Sentences with phrase «averaging a lower percentage»

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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.

The annual percentage rate on retail cards is over 23 percent on average, compared to 10 percent for the average low rate card and 15 percent for the average cash - back or rewards card, according to a CreditCards.com analysis.

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.

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

West Virginia has the lowest average tax bill, but another state takes the lowest percentage of income in total taxes — Montana, at 14.54 percent.

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.

While modest wage inflation bodes well for the Japanese stock market on average, the sectors best positioned to benefit are those in which wages as a percentage of revenue are low, typically in the single to low - double digits.

The faith in the effectiveness of interest rate cuts has driven the percentage of bearish investment advisors to a dangerously low 25.5 %, while the average equity allocation of Wall Street strategists is now above 70 %, the highest level in this market cycle and quite probably a record.

Fairbanks has a better - than - average median household income, though there's a low percentage of residents holding bachelor's degrees.

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.

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

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.

Financial sales jobs are particularly attractive because they pay well above average, and yet a good percentage of workers in the field are former low - wage workers.

The average effective property tax rate (taxes per year as a percentage of home value) in the Magnolia State is just 0.8 %, the 15th - lowest rate in the nation.

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.

Second, the percentage of stocks in the HUI trading above their 200 - day moving average is currently 6 % but was 0 % at last weeks low.

The chart below compares the S&P 500 Index (upper red bars, left scale) with the percentage of stocks trading above their 100 - day moving average (lower black bars, right scale).

That said, B.C.'s strong economic growth over the past three years, combined with a) the announced small business tax relief, b) the new training and youth employment programs (also announced today), and c) a lower - than - average percentage of our working population who actually make minimum wage (about 5 %, compared to 7.1 % nationally), leaves us in a position to cautiously view the announced increases as «reasonable.»

This is a percentage point lower than average potential growth in the decade prior to the crisis... We estimate that the real neutral policy rate is currently in the range of 1 to 2 per cent... This translates into a nominal neutral policy rate of 3 to 4 per cent, down from a range of 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 per cent in the period prior to the crisis.»

Rates on business loans start in the low single digits, though the average annual percentage rate (APR) in 2016 was 42.1 %.

Conflicts of interest likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on the retirement savings of middle - class families, according to a recent report by the White House Council of Economic Advisers (CEA).

Hotels had the lowest percentage of policy - compliant bookings (72 percent on average, according to the BTN survey) among the various travel categories.

The unemployment rate has fallen less in NSW than in the smaller states, and it is now above the national average for the first time since the early 1990s, whereas Queensland's unemployment rate has fallen almost 2 percentage points to be the lowest across all states.

Between August 2016 and July 2017, these trends showed the highest average volume changes in the food markets — still at a comparatively low level regarding value, but with the largest percentage increases.

Similarly, our Smart Money approach might be expected to achieve a winning percentage a few percent lower than the syndicates, on average.

The coaching staff has decided to give personnel looks to the opposing offense to encourage running the ball against them and is willing to play the percentages of them being able to stop enough multiple play march down the field drives and be stingy enough about stopping touchdowns to allow this team to hold others to a low enough score to allow an average offensive showing by our offense to score enough points to win.

The fact that someone would question the top - 10 ranking of a now - gimpy 31 - year - old guard, who's been hobbled by two bad knees... who posted the lowest scoring average of his career since his rookie year... who posted his lowest free - throw shooting percentage of his entire career... who really struggled in the playoffs... isn't that crazy, really.

Here's Jose Altuve, who has a lower slugging percentage -LRB-.368) in the World Series than he had a postseason batting average -LRB-.400) coming into the Fall Classic.

First, there is a tackle win percentage of 74 %, which is the lowest of all the teams included in this article, and 3 % lower than the league average.

Slim / Athletic women have small bone structures, with lower than average body fat percentage.

Although a lower percentage of the U.S. adult population owns them, those who do own several; the average number of guns per owner is up from 4.1 per person in 1994 to 6.9 in 2004.

Any pledges to lower emissions by a uniform percentage among industrial countries will be much harder for the U.S. to achieve, simply because it is gaining people so fast through immigration and a birthrate that is higher than average for a developed nation.

The percentage of normally formed sperm was an average of 7.5 % in men in the group with the lowest intake and 5.1 % in the men with the highest intake — a relative decrease of 32 %.

In California, both NME and pertussis clusters were associated with factors characteristic of high socioeconomic status such as lower population density; lower average family size; lower percentage of racial or ethnic minorities; higher percentage of high school, college, or graduate school graduates; higher median household income; and lower percentage of families in poverty.

In the lowest category of sodium excretion, with an average of 1.9 grams per day, the percentage of subjects that had CVD events was higher (7.2 percent) than that of the second category (6.8 percent), with average excretion of 3 grams per day, even though the average BMI and percentage of high - risk males was lower in the lowest category.

The percentage of CKD patients who had cardiovascular events during follow - up was higher (18.4 percent) in the lowest quartile of urinary sodium excretion (average excretion 2.5 grams per day) than the 16.5 percent in the second quartile (average excretion 3.3 grams per day).

The average percentage fat in our diet is lower than it was 50 years ago, yet we have more obesity now than ever before.

This is over four times the average consumption of saturated fat in the United States.3 The diet of Kitava is remarkable because the total fat content is very low by American standards — hardly more than 20 percent of calories — yet the percentage of total calories derived from saturated fat is 50 percent greater than that of the American diet.

Participants with a high (o. 67 % kcal) omega - 3 fatty acid percentage of their daily calorie intake had an average systolic and diastolic blood pressure reading that was 0.55 / 0.57 mm Hg less, respectively, than participants with lower intake.

Is this reply percentage rate (which feels low to me) a DateHookup problem, or does this average reflect most dating sites which operate similar to DateHookup?

The publisher actually boosted its average Metascore a bit while eliminating any negatively reviewed releases, though its percentage of games with positive reviews dropped from an already low 25 % down to just 20 %.

Though we do not have data on every aspect of teachers» working conditions, we do know certain characteristics of their students that many believe affect the teaching conditions at a school: the percentage of low - income students at the school (as estimated by the percentage eligible for a subsidized lunch), the shares of students who are African - American or Hispanic, average student test scores, and class sizes.

In fact, because the letter grade is based on the percentage of students scoring above certain thresholds and not on the average score in each school, the high - scoring F schools actually have slightly higher initial reading and math scores than do the low - scoring D schools.

Districts that are higher performing by this indicator actually spend, on average, no more than the lower performing districts (after adjustment for differences in family income, special - education placements, and the percentage of students who are of limited English proficiency).

As can be seen in Figure 1a, states with higher percentages of students from low - income families report lower average scale scores in 8th - grade math on the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP).

The magnitudes are not trivial: they imply that students who take only online courses would have grade point averages about ten percentage points lower in the distribution than those who took only face - to - face courses, all else equal.

Moreover, if an income gap made America unique, you would expect the percentage of American students performing well below proficiency in math to be much higher than the percentage of low performers in countries with average test scores similar to the United States.

Peggy Carr, acting commissioner of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), drily noted that, compared to the international average, «we also have a higher percentage of students who score in the lowest performance levels... and a lower percentage of top math performers.»