Sentences with phrase «average percentage point»

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Shipments have been steadily ticking up a few percentage points each week during that time, relative to their 52 - week average, according to MillerCoors.

A few things stand out about this particular rate change: first, the magnitude of influence that just a quarter percentage - point change had on the stock market; second, the current rate with an upper range of.50 % compared to the various long - term averages of about 5 %; and third, the rate remains historically low, with only minute incremental changes, despite the relatively good news we continue to read about the economy.

Shipments have steadily ticked up a few percentage points each week in the second half of 2014, relative to their 52 - week average, according to MillerCoors.

For instance, in Pennsylvania and Michigan, Clinton's total percentage of the final vote fell within 2 points of what had been predicted for her in the polling average.

Polls there are close; the Real Clear Politics average of polls has the race essentially tied: Trump has a scant 1.8 percentage point advantage, well within the margin of error.

A recent Bank of Montreal note pointed out the percentage of businesses reporting difficulty hiring in the Bank of Canada's business outlook survey is 25 %, well below the 15 - year average of 35 %.

In fact, it is roughly equal to the difference in field goal percentage between the average and the very best 3 - point shooter in the NBA.

Despite a shortfall of workers, average hourly pay rose just 2.4 percent from a year ago, one - half percentage point lower than September's annual gain.

In the article, Irving says that 18 % of the technical jobs at GoDaddy are held by women — though he notes that that figure puts the company just 1 percentage point above the average for Silicon Valley.

That is, when debt service ratios are calculated using the discounted mortgage rates actually charged by banks (about 125 percentage points below posted rates), the average Canadian homeowner is paying just 25 % or so of income on mortgage payments, far below the 32 % benchmark used for mortgage - insurance qualification.

POS = position TOI = time on ice PIM = penalty minutes GP = games played SA = shots against SSV % = save percentage TOI = time on ice GA = Goals Against GAA = Goals Against Average $ / GP = Salary per game played $ / P = Salary per point $ / MOI = salary per minute on ice + / - = Plus / Minus $ / SV — $ / SA = dollar per save — dollar per shot against (represents «cost per goal allowed»)

According to the CIBC study, which examined various reports that have attempted to compute an annualized average «return on investment» on education and found stark divergences depending on the field of study, the university premium over college has also narrowed and now comes to 0.7 percentage points.

The unemployment rate in Alpharetta is one percentage point lower than the national average.

Women Are Dominating Social Media (Pew Research) On average, the proportion of women who use social media is greater than that of men by an 8 percentage point gap.

The company's U.S. malls and outlets are 96.3 % full (about four percentage points above the industry average).

Applying the lower of these two weighted - average calculations (24 percentage points) to Canada's existing automotive manufacturing footprint (and assuming that the dislocation for Canada's industry is only proportional to the overall North American shrinkage, an assumption which is probably optimistic), allows us to generate an estimate of the potential scale of economic loss if the U.S. - Japan rules were implemented.

And if — inflation is gonna average 2 %, it'll be above by a few percentage points from time to time.

But the average rate on the 30 - year mortgage has jumped more than a full percentage point since May and was 4.57 per cent last week — just below the two - year high.

Mortgage payments as a percentage of income (MPPI) rose 0.6 points, as a 6.6 % increase in house prices outweighed lower mortgage rates and a higher average median income.

[10] Adding a potential Fed rate increase of 0.25 percentage point to the average credit card APR of 14.87 %, the average household would owe $ 919 in credit card interest per year.

Preferred personal auto's underlying loss ratio improved 3.6 percentage points to 70.1 percent, driven by improved frequency and higher average earned premium slightly offset by higher severity.

«Since 1948, the average difference between the year - on - year change in inflation and fed funds has been 1.3 percentage points.

We would need to see an average of two percentage growth points each year to reach this goal.

Average hourly earnings rose by a better - than - expected 0.3 percentage point in August.

In 1970, Canada's manufacturing - to - GDP ratio was 6 percentage points below the average of members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

As it pertains to the Dow Jones Industrial Averages, a 2.5 % dip in June landed the index 1.3 percentage points in the red for the year to date.

Of the funds, the Highland Energy MLP Fund has had the best absolute performance through August 25, with year - to - date returns of 18.64 %, but these gains actually fall short of the category average by 0.21 percentage points.

In this example, the «inflation portfolio» improved the average real returns of both the conservatively positioned income - oriented retiree's and the young worker's portfolios by 0.7 percentage points per year during the extremely inflationary period from 1965 to 1980.

Relative to the five - year average, Korean credit default swaps, the cost of insuring against defaults, is 3 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) higher while the Korean Won is 3 % lower.

Systemwide occupancy rose 1.8 percentage points year over year during the first quarter to 71.8 percent, and average daily rate increased 1.2 percent to $ 145.21.

That's 26 percentage points higher than the national average and the most of all 10 major cities surveyed.

Growth was more than 1 percentage point lower relative to normal periods, and the average duration of the overhang was 23 years.

That's 27 percentage points higher than the national average.

Points raised in the blog post include the following: - In Canada, public social spending as a percentage of our GDP is well below the OECD average.

As the article chart below shows, McKinsey is forecasting that the average annual equity returns over the next 20 years will be between 1.5 and 4.0 percentage points lower than they were in the past 30 years.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

If we assume that disposable household income is currently half of GDP, eight years of real GDP growth of 6.9 % and real disposable household income growth of 7.7 % will only raise the household income share of GDP to 53.1 % in 2023, a little more than 3 percentage points higher and still below its 21st Century average and leaving China as dependent as ever on investment and the current account surplus.

Even measured against this bull market's impressive results, technology stocks have been excellent investments, outpacing the 19.4 percent annualized return of Standard and Poor's 500 - stock index by four percentage points per year, on average, since...

I highlighted the 1.08 percent average expense ratio of «similar funds,» which is 1.03 percentage points higher than Vanguard's advertised expense ratio.5 The Investment Company Institute finds an average expense ratio of 0.89 percent for actively managed equity funds, versus 0.12 percent for equity index funds, or a 0.77 percentage point difference.

Bell said recent quarterly results have seen outperformance of about 3 to 4 percentage points better than analysts» consensus estimates on average, compared with the 5.7 percentage points earnings are currently running ahead.

➢ Another 2014 study found that one - year - advance growth forecasts from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the European Central Bank from 2008 to 2012 showed «substantial over-optimism, averaging 1.6 to 2.4 percentage points above actual growth.»

This set of borrowers — who had an average of $ 49,041 in student loan debt — achieved interest rate reductions of 1.36 percentage points, on average.

In 2009, the average APR on all mature accounts (adjusted to reflect the drop in the prime rate) increased by 2.4 percentage points from 2008.

RBC's affordability measures fell between 0.5 and 1.5 percentage points but remained close to long - run averages, suggesting that affordability likely plays a neutral role in home buying decisions in the province.

We found that borrowers in both groups were able to reduce their interest rate by an average of 1.56 percentage points when they refinanced their loans with lenders who compete for business through the Credible marketplace.

On average, stock returns are about 10 percentage points higher in November - April half - year periods than in May - October half - year periods.

Borrowers who chose a loan with a shorter repayment term in order to get the lowest interest rate and maximize overall savings reduced their interest rate by 1.71 percentage points and will pay $ 18,668 less over the life of their new loan, on average.

Those borrowers, who had an average of $ 56,202 in student loan debt outstanding, will realize those savings through interest rate reductions of 1.71 percentage points on average, and shorter loan terms on their new loans (about 5 years on average).

Monday was all about superlatives: the largest one - day point drop in the Dow Jones Industrial Average and the biggest one - day percentage change in the VIX Index.

The average APR offered in new mail solicitations also increased in 2009 by 2.6 percentage points over the same time period.