Sentences with phrase «falling by a full percentage point»

Used car prices fell sharply, falling by a full percentage point last month.

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The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

Small Caps Hold Up Despite Market Swoon... Since Jan. 1 the small - cap S&P 600 has beaten the Dow by five full percentage points, rising 2.25 %, while the Dow has fallen 2.8 %.

For instance, if a bond has a duration of seven years, its price will likely climb 7 % if interest rates fall by one percentage point and lose 7 % if rates rise by a full point.