Sentences with phrase «deficit around a quarter»

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A surge in Australia's terms of trade has mitigated the effect of these developments on the trade deficit, which is estimated to have been around 3 1/4 per cent of GDP in the December quarter 2004, wider than at mid year but broadly similar to the outturns of the past year and a half (Graph 32).

This has resulted in an increase in the current account deficit to around 3 1/2 per cent of GDP in the June quarter.

Accordingly, the current account deficit has also narrowed somewhat over the same period to around 6 per cent of GDP in the March quarter (assuming that the net income deficit remains constant as a share of GDP).

This has resulted in a narrowing in the trade deficit since mid 2003 to around 3 per cent of GDP in the March quarter.

As a result, the trade deficit has remained at around 2 per cent of GDP for the last three quarters, although it has declined from the peak reached in the middle of 1999.

Certainly the Japanese, so its all being done so — with the — Donald Trump wanting to turn around the trade deficit, you can't help but say hey maybe they are actually onto something because they have an independent central bank well --(unintelligible) the independent central bank that goes upon its course based on what its seeing here you know based on domestic economic activity, while everybody else is setting it to international standards then tariffs become the — I guess the alternative especially when the feds is raising the interest rates and they're the only central bank really raising interest rates... I know... the bank of England went half a basis point, quarter basis point and they are project to go a quarter basis point tomorrow which we will see.

In the September quarter, this deficit stood at around 3 per cent of GDP, somewhat smaller than in the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decade.

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.

The net income deficit recorded a slight rise in the September quarter to $ 5.6 billion, though at 2.8 per cent of GDP, it remains around its average level of the past five years.

These developments have led to a narrowing in the trade deficit from 3 1/2 per cent of GDP in the June quarter 2003 to around 3 per cent of GDP by the end of 2003.

If so does that mean he really believes that we could turn around the 5 - 1 deficit from Munich in order to progress to the quarter - finals of Europe's elite club competition?

Around a quarter of the 29 finance directors surveyed expressed uncertainty or concern over maintaining clinical standards and three suggested they could end the year with a budget deficit.

If you want to take things slowly, a weekly deficit of 7,350 kJ will net you around a quarter of a kilo a week.

The pause and decline in the third quarter appears to be a reaction to rising interest rates and the rising uncertainty around government debt and deficit resolution that led to the shutdown in early October.