Sentences with phrase «s&p by a few percent»

GDP may decline by a few percent, but that is not really a significant decline in income.

Ethereum is also up today, but only by a few percents, and it remains below the $ 315 level that has been limiting the upside since the China - crash.

Total union membership in the UK has now shrunk to its level in the 1940s, and is still declining by a few percent per year.

Unlike our Sun, these stars are not stable; their surface oscillates, meaning that the surface expands and shrinks by a few percent.

Early MR materials changed their resistance only by a few percent at room temperature.

Other models, he notes, «say the clouds are going to reduce in quantity by a few percent, enough to let more sunlight in and enhance the greenhouse effect.»

I'm sure milk from individual mothers can vary by a few percent in carbs and fat, less in protein.

Instead, they'll simply fit into your overall program as a whole and maximize your results by a few percent over the longer term.

As you can see, the difference in the total share of earnings by publishing type is only affected by a few percent even with wildly impossible assumptions about the borrow rate.

I'm still looking for a way to document my performance to readers, but let me simply say that the broad market portfolio beat the S&P by a few percent.

14CO varies by factor of two or more over the seasonal cycle, whereas methyl chloroform only varies by a few percent.

Yes, more than even 1992 but only by a few percent.

Surface pressures on the Earth vary all of the time, by a few percent.

It fails even more badly when you consider that the incremental greenhouse effect drops off rapidly as the CO2 concentration increases, so that doubling the concentration increases the greenhouse effect by only a few percent, and doubling it again increases the effect by a few percent of that few percent.

If this delay rises by a few percent due to increased CO2 levels then it is still only a short term delay.

The average intensity of the storms that do occur increases by a few percent (Figure 6), in general agreement with previous studies using other relatively high resolution models, as well as with hurricane potential intensity theory (Emanuel 1987).

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The 2005 Australian Longitudinal Study of Aging found that close relationships with children and other relatives had very little impact on how long you live, but people with the most friends tended to outlive those with the fewest by 22 percent.

By manipulating its currency, reducing its value by 3 percent in the past few weeks, it hopes to make its own products cheaper and hence more appealing to prospective buyers around the globBy manipulating its currency, reducing its value by 3 percent in the past few weeks, it hopes to make its own products cheaper and hence more appealing to prospective buyers around the globby 3 percent in the past few weeks, it hopes to make its own products cheaper and hence more appealing to prospective buyers around the globe.

It didn't help — a few months later, customer servcie complaints increased by about 5 percent, according to the American Customer Satisfaction Index.

Productivity (tons mined per miner) increased by 350 percent, due partially to a shift from underground to surface mines, but largely from the introduction of highly mechanized systems like long wall mining that require far fewer miners.

By 2026, 22 million fewer Americans would have health coverage and enrollment in the Medicaid safety net program for the poor «would fall by about 16 percent and an estimated 49 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law.&raquBy 2026, 22 million fewer Americans would have health coverage and enrollment in the Medicaid safety net program for the poor «would fall by about 16 percent and an estimated 49 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law.&raquby about 16 percent and an estimated 49 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law.»

About 30 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs spent the first few years of their careers developing a strong foundation in finance, according to a study by consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

By contrast, Latin America added fewer than 50,000 additional unemployed to the global number — or around 1 percent of the total increase in unemployment in 2013, the ILO noted.

When it came time to raise their most recent round of financing, 78 percent of companies managed to do it by pitching 20 or fewer investors.

Your job is to focus on the profitable 20 percent while not getting consumed by the demands of the costly few.

It also plans to lift productivity in its retail business by around 20 percent over the next few year...

That's according to Matt Buder Shapiro, cofounder and CMO of medical bill resolution platform MedPilot, who has boosted his company's traffic by 297 percent by implementing a few key strategies.

A Mergermarket report has found that global M&A in the first half of 2017 increased by over 8 percent in value, despite there being fewer deals.

Depending on the research you read, anywhere between 70 to 80 percent of the Internet will be consumed by video within the next few years.

«It turns out 4 to 5 percent is enough of a discount for shoppers,» CEO Marc Lore said, discussing the results of tests the company ran over the past few weeks by raising the prices of some products.

A new report released by the Centers for Disease Control reveals 30 percent of American adults -; that's 40.6 million of us -; sleep six hours a day or fewer.

Just one additional hour of sleep a week increased wages by 1.5 percent over the course of a season and 4.9 percent over the course of a few years.

In some verticals like coffee and tea, the proportion driven by the «vital few» was higher and in the 80 percent plus range, and in some verticals like retail it was slightly lower, but the principle of the vital few remained remarkably consistent across all verticals: A relatively smaller percentage of customers drove the vast majority of visits and thus revenue for these small businesses.

But it is by no means the be-all, end - all indicator, particularly for small business owners, as only 40 percent of the establishment surveys come from businesses with 20 or fewer employees.

Tesla also went on to cite stats from the government showing Autopilot reduced crash rates by 40 percent, and suffered far fewer fatalities per mile than other cars.

For 2015, the average premium for employer - sponsored family coverage for firms with fewer than 200 employees increased 5 percent to $ 16,625, according to the 2015 Employer Health Benefits Survey, put out by the Kaiser Family Foundation.

The economy may be healthy enough for them to raise interest rates, but the new 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent target for the benchmark fed funds rate, up a quarter point from where it had been, remains far below the historical norm — and, by all indications, the Fed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more years.

In an interview with Business Insider, EDF Climate Corps program director Liz Delaney dropped a juicy tidbit of information about the nature of green energy jobs: Of the 2.2 million Americans who work in energy efficiency jobs, 70 percent are employed by companies with 10 or fewer employees.

According to separate analysis by DynamicAction, retailers ahead of Black Friday were already selling about 21 percent fewer items at full price than they did at the same point in 2014.

The banks have very sharply reduced their credit card exposure by 22 percent in the last few years, so that they're not lending to the U.S. economy at all.

In the past few weeks, IOTA's value has skyrocketed by 400 percent.

Over the past few years, wages have increased by 2.5 percent to 3 percent annually; projections for the year to come are for increases of more than 3 percent.

An analysis by GTM Research found that solar installations will continue to rise from 2018 to 2022, though there will be 11 percent fewer panels installed as a result of the tariffs.

Ontario's supply of natural gas would be cut by roughly 25 percent, leaving some regions with few obvious alternatives to substitute for the loss.

This is important, given that the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Council notes that 34.3 percent of US workers are employed by a business with fewer than 100 workers.

Tesla Motors Inc (NASDAQ: TSLA) announced it delivered fewer cars than expected in the second quarter, prompting investors to push the company's stock lower by more than 5 percent early Tuesday morning.

Still, I did increase the Fund's call option purchases near the end of the week, and expect to add to that position toward 2 % of assets if the market clears its overbought condition by a decline of a few percent further (provided that we don't also observe a substantial deterioration of internal market action).

While its stock price initially jumped a few percent in pre-market trading, its stock fell by about 4 % (around $ 1) to $ 29 once the market opened.

In the few countries including the U.K., Australia, and Canada where the redesign is widely available, 83 percent of App Store reviews (1,941) for the update are negative with one or two stars, according to data provided to TechCrunch by mobile analytics firm Sensor Tower.