Sentences with phrase «cent over the past couple of years»

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

Equity prices have also shown a solid increase — 25 per cent over the past couple of years — which has increased access to, and reduced the cost of, equity capital.

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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.

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).

Over the past couple of years, speculators have also used short sales of gold to obtain low cost funds to invest in other assets — for example, by shorting gold (borrowing it and selling it in the spot market), market participants have been able to obtain US dollars at between 1 and 2 per cent, well below the rate of return available on US assets.

Weak economic conditions in the past couple of years have seen growth in labour costs slow to 2 1/2 per cent over the year to the December quarter, from 3 1/2 per cent a year earlier.

Correspondingly, the current account deficit has also widened over the past couple of years, although the deficit for the September quarter, at around 6 per cent of GDP (assuming that the net income deficit remains constant as a share of GDP), is likely to have been smaller than in the previous quarter.

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