per cent

And 77 per cent said that any of the words used to say thanks were irrelevant, believing a pleasant gesture works just as well.

Even more stunning was that, at the end of these two decades, 55 per cent of the workforce was at a new job.

Despite the array of policies, national real estate prices have continued to rise, jumping 10. 7 per cent in February from a year earlier.

Even worse, future growth rates might be merely 1? per cent a year, not 2? per cent, as the Treasury bravely still believes.

About 75 per cent said they thought about intimacy at least once a day, but only one in three people got their daily dose of it.

The planet, known as TrES-2b, reflects less than 1 per cent of light, which makes it darker than any other planet or moon.

Among the companies surveyed, 33 per cent said they did not always investigate before making overseas acquisitions or investments.

Activists said the group needed to increase pay by at least 50 per cent to give workers a decent income without massive overtime.

Sustaining an investment rate of now close to 34-35 per cent of gross domestic product would be the key, he said.

The " trade price" , at which one dealer sells to another, is always at least 10 per cent less than the marked figure.

To address any insolvency, a haircut must be imposed: in the case of Greek bonds, something of the order of 80 per cent may be necessary.

But the economy is still growing at 10. 1 per cent a year, and there are plenty of companies looking for cash to help them expand.

This turned out to be a year in which the regional economy shrank by 3. 8 per cent or more.

It has already proved to be vital to entrepreneurs and America's small businesses, which generate up to 80 per cent of new jobs in the US.

Without that as a means of financing consumption, the economy would barely have grown at 1 per cent a year under President George W. Bush.

Japan continued to be among the laggards with 5. 7 per cent growth, which still left it number two in the global league table.

Wood Mackenzie, another consultancy, expects that growth to continue at a rate of up to 15 per cent a year over the next few years.

While April exports had risen 24 per cent from a year ago, industrial production disappointed just a 7 per cent increase.

Moreover, there is no reason to balance budgets in a country whose nominal GDP grows at up to 5 per cent a year in normal times.

He's got to be 100 per cent right, because if he comes back too soon and damages the disc he will have to go under the knife again.

Even when managers do get away, one-quarter check e-mails and voicemail messages, and 13 per cent call the office at least once a week.

Of that capacity, roughly 22 per cent is for "tier three" producers who would be most likely to be affected by a quality crackdown.

Far from contributing to marital breakdowns, the working wife is up to 50 per cent less likely to see her marriage fall apart.

A bonus of up to 5 per cent can be added to a student's final exam mark as a reward for good spelling, punctuation and grammar.

The country needs to grow by 2-3 per cent a year in the long run to be able to remain in the eurozone.

Such a scenario would stun a global financial community long-accustomed to China growing by 10 per cent or more a year.

Eleutian estimates the global English language learning market at $100bn a year and says China accounts for 40 per cent of that.

Sales of large leather goods also helped increase retail sales from stores open at least a year by 9 per cent.

But 69 per cent said the cost, availability and quality of housing in London was a barrier to staff recruitment and retention.

Furthermore, 70 per cent said the gaming addiction was the cause of arguments between the couple.

Ninety per cent of the time, they make the wearer look as if some weird space alien has landed on her head.

But he said he was confident India could sustain a relatively high rate of growth of 8 per cent, above the estimates of many economists.

"OK, Chelsea had a one hundred per cent record until last weekend, but I'm not really worried about them, " he said.

But Mr Trichet said the ECB would not revise its economic forecast of a 1 per cent rise in eurozone gross domestic product this year.

One fifth (19 per cent) did not know the meaning of the French word for hello, one of the most recognisable foreign greetings in the world.

If it failed to do so within a year, the ministry can appoint a trustee to sell 100 per cent of Lucite China to a third party.

Moreover, it seems to have stabilised the Taiwan dollar, which has traded in a narrow 4 per cent band against the US dollar.

China Eastern yesterday appeared to snub Air China's offer to pay a minimum of HK$5 per share for a stake of up to 30 per cent.

Ping An and its competitors are only allowed to invest up to 5 per cent of their total assets in overseas portfolio investments at present.

On top of that, three official interest rate rises so far this year have pushed mortgage rates to a three-year high of more than 7 per cent.

Revenue from China contributed no more than 3 to 4 per cent to the company's total revenue in the latest fiscal, he said.

Aswe approach Remembrance Day it is hard to believe that 40 per cent of our children do not know when it is.

"I need to work two or three per cent harder than I just do now and push myself to be the best athlete I can be, " he said.

Malaysia was the least affected, with the food inflation rate at a shade below 5 per cent over the course of this year.

On this shareholders seemed to have their doubts, at least judging from the 5 per cent slide in Berkshire's share price since Monday.

However at some stage - perhaps a five or 10 per cent increase in the price level - the fixed cost of that reprinting must be paid.

It will keep 37 per cent of the money from these sales, passing the rest to the registry to be paid out to copyright holders.

While net profits rose 14 per cent to $9. 4bn on a year-on-year basis, fourth quarter income was one-third that of the previous quarter.

I think 90 per cent is brilliant. I never scored that much in an exam (although grade inflation had not kicked in back then).

In the first three months of 2006, FDI increased by 90 per cent from a year ago to $14bn and is on an "upward momentum" , she said.

This style of money management has recently been growing at more than 20 per cent a year, twice the pace of the rest of the industry.

China's market for international travel is expected to grow by 17 per cent a year over the next decade.

It had been wrapped up in plastic bag, together with a note which said: 'A thief, yes, but only fifty per cent a thief! '

The result of such a wide spread in pay awards was an overall median settlement of just 3. 5 per cent.

As you wish. Well, if your order is large enough, we are ready to reduce our prices by 2 per cent.

The losses do not have to grow much further to reach the commonly used "20 per cent fall in less than a year" definition of a bear market.

SWFs should not own more than 20 per cent of any company in the US or Europe, without a decision of the host government to go higher.

A survey of 200 IT managers found 70 per cent would not report the matter to the police and 40 per cent would not take disciplinary steps.

with the lad. The medical team have done some fantastic work, but I'm not prepared to take a risk on a player that's not 100 per cent fit.

But what sort of reduction might the Federal Reserve, which controls roughly 80 per cent of AIA's parent, be prepared to take?

The players are working hard in every training session and I can guarantee they are working 100 per cent and trying to win every game.

This one showed just 15 per cent of mothers said they felt lucky to be able to go out to work while their husband looked after the children.

This proves that the method of gym payment can seriously affect people's activity levels in this study, at least, by up to 50 per cent.

Chinese mills had been expecting a price rise of at least 65 per cent, in line with that agreed with Brazilian miner Vale this year.

Mr Vitelli, who owns 95 per cent of the company, says he has no plans to reduce his shareholding or take the company public, nor to retire.

Mr Obama says at least 80 per cent of the 3m-4m jobs he is aiming to save or create during the next two years will be in the private sector.

However, with 70 plus per cent of this gain going to the government, private citizens have not been able to feel much of a wealth effect.

Twenty per cent had been unemployed for a year or more, compared with a fairly static 25 per cent in the UK.

RBS was forced into a government bail-out a year later, and UK taxpayers still hold an 83 per cent stake in the bank.

A Standard and Poor's analyst trotted it out on a day that the Dow Jones Industrial Average rose by 0. 4 per cent.

Overall, a strong euro and a 27 per cent increase in Guangdong's exports to Europe have compensated for a weak dollar and soft US market.

Women under 25 are more likely to have had a baby than to be married while 44 per cent of British children are now born out of wedlock.

But none of that has prevented a plunge in activity, with new mortgage loans approvals down 61. 9 per cent in January from a year earlier.

'The total tooling investment for the body is about six per cent of a stainless-steel car, so it's massive change, ' said Murray.

It has grown at nearly 10 per cent a year for 30 years, and its economy is now four times the size of India's.

With a 100 per cent record and seven wins from seven starts, this rally is all about Loeb and his bid to extend that dominance.

In spite of a wave of floats and trade sales by hedge funds, only 13 per cent said they expected such a move in the next two years.

Foreign banks began to leave Nigeria after military rulers introduced a law in 1976 granting the state 60 per cent ownership.

Many seem to have bought them on this basis, as Tips now imply an inflation rate of 1. 1 per cent for the next 10 years.

Under such a scenario, it might not be easy to keep inflation close to a hypothetical 6 per cent target.

Two days after he announced a date for election, the miners voted by an overwhelming majority of eighty-one per cent to come out on strike.

The announcement triggered a brief rally in the base metal sector in London and Shanghai, sending tin prices up to 10 per cent higher.

He predicts that China will likely grow at a very respectable 8 per cent a year annually for a decade at least.

This results into a significant increase in efficiency, with fuel consumption down by up to 15 per cent under full load.

To do this over the next five years means an average improvement in structural budget deficits of 1 per cent a year in G20 countries.

If your roommate is at the top of the grade- point distribution you'll tend to be about 5 per cent better than average.

Meanwhile, 49 per cent said they believed there had been a "cover up" into the circumstances of her death, while 34 per cent disagreed.

But he said the bank had sought extra capital to cover an increase in bad loans this year to 8 to 10 per cent.

The rate rise of October 19 sent the price of Shanghai copper down 2. 24 per cent the next day, although it recovered within a week.

He said the crisis would result in a doubling of US public debt to about 80 per cent of gross domestic product.

But he said the bank had sought extra capital to cover an increase in bad loans this year to 8 to 10 per cent.

The rate rise of October 19 sent the price of Shanghai copper down 2. 24 per cent the next day, although it recovered within a week.

He said the crisis would result in a doubling of US public debt to about 80 per cent of gross domestic product.

It had already bent: Rio, like BHP, confirmed 50 per cent of its iron ore had been sold on the spot market in the first half.

The Bank believes that a 5 per cent interest rate is already high enough to return inflation to its target - and I believe this too.

By the end of the year, 13 per cent of those who participated in the Active Employment Assistance programme had found a paid job.

and, when the provincial currency had depreciated fifty or seventy-five per cent. , he bought it up in expectation of a rise.

"Seventy per cent of our revenue is now digital; five years ago it was all film, basically. So it is is a significant change. "

He said experts would typically expect to see live birth rates of around 15 per cent in a group of 40-year-old women.

Instead, I could go for a bog-standard analyst position with a bank, with longer hours, but increase my salary by at least 50 per cent.

Even small increases in waist size seem to raise the risk of AMD by up to 75 per cent. But women do not appear to be affected.

Respondents were asked whether or not they text ed 'I love you' to their partner on a regular basis, to which 61 per cent replied yes.

Tencent's investment in DST gives it a 10. 26 per cent interest in the Russian group, with power to appoint an observer to its board.

Women "ticked" about 10 per cent of men as worthy of further investigation, regardless of the quality of a particular crop.

Asia-Pacific saw the greatest proportion of CEOs who were forced out, with 45 per cent of departing chiefs not wanting to leave.

However, Mr Depardieu seems to be chiefly attracted by Russia's flat 13 per cent income tax, as he seeks refuge from high taxes in France.

"Sometimes people are surprised it does not go up 20 per cent in a week. That will not happen, " he said.

Over 90 per cent of the women involved said they would use such a gel if it were found to be effective against HIV.

It felt, he says, as if the rich economies could have gone on growing at a nominal rate of 5 per cent for ever.

"The industry is forecasting a modest increase in new vehicle sales for the year ahead with growth between one and two per cent, " he said.

Natural gas demand is expanding 19 per cent a year, so a lot of new distribution is going to be built.

Sustained higher food bills inevitably put pressure on wages, already increasing by an average 15 per cent a year.

James, too, was much disturbed. He felt as though someone had threatened his right to invest his money at five per cent.

Overall, 64 per cent of those polled admitted they did not know a single word in any language other than English.

Nevertheless, 27 per cent of school pupils had tried smoking and 5 per cent smoked at least one cigarette a week, girls more than boys.

There is no doubt that the dressing room, the staff, everyone around the place is 100 per cent solid behind what we are trying to do.

A hike next month from the record low of 1 per cent, was "not certain, it is possible" he said.

China had exported less than 4 per cent of its production so far this year, he said.

And that 16 per cent tends to be concentrated in the lower levels of the profession: about 61 per cent are in low-paid, low-skill jobs.

''As we approach Remembrance Day it is hard to believe that 40 per cent of our children do not know when it is.

During this period, the unspoken rule was that the rate of appreciation would not exceed 6-7 per cent a year.

Her bid came after a falling out with Han Jingyuan, Oriental's chairman, who controls 45 per cent of the company.

The company spend more on fuel than any other expense, representing more than 30 per cent of its total operational spending.

It used to be that [UK] providers could lend 120 per cent of the value of a property but those products are no longer available.

Paying out 50 per cent of revenues to staff had become the rule, even when the "revenues" did not actually consist of money.

But that the baby has a right too, he said - the right to have a relationship with a mother who is "100 per cent connected" .

Making up around 5. 6 per cent of the surface material, it was present in sufficient quantities to be useful to future manned missions.

All the losses sustained in July and August have been recouped, leaving the index up 27. 7 per cent since the beginning of the year.

In Britain, the number of practising solicitors has increased by an average of 4 per cent a year since 1979.

Around 70 per cent of all plastic waste "ends up in landfills and stays there a very long time, " he said.

We knew he could score, but we knew he was not 100 per cent fit and had to take care of him.

I reckon about 60 per cent of Watford's goals this season have come from Ben's assists. It's been a great experience for him.

If this sum were to be correct, the cost would be 4 per cent of gross domestic product and less than 1 per cent of national wealth.

Ms Choyleva predicts that annual growth over the next decade will halve from the 10 per cent level to which China has become accustomed.

The Shanghai Composite has gained 88. 5 per cent since the beginning of the year, beating all major indices around the world.

According to one person familiar with the matter, LVMH acquired a six per cent stake through this route.

It said the new target, the uncollateralised overnight call rate, would be kept at " effectively zero per cent" for several months.

In fact, although French presidents seem to have an infidelity record approaching 100 per cent, they don't deserve to be pilloried alone.

The result was that rural household income per capita galloped ahead at more than 10 per cent a year in the 1980s.

Canada's debt-to-GDP ratio of 25 per cent is less than half that of the seven biggest industrial countries combined.

First- quarter operating profit dropped on a sequential basis ; this follows a year where income growth decelerated to a mere 4 per cent .

Most companies I know have seen revenues fall by anything up to 20 per cent - and for a few the decline has been even more savage.

and it imports capital to help lift its people out of poverty, registering growth of 8 per cent or so a year.

In a brief announcement on its website, China's securities regulator said it had approved a transfer of more than 5 per cent of CICC shares.

Due to its salinity of over 22 per cent, swimmers can float freely on the surface -- much as they do in the Dead Sea in the Middle East.

But try telling the British or American publics that they might have to accept a 20 per cent drop in living standards.

The TV and magazine adverts boasted that women could have up to 60 per cent longer eyelashes with its Telescopic mascara.

Since the beginning of the year the mining group's previously battered share price has risen 36 per cent, tracking broader metals rises.

It is certainly true that China cannot keep expanding exports at 20 per cent a year in the face of a prolonged global recession.

South Africans led the list of workers who found meetings the least productive, with 83 per cent stating they did not achieve work goals.

UBS said the combined moves would lift the bank's Tier 1 capital ratio to more than 12 per cent.

Media Markt may need China - where else can the company find consumer spending growing at 8 per cent a year?

But in the past two years the company has grown quickly and is steadily moving towards its target of a 10 per cent market share.

In the UK, Ms Farrell says there had been a 16 per cent increase in job advertisements on the IT Jobs Board over the past year.

Mr Wu said the deal would allow Pudong Development to boost its capital adequacy ratio by four percentage points to close to 14 per cent.

Britain'sdebt burden will rise in the next couple of years to more than 70 per cent of GDP as a result of Labour's bail-out of the banks.

Is there scope for adding fiscal measures that would contribute 1 per cent of GDP or more over the next year and a half? Absolutely.

Australian regulators have imposed a cap of 8 per cent on the amount of a bank's domestic assets that can be tied up in cover pools.

Now she felt she deserved to stretch out on the aircraft on the basis that 90 per cent of her business was still coming good.

He would not be surprised to see a decline of 10 per cent.

Accuracy can now be very high: Mr Eley says that in a trial with a UK bank, VoiceVault managed to achieve an error rate of below 2 per cent.

China Eastern, the weakest of the three, lost money even when volumes were growing at up to 20 per cent a year.

To prove the point, car sales picked up in September, growing a peppy 18 per cent.

Prof Ugail said he was highly confident of achieving the 90 per cent accuracy rate of a polygraph.

Even with an appreciation of about 20 per cent over these three years, capital inflows continued and pressures to appreciate did not fade.

Do not expect China's trade surplus to disappear quickly, or to rebound back to 8-10 per cent of GDP in the heydays.

china ' s statistics body said august retail sales were up 13 . 8 per cent , a rate consistent with that of the previous two months.

Figures from the American Lung Association suggest that relapse rates among smokers are as high as 90 per cent within a year of quitting.

A quarter will spend their wages within a week of being paid and an astonishing 8 per cent get through the lot on pay day.

Fruit imports have been growing at a rate of 36 per cent a year over the same period.

One person close to the board said on Thursday it was now 90 per cent certain Mr Flint and Mr Gulliver would be the new top team.

But he insisted that the collection of emails made public were "a tenth of one per cent" of his correspondence over the period.

Almost 55 per cent planned to increase exposure to residential property as an investment over the next two years.

Traders would not be surprised to see the benchmark test 4 per cent ahead of a $23bn auction tomorrow.

The paper called for a 'Standard Bread' to be developed, made from unadulterated flour and at least 80 per cent of the germ of the wheat.

Sea levels would have risen at least 20 per cent faster since the 1950s, if no new reservoirs had been built.

He said: 'For the common prosocial obligations mechanism, additive genetic factors accounted for 48 per cent of the variance for females.

The annual return for the British government from the earlier point at which it began to prepare for privatisation was 14 per cent.

After setting up a series of experiments, they discovered flirtatious women were able to get around 20 per cent more off the price of a car.

Chinese companies are allowed to hold up to 75 per cent in joint-venture fund managers if foreign investors hold the remaining 25 per cent.

"Yahoo in the US have to decide on their own fate. It is our policy not to have 100 per cent subsidiaries, " he said.

Although the bank expected Asia's emerging economies as a whole to grow by 3 per cent, that figure masked wide variations between countries.

I cannot save up the money to put down on a house while I'm paying out around 40 per cent of net monthly income on a mortgage.

A report to be released today finds 41 per cent of Australian adults listen to music through headphones at least once a month.

The true reason is, of course, to lessen the risk of a slump, when on his own estimate output is already 10 per cent below trend.

The better than expected performance echoed that of the US economy, which shrank only 0. 3 per cent in the second quarter.

He bought at least 60 per cent of his books at the time of publication.

Over time, as both the lasers and photovoltaic cells improve, the company hopes efficiencies of up to 50 per cent will be possible.

The gems and jewellery sector, usually a strong export performer, was the hardest hit with a total fall of 9 per cent.

About 20 per cent of the former skin cells transformed themselves into neural cells in less than a week.

Markets seem to view that as close to zero: interest rates on index-linked bonds in the France, Germany, the UK and US are about 1 per cent.

Silver is the best performing commodity, up nearly 30 per cent since the beginning of the year.

At Chicago Booth, two-thirds of this year's MBAs already have an offer in hand, down slightly from the 70 per cent of a year ago.

But, you know, if I make the match longer, I make it tougher for myself because I wasn't 100 per cent physically today.

The bank raised the requirement from 16 to 16. 5 per cent on November 25 for a year, it said, so the cut is scheduled.

If the US were to adhere to this yardstick, its banks would be forced to take up about 20 per cent of the overall federal debt stock.

But 51 per cent of women have admitted they would sacrifice a year of sex if it meant they could be skinny.

Brawn GP chief executive Nick Fry has confirmed reports the British team has decided to shed nearly 40 per cent of its workforce.

One hedge funds manager said the average quantitative fund manager was down about 15 per cent in the first few days of August.

For 54 per cent of grumpy Brits, a simple cup of tea or coffee is all it takes to brighten their mood and help them to wake up.

In Madrid, a little less than half of the sun's diameter was covered, whereas in Paris this coverage extended to 65 per cent.

On Friday, stock prices continued to drop across the sector, while Microsoft's shares extended an 8 per cent after-hours fall.

The parallel price falls would have been even steeper if the potash industry had not cut production by 40 per cent.

All of them were motivated by a desire to grab a slice of a market that is growing at 25 per cent a year and shows no signs of slowing.

However, among two left-handed parents, perhaps 40 per cent of the children will also be left-handed.

The total amount of consumable retail is expected to rise by 9. 5 Per cent , and the general price to be kept stable .

This week has been very bad but now we need to show it was just a mistake. We have to give 100 per cent against Stoke on Saturday.

After all, China is expected to grow by more than 8 per cent this year, not bad in a year when virtually all its rivals are shrinking.

The RBI also pushed up the requirement for banks to hold at least 25 per cent of their deposits in government securities from 24 per cent.

But you sir seem to be one amongst those 50 per cent Indian's who never cast their vote and treat elections as public holiday.

Instead of 30 per cent expansion a year, he is predicting an average of 15 per cent over the next two years.

In the past five years, our economy's growth rate averaged less than one per cent a year, similar to Japan when its bubble burst.

We needed to decide what to do and talked with him. We decided it was better to start with him. You could see he wasn't 100 per cent fit.

More startling still, some 47 per cent of this funding is less than a year in duration.

Wallpaper is as wallpaper does, and if I could wipe ninety-five per cent of the saxophone work off Sade albums I would.

Nine per cent of occasions on which directors received grants fell on days with a stock price at a monthly low.

The economy is growing at a rate of 4. 5 per cent a year, which may be slow by Chinese or Indian standards but outstrips the US and Europe.

MySpace said the number of visitors to its European sites had risen more than 68 per cent in the past year, to about 25m per month.

Just fifty-three per cent agreed that sending a flirtatious message to someone while in a relationship was a form of cheating.

The foreign investor shall provide at least 25 per cent of the total registered capital.

But Lenovo, which claims 9. 5 per cent of the overall PC market in India, will have to catch up to its rivals.

The only positive sign was that volumes fell less quickly than in the first quarter, when traffic declined 27 per cent.

He said China's J-11B fighter, based on Russia's Sukhoi Su 27, was now claimed to contain at least 90 per cent of Chinese components.

Advocates noted that the yen- dollar rate had not been so low since 1995 and that the dollar has fallen more than 20 per cent since 2002 .

Mr Kilalea says that for the next few years, rough diamond prices should rise in real terms by at least 5 per cent.

I'm not 100 per cent match fit yet because it had been quite a while since I had last played.

The Ideos was launched in 2010 and had a 45 per cent share of Kenya's smartphone market less than a year later.

The company reported net income of $1. 3bn for the quarter, up 47 per cent from a year earlier but below expectations.

"Only very few companies will be able to maintain that" in the future, with others likely to see margins fall to about 10 per cent, he says.

Yesterday it was announced that Japan's population grew just 0. 05 per cent in 2004, with a marginal fall in the number of men.

Insulated by the economic engine of the University of Virginia, the unemployment rate might have doubled but it is still at only 6 per cent.

Using household spray cleaners just once a week increases your risk of an asthma attack by 76 per cent, say Spanish researchers.

I do not know of anything more remorselesson the face of the earth than seven per cent interest.

Now, having doubled its stake last December, Minsheng is reported to be considering boosting its holding to at least 50 per cent.

The US bank is planning to sell part of its 9 per cent stake in China's second biggest bank, people familiar with the matter say.

"Approximately 75 per cent of the world's coral reefs are currently threatened by a combination of local and global pressures, " she said.

So far, more than 600 invasive species have been counted, almost 5 per cent of the total marine creatures in the Mediterranean.

Grant Kvalheim, co-president of Barclays Capital, said the business intended to boost headcount by 15 per cent or more next year.

While most of the region was mired in recession, Beijing said the economy grew by an impressive 7. 8 per cent in 1998.

A mucky four per cent have even used a dish cloth to clean pet bowls and then continued to use it for washing up.

Those judged to be the easiest on the eyes earned up to 10 per cent more than their less attractive friends and colleagues.

Tuition and board at Harvard costs close to $50, 000 a year, but 60 per cent of students receive some form of aid.

Having thus eliminated 5 per cent of the company, the memo sweeps on to to a further discussion about nothing in particular.

The company forecasts that the premium baijiu segment will grow 11 per cent a year until 2013.

In tests on the same malware, the new software could identify at least 10 per cent more of the sample than any of the other AV software.

SJM is selling 25 per cent of its shares for $494m, less than half the $1bn it had originally planned to raise in January.

HTIL said yesterday it had decided to hand back the money to investors, prompting the shares to jump 11. 36 per cent to HK$9.

So Start rejects 90 per cent of those who apply for its three-year programme leading to the Abitur, the German equivalent of A-levels.

Shares of the bank, which had a $24bn allowance for credit losses at the end of last year, rose more than 5 per cent in after-hours trading.

Only 5 per cent saw their CEO as less optimistic, while 44 per cent said the chief executive's optimism level was the same as theirs.