Sentences with phrase «by a few percentage points in»

On a positive note, I have seen a slight improvement by a few percentage points in most of the core metrics since I last checked back in November 2016.

Even if your net worth is low, when the market goes up and down by a few percentage points in a day, there can be sizable dollar amounts at stake.

Very often car dealers mark up auto loans by few percentage point in addition to the commissions they get from auto lenders, and make you pay extra thousands of dollars in interest, most of which goes straight to their pockets.

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Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

Devaluation risks are much less of a concern to investors now compared with the near panic in 2015 when the currency fell by a few percentage points.

This is not simply because Harper is better liked by Canadians who prefer to steer an SUV while sipping their Starbucks (though polls suggest he is); this is because Conservative candidates finished within a few percentage points of winning quite a few of those suburban ridings in 2006.

At the end of the 1970s, Canadian municipalities managed to save a few tenths of a percentage point of interest by borrowing in d - marks and Swiss francs.

In fact, over the past few years, credit unions» average personal loan rates have been approximately 1.24 percentage points less than those offered by banks.

And if you don't believe that, consider that the Fed's moneyless («Portfoli - O - Matic») transmission mechanism has already had one «stress test» — the one administered between late 2008 and 2014 — which it failed miserably, by proving incapable of transforming $ 3.5 trillion in fresh reserves into more than a few percentage points of NGDP growth, or far fewer than were required to restore that growth to its pre-crisis path.

The woman wasn't satisfied with her $ 300,000 house crawling up a few percentage points in value when stocks had risen by double digits annually since 2009.

The Democrat and Republican in a special House election in the heart of Pennsylvania's Trump country were divided by a few hundred votes in a race that was too close to call early this morning — an ominous sign for Republicans in a district that the president won by nearly 20 percentage points.

Rice ran unsuccessfully for attorney general in 2010, when Schneiderman beat her by fewer than three percentage points.

But the exclusion is a carefully limited one, effectively raising the cap by an average of 1 to 1.5 percentage points (depending on how high pension costs spike in the next few years).

None of Wisconsin's eight congressional races — not even an open seat in northeastern Wisconsin — was decided by fewer than 20 percentage points this election.

Buerkle, R - Onondaga Hill, won the 25th Congressional District seat over Democrat Dan Maffei by fewer than 600 votes, or less than 1 percentage point, in the November election.

The results came in last year and were not encouraging: In two shorter trials, heart function improved by a few percentage points or not at all, and one longer study found a slight but temporary benefiin last year and were not encouraging: In two shorter trials, heart function improved by a few percentage points or not at all, and one longer study found a slight but temporary benefiIn two shorter trials, heart function improved by a few percentage points or not at all, and one longer study found a slight but temporary benefit.

Even the illicit «good stuff» might only nudge things in the right direction by a few percentage points.

She'll apparently get one if she can become the Class of» 99's valedictorian, but she is currently second in the running by a few percentage points.

Since 2007 there has been a national decline in the number of school library / media centers and there are fewer library / media centers operating in high ‐ poverty schools than in wealthier schools, especially low income schools in the inner cities, where the number has dropped by five percentage points.

For example, in eighth - grade math, 14 states showed their state proficiency levels differed from the national assessment by 15 percentage points or fewer.

It's not just that everything is a few percentage points nicer here — it's that BMW seems to have addressed all the quibbles and all - out gripes we had with the previous car in what I can only assume was a highly organized point - by - point Germanic matter.

Unsecured loans are only ahead of collateral - backed loans by few percentage points, ranging in low 20 % APRs, and higher.

This is a figure that hasn't changed in 40 years by more than a few percentage points.

Simply by shifting existing debt around to reduce the utilization percentage on individual cards you can expect to increase the score by a few points or more — particularly when bringing all cards to below 50 percent — yet it's going to take an actual reduction in your overall debt to drop that combined utilization to where your score rises significantly.

Studies have shown that managers will «hug» their respective benchmarks for job security — meaning that rather than try to beat their benchmark by a wide margin, they will stay within a few percentage points, plus or minus in order to still meet their goals.

In summary, the rule of 70 or 72 works well for annual yields in the typical range of a few percentage points but not that well for trivial yields (rule of 69.3 is better) or the pie - in - the - sky yields that beginning investors plan on getting so as to retire by age 3In summary, the rule of 70 or 72 works well for annual yields in the typical range of a few percentage points but not that well for trivial yields (rule of 69.3 is better) or the pie - in - the - sky yields that beginning investors plan on getting so as to retire by age 3in the typical range of a few percentage points but not that well for trivial yields (rule of 69.3 is better) or the pie - in - the - sky yields that beginning investors plan on getting so as to retire by age 3in - the - sky yields that beginning investors plan on getting so as to retire by age 35.

Ironically, it probably would have been easier if we simply never (re --RRB- adopted the PEP and Pease rules back in 2012, and simply raised the top three tax brackets by a percentage point or few.

2016 was TAA's best year ever in terms of revenue growth, just beating out 2015 by a few percentage points.

So even a few percentage points increase in storage of carbon in by restoring grasslands and forests and / or reduction of fires and deforestation would cancel out a significant portion of the increasing CO2 levels.

China's coal consumption has steadily decreased by a few percentage points a year since 2013, prompting our pronouncement of a coal consumption peak in an article published in the summer of 2016 in Nature Geoscience.

The researchers acknowledge that skeptics may be slightly over-represented, «it is likely that viewpoints that run counter to the prevailing consensus are somewhat (i.e. by a few percentage points) magnified in our results.»

The EON's Cloud Gate result of 19,124 and Fire Strike score of 5,430 turn in two more records, defeating the MSI GT60 Dominator Pro by a few percentage points.