Sentences with phrase «by average points»

Matches are fed into league tables and sorted by average points.

When we multiply 15,000 miles by our average point value of 1.2 cents per mile, we get $ 186, over $ 100 more expensive than the difference in fare pricing.

Not exact matches

Consequently, by the European market close, U.S. stocks traded sharply lower with the Dow Jones industrial average falling more than 130 points after opening sharply higher.

By limiting supply to the market, the two cartels — BPC, a partnership between the largest Russian and Belorussian companies, and Canpotex, made up of Potash Corp. and junior partners Agrium and Mosaic — helped drive the average price of potash from a historic range of between $ 125 and $ 200 a metric tonne to, at one point in 2009, $ 825 a metric tonne.

He hopes that businesses will be more explicit in describing how third - party companies can use data collected by technology companies, offering bullet - point summaries in terms the average person can understand when policies are updated, and even explore the idea of creating an ombudsman to field concerns and mediate conflicts between platforms and users.

And as the EIA points out, this brief wholesale price drop hasn't been matched by overall drops in California's consumer electric rates, which remain well above average.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up by more than 800 points since Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen spoke about the economy last week.

«There is absolutely no doubt in my mind,» Brown says, pointing out that the average company on the Best Managed Companies list grew sales by 14 % and the bottom line by 21 %.

Moreover, the Internet's contribution to Canada's GDP is expected to grow to 3.6 % by 2016, at which point the country will be even further behind the expected average of 5.3 %, sliding to 12th.

If the average Western consumer hasn't heard of Lenovo by this point, they inevitably will over the next few years.

A sell - off on Friday left the Dow Jones Industrial Average down more than 260 points for the week and the blue chip index remains down 7 % on the year, while the tech - heavy Nasdaq composite is now off by almost 13 % this year.

Under her leadership, the average SAT scores of the entering freshman class increased by nearly 50 points, and participation in global semester study abroad rose from 25 percent to 75 percent.

In the U.S., the Dow Jones industrial average plunged by 424.56 points to close at 24,024.13.

In the article, Irving says that 18 % of the technical jobs at GoDaddy are held by women — though he notes that that figure puts the company just 1 percentage point above the average for Silicon Valley.

She expects to see 3 % to 4 % sales growth per year going forward, while operating margins will grow to 18.5 % by 2017, which is 300 basis points above the its five year average.

That is, when debt service ratios are calculated using the discounted mortgage rates actually charged by banks (about 125 percentage points below posted rates), the average Canadian homeowner is paying just 25 % or so of income on mortgage payments, far below the 32 % benchmark used for mortgage - insurance qualification.

Well, research shows that on average, people tend to talk about themselves during 60 percent of a conversation — and when there's something being sold by one person in the conversation, a less experienced salesperson could be tempted to fill a void of silence with a laundry list of more selling points and value propositions.

North American investors arrived at work Monday morning and were greeted by a 1,000 - point sell - off in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, marking the blue chip index's biggest intra-day decline ever.

Women Are Dominating Social Media (Pew Research) On average, the proportion of women who use social media is greater than that of men by an 8 percentage point gap.

Closer to home, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average collapsed by a record - breaking 554.26 points, the whole global economy seemed poised on a precipice.

And if — inflation is gonna average 2 %, it'll be above by a few percentage points from time to time.

Love went from one of the ten best offensive players in the NBA to seeing his scoring average fall eight points per game, shot attempts fall by six, rebounds fall by three, and assists fall by two per game compared to the previous year.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, -0.08 % had tumbled 180 points by midday Monday, while the S&P 500 SPX, -0.29 % was down more than 20 points, putting both on track for their worst day in three and a half months.

We can debate the merits of this study (done by a real estate association of course) all day long (demographic sampling, housing price changes, etc), but the point is, «above average» people generally all own homes and are wealthier, be it 2X wealthier or 40X wealthier than the average renter.

Preferred personal auto's underlying loss ratio improved 3.6 percentage points to 70.1 percent, driven by improved frequency and higher average earned premium slightly offset by higher severity.

Our forecasts suggest that by the end of 2018, inflation will be, on average, 30 basis points above the long - term average across countries.

Lastly, the rankings factored health care costs based on three data points: (1) the average health insurance premium, sourced from KFF.org; (2) portion of health costs covered by Medicare, sourced from CMS.gov; and (3) state rankings on senior health outcomes from AmericasHealthRankings.org.

At the close of the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 148 points; the broader S&P 500 Index was off 22 points; and the NASDAQ was lower by 54 points.

Even with the shift in margins between the cash rate and lending rates, real lending rates have been lower by between 70 and 90 basis points on average in the latter period.

At the close of trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was up 42 points; the broader S&P 500 Index was ahead nearly five points; and the NASDAQ was higher by 16 points.

The Dow utility average plunged another 12 points, the Transports dropped by nearly 100, the Industrials failed their recent basing pattern, the number of stocks hitting new lows jumped above new highs on both the NYSE and the Nasdaq, decliners led advancers by more than 2 - to - 1, and the U.S. dollar weakened further, among other ugliness.

At the close of the day, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down roughly 85 points; the broader S&P 500 Index was off eight points; and the NASDAQ was lower by two points.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average were off by around 700 points, or around 3 percent, before an end of the day recovery of nearly 300 points.

At the end of trading, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 27 points; the broader S&P 500 Index was up four points; and the NASDAQ was higher by 44 points.

Average hourly earnings rose by a better - than - expected 0.3 percentage point in August.

The average asking rent for Downtown was $ 50.02 per square foot, up by $ 1.11 per foot from July, while the availability rate fell by 0.3 points to 12.5 percent, the Colliers statistics revealed.

And so every time the market went up, people piled into that fund, when market went down, they pile out, when the fund outperformed, they piled in, when the fund underperformed they piled out and they took that 18 percent annual gain when the market was flat so that's great on an annualized basis over 10 year period to beat the market by 18 points, but for outside investors, they went in and out so badly that the average investor on a dollar weighted basis lost 11 percent a year and --

Note that the real interest rates exceed reported for TIPS because I have adjusted yields to reflect the 35 basis point average difference between the Consumer Price Index used in calculating TIPS coupons and the Personal Consumption Expenditures deflator targeted by the Fed.

Of the funds, the Highland Energy MLP Fund has had the best absolute performance through August 25, with year - to - date returns of 18.64 %, but these gains actually fall short of the category average by 0.21 percentage points.

In this example, the «inflation portfolio» improved the average real returns of both the conservatively positioned income - oriented retiree's and the young worker's portfolios by 0.7 percentage points per year during the extremely inflationary period from 1965 to 1980.

A bounce to (or near) that level of moving average convergence, followed by a bearish reversal candlestick or gap down, would provide me with a low - risk short selling entry point.

According to the latest data released Thursday by Freddie Mac, the 30 - year fixed - rate average slid to 4.40 percent with an average 0.5 point.

The Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 218 points to 24,189, the Nasdaq was off 25 and the S&P 500 declined by 14.

In general, a drop in consumer confidence by more than 20 points below its 12 - month average has accompanied the beginning of recessions;

Further reinforcing my thesis that the average household has largely reached a point of «saturation» on the amount of debt that it can support, the Federal Reserve reported that credit card delinquencies on credit cards issued by small banks have risen sharply over the last year.

One data point does not make a trend, but also take note of the fact that employment growth for June in the U.S. would bring the rolling average of job creation, as measured by the last few months, to less than 150,000.

Even measured against this bull market's impressive results, technology stocks have been excellent investments, outpacing the 19.4 percent annualized return of Standard and Poor's 500 - stock index by four percentage points per year, on average, since...

A decline much more than 2 % below that average could provoke coordinated exit attempts by trend - followers, at valuations nowhere near the point where value - conscious investors would be eager to absorb those shares.»

The average rate on a 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage fell one basis point, the rate for the 15 - year fixed dropped three basis points and the rate for the 5/1 ARM went down two basis points, according to a NerdWallet survey of daily mortgage rates published Thursday by national lenders.

In 2009, the average APR on all mature accounts (adjusted to reflect the drop in the prime rate) increased by 2.4 percentage points from 2008.