Sentences with phrase «declines by a percentage point»

A typical DSC starts at 5 % or 6 % of the amount of your original investment during the first year you own the fund, then gradually declines by a percentage point each year until it's at 0 % after about six years.

Not exact matches

Even though results showed his Democratic opponent Doug Jones defeated him by 1.5 percentage points, Moore said he was awaiting certification of the final votes, declining to rule out the possibility he would request a recount.

By 2012, the fraction had declined 15 percentage points, to 59 percent.

To put the point differently, typically in recessions the 10 year Treasury has declined from peak to trough by around 1.8 percentage points.

The labour market had tightened as the unemployment rate had declined by around 3 percentage points in two years, and wage pressures were building.

Volume / mix declined 0.8 percentage points primarily due to lower shipments in infant nutrition in the UK and Italy as well as soup in the UK, partially offset by growth in beans in the UK as well as condiments and sauces across Europe.

«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.»

Based on recent corporate leverage, this decline in the cost of debt would increase the typical company's return on equity by more than four percentage points.

Oil exporters are likely to be hit the hardest, with the IMF pointing out that, relative to the 2004 - 2008 period, GDP growth in the average oil - exporting country will fall by approximately 6.5 percentage points in 2009, and the decline in their current account and fiscal deficits is expected to be in the double digits.

As Wolf Richter pointed out for Wolf Street earlier this month: «Since mid-December 2016, the Fed has hiked rates four times, in total by 1 percentage point, but over the same period, junk bond yields rated CCC or below have declined 1.5 percentage points as the bonds have rallied.»

The most recent and thorough of these, by Lukasz Rachel and Thomas Smith at the Bank of England, concluded that for the industrial world, neutral real interest rates have declined by about 4.5 percentage points over the last 30 years and are likely to stay low in the future.

Reis» preliminary forecast for 2014 calls for office - vacancy rates to decline by roughly half a percentage point by year's end and asking rents to increase 2.8 %, the largest gain since 2007.

In 2017, whole house remodeling declined by 4 percentage points (from 53 percent the previous year), room additions were down eight points (from 37 percent), and window and door replacements were down six points (from 36 percent in 2016).

As a result, the unemployment rate, which is derived from the household survey, has fallen by about 1/2 a percentage point from its recent peak, although this decline is also partly explained by a large fall in the participation rate.

Again, empirical work suggests that, at current levels of approvals and credit growth, a once - only 10 per cent decline in approvals would reduce the monthly rate of credit growth by around 0.3 of a percentage point after about three months (Graph C3).

The decline pushed profitability down by 0.7 percentage points to 35.9 % of sales since Kimberly Clark couldn't use higher prices to offset rising commodity costs.

The Protestant vote declined by one point as a percentage of the electorate between 2012 and 2016, for a total of 52 percent of the overall vote.

He claimed that in local elections contested by all four Scottish parties this year «it is the Lib Dems who are leading the pack, rising by an average of ten percentage points while the others flatline or decline».

Between 2002 and 2010, the likelihood that a typical insider voted center - left declined by 11.3 percentage points; the likelihood that such a voter supported the center - right increased by 13.2 percentage points.

Greenberg said the biggest decline in those numbers came once again from downstate, where the percentage of people who want Cuomo to serve a third term as governor dropped by 27 points.

New York City's proficiency increased by 1.2 percentage points; Buffalo increased by 1 percentage point; Rochester's proficiency declined by 0.2 percentage points; Syracuse increased by 1 percentage point; and Yonkers increased by 0.6 percentage points.

In New York City, Cuomo declined by 17 percentage points, and among non-whites, he dropped 22 percentage points.

And the number who denied the scientific consensus that human - caused climate change is happening declined by 10 percentage points among Catholics and 6 points among the US population in general.

Research by Pugatch and Sarah Bohn of the Public Policy Institute of California showed that for every 1,000 additional border patrol agents assigned to prevent unauthorized migration to a U.S. state, the state's share of Mexican immigrants declined by nearly 22 percentage points during the period from 1994 to 2011.

By comparing weekly deaths and flu - related hospitalizations in each year's flu season, the researchers were able to calculate that for every percentage point increase in the A / H3N2 match rate, weekly deaths declined by about 0.0016 and hospitalizations declined by about 0.002 per 1,000 nursing home residentBy comparing weekly deaths and flu - related hospitalizations in each year's flu season, the researchers were able to calculate that for every percentage point increase in the A / H3N2 match rate, weekly deaths declined by about 0.0016 and hospitalizations declined by about 0.002 per 1,000 nursing home residentby about 0.0016 and hospitalizations declined by about 0.002 per 1,000 nursing home residentby about 0.002 per 1,000 nursing home residents.

In 2016, UK schools saw a disappointing decline in A * - C grades at GCSE level, with the proportion of pupils who gained a C grade or above dropping by 2.1 percentage points from the previous year.

Using the paper's estimates, that would imply the recent recession caused a decline in female enrollment in elementary education of 33.6 percent (the 5.6 percentage point change in the unemployment rate multiplied by the 6 percent figure above).

Opposition to universal vouchers, which give all families a wider choice, has declined from 44 % to 37 %, while support for vouchers targeted to low - income parents has increased by six percentage points (43 % in 2017 up from 37 % in 2016).

In a dramatic change of opinion over the past year, support for charter schools has declined by 12 percentage points, from 51 % last year to only 39 % this year (36 % opposed).

Asked about support for «giving tenure to teachers,» just 31 % of the public express a favorable view in 2016, a figure that has declined by 10 percentage points since 2013.

The proportion rose by more than 20 percentage points for the composite occupation, but actually declined slightly for teachers.

Support has declined by 10 percentage points since 2013, suggesting that opinion has shifted in response to the media attention the issue has received during the ongoing Vergara v. California litigation over the constitutionality of tenure (see «Reaping the Whirlwind,» legal beat, Fall 2016).

We found that opposition to vouchers declined by 7 percentage points between 2016 and 2017 when we asked respondents whether they favored giving «all families with children in public schools a wider choice by allowing them to enroll their children in private schools instead, with the government helping to pay the tuition.»

And the College Board, the organization that administers the AP program, reports that the share of AP exams receiving the minimum passing score of 3 or better declined by four percentage points between 2003 and 2008.

The school has grown academically as well — for the 2009 - 2010 school year, student scores improved by 7 percentage points, a year in which state scores declined.

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.

The percentage of all SWD scoring proficient in math declined by over 3 percentage points.

The percentage of black children in D.C. reading at Proficient and Advanced levels more than doubled in the past 13 years (from seven percent in 2002 to 18 percent in 2015), while the percentage of black kids struggling with literacy declined by 20 percentage points (from 72 percent to 52 percent) over the past 13 years.

There, fourth - graders reading Below Basic declined by 25 percentage points (from 69 percent to 44 percent) between 2002 and 2015, while the number of kids reading at Proficient and Advanced levels increased by 17 percentage points (from 10 percent to 27 percent).

There, the percentage of Florida fourth - graders struggling with literacy declined by 15 points (from 40 percent to 25 percent) between 2002 and 2015, while the numbers reading at and above grade level increased by 11 percentage points (from 27 percent to 38 percent).

The percentage of black fourth - graders reading Below Basic declined by 19 percentage points (from 61 percent to 42 percent) in that period, while the percentage of Latino fourth - grade peers struggling with literacy declined by 18 percentage points (from 47 percent to 29 percent).

The share of white students in the Richmond - Petersburg metro declined by almost ten percentage points to 51 % between 1989 and 2010, even as the share of the black enrollment remained steady at 37 %.

The affected schools saw the dropout rate decline from 5.5 % to 3.7 %, while college attendance and persistence increased by 13 percentage points.

The share of income going to the bottom 20 percent over this period stayed around 3 percent, declining by less than 1 percentage point.

• Suburban Chicagoland: In 229 school districts in suburban Chicagoland, low - income enrollment rose by an average of 22 percentage points, but average achievement declined by an average of only 1 point in reading and 3 points in math.

This, by the way, is a faster decline in illiteracy than the four percentage point decline in white fourth - graders reading Below Basic (from 25 percent in 2002 to 21 percent in 2013); the percentage of white fourth - graders struggling with literacy declined by one percentage point between 2011 and 2013.

Within the U.S. market, Chrysler saw the proportion of its sales going to fleets decline by five percentage points year - over-year, to 23 percent, although its days supply (a measure of how many cars are unsold at dealerships) rose to 71 days.

While print ad revenue slowed down its rate of decline by nearly a percentage point, digital revenue from advertisers actually rose.

Stolper also pointed out that the percent of e-reader usage declined by one percentage point each quarter.

You can check a bond fund's sensitivity to interest rates by looking up its effective duration, which can be used to estimate how much the fund would gain (or fall) should interest rates decline (or rise) by 1 percentage point.