«In terms of potential increases, for those investing in real estate as long - term holds, 50 basis points doesn't usually make or break a deal, says Michael Weiser, president of New York - based commercial real estate brokerage firm GFI Realty Services.
As previously stated, this application of
basis points does not vary between student loans interest rates or other types of interest rates.
Moreover, lowering your MER a few basis points doesn't guarantee your performance will improve accordingly: the ETFs from BMO, iShares and Vanguard don't always track the same indexes, so their returns will vary from year to year in unpredictable ways.
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Not exact matches
The president - elect had tweeted in 2014 that Obama's support for net neutrality was a «top down power grab» that would somehow «target conservative media» — there is no
basis to this assertion, as net neutrality
does not allow anyone to target any particular online service or media outlet; that's the
point.
I don't know how it is that so many of us manage to miss this simple
point, but our financial system is
based on numbers.
Jonathan Mak, founder of Toronto -
based Queasy Games, which currently has a development deal with Sony, says he doesn't see the
point.
Chase had already signed up about 400 customers on the
basis, in part, of that price
point, but she quickly realized she would not succeed as a company if she didn't adjust the cost.
Dana DiTomaso, partner at Edmonton -
based Kick
Point, asked the insightful question: why
do brands spend so much on television ads, but let their Google Adwords look like everyone else's?
Offer something unique that other nearby Airbnb properties don't offer, or make a
point to offer a great value
based on your nightly rate.
If this process sounds too tedious, you can also make a
point of assessing your to -
do list a couple of times a week to see how much bandwidth you have and,
based on that assessment, decide whether you can take on helping others at that time.
Businesses naturally become an integral part of the communities in which they
do business — they hire its people, contribute to the tax
base, become
points of local pride, and much more.
All I'm
doing on a daily
basis is trying to find that trigger
point that is going to motivate somebody or show them a way to start
doing.
One - way flights are often more expensive on a per - mile
basis than round - trip, but they don't require extra
points.
He
did say he expected future game consoles to continue using discs of some form, though he specifically
pointed out that his statement was not
based on knowledge of Sony's plans for a new PlayStation console.
Conceivably, you could reach a
point where Google can
do things like estimate changes in a country's GDP on a daily
basis.
So it's important that U.S. companies don't stop researching or innovating
based on the limits of society's comfort levels at any given
point.
By contrast, airlines that use mileage -
based programs like Delta offer seats at fixed prices, say, 25,000 miles for a trip within the U.S. Importantly,
points do not limit the availability of saver seats.
A miles card accumulates
points based on how far you travel or how much you spend
doing so.
Signpost
does not charge a premium to post or access deals, and Wall is quick to
point out that unlike location -
based mobile applications such as Foursquare and Gowalla, Signpost doesn't require consumers to check in to capitalize on an offer.
At this
point, the Project Tango -
based smartphone, which is still in development, doesn't even have a name.
Anastasia Gentles, cofounder of Sugar Land, Texas -
based Nightlight Pediatric Urgent Care (No. 2,306), says catching the ear of a female banker at Louisiana -
based Whitney Bank who understood the importance of what she and her two co-founders were
doing was the turning
point in her business's early days.
The
point here is not to make major business changes on a whim
based on something a customer — or even several customers —
does or says.
I wrote an improvement of Alicia's email
based on these concepts: — specificity of: target b2b and expected results — be educational with numbers and reference to a case study —
do nt talk bad about outbound marketing, but tell him how to
do it better — write even shorter to the
point — social proof: drop big companies of other industries — scarcity: this email is sent to 10 competitors but we only work with the first per city
«A big challenge in PR — and this doesn't happen in every case — is getting a client to understand the story from the audience's
point of view,» Philadelphia -
based PR agent Alexandra Golaszewska told CareerCast.com in an email.
I don't think a 25
basis point hike in the funds rate, if that's what you're contemplating, will make a big difference to the trajectory of any of the variables I've cited above.
Don't limit funnel
points to those currently in your marketing mix, but consider new outreach methods
based on how visitors like this will find you.
If you don't fly Delta regularly, but still want the ability to transfer your
points on a 1:1
basis, the Amex PRG provides a happy medium when you can't justify owning the Amex Platinum.
And btw, if I were going to ding IOER, it would be for subsidizing banks for
doing nothing (Bernanke and Kohn
point out that such subsidies are typically but a few
basis points, i.e., the IOER — the effective FFR, or 1.25 — 1.16 today; okay, but still...).
Fake follower counts are
based on
Points North scanning followers of influencers to sort out such things as accounts making comments in languages that don't make sense for the content or the influencer, or accounts making the exact same comments across multiple influencers and posts.
(It makes money not by tracking and profiling its users, as Google
does, but by serving ads
based on the search terms being used at the
point of each search, and also from affiliate revenue.)
I
based my growth expectations on what I think were conservative estimates of consumption growth and the growth in productive investment (with which the reported data is currently consistent, although
do not prove my assumptions one way or the other), but I always
pointed out that as long as credit growth accelerated, the growth in non-productive investment would remain high, in which case reported GDP would also remain high for much longer.
Do not confuse Priority Initiatives with pain
points that you simply reverse - engineer
based on the capabilities of your solution.
The Reserve Bank
does not expect RITS members to make frequent use of SF Repos contracted at a rate of interest that is 25
basis points above the cash rate target.
I remember when the Federal Reserve used to
do things like drop 50 -
basis -
point inter-meeting rate - hike bombs on the... Read More
I just want to ensure the PR spin
does not make a
point in promoting the pipeline on a
basis of lowering gasoline prices.
So when we think about Charlie's vantage
point and understanding of this stuff it's quite profound because he's worked in this space at the very highest levels from numerous ends of the spectrum from actually designing the code and working on the code of blockchain to you know
doing the engineering side over at that coin
base which is one of the exchanges.
While this turnover rate in its customer
base improved by 12
basis points in the quarter, there's still a lot of work there left to
do.
RE the second
point: if someone can explain to me how the Futures Market (which is cash settled) will affect the actual Market Ill stand corrected on that
point... having said all this I
do believe BTC is overvalued on a «fundamental»
basis because there has not been enough adoption and the transaction cost is too high but it is acting more like gold 2.0 and there will have to be a better method of lowering transaction costs and increasing speed or using an alternative coin.
It can be difficult to have the correct perspective when you are following the markets on a daily
basis, but most average investors don't have to worry about this type of lump - sum,
point - in - time investment performance.
If I sent my clients a relative performance orientated letter — «Dear Client, we are pleased to report that we beat the market this year by 300
basis points; the market declined 43 % for the year but we only lost 40 % of your net worth» — I don't think any of them would be thrilled» Seth Klarman
Cutting the interest rate by 10
basis points to 0.05 % and dropping the deposit rate to minus 0.2 %, in my view, shows the ECB has
done everything it can on interest rates.
At some
point, it's time to buy a Lamborghini, as
did Peter Saddington, an Atlanta -
based coder and self - described serial entrepreneur who says he cashed out 45 bitcoins last fall to purchase a $ 200,000 Lamborghini with race exhaust features.
You should also develop a means for scoring these leads
based on the input you receive from the various channels you'll develop so you know at what
point leads are eligible to be handed off to Sales, and ensure Sales doesn't reach out to leads before they're ready.
Is that a philosophy, which you stand behind, could you
do that from the ethic
point of view, when the premium are extremely low, which is at the case... that the spreads are, as I said, between 15 and 20
basis points?
CHARLIE MUNGER: Well, the truth of the matter is we don't pay much attention to trying to get an extra two
basis points by being gamey on our short - term things and that credit default position is a weird, historical accident.
Assuming of course that the curve actually
does get to completely flat before recession something not assured but
based on the Fed's timid quarter
point steps toward that Minsky moment is still likely.
While evidence
points to the success of factor -
based investing over the long - term, we
do caution that there is cyclical behavior associated with smart beta.