Sentences with phrase «cent year on year increase»

The Solomon Islands enjoyed a 70 per cent year on year increase in international visitor arrivals for September 2017.

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In 2012, these television services spent $ 1.39 billion on Canadian programming, representing a 9.6 per cent increase over the previous year.

New vehicle sales in Western Australia registered a slight increase in March compared with the same month last year, while sales for the 12 months to March were up 5.3 per cent on the prior year, according to the latest data from the Federal Chamber of Automotive Industries.

Personal income tax will hit a 20 - year high of 12.5 per cent of GDP by 2020 - 21 under the budget forecasts as the government relies on bracket creep and an increase in the Medicare levy to return the budget to surplus.

Ramelius Resources has enjoyed a fruitful year, with profit up 71 per cent on the back of increased production and lower costs.

Gold miner Northern Star Resources has increased its dividend payout after confirming a 65 per cent jump in full - year profit, on the back of higher gold prices and a reduction in costs.

Nedlands - based TFS Corporation has achieved a record full - year profit of $ 82.5 million, up 48 per cent on the back of increased plantation asset ownership.

They noted in a jointly issued statement that it «pinned its hopes on revenues growing at a robust average rate of 5.6 per cent over the next five years while holding program spending increases to an average rate of 1.6 per cent.»

This 22 - year increase represents approximately 0.2 per cent on that number and when one accounts for inflationary dynamics, this represents a serious decline in real dollars.»

The Perth Convention Bureau has secured confirmed business worth more than $ 72 million for the State in the past twelve months — a 21 per cent increase on the previous year.

WA SUCCESS story ERG Group has achieved record operating profit of $ 35.2 million for the year ending June 30, 2000 — a 73 per cent increase on the previous period.

New owner Carlyle is expected to seek to accelerate Accolade's Asia strategy, with a particular focus on China where wine consumption is increasing at about 50 per cent a year.

On a year - over-year basis, they are down 5.5 per cent, whereas the November 2011 Update has them increasing by just over 2 per cent.

Between 1999 and 2002, employment increased by about 4.8 per cent on average per 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 tariff on these bicycles is increasing to 13 per cent from 8.5 per cent, a move that will cost Canadian cyclists between $ 5 - million and $ 6 - million each year.

With two quarterly sets of more reassuring price data now behind us, we were able in our recently released August Statement on Monetary Policy to conclude that the CPI increase will peak at 3 per cent per annum in the second half of next year.

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.

(9) While the number of approved requests for residential properties from China has increased in recent years, the Parliament of Australia's Report on Foreign Investment in Residential Real Estate (2014) found that Chinese purchases only absorbed two per cent of new housing stock, contrary to public perceptions.

To most readers, this did not mean the dissolution of the CEIFB, especially when earlier on the same page, the Minister of Finance stated that «the CEIFB will continue to set the rate but the Government will limit rate increases to no more than 5 cents per year until the EI Operating Account is balanced».

The Globe and Mail, in a front page article entitled «Consider This» argued that the political «parties should commit to holding the line on EI premium increases» [1] They argued that EI premium rates are going up by 15 cents per $ 100 of insurable earnings for every future year and that this is a significant hit on incomes and pocketbooks.

Georgia experienced a modest 0.5 cent gas tax increase on Jan. 1 of 2018; the rates will be revisited at the end of the year.

On Wednesday, a report published by Quebec's interim auditor general said the PQ's goal of achieving a balanced budget by 2015 - 16 was «to say the least, ambitious,» particularly if it rules out tax hikes and caps government - spending increases at two per cent over the next two years.

However, that is still a 75 per cent increase in prices on last year's rates.

It also confirmed it would introduce a 3 per cent tax on company dividends, increase wealth and inheritance taxes and abolish a tax «shield» — or ceiling — for the wealthy in its effort to meet its targets of cutting the budget deficit to 4.5 per cent of gross domestic product this year and 3 per cent in 2013.

While the increase will have a positive impact on the province's total labour market income — hiking it by 1.3 per cent — it will also result in the job losses over a number of years.

Late on Saturday, Deutsche Telekom, the German telephone company, agreed a 2.3 per cent pay rise for 17,000 staff this year, plus two increases of 2.1 per cent each in 2013.

According to the World Gold Council (WGC), India gold demand is expected to touch a record level of 300 - 400 tonnes between April and June, a 200 per cent year - on - year increase and almost half of total imports last year.

According to currently available information on planned coal port expansions, committed investment will increase port capacity by an estimated 13 per cent over the next two years or so.

Company announcements suggest that another 15 per cent increase in transport capacity will come on line in the next two years, with further substantial expansion planned for later in the decade.

With the global economic recovery consolidating over the past three months, the main focus of markets has been on the likely timing of the first increase in the US federal funds rate from its 45 - year low of 1 per cent.

On the other side of the household balance sheet, the debt of the household sector has continued to grow rapidly, increasing by 14 1/2 per cent over the year to March.

Measured on a year - ended basis, the rate of increase in the CPI will be well above the 2 — 3 per cent target from the September quarter 2000 to the June quarter 2001.

In addition, residential investment increased solidly in the quarter, to be up by 6.6 per cent on its year - ago level and forward - looking indicators suggest a continuation of high levels of activity in the housing sector.

In contrast, the prices of non-tradable goods and services have increased by 1 per cent per quarter, on average, for the past year.

FACT: «-LSB-...] expenditures for Internal Services were approximately $ 5.3 billion, an 8 per cent increase on the previous year.

Unit labour costs (based on compensation per hour worked) increased by 0.9 per cent in the March quarter, to be 2.4 per cent higher over the year.

In China, GDP grew by just under 7 per cent in the year to the June quarter, with the value of exports increasing by around 35 per cent over the year (see Box B on «China and International Trade»).

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.

Analyst Jamie Baker also cited pending cost increases, estimating a 55 cent effect on earnings per share and 5 percentage - point boost in costs for each seat flown a mile next year from expected new employee contracts.

Ms Scobie agreed that the 1 per cent increase in the group's interim and full - year COR «could» be information that a reasonable person would expect to have a material effect on the price or value of its shares, but maintained that it did not have the relevant information at the time of its upbeat AGM.

European yields have generally taken their lead from developments in the US over recent months, with yields on German 10 - year government debt also falling toward 4 per cent in mid January, before increasing to 4.2 per cent after the Fed's late January monetary policy announcement.

The measure would effectively increase Blackstone's tax rate from fifteen per cent to thirty - five per cent, seriously eroding its profitability, and, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation, would generate an extra twenty - six billion dollars over the next ten years.

Childline says it has held nearly 35 - thousand counselling sessions with youngsters in the last year, where they talked about taking their own life, an increase of 117 per cent on three years ago.

England's «waste from households» recycling rate has increased to 45.1 per cent for the financial year 2016/17, up 0.7 per cent on the rate for 2015/16, according to the latest figures.

This is an increase from a year - on - year rise of 2.6 per cent to March 2017.

In response to rising demand in the chocolate industry and reduce dependency on imports, Indian cocoa producers have said they will increase domestic cocoa production by 60 per cent in the next four years.

Simplot, which produces Birds Eye and John West products as well as the iconic Chiko Roll, announced on Monday it had signed a three - year wages deal which gives employees covered a 2.5 per cent wage increase in year one.

Fonterra reported an overall net profit of NZ $ 834 million, an increase of 65 per cent on its results for its 2015 financial year.

That strategy hoisted Fonterra's net profit for the six months to January 31 to $ NZ409 million ($ 362 million)- a 123.5 per cent increase on the same period last year.