The nurses have been offered an extra 5%, but they're standing out for a 7% pay rise.

He predicted his company would outperform that rate, with percentage growth likely in the teens.

That is why we have already made one of the largest increases in funding for veterans in decades.

But strip out the impact of yuan appreciation as well as inflation, and growth dives into single figures.

In Japan, factory output rose by 5.2% in April, the biggest monthly increase, in percentage terms, in over half a century.