Sentences with phrase «basis points with»

The interest rate for this investment margin account borrowing will fluctuate based on the Federal Funds Rate plus 50 basis points with interest only payable monthly.

For example, if you get your combined rate — interest rate plus insurance premium — down by 50 basis points with a fixed - rate mortgage, you may qualify for a refinance.

The goal of each fund is to outperform the respective benchmark by 100 to 150 basis points with diversified investment strategies that utilize a variety of proprietary quantitative trading models and risk constraints intended to limit potential underperformance.

With inflation well below its longer - run goal and high unemployment, the FOMC decided at its March meeting to maintain a «highly accommodative» policy stance: a federal funds rate in a range of 0 to 25 basis points with forward guidance based on economic thresholds.

Through Hilton's many generous promos and the fact you earn 12x base points with the Hilton Surpass I have a huge stash of Hilton points from work travel and got 2 free nights with the Citi Hilton Reserve.

Not exact matches

TORONTO, May 2 - Canadian energy producer Crescent Point Energy Corp is poised to win support for its director nominees based on a preliminary counting of votes, shrugging off opposition from activist investor Cation Capital, sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Wednesday.

Postelection selling of longer - dated maturities ran yields up by as much as 90 basis points, with the 10 - year briefly crossing 2.60 % on two separate occasions.

To build genuine loyalty — a customer base with intrinsic preference for your brand — retailers need to break with old - school tactics, realizing instead that earning consumer trust, preference and loyalty is a strategic initiative that goes far beyond points, coupons, discounts and mass - blasted emails.

It's no longer about pushing out a product or a service based on operational needs, but rather engaging with the customer on every channel at as many points along the path as possible.»

«The point is to be proactive with new contacts on a daily basis, which is entirely possible if you make it a priority.»

Adyen, a much smaller start - up based in the Netherlands, is an online payment company that provides businesses with backend payment services including credit card processing and point - of - sales (POS) systems.

Kitchener, Ontario - based Vidyard gets points for making a video that carries off a hat trick: It's funny; it's creative, marrying old - school»80s workout gear with Rocky - style training; and — most important — it's useful as a tool for those looking to up their video marketing game.

«On a daily basis, I make it a point to communicate with total strangers.

Jonathan Mak, founder of Toronto - based Queasy Games, which currently has a development deal with Sony, says he doesn't see the point.

U.S. Treasury yields rose sharply following Powell's optimistic comments, with the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note adding 5 basis points to hit 2.915 percent.

A rival was offering 4.689 %, or 33 basis points more, with a higher fee.

You and your starting team are going to wear all of the proverbial «hats,» so easily fashion email addresses for necessary positions that serve as the most important points of interaction with your customer base.

You could even use a points - based loyalty program to really make your customers look forward to engaging with your brand.

U.S. Treasury yields rose sharply during the testimony, with the benchmark 10 - year Treasury note adding 5 basis points to hit 2.915 percent.

Russia has said it plans to add several subs to its Black Sea fleet, which is a point of focus for Moscow — along with the Northern fleet, which has Russia's sea - based nuclear forces and is based close to NATO territory in Norway.

However, Thursday's 25 basis point cut from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) looked weak compared with the Bank of England's 50 basis point cut and 100 billion pound fund to ensure the cut reaches households.

A decision will be released at 2 p.m. (1900 GMT), with markets prepared for an initial 25 basis point «liftoff» that would move the Fed's target rate from the zero lower bound to a range of between 0.25 and 0.50 percentage points.

QNX, which made more than 60 % of the core software inside the world's car infotainment systems in 2011, has partnered with The Weather Network to send location - based weather data to drivers, and the intelligent dashboard system in many of Nissan's 2013 models, for instance, will feed drivers real - time local fuel prices, flight - status information, and points of interest supplied by Google.

Then, each eligible franchisor was scored based on more than 150 data points, and those with the highest cumulative scores became the Franchise 500.

Although this was a thoughtful gesture, it's receiving a mixed response, which demonstrates an important point: You must consistently build good will with your customer base.

Every touch point you have with them is recorded as part of a journey and based on all your touch points.

Slowly but surely, tech vendors are recognizing that they not only have to be on point regarding product functionality and support, they must also make genuine human connections with customers — developing relationships that inspire more than a transactional bond between parties but instead build bonds based on trust and real human experiences.

At this point, the series is a classic with a huge fan base, and each new entry becomes a sales monster.

Still, Wall Street has continued to lower its estimates for growth this year and next, with GDP now expected to be 1.95 percent for 2016, 19 basis points lower than in March and below 2 percent for the first time since the question was first asked a year ago.

«You have to read the fine print on some reward programs,» adds Steve Abrams, senior vice president of Purchase, New York - based MasterCard Corporate Payment Solutions, pointing out that many free airline ticket offers come with prohibitive blackout periods.

Not only has its online traffic expanded to the point where it is neck - and - neck with the New York Times, but the Post recently said that it is profitable, which puts it in a very select group of print - based media companies.

With that cheeky introduction by host Carlos Watson, the PBS debate show Point Taken last night dove headlong into the fractious debate of salary transparency that has been gaining steam of late, especially as a way to bridge widening wage gaps based on gender, race, and social class.

The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

«Guys like Conor Lamb in districts that the president won by 20 points are gonna need room to say some things that in a place like Fairfield County, Connecticut would be problematic with the so - called base — not so - called base but the base.»

The RBI is set to announce its monetary policy decision later Tuesday, with the market forecasting a 25 basis points cut in policy rates.

So points out Ron Gutman, founder of HealthTap, a Palo Alto, California - based startup that's trying to provide patients with those bits of information via their mobile phones.

The first two points are limited in the impact they demonstrate: The Temple study showed no decrease in DUI deaths on weekends, when the cost of UberX rides tends to rise with demand - based pricing, while the data from Seattle is only from that one city.

A 25 basis point rate hike would see the global real GDP level about 0.4 percentage points lower, with US real GDP falling by about 0.5 percentage points.

Elford points out that Secure Energy has a track record of «substantial» growth on an absolute and per - share basis; it has a relatively clean balance sheet and it's in an industry with high barriers to entry.

The average forecast of those above: 3.95 percent, or 55 basis point above the median, with one official at 4.9 percent.

Although the 25 basis point lift was in line with expectations, markets took some time to digest the news that three rate hikes — not two, as was earlier expected — were likely to happen in 2017.

Backed with an American flag, the 13 - by - 7 meter (43 - by - 23 feet) placard of a finger - pointing Trump was originally intended to adorn a U.S. city, said its creator, Chicago - based artist Mitch O'Connell.

Along with these kinds of changes, and the growing popularity of autonomous driving, the consistent design of services and experiences from within the car and beyond will become much more important to car manufacturers — to a point where it will drive brand identity, said Nils Uellendahl, the Shanghai - based design director of BMW Group's (bmwyy) global creative consultancy Designworks.

The Wisdom of Keith Richards (Wall Street Journal) Keith Richards, shrouded in an ever - present cloud of cigarette smoke, wheezes a laugh when it's pointed out that many observers, based on evidence to date, disagree with his sense of his own mortality.

She pointed out that the US isn't the only place with angry, impulsive people on the loose, yet «we are the only developed country in the world where this happens on a regular basis.»

Trister points out that the European Union allows workers with five years of service to stay on a permanent basis, without having to leave and return.

Ten - year Italian bond yields have risen 17 basis points to 4.55 percent, since the news of an uncertain outcome spread on Monday but the Italian treasury is going ahead with a sale of 6.5 billion euros ($ 8.5 billion) of 5 and 10 - year bonds on Wednesday.

The president's share of support also reached new lows among his base, with 73 percent of Republicans (down three points from earlier in August) backing him.

Bonds due in 2018 and won by BofA were «aggressively» priced with a 1.64 percent yield that narrowed Illinois» spread over Municipal Market Data's benchmark triple - A yield curve to 70 basis points from 100 basis points ahead of the sale, Greg Saulnier, a MMD analyst, said.

BofA won bonds due in 2029 with a yield of 3.78 percent, which slightly increased the spread over the scale to 165 basis points from 163 basis points, according to MMD, a unit of Thomson Reuters.