Sentences with phrase «about fractions of a percent»

They were close though, like i said we are talking about fractions of a percent.

Not exact matches

But while automated trading accounts for about 75 percent of all financial market volume, just a tiny fraction of independent or amateur traders use them due to the complex technology, need for massive historical data and high costs.

Since its 2014 high on December 29, the S&P 500 Index has gained 1.5 % (not including a fraction of a percent in dividends), the Dow Industrial Average has gained 1.3 %, the Dow Transportation Average is down -5.8 %, the Dow Utilities Average is down -8.9 %, market breadth has churned sideways, and investment grade corporate spreads are flat (though junk spreads have come in about two - tenths of a percent).

Contrast that to the S&P 500, which yields just a fraction of a percent less than the bond and we expect will grow earnings at about 6 % per year for the next five years.

At about 3 percent of GDP, the current account surplus is a fraction of what it once was.

Using U.S. Census data, the Kauffman Foundation found in a 2008 study that «the fraction of employment accounted for by U.S. private - sector business startups over the 1980 - 2005 period is about 3 percent per year».

But a computer algorithm doesn't care about any of that and since it's owner is compensated strictly on a fraction of a percent of your total portfolio it's interests are perfectly aligned with yours!

And for that only a small fraction of the population needs to have that negative attitude about the system (a few percent is enough).

Although the FDA collects safety data on drugs, experts estimate that only a fraction of the potentially related harms and deaths — about 10 to 50 percent — end up in FDA databases, in part because reporting is voluntary.

The finding dovetails with a landmark 1992 survey that documented a rise in the fraction of southpaws from about 3 percent of the U.S. population born in 1900 to a steady 11 percent of respondents born in the 1950s or later.

In all three groups, participants were abstinent on roughly 20 percent of days, on average, before treatment began, and the fraction of alcohol - free days rose to about 80 percent a year after treatment ended.

Like many federal agencies, the DoE has yet to spend more than a small fraction (about $ 2.1 billion, or 6 percent) of its total allocation.

Many federal agencies have so far spent a small fraction of allocated funds — in the DOE's case, only about 6 percent.

At age 43, the fraction of unmarried men is about 17 percent for men born in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, but is expected to increase to 30 percent for men born in the 1990s (36 percent for women).

«If you look in the normal population and ask what fraction of people have [a defect in methylation in the gene encoding insulin - like growth factor 2] it's about 5 percent.

The human genome contains about 3 billion base pairs, but only about 2 percent of these base pairs represent protein - coding genes, meaning that whole - exome sequencing measures the genetic alterations focused on a small but very important fraction of the genome (as opposed to techniques of whole genome sequencing, which measures every nucleotide across the entire genome, regardless of whether these genes are expressed or silent).

During its transit, «55 Cancri e» crosses the star and blocks a small fraction of its starlight, dimming the star by 0.05 percent for nearly two hours, helping scientists determine that the planet is about twice the size of Earth, or 16,000 miles in diameter.

Near Titan's surface, about 5 percent of the atmospheric molecules are methane, the fraction decreasing with altitude.

For example, the team found that a merger of two black holes with significantly unequal masses would be a strong indication that the stars formed almost entirely from hydrogen and helium — called low - metallicity stars — with other elements contributing fewer than 0.1 percent of stellar matter (for comparison, this fraction is about 2 percent in our Sun).

RAMIREZ - RUIZ: As we learned more about neutron stars, we found out that about two percent of them have companion stars, and a very small fraction have another neutron star orbiting around them.

Here's how to be chill about the height difference, with as little Muslims account for over twenty percent of the population of the world and more than that fraction of prime - aged girls.

The size of this estimated effect is similar to the effect of a larger black population, about 2 percent greater enrollment in charter schools accompanying a one - standard - deviation increase in the fraction of college - educated adults in the state.

Meanwhile, about 13 percent of Hartford's students need special education services, but Capital Prep's number is a fraction of that.

On a national basis, public charter schools receive a fraction (about 80 percent as of 2009 — 10) of funding relative to traditional public schools.22 In many jurisdictions, charter schools are ineligible for specific funding streams to which traditional school districts have access, such as funding for facilities and school transportation.

If the pundits had asked the same way about success for The Gutenberg Press, they should have spoken in just about the same manner, since at Gutenberg book pricing the new books cost only a small fraction of one percent of the price of pre — Gutenberg books.

Meanwhile, the G Fund was up a fraction of a percent and the F Fund had fallen about 1 % on the back of rising interest rates.

U.S. boats have been catching a small fraction of their quota (about 10 to 15 percent of what they're allowed) in recent years.

The transition to a renewable energy system can be accomplished with the typical fraction of Gross Domestic Product devoted to energy (about 8 percent) in the United States.

Surveys conducted around the time of the meeting found about ten percent of the American public saying they followed the global warming news «very closely,» a substantial fraction for such an issue (for more exciting stories, the fraction could be several times higher).

An additional smack - down to the CO2 haters is that not only is CO2 very dubious as a significant driver of climate (as opposed to the sun, water vapor, clouds, and oceans), but man - made CO2 comprises only a tiny fraction — about three percent — of the Earth's total atmospheric CO2.

The deeply controversial and unconstitutional agreement comes about a month after what might be among the most revealing developments so far in the supposed war on man - emitted carbon dioxide — an essential natural gas exhaled by humans that makes up a fraction of one percent of the greenhouse gases naturally in the atmosphere.

And maybe we'll go join the 15 percent of all Americans who use Twitter, a small fraction of which sometimes get news updates and an even tinier fraction of which who work in the news business and crow loud and long about using Twitter on their iPhones at the airport.

Although the Canadian market is a fraction the size of the U.S. market — about 10 percent — the country is increasingly popping up on the radar sc...

Although the Canadian market is a fraction the size of the U.S. market — about 10 percent — the country is increasingly popping up on the radar screen for international investo...