Sentences with phrase «figures showing consumer»

The chancellor was speaking following yesterday's figures showing consumer price inflation has risen to a 15 - year high of 2.8 per cent.

Office of National Statistics (ONS) figures show the consumer price index (CPI) and retail price index (RPI) fell from March to April this year, but TUC general secretary Frances O'Grady said prices had nevertheless risen three times faster than wages.

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Skeptics feel that these figures are mostly repercussions of a combination of the ECB's quantitative easing program and cheap oil, but positive indicators like rebounding business and consumer confidence show clear signs of economic improvement.

The December quarter consumer price index showed a rise of 0.9 per cent in the quarter, for an annual figure of 3 per cent (Graph 13).

At the start of the third quarter consumers eased off on spending at department, electronics and furniture stores as retail sales stalled in July, marking the weakest performance in six months, Commerce Department figures showed yesterday in Washington.

Figure 7 shows the Blue Chip consensus forecast for inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index (CPI) for 2018.

Figure 1 shows how advertisers have steadily become more important, and consumers less important, to ANGI's business.

Figures published by the European Union's statistics agency Eurostat showed consumer prices in the 17 euro - area countries fell 0.5 % on the month in July, compared with a fall of 0.1 % on the month in June.

The figures showing 0.2 % growth in the core consumer price index come a day after the central bank left its monetary policy unchanged, sticking to the view that it has done enough to generate stable inflation albeit in a slower time frame than originally set out two years ago.

But that has been compounded by sluggish consumer spending, reinforced on Friday by figures showing that retail sales in September were below expectations again as households steered clear of discretionary purchases.

The June Australian Bureau of Statistics figures show that cutting grocery prices is a zero sum game — consumers do not necessarily buy more packaged food and groceries when prices fall and growth in volumes barely offsets lower prices.

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These figures simply show how Australian consumers are being punished by the grocery duopoly with some of the highest rates of food inflation in the developed world.

Connie Chung — television reporter Ann Curry — news anchor woman, Today Show S. I. Hayakawa (1906 - 1992)-- U.S. senator, college president Dr. Feng Shan Ho — saved thousands of Austrian Jews during the Holocaust David Henry Hwang — playwright, M Butterfly Colonel Young Oak Kim — first Asian American to command a battalion in combat Ang Lee — movie director: Hulk; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon Bruce Lee (1940 - 1973)-- movie star and martial artist Gary Locke — governor, state of Washington Norman Y. Mineta — first Asian - American member of U.S. president's cabinet Patsy Mink — Congresswoman, Hawaii Ralph Nader — consumer advocate, presidential candidate Yoko Ono — artist, musician; was married to Beatle John Lennon Dalip Singh Saund — first Asian elected to Congress (1956) Donna E. Shalala — secretary, U.S. Department of Health & Human Services John Sununu — congressman, New Hampshire Amy Tan — author, Joy Luck Club Tiger Woods — golfer Kristi Yamaguchi — Olympic figure skater Jerry Yang — co-founder of Yahoo! Laurence Yep — author, young adult fiction (Dragonwings, Rainbow People)

Figures published by Payments UK earlier this year showed that the share of cash payments made by consumers, businesses and financial organisations in the UK fell to 48 per cent last year (from 52 per cent in 2013).

Sales figures such as these from Wiley show that consumers» choices may be more polarized to one format over the other than we had originally realized, but it does lend some truth to the belief that there are consumers out there for both formats.

The Irish Consumer Market (ICM) continues to suffer sharp year - on - year declines, with the latest figures from Nielsen Bookscan showing the market down by 8.9 % to $ 88.6 m in value, and down by 9.7 % t...

In fact, sales figure show that the choices available on ereaders mean consumers are buying more, rather than fewer, ebooks.

I don't want to speculate about what goes on in other people's bedrooms but I suspect it might be something similar, because figures published today by the Publishing Association show that sales of consumer ebooks have dropped by 17 %, while sales of physical books are up 8 %.

But there is a unique pleasure in reading a physical book, and these figures show that consumers are finding that this is not something digital books can easily replace.»

Figure 2 shows the efficient frontier for just two stocks — a high risk / high return technology stock (like Google) and a low risk / low return consumer products stock (like Coca - Cola).

However, these third - quarter figures show that while subprime auto lending appeared to be increasing, lending to other consumer groups has risen with it.

For example, this calculator from Self Lender shows that a consumer with excellent credit can get a $ 5,000 loan with only 10.94 % interest - far lower than the median figure of 24 % for cash advances.

Neither company releases sales figures, but Voicebot estimates that between 1.3 -2.4 million U.S. consumers have either Echo Show or Spot.

According to figures revealed by Australian nightly TV program 7.30, aggregate data gathered from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's (ACCC) Scamwatch shows the watchdog receiving a total of 1,289 complaints related to cryptocurrency scams in 2017.

New figures show more than 1,200 Australians complained to the national consumer watchdog about cryptocurrency scams last year.

Tuesday's consumer spending figures for April showed that the quarter got off to a strong start.

This lack of economic confidence is underscored by the Conference Board's latest figures, which show a significant 5 - point drop in the Consumer Confidence Index for September 2015.

Figure 1 shows both the University of Michigan Index of Consumer Sentiment and the Conference Board Consumer Confidence Index are highly inversely correlated with the unemployment rate.

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