Sentences with phrase «bigger percentage gain»

Had the stock moved down, the put buyer would have made a much bigger percentage gain than if she had sold the stock.

That is, it's not simply that the top 20 percent of families have had bigger percentage gains than families near the middle: the top 5 percent have done better than the next 15, the top 1 percent better than the next 4, and so on up to Bill Gates.

Everyone seems to agree that the housing market is rebounding as home sales posted their biggest percentage gain in more than two years.

Home sales have reached their biggest percentage gain in over two years and there has never been a better time to buy.

Not exact matches

The graphics - chip maker's stock price has exploded 95 % higher since then, the biggest gain in the S&P 500 by almost 30 percentage points.

The euro was up 0.73 percent to $ 1.2032, on pace for its biggest single - day percentage gain against the greenback in about two months.

That puts the stock ORCL, -0.99 % on track for the biggest price and percentage gain since Dec. 18, 2014.

Seven of the 11 major S&P sectors were higher and the defensive telecom and real estate sectors were the biggest percentage gainers, with 2 percent and 1.6 percent gains, respectively.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg's first - ever Congressional testimony went so well that shares of the social media giant saw their biggest one - day percentage gain since April 2016.

China's Shanghai Composite Index tumbled more than 8.5 % on Monday, posting its biggest one - day loss in percentage terms since the 2007 global financial crisis and wiping out what was left of this year's gains.

A record number of city high - school juniors took the SAT exam last year — with black and Hispanic kids posting the biggest percentage - point gains, according to the NYC Department of Education.

On who will run the economy better, the Conservative lead has dropped from 17 points a month ago to only 4 points now, but their own percentage has dropped by only 3 points; the big shift was Labour gaining at the expense of «neither».

O'Brien now leads Hanna 50 - 39 — a big gain over his showing in last month's Siena poll, in which he trailed Hanna by eight percentage points.

Despite remaining in opposition for its third election in a row, Labour at 40.0 % won its greatest share of the vote since 2001, made a net gain of 30 seats to reach 262 total MPs, and, with a swing of 9.6 %, [127] achieved the biggest percentage - point increase in its vote share in a single general election since 1945.

Last week, lawmakers passed a state budget that they promised would offer teachers an average 7 percent raise — but instead of boosting all teachers» pay by a simple percentage, a new salary schedule is in place that offers younger, inexperienced teachers big gains while shortchanging veteran teachers who have gone to great lengths to build on their teaching credentials.

Asian charter students showed the biggest gains in English and math scores when compared to the state average for Asian students, scoring 12 percentage points higher in ELA than their peers and 11 points better in math.

In charter schools, the grade level with the biggest gains in math compared to last year was eighth grade with a 3 percentage point increase.

In LA Unified, African - American students showed the biggest gains in English, about 2 percentage points.

In magnets schools, the grade level that made the biggest gains in math was third grade with a 3 percentage point increase.

Nissan didn't have the big supply problems in 2011 that some Japanese automakers did, so its percentage gain in 2012 was unspectacular.

Compass Airlines reported the biggest four - year percentage gain followed by GoJet Airlines.

GoJet Airlines reported the biggest four - year percentage gain.

Big November Gains at Chevrolet, Buick, GMC and Cadillac Keep GM the Fastest Growing Automaker November U.S. retail market share highest since 2009 Year to Date U.S. Retail Share up 0.5 Percentage Points November Commercial sales were highest since 2008 DETROIT — General Motors (NYSE: GM) sold 197,609 vehicles in November to individual or «retail» customers in the U.S., up 8 percent from last year.

The percentage gains are bigger OTM, but the dollar amount is lower.

Giving up a few dollars or a couple of percentage points in gains to get back into position isn't a big deal, it's a smart way to play.

Treats also play a big role in our pets gaining weight, as they often take up too large of a percentage of our pet's caloric intake.

«We have lost a couple of lawyers in Toronto and two in New York and a couple in Paris, but unlike all the other big combinations we have a net gain across the globe from our announcement date to the launch date,» says Andrew, noting there was a high percentage vote at FMC in favour of the combination.

T - Mobile can also point to big gains in 4G availability, which OpenSignal measures as the percentage of time users on a network get 4G service no matter where they happen to be.

The 2007 Profile of Buyers» Home Feature Preferences, released by the National Association of Realtors, says that since the last survey in 2004, oversize garages saw the biggest growth in terms of what recent buyers considered very important in a home, gaining 16 percentage points to 57 per cent.

Meanwhile, metro areas are expanding, posting double - digit percentage population gains in the last several decades, with the biggest gains in suburbs or small - to medium - sized cities.