Sentences with phrase «cent level of»

The increase in visitor numbers to Spain exceeded the five per cent level of global tourism growth according to the barometer published by the World Tourism Organisation.

The remarkable 97 per cent level of correction is more than sufficient to enable a (forthcoming) reanalysis of downstream science products and the collection of larger surveys.

Not exact matches

CREA said Friday the level of sales activity marked a four - year low for the month of March and was seven per cent below the 10 - year average.

Woodside Petroleum Ltd subsidiary ATS Inc has made good on a promise not to extend its $ 1.16 billion hostile takeover bid for US - based oil producer Energy Partners Ltd, after failing to reach the minimum acquisition level of 50 per cent.

Since implementing that 15 per cent charge last summer, the raw number of home sales have fallen about 40 per cent, primarily in the upper end of the market, and the steep price gains have levelled off.

The state's rural confidence is at its highest level in over two years after a rainy autumn has found 84 per cent of farmers expecting this year to be better or as good as last year's season.

In Ontario, mortgage payments account for roughly 60 per cent of income, according to BMO; if the trend continues another 24 months, that figure will hit 1989 levels — the same year the market crashed.

Fueled by low prices, and an improving job market, consumption of gasoline in the U.S. rose by 2.6 per cent last year to 9.2 million barrels a day, the highest level since 2007, the government said.

The weakest aspect of Canada's economy this year was the feeble performance of private investment, projected by the Conference Board of Canada to contract by nearly 8 per cent compared to 2014 levels.

The Knight Frank report, suggesting vacancy levels will lift to 24 per cent, came in response to the mid-year Property Council of Australia office market report.

The change would be eliminating the dividend refund that comes later, which could bump the effective tax rate on passive income, in cases of high income earners, to the 70 - per - cent - plus level Poilievre talks about.

Fees are complex and vary by amount and product used, but entry - level accounts cost 2.89 percent of each bill, plus 15 cents per transaction.

Program spending was up $ 8.3 billion, or 3.3 per cent, due to increases in major transfers to persons and other levels of government and direct program expenses.

TORONTO — The 2013 - 14 financial year was an unusually strong one for the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board, which earned a 16.5 per cent annual return on the billions of dollars in assets it manages for the national retirement system, but its CEO cautions that level of growth likely won't soon be repeated.

These people represent a long tail of the economy, and there are going to be billion - dollar companies serving people across the developing world on a micro-payment level: a penny here, 10 cents there.

Today's market calm follows harrowing levels of market volatility over the last two weeks when the TSX fell more than five per cent and Wall Street indexes entered «correction» territory.

Well, part of it comes from going from 88 cents an hour on a man's dollar in hourly wage... to a better level,» he said.

TORONTO — A new report says the level of Canadian consumer debt at the end of 2012 — not counting mortgages — was up nearly six per cent from a year earlier.

If Poloz was correct, and the media only care about prices when they spike to absurd levels, then let me suggest that some us are about to make up for it by working overtime to explain why the Bank of Canada wants to raise interest rates even though core inflation is trending away from the two - per - cent target.

On a range of questions — such as whether Harper is doing a good job, is representing the «values» of people, and should run again in the 2015 election, the prime minister has support levels among Canadians that exceed 40 per cent.

(Statistics Canada, 2001) Maser and Dufour use two levels of earnings replacement as indicative of maintaining pre-retirement living standards: 66.67 per cent and 80 per cent.

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.

New residential construction is at half of 2005 levels, undercutting employment, and home prices are down about 25 per cent.

The expansion of the industry also runs counter to B.C.'s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act, a commitment to reduce carbon pollution 33 per cent below 2007 levels by 2020, he said.

The stock found support near 70 cents in the second half of the year, testing that level three times ahead of a March 2017 uptick that has now reached ranged resistance.

In 40 per cent of the cases, the U.S. allows for higher levels.

They have now reached levels equivalent to 20 or 30 per cent of GDP.

Production is running at record levels in the financial year to date and BHP produced 58 million tonnes of iron ore during the quarter, up 8 per cent on the previous corresponding period.

At the current level of 5.5 per cent, the cash rate is in line with its average over the low inflation period since 1993.

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.

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.

Program expenses were up only 0.4 per cent, as the ending of most of the stimulus spending in the Economic Action Plan and lower employment insurance benefits nearly offset increases in transfers to other levels of governments (spending in this area is largely set in legislation) and in elderly benefits.

The Australian dollar has remained in a relatively steady range over the past couple of years, at levels that are a little above average against the US dollar and about 10 per cent above average in trade - weighted terms.

The ratio of debt - to - GDP is at already at 30 per cent and, without any reduction in debt, is forecast to decline to levels that haven't been seen in half a century.

Thus, even though the Fed has now restored the funds rate to a relatively normal level of 4.5 per cent, world policy interest rates on average remain well below normal.

Gasoline prices have been moving up steadily with the price of oil, and are now up 33 cents from last year's levels and almost 20 cents from just a month ago, according to AAA data.

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.

A shock to the price level which temporarily lowers the inflation rate below 2 per cent does not imply that monetary policy will be set to ensure an offsetting period of high inflation.

Given 85 per cent of Caltex earnings are from fuel - related sales and refining margins, «even the smallest level of electric vehicle penetration would have a material impact on earnings,» the fund wrote on its website in October.

Currently, business investment is equivalent to around 16 per cent of GDP — not far below its peak level in the past four decades — and is expected to rise a little further over the next couple of years (Graph 2).

In 2012, mining investment had increased five-fold from its level in 2004 (from around $ 20 billion to $ 130 billion), peaking at 9 per cent of GDP.

First, make sure in budget planning that the debt level averages around 30 per cent of GDP (roughly where it is now) over the next four years.

An important study by Rogoff and Rheinhart in 2013 came to the conclusion that when debt levels reached 90 per cent of GDP growth indeed would suffer.

Compare this with the levels reached in the mid 1990s of almost 70 per cent.

Governing Council decided to incorporate in the base case projection a 0.2 per cent reduction in the level of global GDP by the end of 2018.

According to a survey by Aon Hewitt, employees of commercial banks, insurance companies and credit unions reported an engagement level of around 70 per cent or higher.

For the rest of 2007, we expect the Canadian economy to remain healthy and our forecast for real GDP growth is 2.5 per cent, down slightly from its growth level in 2006.

By the middle of 2014, the level of Canadian investment had grown to 15 per cent above its pre-crisis peak.

Canada is stuck at about 84 per cent of the U.S. level.

During the second quarter of 2014, affordability measures at the national level fell by 0.9 percentage points to 48.0 per cent for two - storey homes, by 0.6 percentage points to 42.5 per cent for detached bungalows and by 0.4 percentage points to 27.4 per cent for condominium apartments.