Sentences with phrase «by a quarter point on»

At the NAR Midwinter Business Meeting in Honolulu, Tuccillo told attendees he wasn't surprised by the Fed's decision to cut the federal funds rate by a quarter point on Jan. 31.

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Economists at Macroeconomic Advisers boosted their forecast for fourth - quarter economic growth by three - tenths of a percentage point to an annualized rate of 2.4 percent, on the «unexpected strength» in consumer spending.

Just like it did a year ago, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday sent its key short - term interest rate up by a quarter of a percentage point.

Morgan Stanley's Delinquency Diffusion Index, an aggregate measurement of year - over-year increases in the delinquency of several types of personal loans, stood at 19.2 (on a 100 - point scale) for the first quarter of 2016, up from its low in October, 2014, driven by increases in auto loan and credit card delinquencies in 2015 — but far below the 60 - point threshold associated with a pre-recession state.

Although we successfully raised prices and improved our inventory position quarter - by - quarter, gross margin fell 220 basis points on the year.

Speaking by phone from Montreal on Wednesday, economist Paul - Andre Pinsonnault predicted Governor Stephen Poloz will cut the policy rate by a quarter point to 0.25 percent next month, matching a record low set in 2009 during the global financial crisis.

«Samsung's smartphone sales declined 8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016 and its share dropped by 2.9 percentage points year on year.»

On a blended same - restaurant sales basis, results for Olive Garden, Red Lobster and LongHorn Steakhouse were down 1.9 % in the fourth quarter, which includes the adverse effect of an earlier Lenten season and Easter that impacted blended same - restaurant sales by 40 basis points.

Homeownership tends to encourage spending on durable goods and hence its depressed levels could explain why real U.S. consumption growth over 2011 - 2017 has been much weaker (by about half a percentage point annualized every quarter) than the pre-recession average.

When the Federal Reserve raises its benchmark Federal Funds Rate — as it did on June 14 by a quarter - point — attention tends to focus on interest - rate increases on debt and future borrowing.

When the Federal Reserve raises its benchmark Federal Funds Rate — as it did on June 14 by a quarter - point — attention tends to focus on... Read More

It raised the interest rate paid on excess and required reserves by a quarter point to 0.5 percent.

The latest ABS projections, based on Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) estimates, indicate that farm GDP fell by around 30 per cent over the year to the June quarter 2003, subtracting a little under 1 percentage point from GDP growth, which is a slightly smaller subtraction than previously expected.

The Federal Reserve on Wednesday hiked its benchmark interest rate by a quarter percentage point, citing a gradual strengthening in the economy.

The U.S. Federal Open Market Committee said on Dec. 13 it would raise its target range for the federal funds interest rate by a quarter point, to between 1.25 percent and 1.5 percent.

She innocently slipped a quarter into the Pac - Man slot, curled her fingers around the controls, held the bright red ball of the joy stick firmly against her palm, and there she remained — hour upon hour, quarter after quarter, desperately trying to keep her Pac - Man out of the voracious jaws of four different - colored and deceptively cute - looking monsters; trying to make him eat up the dots on the «table» and down the bunches of fruit which occasionally appeared; and sporadically trying to make him turn the monsters into frightened blue turn - tails by eating «energizing dots» — all of this in an attempt to build up points for the owner of the increasingly blistered hand.

So, the explanation runs, by fortunate chance the arithmetical points fell together into whole notes, half notes, quarter notes, and eighths, and by fortuitous concourse on some happy occasion they arranged themselves into the symphony.

Chicken with Oyster Mushrooms, Portobellos, & Napa Cabbage (adapted from Every Grain of Rice by Fuchsia Dunlop) 3 skinless chicken breasts (~ 1.5 lbs without the bone), thinly sliced ~ 1 lb mushrooms (we used 2 big portobellos and 3 big oyster mushrooms), thinly sliced 1 small head garlic (about 6 large cloves), thinly sliced about the same quantity ginger, thinly sliced 1 napa cabbage (a bit on the small side), cored, quartered, and sliced into ~ 1/4 ″ thick pieces safflower oil (or any other neutral oil with a high smoke point) 2 scallions, green part only, thinly sliced 1 tsp salt more salt and freshly ground black pepper to taste for the marinade 1 tsp salt 4 tsp Shaoxing rice wine (plus more for deglazing the wok, later on) 4 tsp corn starch 1/2 tsp ground black pepper 1/2 tsp ground Sichuan peppercorn

The Thunder entered the fourth quarter with a four - point lead, but Durant took over by scoring 18 points on 7 - of - 9 shooting.

Adrian Peterson had another phenomenal day for the Vikings, rushing for for 210 yards and one touchdown on 21 carries, but in the fourth quarter with the Vikings trailing by nine points, he did not have a touch.

REDMEN ROLL Smith Center (Kans.) opened the Class 2 - 1A playoffs on Oct. 30 by scoring a national high school record 72 first - quarter points in an 83 — 0 win over Plainville.

The Falcons jumped out to a 21 - 3 lead on the strength of three first - half touchdown tosses by Ryan before the Lions scored 13 unanswered points to cut Atlanta's lead to 21 - 16 with 13:26 left in the fourth quarter.

One of the Terrapins» two touchdowns came on a 100 - yard kickoff return by sophomore William Likely, though that only cut Stanford's lead to 28 points in the fourth quarter.

The Gunners have slipped to 11 points behind Premier League leaders Leicester City and were dumped out of the FA Cup by Watford in the quarter - finals on Sunday.

PITTSBURGH scored 17 points in the fourth quarter — on two TD passes from Ed Brown to Gary Ballman and a 24 - yard field goal by Lou Michaels with only 40 seconds left — to tie Philadelphia 20 - 20 and remain in contention, 1 1/2 games behind.

The Aggies mounted a comeback to start the second half, after an early 14 - 0 lead became a 17 - point deficit by early on in the second quarter.

no one can be that delusional without having Wenger blood run through their veins... this team has already conceded 2 of 3 in August and you believe we can get 45 of a potentially 52 available points before Xmas... no wonder this club can't seem to take it's fan - base seriously, albeit I'm sure your assessment would give the Grinch who stole soccer a quarter chub... anyways, enough talk about the criminally insane with internet access... we have much bigger fish to fry... like what were the real objectives behind the choices made by our lame duck manager on the weekend

Big games are often decided by fine margins, and in the Champions League quarter - final second leg tie between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid on Wednesday night, Arda Turan's red card with 14 minutes remaining was the turning point.

The Lakers defeated Utah 113 - 100 on 24 points and 17 rebounds - by Kareem Abdul - Jabbar and Dallas 103 - 92 when Abdul - Jabbar hit for 10 unanswered points late in the fourth quarter.

Terribly bad beat on the MTSU / WKU Under 56 — This game was 10 - 3 heading into the 4th quarter, going Under by more than 40 points!

The Yellow Jackets scored touchdowns on their fifth and 11th snaps of the season, led by 27 points with 3:49 left in the first quarter, and didn't allow Alcorn State a first down until the Braves» sixth possession.

Dwight Powell was also called for a flagrant one on Ryan Anderson with 5:13 left in the third quarter, with Houston up by 22 points.

Had they not been aided by a pick - six and great field position in the fourth quarter from McCarron's second interception, that streak of 30 - point games could have come to an end on Sunday against a Bengals defense that didn't allow Ben Roethlisberger to throw a touchdown pass.

The Magic out - scored the East - leading Pacers by 11 points in the fourth quarter to steal a victory on Sunday night.

A third - quarter rushing touchdown put the Ravens back on top of the Patriots by a single point, 21 - 20, with plenty more time to play in their Week 3 rematch of last season's AFC Championship game.

In a tense final quarter the Blues came out on top after the Men's 2nds had narrowly lost by 2 points earlier in the day.

Sure, the Spurs may go on to lose this game — after a James Harden three - pointer and Kevin Durant's apotheosis in the fourth quarter, the Thunder lead by seven points with 0:57 to play — but Kawhi Leonard has been outstanding.

The Lakers (24 - 28) got off to a fast start, leading by as many as seven points on several occasions in the second quarter.

Later in the quarter, Jarrett Allen put together a six - point streak to put the Nets up by 30 points and they went on to an 88 - 61 lead heading into the final quarter.

-- The play call came on a key 4th and 3 in the third quarter with the Colts trailing by just 6 - points.

The Lakers closed the first quarter on a 22 - 8 run and turned an 11 - point deficit into a lead they would not relinquish at 30 - 27 on a three - point play by Randle with 3.8 seconds left.

We quickly turned things around, going on a run of our own and only allowing 4 points in the 2nd quarter to trail by 2 at halftime.

Based on how hot the Rockets looked for the first quarter and a half, it was distressing, but not remotely surprising, that they went into halftime up by only six points.

On the negative side, I expect we will suffer more than our fair share of injuries, we will go out of the cup competitions by the quarter final stages and we will still lose points to the likes of Stoke and Blackburn.

General secretary Brendan Barber welcomed the unemployment figures published in July 2012, describing them as «excellent news», but he pointed out that long - term youth joblessness was up by 18,000 on the quarter to 421,000, and urged the government to prioritise tackling long - term youth unemployment.

Udoma, who stated this while briefing State House correspondents on Wednesday, pointed out that the growth was higher than that of the previous quarter, when the economy grew by 1.40 per cent and 0.72 per cent in the second quarter, which according to him was a confirmation that Nigeria had fully exited recession.

Marla Geha of the Herzberg Institute of Astrophysics in Victoria, British Columbia, and Joshua Simon of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena focused on eight candidate objects that had already been located by the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, which uses a 2.5 - meter telescope at Apache Point, New Mexico, to survey a quarter of the sky.

Stephen Thrower's monumental Murderous Passions: The Delirious Cinema of Jesús Franco fervently embodies that consciousness, serving as culmination of a quarter - century of impassioned proselytizing by fans once on the margin, until, at some point, the balance shifted toward unexpected respectability.

Moreover, principals account for fully one quarter of a school's effect on student achievement and a highly effective principal can increase student achievement by as much as 20 percentage points.

As pointed out by RM Sotheby's, a 1962 road test by Road & Track revealed that Shelby's original Cobra could run from zero - to — 100 km / h in 4.2 seconds, complete a standing quarter - mile run in 13.8 seconds, and go on to reach a top speed of 246 km / h (153 mph).