Sentences with phrase «couple of percentage points»

«2016 wasn't our best year in terms of growth, but we grew a [couple of percentage points].»

Yet the 580 - 2 still dashes from 0 to 60 mph in roughly 3.2 seconds and touches 199 mph, and its 40:60 front to rear weight distribution is couple of percentage points better.

Then I got tired of being «cycling skinny,» decided to see if I could do one of those «actor transforms himself for an action hero role» things, and gained 22 pounds while decreasing my body fat by a couple of percentage points.

Additionally, some large companies will take a discount, usually a couple of percentage points, if they pay sooner than their own dictated terms, often at their own discretion.

I am currently thinking of ways to increase my savings a couple of percentage points, but that proves to be a challenge as living expenses in Switzerland are notoriously high.

Because most wealthy Chinese seem to think about RMB in terms of USD or Hong Kong dollars, it is the fear that any depreciation of the RMB against those two currencies (the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the USD through a modified currency board) greater than the couple of percentage points interest rate differential would yield less than equivalent USD or Hong Kong dollar bonds.

If you meet those basic criteria, you should be able to save a couple of percentage points on your loan.

Pretty much every metric that analysts use to measure the value of asset prices is off the charts, in part because relatively few real - economy opportunities pushed investors into the markets for stocks, corporate debt, farm land and whatever else offered a return of more than a couple of percentage points.

(In real terms, because we have been doing better than our competitors in the inflation stakes, the fall would be a couple of percentage points more than this.)

But when we go thru the exercise of trying to add up the pieces that get to 7 % we fall a couple of percentage points short.

In most years, the return gap between the best - and worst - performing sectors of the typical US core option — US Treasuries, agencies, mortgages, corporates and other sectors in the US Aggregate, for example — would be just a couple of percentage points.

For example, some of the larger chains have been struggling to grow even by a couple of percentage points, Veidenheimer says.

Everyone recognises food waste is wrong but the economic implications of a couple of percentage points will ultimately drive manufacturers to adopt Food Manufacturing 4.0 best practices.

In the United States, most consumers are used to paying a sales tax - a couple of percentage points per dollar of goods sold - that are used to fund government.

It is a good day for us but it will be hard to change this into a meaningful vote maybe a couple of percentage points all very important even 2percent really helps us Lib Dems out

«If you can ratchet that down by a couple of percentage points or in the case of the Cuomo proposal, three to four points, then you are making an enormous difference over time,» says Ward.

According to the Daily Record poll, UKIP are only a couple of percentage points from winning a seat:

A July poll of marginal seats put UKIP ahead in the constituency but only by a couple of percentage points from Labour.

He then called on Bratton, who said, «The overall percentage of those being stopped in terms of race or ethnicity has not changed dramatically — only by a couple of percentage points.»

«You don't need to move people's political dials by much to influence an election, just a couple of percentage points to the left or right.»

We know that teacher turnover has risen over the past 30 years by a couple of percentage points.

But while publisher Hachette UK's overall sales dropped a couple of percentage points for the third quarter of the year, its digital sales increased an astounding 80 % over the previous August, and 32 % over the previous July.

This was all really a no - brainer when the difference in royalty rate was only a couple of percentage points.

Boosting your savings rate even a couple of percentage points a year can have a major effect on the amount of savings you'll accumulate by retirement.

The couple of percentage points you save go directly to your bottom line and can have a tremendous effect over time.

If you meet those basic criteria, you should be able to save a couple of percentage points on your loan.

She explains how the interest rate on the personal line of credit (PLC) debt is a couple of percentage points higher than her mortgage and car loan so it needs to be brought down to zero.

Any strategy that can outperform by a couple of percentage points is certainly worth a look.

Clearly, if you're setting aside 10 % of salary each year into a retirement account and the return you earn drops a couple of percentage points, you'll end up with a significantly lower nest egg come retirement time unless you boost your savings rate.

It may not seem like much, but if you rack up a lot of credit card debt, the couple of percentage points can save you big money in the end.

Case in point: Just a couple of percentage points on a $ 100,000 investment could mean the difference between having $ 760,000 or $ 1.3 million portfolio after 30 years.

First, there's little point in buying fixed income gradually, because these investments are not likely to move up or down more than a couple of percentage points over a short period.

It all comes down to what you mean by â $ œthe market.â $ Youâ $ ™ re absolutely right that the Couch Potato has lagged a couple of percentage points behind the red - hot Canadian stock market over the past decade.

If I'm able to get $ 55 for the balance of my shares by the end of this year, my IRR should improve by a couple of percentage points.

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.

Many people aren't aware of just how big a difference a couple of percentage points can make on an interest rate!

The researchers note «The scope for valuation levels is greatly curtailed when yields start at a couple of percentage points and when P / E multiples are high relative to the past.»

Which brings me to my point: Lots of people are obsessed with finding the sexiest investing strategy that will bump up their returns by a couple of percentage points: Smart beta!

The interest you pay, generally a couple of percentage points above the prime rate, goes into your retirement account.

With no BigLaw supplier owning more than a couple of percentage points of market share, wouldn't classical economics label the market as competitive?

I've seen partners, (earning six and seven figure annual incomes), tearing their hair out because PEP has dropped by a couple of percentage points.

Discounts differ across tiers, but according to TechCrunch, «Almost all of the discounts have been improved a couple of percentage points.»

iPhone X was consistently a couple of percentage points below its Android counterparts, but nothing that would suggest it had such a smaller battery.

The standby endurance is also unusually impressive: leave the View 10 on a table for a day, and the battery may only drop a couple of percentage points.

The Echo Dot continues to account for over half of all Echo units sold, and increased that share by a couple of percentage points in the holiday quarter.

Indeed, the market conditions in Southern California have prompted CT Realty to lower its multifamily return expectations a couple of percentage points from what Polverini would only describe as the «high teens.»