Sentences with phrase «by dropping points»

Like I said in a previous post, winning the big games means little if you follow up those wins by dropping points against the lesser lights.

United's have lost the advantage over other top four contendars by dropping points in recent weeks and they might go into the game third in the table -LSB-...]

starts by dropping points on the first game and end up being 10 points behind by the end of November with the #wengerout banner coming out just before alexis goes on a free to psg... I mean I can see this all the way from Africa.

Not exact matches

As for the Golden Globes, Gervais pointed out that the show is watched» ¨ by 25 million people in the U.S. and maybe 300 million people worldwide» ¨ — «tweeting about it would be a drop in the ocean,» Gervais noted.»

The Fed Audit, which has consistently been fought by the Senate, could easily be dropped - with Republican legislators being able to point to the endorsement of the beltway's leading libertarian think tanks as evidence of being tough on the Fed.

The Bank of Canada announced this morning that it is dropping its target interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.75 %.

Gross domestic product contracted at an annual rate of 0.5 % in the second quarter and 0.8 % in the first, which is exactly what the Bank of Canada predicted in July when it dropped its policy rate by a quarter point.

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.

«Most retirement savers are accustomed to market volatility, but the swings in the second quarter were especially dramatic, including a 600 - point drop followed by a nearly 800 - point increase,» Doug Fisher, Fidelity's senior vice president for workplace investing, said in a statement.

About half the economists surveyed by Bloomberg News now say the Bank of Canada will drop its benchmark interest rate a quarter point to 0.5 % today.

Dora Gicheva, an economist at the University of North Carolina, has found that for every $ 10,000 young people carried in student debt, the likelihood of getting married in the seven years following graduation dropped by some three or four percentage points.

They can even result in a 10 point drop in IQ, according to a study conducted by Hewlett Packard.

Volatility as measured by the VIX, which had surged on the recent downwards moves, dropped by 4 points to roughly 18.5, eversing all of its jump over the past week.

In 2017, bitcoin climbed over a 1000 %, but it also dropped by 30 %, 40 % at various points.

ListenUp Audio Video, an electronics retailer, was approached by nonprofit recycling organization Eco-Cycle to use ListenUp's Boulder, Colorado, location as a recycling drop - off point.

The biggest point drop this month took place on October 14, when the Dow fell by 157 points, not even a 1 % point drop.

But annualized spending on buybacks has dropped by at least 15 % from its high point last year, according to Silverblatt.

In August, China devalued its currency by three percent, which put global markets in a rout, and caused the Dow to drop momentarily 1,000 points in a single day, before closing down nearly 600 points.

The authors point to reporting in the Wall Street Journal from 2015 that Google executives» frequent visits to the White House under Mr Obama may have factored in a decision by the Federal Trade Commission to drop its antitrust investigation into the internet giant.

Support for this project has dropped by six points among British Columbians (36 %, compared to 42 % in July 2015) while opposition has remained stable at 45 % -LRB--1).

Support for both the Enbridge Northern Gateway and the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain expansion has dropped by six points since July 2015.

GDP growth must drop every year for the next five or six years by at least 1 percentage point a year.

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.

In fact, the notion that a drop around the halfway point in a four - year term is only natural might be a case of Canadian discourse being clouded by American experience.

He also explained that if my score had been just slightly lower to start with, an 80 - point drop would cost even more: «By comparison, from 750 to 670, you'd be looking at an approximate 100 basis points (1.0 %) increase, or $ 60 per $ 100,000 borrowed [per month].»

The one - year lending rate will drop by 25 basis points to 4.6 percent effective Wednesday, the People's Bank of China said on its website.

Tread carefully: Letting one account become 60 days delinquent can drop a credit score by almost 50 points.

Another way to qualify for a conforming loan with a lower credit score is to save money: Fannie Mae's eligibility matrix drops the minimum credit score by 20 points if you can show that you have enough assets to cover 2 to 6 months of monthly mortgage payments.

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

Prior to the advance of recent years, the list of these instances was: August 1929, the week of the bull market peak; August 1972, after which the S&P 500 would advance about 7 % by year - end, and then drop by half; August 1987, the week of the bull market peak; July 1999, just before an abrupt 12 % market correction, with a secondary signal in March 2000, the week of the final market peak; and July 2007, within a few points of the final peak in the S&P 500, with a secondary signal in October 2007, the week of that bull final market peak.

The most recent GDP release is a case in point: the drag induced by the drop in inventories subtracted more than two percentage points from the annualized fourth quarter GDP growth rate.

is a case in point: the drag induced by the drop in inventories subtracted more than two percentage points from the annualized fourth quarter GDP growth rate.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

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.

«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.»

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.

The biggest drop has occurred among independent women - just 14 % currently approve of Trump's job performance, which is down by 25 points since September.

The overall index dropped by 3.3 points to 39.1 points.

«A single 30 - day late payment can drop one's credit score by as much as 100 points,» Yates says.

Expectations drop by more than 6 points!

The total index drops by one point to 31.9 points.

As has been pointed out by the Conference Board of Canada, traditional Canadian dependency on the US market peaked in 2001 and since that time the US share of Canada's merchandise exports has dropped from 87 percent to 74 percent of total exports.

The average rate assigned to a 30 - year fixed mortgage (FRM) has dropped by 39 basis points, or 0.39 %, since the start of 2016.

But the standard deviation drops as well by an average of 110 basis points.

Although companies have been quick to talk about the benefits of tax reform — most expect their tax rates to drop by 6 to 7 percentage points — many have been opaque about how they intend to use those savings.

The fundraiser hit a high point when Ontario Labour Minister Kevin Flynn dropped by to show his support.

The annual return drops by average of 240 basis points for the CAD, AUD, GBP and JPY versions.

With new found faith from investors, the Sterling and Euro also fell victim to the worlds most traded currency, dropping by 12 and 17 points respectively.

Cutting the interest rate by 10 basis points to 0.05 % and dropping the deposit rate to minus 0.2 %, in my view, shows the ECB has done everything it can on interest rates.

In the midst of early February's market turmoil that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average decline by 1,175 points — its largest point drop in one day ever — and the S&P 500 enter correction territory (a decline of 10 percent or more from its previous high), a handful of investment products fell, essentially, to zero.