Sentences with phrase «r&d by a full percentage point»

As Poloz indicated in Toronto, if something went terribly wrong tomorrow, he could cut the benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point before trying something else, such as creating money to purchase bonds.

The Fed's mere mention of trimming QE, though, sent mortgage rates up by a full percentage point this summer.

Treasury yields have spiked by a full percentage point from their lows about eight weeks ago.

Since October, the U.S. savings rate has climbed by a full percentage point.

Used car prices fell sharply, falling by a full percentage point last month.

In Ontario, inflation exceeds wage growth by a full percentage point: 2.5 % versus 1.4 %.

In short, without much effort you can pare annual expenses by a full percentage point or more each year compared with the average fund.

But if we increase their annual return by a full percentage point each year, which is essentially the same thing as getting them to a 0.4 % expense ratio, their prospects get even better.

Compared to FHA home loans, conventional loans could increase rates by a full percentage point if a borrower's loan to value ratio exceeds a specified limit; in many cases, higher loan to value ratios can actually be enough to completely disqualify a mortgage applicant altogether.

SunTrust Bank helped spur this week's rate change by increasing the lowest available APR on one of its travel cards by a full percentage point.

For example, it increased the lowest available APR on the PenFed Power Cash Rewards Visa card by a full percentage point, raising it to 10.99 percent.

Citi raised the top end of the APR ranges of the mtvU Platinum Select card and the Citi Forward card by a full percentage point each.

MSN's share of Internet search traffic promptly drops by a full percentage point.

PayPal could drop their prices for bitcoin transactions overnight by a full percentage point and make the same gross margins, because the company wouldn't be exposed to the same interchange or credit card fees.

To be fair, after yet another two weeks, the rate could increase by a half point and finally by a full percentage point if unsold after another predetermined period.

If inflation rises to 3 percent by 2015, which is more likely than not, mortgage rates will have to rise by a full percentage point to compensate lenders for the loss in purchasing power of the money returned to them.

Because the average price declined while the average loan amount increased, the average loan - to - price ratio on conventional mortgages used to purchase new homes increased by a full percentage point in December, to 78.9 percent — the highest it's been since 2011.

If a jumbo rate is higher, even by a full percentage point, it's still historically pretty low, and buyers looking at a higher - priced home likely expect to pay a higher interest rate already anyway.

Not exact matches

The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

By this time next year, short - term rates might be a full percentage point higher than today.

The agency commissioned a survey that found 720,000 families would struggle to make payments on their home - equity loans if interest rates rose by a mere 0.25 percent, and almost one million would be in trouble if borrowing costs rose a full percentage point.

For example, Berekeley Haas» female student population has grown from 29 % to 41 % in the last two years alone (it has grown by five full percentage points at both Booth and Kellogg in the last year).

Just two years later, that has jumped by a full 20 percentage points to 36 %.

Yum Brands, in reporting third - quarter earnings, stated «foreign currency translation remains a strong headwind» and that it expected the exchange rate «to impact full - year earnings per share by about 5 percentage points.»

Underemployment, still elevated by just under six million involuntary part - timers, was 9.7 % last month, about a percentage point above what I consider to be its full employment rate (though down from 10.4 % a year ago).

Even more remarkably, the carrier revised its full - year cost outlook down by 3 full percentage points.

Small Caps Hold Up Despite Market Swoon... Since Jan. 1 the small - cap S&P 600 has beaten the Dow by five full percentage points, rising 2.25 %, while the Dow has fallen 2.8 %.

Underscoring the mixed - to - lower tone that emerged over the course of the day — not only was the NASDAQ off by nearly 50 points at its nadir — but the small - cap Russell 2000 had turned down by more than a full percentage points, as well, as losing stocks held a strong lead over gaining issues throughout.

It has beaten the S&P 500 by three full percentage points a year, on an annualized basis since inception, making it the number one fund in its Large Blend category which includes over a thousand other funds.

After all, gross profit margin improved by more than a full percentage point in the prior quarter, rising to 52 % of sales.

Rent growth is pacing almost a full percentage point behind the overall rate of inflation, which stands at 2.4 percent as of the latest data release, and is even further behing the growth in average hourly earnings which have increased by 2.7 percent over the past twelve months.

Teams have never cared less about offensive rebounds, and this season's offensive rebounding rate (22.4 percent) will be the lowest ever by nearly a full percentage point.

And divorced women were marginally, by 10 percentage points, more likely than married women to have returned to full - time work.

For example, the Conservatives lead Labour by more than 40 percentage points amongst those most in support of full control of immigration, with Labour having a similar lead among those wanting complete access to the single market.

These findings suggest that eliminating the gender gap entirely would cause women to become 18 percentage points more likely to work full - time in the labour market and even out the time spent on housework by reducing it (mostly for women) by as much as seven hours per week.

The margin of error for responses given by the full sample in the EdNext - PEPG survey is roughly 3 percentage points for questions on which opinion is evenly split.

• Among African Americans, 26 % of those in the control group attended college full - time at some point within three years of expected high school graduation; among those in the treatment group, the voucher offer increased this rate by 7 percentage points, a 25 % increment.

With 3,251 total respondents, the margin of error for responses given by the full sample in the Education Next — PEPG survey is 1.7 percentage points (for items on which opinion is evenly split).

With some 2,600 total respondents, the margin of error for responses given by the full sample in the Education Next — PEPG survey is roughly 2 percentage points for questions on which opinion is evenly split.

With 2,776 total respondents, the margin of error for responses given by the full sample in the Education Next — PEPG survey is 1.86 percentage points for questions on which opinion is evenly split.

With 3,200 total respondents, the margin of error for responses given by the full sample in the Education Next - PEPG survey is roughly 1 percentage point.

With 2,000 respondents, the margin of error for responses given by the full sample in the Education Next — PEPG survey is roughly 2 percentage points.

With 3,200 total respondents, the margin of error for responses given by the full sample in the Education Nex t — PEPG survey is roughly 1 percentage point.

The margin of error for responses given by the full sample in the PEPG - EdNext survey is roughly two percentage points.

GM's retail share of the full - size pickup segment improved by more than one percentage point to 39.2 percent, according to PIN.

Chevrolet grew retail market share in 2015 - 2016 by almost one full percentage point, which translates to more than 120,000 incremental sales.

GM, Chevrolet Lead with the Industry's Largest Retail Market Share Increases of 2015 GM full - year retail sales up 8 percent; retail share up 0.4 percentage points Chevrolet grew retail market share faster than any other full - line brand in the industry in 2015 GM Commercial deliveries up for 26th consecutive month DETROIT — General Motors» (NYSE: GM) Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac brands delivered 290,230 vehicles in December 2015, driven by an 8 percent year - over-year increase in retail deliveries and the company's 26th consecutive month of Commercial sales growth.

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The EFSF will now be able to loan the full amount allotted to the fund, it will be allowed to buy sovereign bonds on the primary market, and the interest rate on loans to Greece was cut by a percentage point while the maturities of the loans were extended.

In fact, in this, the seventh year of our stock - picking adventure, our Top 200 All - Stars cruised to an easy one - year gain of 19.7 % — soundly trouncing the S&P / TSX Composite Index (XIC) by a full 5.5 percentage points.