 73 cents per share, matching the largest increase since Apple restored the payment six years ago.

Imports of motor vehicles and parts rose 8.3 per cent to $ 10.3 billion, the strongest increase since 2011, while consumer goods climbed 7.7 per cent to a record $ 11 billion.

Yet, the report says the median annual wage has actually declined by six per cent in real terms (adjusted for inflation) since 1976 and has only increased by eight per cent overall since 1996.

Since then, the region's population has increased by more than 75 per cent.

In March, total hours surged 1.1 per cent, the biggest monthly increase since Canada emerged from the Great Recession in 2009.

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.

The recent announcement by European central banks to restrict further sales of gold and the decision by the IMF to fund its debt - relief initiative with off - market transactions, contributed to a sharp recovery in sentiment in the gold market in late September; the gold price in US dollars increased by around 25 per cent in the wake of these decisions, but has since retraced about half of this rise.

The ASX 200 rose by 23 per cent over 2004, the largest calendar - year increase since 1993 and more than double the rise in the S&P 500 and MSCI World indices over the year.

The consumer discretionary sector has risen by 9 per cent since the previous Statement, with more than half of the increase occurring after the announcement of News Corporation's proposed plan to move its corporate headquarters to the US.

Port capacity is estimated to have increased by 19 per cent since 2003, more than sufficient to support recent growth in iron ore exports.

Since the beginning of its current tightening cycle in June 2004, the federal funds rate has been increased from 1.0 per cent to 2.5 per cent in increments of 25 basis points at each Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) meeting.

This is well below the high of 4.9 per cent seen in June 2004, despite the 150 basis point increase in the federal funds rate since then and signs that inflationary pressure may be building.

They have increased by 52.2 per cent since 2004 - 05 and from year - to - year are extremely volatile.

The number of agricultural businesses registered with the WCB — it's a little misleading to refer to these businesses simply as «farms» since many of them are more like farm - products factories — has increased a similar amount, by 107 per cent.

Part of the fall was due to strong median dwelling value increases since 2012 that have pushed Sydney homes up 75 per cent and Melbourne homes up 54 per cent, a report accompanying the index said.

Since we last met, the Federal Reserve has increased interest rates twice and the policy rate in the United States now stands at 1 1/4 per cent.

Canadian Taxpayers Federation research reveals electricity costs at St. Thomas Elgin General Hospital have increased 75 percent since 2013; Woodstock Hospital has seen a 60 per cent increase in the same time.

They have since increased to around 25 — 30 per cent of GDP, with the Bank of Japan on a path that will take it to around 90 per cent.

Bond yields in Japan have increased by about 110 basis points since mid year, to 1.5 per cent.

Statistics Canada reported today that the number of Canadians filing Employment Insurance (EI) claims rose by 10,350 or 4.5 per cent in March, the largest monthly increase since the start of 2013.

Somewhat unusually, movements in the current account deficit (CAD) have recently been dominated by developments in the net income deficit (NID), with its sharp increase in the second half of 2004 pushing the CAD to 7.1 per cent of GDP in the December quarter, the largest since quarterly ABS data began in 1959.

The result has been an increase in Australia's terms of trade, including a 2 per cent rise over the first half of 2003, to its highest level since the late 1980s (Graph 50).

The Reserve Bank of New Zealand raised its target rate by 25 basis points to 6.75 per cent in March, taking the cumulative increase since this tightening cycle began in early 2004 to 175 basis points.

As a result, the target cash rate was increased by 25 basis points to 5.0 per cent, having been unchanged since June 2002 (Graph 64).

An exception is China, where the inflation rate has climbed to 3.2 per cent — the fastest increase in prices since early 1997 — although this partly reflects one - off factors that saw food prices soar.

Since April, the Bank of Canada had been talking about a potential rate increase in the context of an «economic expansion» that failed to achieve the velocity that policy makers expected, keeping a lid on inflation, which the central bank is mandated to contain at an annual rate of about 2 per cent.