Sentences with phrase «drop by a percentage»

Although the average car loan is 72 months or longer, ask for a 48 - month term and the interest rate will drop by a percentage point or two.

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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 %.

The percentage of American workers represented by unions has dropped from 23.3 percent in 1983 to 12.5 percent last year, according to the Labor Department.

Over the last two decades, such loans as a percentage of total bank commercial loans, have dropped to 30 percent of bank portfolios from 50 percent in 1995, according to recent research compiled by former Small Business Administration head Karen Mills and Harvard University.

At these levels, Canadian energy companies are expected to reduce investment again, albeit by less than half 2015's drop in percentage terms.

A recent study from Babson College found that venture capital firms with female partners are more than three times as likely to invest in companies with female CEOs than firms led by all - male teams, but the percentage of women in the VC industry has dropped from 10 % to 6 % since 1999 — and only 2.7 % of VC - backed companies have a female CEO.

In Silicon Valley, the percentage of immigrant - founded companies has declined by 8.5 percent since 2005, the first such drop in recent history.

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.

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

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).

«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.

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.

Perhaps not as drastic as the Dow falling by 8 %, but to see the percentage of marketers who believe their content marketing was effective drop to 30 % from 38 % in one year is a revelation.

Improving your credit score by 40 points can drop half a percentage point from your rate, depending on the loan you pick and other parameters.

For instance, if your stock drops by a certain percentage of your risk capital, you can stop your investment and sell that stock to someone else.

Adjusted gross margin fell by 3 percentage points to 33.8 % of sales and operating margin dropped to 17.4 % of sales from 18.8 % a year ago.

The coal producer said that net income was higher by nearly a sixth from year - ago levels, but adjusted pre-tax operating earnings dropped by double - digit percentages, and overall revenue was down 4 % compared to the first quarter of 2017.

These traditions have seen their market share of millennials drop by 8.4, 7.3, and 2.2 percentage points, respectively.

It should be noted that evangelicals» share of the overall US population dropped by 0.9 percent over the last seven years, but the percentage of US adults who self - identify as evangelical actually rose from 34 percent to 35 percent over the same period of time.

While it should be noted that evangelicals» share of the overall US population dropped by 0.9 percent over the last seven years based on denominational affiliation, the percentage of US adults who self - identify as evangelical rose from 34 to 35 percent over the same period of time.

The proportion of Americans who say they know an evangelical dropped by 9 percentage points from 2014 to 2017, down to 61 percent today.

By the way the the arsenal win percentage now drop to 30 % when wilshere starts as compared to 82 % wins when he doesn't play for arsenal... I don't want to go into his goal, assists, key passes stats which are pathetic.

By nixing 21 wins between the 2012 and 2013 seasons, the decision drops ND to 885 wins all - time, and a.7123 all - time win percentage.

So you're telling me: 1) He played in a fairly complex system 2) He has great character and stays out of trouble 3) He has shown improvement in his mechanics each year 4) His completion percentage which is in the range of the big four was marred by almost double the drop rate of his receivers 5) He has an arm 6) He can extend plays with his feet as an elite athlete?

By converting each spread into a winning percentage, we found that the Patriots win total should technically drop by 0.906 gameBy converting each spread into a winning percentage, we found that the Patriots win total should technically drop by 0.906 gameby 0.906 games.

Well, he did his best to shut those haters up by dropping three first - quarter TD passes and finishing the game with over a 75 % completion percentage and 447 yards.

By omitting home teams, there isn't much of a drop - off in units won at each betting percentage level, but we once again decrease the number of wagers needed to achieve those results, improving our ROI even further.

But in a sign of how challenging this transition can be for schools, district figures show that lunch sales for September through December dropped by about 5 percentage points since the previous year, or more than 20,000 lunches a day.

And while CPS» lunch and breakfast participation rates have dropped since the introduction of healthier menus this year, rates are up at Holy Trinity by 14 percentage points since Boundas arrived.

But by the six month, that percentage drops to 44 percent, and at 12 months, 24 percent.

A Wall Street Journal / Marist College poll found Gov. Cuomo's job approval rating dropped to 42 percent, and tumbled by 21 percentage points among Latino voters.

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.

On who will run the economy better, the Conservative lead has dropped from 17 points a month ago to only 4 points now, but their own percentage has dropped by only 3 points; the big shift was Labour gaining at the expense of «neither».

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

In New York, the unemployment rate has fallen by 1.9 percentage points, or tied for the 34th biggest drop among the 50 states over that period.

Dropping an unexpected political bomb on the Hudson Valley, U.S. Rep. Chris Gibson, who won re-election last November by about 30 percentage points, announced Tuesday, Jan. 6 that he would not run for re-election in 2016.

By this year, the percentage of the budget paid to connected employees had dropped to 19 percent, with just under $ 2 million paid.

That percentage is stable from 2015 to 2016, though the actual number of Medicaid recipients dropped by about 3,000 last year.

Although China is producing more energy from coal in absolute terms, the percentage of total energy provided by coal is dropping.

A new study shows that the proportion of those patients who lacked insurance dropped by nearly 4 percentage points, and the proportion covered by Medicaid rose more than 6 points, within three months of the launch of the Healthy Michigan Plan in April 2014.

A lower percentage of children are eating fast food on any given day and calories consumed by children from burger, pizza and chicken fast food restaurants also has dropped, according to an article published online by JAMA Pediatrics.

Malawi, in southeastern Africa, gave farmers bags of seed and fertilizer and saw food prices fall and the percentage of its population classified as undernourished drop by almost half over a decade, Funk added.

Between 1999 and 2010 changes in seafood consumption meant that blood levels of mercury in women of childbearing age dropped by a third, and the percentage of such women who have worrisome blood levels of mercury dropped by two thirds.

But instead of recovering, this species» populations have continued to drop every year by roughly the same percentage, a trend the scientists expect is continuing.

The percentage of Texans without health insurance dropped 31 percent since enrollment began in the Affordable Care Act's (ACA) Health Insurance Marketplace, according to a new report released by the Episcopal Health Foundation and Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.

Researchers also found the percentage of uninsured Texans who earned annual incomes between $ 16,000 and $ 47,000 dropped by more than 42 percent.

«Ten years ago we tested a similar mailing that didn't talk about participation being mandatory [and] the self - response rate dropped by 20 percentage points, from about 50 % to 30 %,» Treat says.