Unemployment, which stayed high even during the good years, has risen above 16 percent.

To cover such costs, he said, the tax rate will need to rise above 7 percent.

The yield of the 30-year bond rose above 8 percent.

At times in the last 12 years, the rate has risen above 30 percent.

The percentage rose above ten percent in some of the southern provinces.

But the company's share never rose above 3 percent and was 1.9 percent in the first 10 months of this year.

Yields on the key 30-year Treasury issue rose above 9 percent.

Since 1969, the figure has never risen above 28.5 percent or fallen below 26.7.

By late that year the unemployment rate would rise above 10 percent for the first (and so far only) time since the 1930s.

It is thus possible for total holdings of a stock to rise above 100 percent.