Sentences with phrase «cent over the past»

The stock has soared more than eight per cent over the past week on speculation the company could buy the retail operations of oil and gas giant Hess, which owns about 1,350 gasoline stations in 16 East Coast states.

Both cities are cooling — according to Realosophy, sales of freehold houses in the Greater Toronto Area are down 26 per cent over the past month — and prices could follow.

Home values in Perth were up 0.2 per cent over the past three months, but were 3.1 per cent lower year - on - year.

Perth house prices have fallen 7.4 per cent over the past 18 months, making it the worst - performing housing market in the country.

Facebook has risen 44 per cent over the past 14 months, Microsoft's 46 per cent and Amazon's 27 per cent.

The U.S. inflation rate has averaged about 1.7 per cent over the past year, compared with the Fed's target of 2 per cent.

The net worths of top tech entrepreneurs such as Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Jeff Bezos have rocketed by a combined 21 per cent over the past year to reach $ 1.08 trillion, according to Forbes newly released 100 richest people in tech list.

One very concrete example of this can be seen in divergent movement in the price of health services — a non-tradable — which has increased by 6 per cent over the past year, and the price of clothing — a tradable — which has fallen by 3 per cent over the same period.

Morissette said industrial rents in Metro Vancouver have appreciated by between 20 and 30 per cent over the past couple of years.

Business investment has been a major driver of growth in recent years, expanding by 18 per cent over the past year, and at an average annual rate of 14 per cent over the past three years.

«The government has aggressively tackled its direct operating debt (or «credit card» debt), reducing it by almost 80 per cent over the past 10 years.

The company's stock price is up 55.09 per cent over the past month, and 118.38 per cent for the year.

The CPI published last week showed that prices rose by 0.4 per cent in the June quarter and by 1.9 per cent over the past year.

In contrast, medium - term inflation expectations implied by financial market prices, which are calculated as the difference between nominal and indexed bond yields, have been broadly stable at around 2.6 per cent over the past nine months.

These measures suggest that prices increased by around 2 per cent over the past year, a little higher than the inflation rates seen during 1997 or 1998 (Table 9).

Recent movements in the exchange rate have also been reflected in indexes of trade prices; the export price index rose by more than 16 per cent over the past year, with higher prices for base metals, chemicals, and petroleum aided by higher world prices and increased demand.

Employment has grown at an average annualised rate of 3.4 per cent over the past six months, compared with an average of 2.1 per cent over the past decade.

As a result, Australia's terms of trade has increased by 6.4 per cent over the past year, to its highest level in over 27 years (Graph 50).

Motor vehicle prices also appear to have been lower than otherwise, rising by only 1/2 per cent over the past six months despite the exchange rate depreciation, reflecting discounting ahead of the introduction of the GST in an attempt to smooth sales.

Consumption import volumes remained firm, with growth in excess of 12 per cent over the past twelve months.

Exports to other east Asian countries have fallen by over 10 per cent over the past year, reflecting the economic difficulties in some of those countries in the early part of that period.

The improvement in confidence has been greatest for manufacturing firms, which have benefited from the strong pick - up in external demand: exports increased by 8 per cent over the past year.

In real terms service exports have been growing at an average annual rate of close to 20 per cent over the past 10 years.

Surveys and official data indicate flat or falling house prices across the UK; according to the Nationwide and Halifax surveys, house prices increased at an annualised rate of 1.8 per cent over the past three months, compared with annualised growth in excess of 20 per cent in the first half of 2004.

Service import volumes have increased by 9 per cent over the past year.

Prices of other resources have risen by 22 per cent over the past year, but fell by 1.3 per cent over the three months to January.

Yields on 10 - year US government bonds have remained within a relatively narrow range around 4.2 per cent over the past three months.

The Employment Cost Index rose by 1 per cent in the June quarter and has increased by 4.4 per cent over the past year, driven by a particularly strong increase in growth in the private sector component.

Nonetheless, India's trade has been increasing rapidly, growing at an average annual rate in real terms of around 13 per cent over the past 10 years — twice the rate of overall world trade.

As a result, the share of the Bank's holdings of bank bills and CDs in its domestic securities increased, from an average of around 40 per cent over the past year to around 85 per cent in early November (Graph 4).

The ABCP market has grown by nearly 65 per cent over the past 3 years, from around $ 40 billion in 2004 to around $ 65 billion currently.

Top companies with bad culture have underperformed the ASX200 by close to 20 per cent over the past five years.

The average grade of the spodumene ore fed into Galaxy's processing plant fell from 1.27 per cent in the December quarter to 1.11 per cent over the past three months.

The main impetus to this increase has come from China's demand for resources, with resource exports having grown at an average annual rate of 15 per cent over the past decade (Graph B2).

Engineering construction has risen by 50 per cent over the past year, to reach very high levels, and is set to expand further in the near term, driven by a considerable stock of resource and infrastructure work in the pipeline.

Household credit has grown at an average annual rate of 14 per cent since the mid 1990s, and by almost 20 per cent over the past year.

Another element of domestic financial conditions is the exchange rate, which has appreciated, in trade - weighted terms, by around 18 per cent over the past year, reducing the stimulus provided to the traded goods sector.

Nonetheless, with wholesale import prices having risen by about 10 per cent over the past year, some pick - up in consumer prices must be expected.

As discussed in the chapter on «International and Foreign Exchange Markets», the Australian dollar has continued to appreciate over recent months, rising on a trade - weighted basis by 5 per cent since early November and 21 per cent over the past year.

On a trade - weighted basis, the exchange rate has appreciated by around 20 per cent over the past year.

Ordinary - time earnings of adults working full time (AWOTE) increased by 0.4 per cent in the three months to May, and by 4.1 per cent over the past year (Graph 31).

Approvals for loans to investors have been particularly strong, rising by almost 40 per cent over the past year; these now account for a record high 43 per cent of total approvals.

While the over-the-docks prices of imported final goods increased by more than 10 per cent over the past year, prices of imported inputs into manufacturing rose by 6 per cent and the prices of domestically sourced raw materials fell (Table 6).

Strong price pressures are also evident in health and education services, with the price of health services rising by around 8 per cent over the past year and the price of education services by just under 5 per cent.

Reflecting these positive developments, the Japanese stock market has risen by around 40 per cent over the past six months and long - term bond yields have risen by nearly 1 percentage point since the middle of the year.

A comparison of the experience of the major industrialised (G7) countries, Australia and New Zealand, shows that seven of these nine countries have experienced average inflation in the range 1 — 3 per cent over the past two years (Table 1).

The Euro STOXX index is up 9 per cent over the past 3 months and around 50 per cent since its March 2003 low.

Even stronger growth has been recorded in the ABS vacancies series, which has risen by 28 per cent over the past year, the bulk of this in the past two quarters.

The euro - wide unemployment rate has hovered just below 9 per cent over the past three months.

Engineering construction has risen by 36 per cent over the past year and the unprecedented amount of work yet to be done suggests further expansion in the next few quarters.