Sentences with phrase «cent rate recorded»

That growth rate, however, was significantly lower than the 7.1 per cent rate recorded five years ago.

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Yet the Prime Minister's Office appears to think an economy that has been growing at an annual rate of around three per cent for nearly a year is too weak to absorb interest rates that still are near record lows.

On the other hand, the sell - through rate of new launches has plummeted, with 65 per cent recorded this month, against 90 per cent last month.

Condo prices are growing at a rate of 19 per cent year - over-year too, even though a record number of units are under construction relative to the population, according to TD Economics.

Western Australia's unemployment rate has fallen by a surprising 0.9 per cent in the month of December, while job numbers were up for a record - equalling 15th consecutive month nationwide, with economists giving positive assessments of the labour market.

«A number of participants indicated that the stronger outlook for economic activity, along with their increased confidence that inflation would return to 2 per cent over the medium term, implied that the appropriate path for the federal funds rate over the next few years would likely be slightly steeper than they had previously expected,» the Federal Open Market Committee said in the records of its March 20 - 21 meeting.

Given the nation's debt load — as of February, households had a record $ 2.1 trillion of mortgage and non-mortgage debt — Poloz estimates the economy is 50 per cent more sensitive to rate hikes than in the past.

The Reserve Bank of Australia cut the cash rate in May from 2 per cent to a record low 1.75 per cent out of concern that inflation was trending too low, following first - quarter inflation data that showed prices had fallen 0.2 per cent in the first three months of the year.

Over the first half of 1999, consumer spending grew at an annual rate of 4.8 per cent, around the same pace as was recorded in the second half of 1998.

Mark Carney, governor of the Bank of England, has kept the bank's main interest rate at a record low of 0.25 per cent as the economy weakens ahead of Britain's departure from the European Union.

The Wage Cost Index continues to record wages growth at an annual rate of around 3 1/4 per cent, and there has been little change in the wage increases being negotiated under enterprise bargaining, which continue to yield average annualised increases in the 3 1/2 to 4 per cent range.

The prices of imported goods and services, recorded «at the docks», have moved broadly in line with the rise in the exchange rate (with a slight lag), falling by about 6 per cent (excluding petroleum) between the December quarter 1998 and the September quarter 1999.

While still a robust rate of increase in an economy in which nominal incomes are growing at around 6 per cent, this represents a moderate slowdown in the pace of financial intermediation from rates recorded in the second half of last year.

Unemployment has edged up over the recent period, reaching a rate of 8.7 per cent in March, and labour force participation has come off the peaks recorded two years ago.

While the 25 basis point increases in November and December have brought the cash rate closer to its average level of the past ten years — a period in which the economy has recorded average annual growth of 3.9 per cent — the rate still remains slightly below the average over this period (Graph 66).

Employment has been broadly unchanged over this period, although with the participation rate having fallen, the unemployment rate has declined to around 5 per cent from its record high of 5 1/2 per cent early in 2003.

The volume of imports rose by 2 1/4 per cent in the June quarter, which is a little above trend rates, and is likely to record a similar increase in the September quarter.

Over the second half of last year, personal credit recorded a solid pace of growth, and revolving credit secured against residential mortgages increased at an annual rate of around 27 per cent.

Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas will probably raise its benchmark interest rate to 4 per cent by the fourth quarter from a record - low 3.5 per cent now.

In line with this, vacancy rates for rentals across Canada are exceptionally low, particularly in certain parts of British Columbia where vacancy rates have dipped to a record low of 0.3 per cent.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

The fish catch had been growing at a record rate for two decades prior to 1970, but since 1970 the fish catch per person fell by 13 per cent or over 1 per cent per year Then fifteen years later in the mid-1980s there was an upturn of nearly 20 per cent due largely to the recovery of the depleted Peruvian anchoveta fishery.

And nobody on the pitch recorded a higher passing - success rate than the 28 - year - old's 91.7 per cent.

The role of now regular surveillance, screening and monitoring processes as recorded by the Health Protection Agency has also contributed greatly to a significant reduction in key infection rates of MRSA bacteraemia, a 75 per cent reduction since 2003/04, when more patients were dying from what are largely avoidable infections.

The apex said the rate of counterfeit according to its records clearly indicated from January to December 2016 was less than one per cent.

Both recorded completion rates higher than 50 per cent.

The Lib Dems are stuck at an almost record low of 10 per cent in the opinion polls with Mr Clegg's personal ratings plummeting since last May.

Back in November 1979, six months after Margaret Thatcher became prime minister, interest rates hit 17 per cent, the highest since records began in 1694.

The National Bureau of Statistics on Tuesday reported that Nigerian economy was now out of recession with a growth rate of 0.55 per cent recorded in the second quarter of 2017.

The College posted record results this year at GCSE and A Level, with 77 per cent 5 A * — C including English and Maths and 100 per cent pass rate in the latter, with one in five being either an A or A * grade.

The full specifications list is listed below, but all Giulias come standard with Autonomous Emergency Braking, Forward Collision Warning, Lane Departure Warning and a five - star Euro NCAP safety rating, including a record 98 per cent rating for adult occupants.

Housing affordability reached a record low in March 2008 when bank interest rates were above 9 per cent.

In your sample, if the.50 cent is in fact a monthly rate, and not an annual or quarterly rate, than yes the $ 500 would be paid out monthly on the assigned «payment date» assuming you owned the shares before the «record date».

What we do have are records of shipwrecks — both from written accounts and finds at the bottom of the Mediterranean and Aegean Seas — and the knowledge that losses were common enough that lenders demanded merchants repay them 20 to 30 cents on the dollar (compared to the 12 % maximum interest rates on regular loans in Rome's later period).

Condo prices are growing at a rate of 19 per cent year - over-year too, even though a record number of units are under construction relative to the population, according to TD Economics.

After dropping the the benchmark interest rate to a record low of 0.5 per cent to fight the Great Recession, former Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney nudged the rate back up to one per cent in 2010.

If you have a spouse, partner or kids in a lower tax bracket than you, consider a prescribed rate loan strategy whereby the higher - income spouse or partner loans funds to the lower - income spouse or partner to invest at the record low prescribed rate, which is at one per cent until at least March 31.

«The increase of more than five percent at the end of the third quarter 2014 is again well above the equally satisfying growth rates recorded for January to September 2013 (up 3.8 per cent).

The Cancun Convention & Visitors Bureau has announced Cancun hotels recorded occupancy rates of 93 per cent in the first half of 2015; this represents a year on year increase of 2.5 per cent.

Conducted by Digi - Capital Global Games Investment, the review states that the run - rate for M&A's is 40 per cent higher than in 2011, the previous record year.

And they're finding their way with no official announcements, at that — the only reason we know about this 50 Cent development is because someone spotted the publicly - accessible Australian ratings record.

A record - breaking work by Jean - Michel Basquiat led last night's Post-War and Contemporary Art Evening Sale, which realized a total of $ 318,388,000 / # 220,796,117 / $ 279,086,291, with sell - through rates of 87 per cent by lot and 91 per cent by value.

Our Excess Insurance program continues to attract a solid 20 per cent of our target market (lawyers in firms of 50 or fewer lawyers) and in 2011 provided excess coverage to a record 1,466 firms representing 3,711 lawyers; as well, our retention rate on this program is high — with 97 per cent of firms choosing to stay with LAWPRO for their excess coverage in 2012.

If for every dollar of legal spend, a firm is only recovering 25 cents right now, and the tools they are using are inefficient, this means money and time are being burned at record rates.

Fact: «The inflated figures of between 10 and 30 per cent have their origins in some very questionable research... the most recent evidence, based upon medical records, sex surveys, DNA testing laboratories and genetic studies... suggests relatively low rates of misattributed paternity in Western countries» with figures realistically between one and 3 percent, but probably closer to one percent.

«Canadian MLS sales were the highest on record in 1999, surpassing the previous record set in 1997 by seven per cent and, while rising mortgage rates are causing a slowing in this activity, current and recent levels of activity remain robust,» says NAR president Denis Cronk.

In line with this, vacancy rates for rentals across Canada are exceptionally low, particularly in certain parts of British Columbia where vacancy rates have dipped to a record low of 0.3 per cent.

-- From a record low of 5.99 per cent in 2005, mortgage rates rose to an average posted rate of 6.66 per cent for a five - year term mortgage in 2006.

«Sydney's median home price fell by just 0.3 per cent for the month, half the rate of decline over February and a third as large as the 0.9 per cent falls recorded over January and December.

All markets surveyed recorded increases in both daily and monthly parking rates with the exception of Montreal, which recorded a 3.45 per cent reduction in the monthly - unreserved median rate and Vancouver, which recorded a reduction in the median daily rate of 2.86 per cent.