TIGA, the network for video games developers and digital publishers and the trade association representing the video games industry, today released new data showing that Scotland is the second fastest growing cluster in the UK games industry with headcount growth of 27 per cent between March 2016 and November 2017 (the North West was the fastest growing, with the region enjoying 32 per
cent year on year growth).
Not exact matches
Failure of prices to recover raises the prospect of even deeper cuts to investment by oil and gas companies next
year and would likely result in Canada's economy remaining
on a slower
growth path than the 2.2 per
cent pace we are expecting.»
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.
The company beat
on both its top and bottom lines, reporting adjusted earnings of 90
cents a share
on a record quarterly revenue of $ 1.61 billion, representing 23 percent
year - over-
year revenue
growth.
A
year ago, Flaherty's 2012 budget relied
on private sector forecasts to project 2.4 per
cent gross domestic product
growth, after inflation, for 2013.
Chief executive Andrew Mackenzie praised the record production levels in iron ore and said BHP «remains
on track to achieve 6 per
cent volume
growth for the 2018 financial
year».
That said, the equation fits the cycle pretty well (see Graph 5)[8] and Graph 6 shows the impact
on GDP
growth of a 1 per
cent increase in the real cash rate, maintained for two
years.
The broader document is generally optimistic about this
year's global prospects, with worldwide
growth being
on an upswing and a larger - than - previous forecast of a 3.9 per
cent increase for 2018.
«The services segment will grow between 13 per
cent and 20 per
cent per
year over the next five
years driven by continued
growth in existing services along with new, innovative services,» Gene Munster, co-founder of Loup Ventures and a veteran Apple analyst, wrote in an email following the results
on Tuesday.
Our best estimate is that potential output will rise by an average of 1 1/2 per
cent per
year over the next few
years — that is not very impressive relative to history.2 We are counting
on gains in productivity to deliver fully two - thirds of that
growth.
Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak announced today that Malaysia has recorded a 6.2 per
cent growth in GDP in the third quarter of this
year, an achievement that proves that the country's economic management is
on track.
Headquartered in Mumbai, Kwench serves more than 500 companies and 40,000 employees across 63 countries, turning in a revenue
growth of 60 per
cent year -
on -
year.
The Australian Bureau of Statistics said last week that gross domestic product expanded 1.1 per
cent in the first three months of the
year, while
year -
on -
year headline
growth accelerated to 3.1 per
cent, its fastest pace in almost four
years.
Finally, the economy is
on a hot streak: employers have been adding jobs steadily for a
year, and
growth is running at an annualized rate in excess of three per
cent.
It is possible that measured GDP
growth is somewhat overstated due to difficulties in estimating the GDP deflator, which is falling considerably more quickly than other price measures; nominal GDP has grown by a much more modest 0.8 per
cent over the
year, although this is still an improvement
on recent history.
Export
growth has eased a little, following the surge in December 2003 as exporters sought to avoid the cut in tax rebates
on 1 January, but
growth over the
year remains exceptionally strong at 43 per
cent.
Coles Express sales fell 8 per
cent to $ 1.3 billion as comparable fuel volumes fell 15.9 per
cent, (
on top of a 22 per
cent fall in the
year ago period), countering modest convenience store sales
growth.
The Indian economy has also continued to perform strongly, with
year - ended GDP
growth of 10.4 per
cent recorded in the December quarter (see «Box A» for a further discussion
on India).
On cue, JP Morgan's instant «Nowcast» tracker of world
growth has dropped from 4 per
cent to 3.2 per
cent since the start of the
year, far below estimates of the International Monetary Fund.
National accounts data show that
growth in real household consumption in the second half of 2003 was 7 per
cent on an annualised basis, the strongest pace in over 20
years.
Over the past
year, capital spending rose by more than 17 per
cent, with the main categories of investment — machinery and equipment investment (abstracting from civil aircraft deliveries), buildings and structures, and spending
on computer software — all recording robust
growth in the quarter and over the
year.
The latest ABS projections, based
on Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) estimates, indicate that farm GDP fell by around 30 per
cent over the
year to the June quarter 2003, subtracting a little under 1 percentage point from GDP
growth, which is a slightly smaller subtraction than previously expected.
Year - on - year growth in the personal consumption expenditures price index reached 2 per cent in March, up from 1.7 per cent in Febru
Year -
on -
year growth in the personal consumption expenditures price index reached 2 per cent in March, up from 1.7 per cent in Febru
year growth in the personal consumption expenditures price index reached 2 per
cent in March, up from 1.7 per
cent in February.
The telecommunications sector recorded particularly strong
growth in net profits, with Telstra reporting an increase of 44 per
cent on the same period last
year.
Raising the
growth rate of the economy by 0.3 per
cent (the difference between the underlying productivity
growth rate in the 1990s cycle and the average of the earlier cycles) makes little difference over a
year or two; over a decade or two, however, the cumulated effect
on living standards is substantial.
Modest
growth in export quantities and prices, together with flat imports (
on a quarterly basis), pushed the March quarter balance
on goods and services back into a surplus of around half of one per
cent of GDP, reversing the deterioration late last
year.
Unit labour costs (based
on compensation per hour worked) grew by 1.3 per
cent in the June quarter to be 2.8 per
cent higher over the
year, which is around the average
growth rate of the past few
years.
Based
on our most recent research, they aim for 20 per
cent turnover
growth per
year, 2 per
cent above the average for start - ups, and they are starting from a base USD400, 000 higher than the cross-sector average.
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 Index predicts
year -
on -
year growth in Australian retail turnover of 4.6 per
cent for the month of June 2017, 3.6 per
cent year -
on -
year for the June quarter.
Demand for cocoa is
on the up, registering compound
growth of 2.7 per
cent over the next three
years, and most of it will come from Africa, according to a new report.
Mr O'Connell and CCA chief executive Alison Watkins are confident that the $ 10 million launch of Coke Life
on April 7 will restore volume and sales
growth to the entire Coca - Cola brand, improving CCA's fortunes after a horror
year last in 2014, when sales fell 2 per
cent and net profit by 25 per
cent to the lowest level for eight
years.
Domino's Europe delivered a EBITDA
growth on 2016's half
year results of 99.7 per
cent, reaching AUD $ 29.9 million.
«
Year on year, [at] the end of 2013, we saw 124 per cent growth in outward remittances of renminbi for trade settlement with China,» he s
Year on year, [at] the end of 2013, we saw 124 per cent growth in outward remittances of renminbi for trade settlement with China,» he s
year, [at] the end of 2013, we saw 124 per
cent growth in outward remittances of renminbi for trade settlement with China,» he said.
The infant nutrition producer said based
on its financial results for the first half of its 2018 financial
year, it is now expecting it will achieve 30 - 35 per
cent revenue
growth for its core business (excluding Camperdown) when compared to its 2017 financial
year results.
And so, currently, if you do the calculation based
on 4.9 per
cent growth in the first quarter of this
year and you take the debt as a percentage of GDP, the debt has come down from 72 per
cent to 63 per
cent.
Growth has been revised down significantly and importantly
on a downward trend: 1.5 % of GDP this
year (it was two per
cent in the spring statement and 1.6 % in the Bank of England's recent report), to 1.4 % next
year, and 1.3 % in 2019 and 2020.
Construction output was at its lowest in 12
years in the first quarter; however, information from within the industry suggests that the first estimate of 0.9 per
cent growth will be revised upwards in the
ONS's second and third estimates.
According to the
ONS» revised GDP figures for the second quarter of this
year the British economy still suffered zero per
cent growth, and then fell into negative
growth of 0.5 per
cent for the third quarter of the
year.
The government wants to increase capacity
on the railways to accommodate 180 million more passengers over the next seven
years, representing
growth of 20 per
cent.
On the economy the manifesto says the next NDC government will pursued in the next four
years: an average GDP
growth rate of at least 8 per
cent per annum and a single digit rate of inflation;
That this House declines to give a Second Reading to the Welfare Benefits Up - rating Bill because it fails to address the reasons why the cost of benefits is exceeding the Government's plans; notes that the Resolution Foundation has calculated that 68 per
cent of households affected by these measures are in work and that figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies show that all the measures announced in the Autumn Statement, including those in the Bill, will mean a single - earner family with children
on average will be # 534 worse off by 2015; further notes that the Bill does not include anything to remedy the deficiencies in the Government's work programme or the slipped timetable for universal credit; believes that a comprehensive plan to reduce the benefits bill must include measures to create economic
growth and help the 129,400 adults over the age of 25 out of work for 24 months or more, but that the Bill does not do so; further believes that the Bill should introduce a compulsory jobs guarantee, which would give long - term unemployed adults a job they would have to take up or lose benefits, funded by limiting tax relief
on pension contributions for people earning over # 150,000 to 20 per
cent; and further believes that the proposals in the Bill are unfair when the additional rate of income tax is being reduced, which will result in those earning over a million pounds per
year receiving an average tax cut of over # 100,000 a
year.
He said there had been a decline in the
year -
on -
year inflation from about 17 per
cent in 2016 to 10.4 per
cent in the first quarter of 2018, while the supplied side improved driven by the
growth in the agricultural sector.
By BARRY FOX After several
years of spectacular
growth, the number of calls made
on mobile cellular phones has dropped to around 30 per
cent of the network capacity.
A leading «sugar daddy» app last
year claimed it had almost a quarter of a million UK students
on its books — a 40 per
cent growth on the same period of time two
years ago.
The overall sales have grown marginally, but much lower than the 32 per
cent year -
on -
year growth in 2015.
On the sales expectations of the company this fiscal, Suri said: «In the first quarter, we sold over 1,000 units registering a
growth of 45 per
cent over the same period last
year.
However, the new Tiguan will compete in the mid-size SUV segment, which is dominated by Mazda's CX - 5 and up 22 per
cent to May this
year,
on top of its 62 per
cent growth since 2010.
BMW sold 7,138 units in the same period, a
growth of 17.3 per
cent,
on robust demand for the new BMW 5 series sedan, helping it make a comeback to the No 2 slot after many
years.
Subaru's Liberty and Outback siblings enjoyed remarkable sales
growth in 2015, with the Liberty finishing the
year on 4097 sales — third in the medium passenger car segment behind Toyota Camry and Mazda6 in that order, and fully 3056 units (or 293.6 per
cent) ahead of the sales figure for 2014.