Sentences with phrase «per cent level»

All the coefficients have the negative sign and are statistically significant at the 5 per cent level, indicating that the weighted level curves of satisfaction over time have the shape of the right branch of a hyperbola.

In real life, plugging it in for 30 minutes can easily get the battery from the dreaded 15 per cent level to around 70 per cent charge.

By using these metrics, judges felt comfortable building up a reasonable legal fees award that was capped at the 20 to 25 per cent level, sometimes 30 per cent but rarely, if ever, approved at the one - third level.

With 2010 over, we now have 16 observations starting in 1995, and (unsurprisingly to anyone who followed the argument thus far) the upward trend is now statistically significant at the 5 per cent level [1] That is, if climate change since 1995 (the time of the first IPCC report, and well after Lindzen announced himself as a sceptic) had been purely random, the odds against such an upward trend would be better than 20 to 1 against.

With 2010 over, we now have 16 observations starting in 1995, and (unsurprisingly to anyone who followed the argument thus far) the upward trend is now statistically significant at the 5 per cent level [1]

Applying simple linear regression using ordinary least squares to the data shows that this trend is statistically significant at the 95 per cent level.

The increase in visitor numbers to Spain exceeded the five per cent level of global tourism growth according to the barometer published by the World Tourism Organisation.

The remarkable 97 per cent level of correction is more than sufficient to enable a (forthcoming) reanalysis of downstream science products and the collection of larger surveys.

Tatts received a significant protest on executive pay with 22 per cent of votes cast against the remuneration report, just short of the 25 per cent level required to record a strike.

Not exact matches

CREA said Friday the level of sales activity marked a four - year low for the month of March and was seven per cent below the 10 - year average.

Woodside Petroleum Ltd subsidiary ATS Inc has made good on a promise not to extend its $ 1.16 billion hostile takeover bid for US - based oil producer Energy Partners Ltd, after failing to reach the minimum acquisition level of 50 per cent.

Some are predicting prices will fall as much as 30 per cent from the current level by 2017.

Western Australia has recorded a 38 per cent reduction in littering from 2008 and is at its lowest level in nine years, according to the 2013 - 14 National Litter Index.

Since implementing that 15 per cent charge last summer, the raw number of home sales have fallen about 40 per cent, primarily in the upper end of the market, and the steep price gains have levelled off.

The state's rural confidence is at its highest level in over two years after a rainy autumn has found 84 per cent of farmers expecting this year to be better or as good as last year's season.

In Ontario, mortgage payments account for roughly 60 per cent of income, according to BMO; if the trend continues another 24 months, that figure will hit 1989 levels — the same year the market crashed.

Fueled by low prices, and an improving job market, consumption of gasoline in the U.S. rose by 2.6 per cent last year to 9.2 million barrels a day, the highest level since 2007, the government said.

The weakest aspect of Canada's economy this year was the feeble performance of private investment, projected by the Conference Board of Canada to contract by nearly 8 per cent compared to 2014 levels.

The Knight Frank report, suggesting vacancy levels will lift to 24 per cent, came in response to the mid-year Property Council of Australia office market report.

The change would be eliminating the dividend refund that comes later, which could bump the effective tax rate on passive income, in cases of high income earners, to the 70 - per - cent - plus level Poilievre talks about.

Fees are complex and vary by amount and product used, but entry - level accounts cost 2.89 percent of each bill, plus 15 cents per transaction.

Program spending was up $ 8.3 billion, or 3.3 per cent, due to increases in major transfers to persons and other levels of government and direct program expenses.

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.

When Cape Bouvard began speculative construction on a $ 15 million, seven - level office building in early 2004, Perth's office vacancy rate was 12 per cent, the market outlook was dismal and construction costs were spiralling.

Today's market calm follows harrowing levels of market volatility over the last two weeks when the TSX fell more than five per cent and Wall Street indexes entered «correction» territory.

He said Deloitte's 2012 tech predictions scored an 82 per cent accuracy level.

TORONTO — A new report says the level of Canadian consumer debt at the end of 2012 — not counting mortgages — was up nearly six per cent from a year earlier.

If Poloz was correct, and the media only care about prices when they spike to absurd levels, then let me suggest that some us are about to make up for it by working overtime to explain why the Bank of Canada wants to raise interest rates even though core inflation is trending away from the two - per - cent target.

The Australian share market is at its highest level in almost 10 years, with the benchmark S&P / ASX200 index closing 1 per cent higher today and the Western Australia - focused BN30 index jumping 1.8 per cent to a new high.

On a range of questions — such as whether Harper is doing a good job, is representing the «values» of people, and should run again in the 2015 election, the prime minister has support levels among Canadians that exceed 40 per cent.

(Statistics Canada, 2001) Maser and Dufour use two levels of earnings replacement as indicative of maintaining pre-retirement living standards: 66.67 per cent and 80 per cent.

The Fed left its key short - term rate at 1.5 per cent to 1.75 per cent — the level it set in March after its sixth increase since December 2015 — as it gradually tightens credit to control inflation against the backdrop of a tight labour market and a pickup in consumer prices.

Economists surveyed last week predict inflation will average 2.3 per cent in the second quarter and 2.4 per cent in the third — the highest levels since 2011.

The province's oil and natural gas revenue is projected to shoot up by 54 per cent to the highest level in three years, but those three years combined will be equal to what a good year used to be for Alberta's coffers.

New residential construction is at half of 2005 levels, undercutting employment, and home prices are down about 25 per cent.

The expansion of the industry also runs counter to B.C.'s Greenhouse Gas Reduction Targets Act, a commitment to reduce carbon pollution 33 per cent below 2007 levels by 2020, he said.

Gulf diesel ULSD - DIFF - USG hit its strongest levels in seven months in early April and has since weakened slightly to 4 cents per gallon below the futures benchmark on the New York Mercantile Exchange.

Fast - forward to 2010, now, when Canada pledged to the United Nations it would reduce GHGs by 17 per cent below its 2005 level by 2020, on par with what the U.S. promised.

In 40 per cent of the cases, the U.S. allows for higher levels.

They have now reached levels equivalent to 20 or 30 per cent of GDP.

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».

Production is running at record levels in the financial year to date and BHP produced 58 million tonnes of iron ore during the quarter, up 8 per cent on the previous corresponding period.

The most recent figures are approaching 3 per cent annual growth, which is back to pre-crisis levels.

Returning the rate to that level, combined with the most recent uptick in the top marginal personal income tax rate, would mean that Ontario investors would pay as much as 40 per cent tax on capital gains.

Economic growth has been falling since 2010 and the economy has been operating below its potential since then; employment growth, particularly full time employment growth has struggled; in 2014 only 121,000 jobs were created; employment growth has not kept up with population growth; labor force participation has declined to its lowest level since 2000; long - term unemployment has increased; the unemployment rate remains stuck at just under 7 per cent, and youth unemployment is at 14 per cent; business investment has stagnated; and Canadians are losing confidence in their economic future.

At the current level of 5.5 per cent, the cash rate is in line with its average over the low inflation period since 1993.

All the major countries had reduced interest rates to unprecedented levels in the early part of this decade — 0 per cent in Japan, 1 per cent in the United States and 2 per cent in the euro area — and they maintained this position for a prolonged period.

The Institute claims that subsidies to Crown corporations have increased by 50 per cent since 2006 - 07 and propose, that to improve efficiencies, these subsidies should be reduced by 10 per cent from current levels.

Based on the current level of oil prices, this forecast implies that headline CPI inflation would remain close to 3 per cent in the short term.

Program expenses were up only 0.4 per cent, as the ending of most of the stimulus spending in the Economic Action Plan and lower employment insurance benefits nearly offset increases in transfers to other levels of governments (spending in this area is largely set in legislation) and in elderly benefits.