Sentences with phrase «falling by a percentage point»

Since 2013 the sales of electronic books have been more or less flat, rising or falling by a percentage point or two.

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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.

By that year, customers had gradually turned their backs on a brand many now saw as schlocky; Coach's share of the handbag business had fallen 12 percentage points, and Kors was No. 1.

Since January, Apple's stock has fallen by 5 percent, and it's only up 23 percent over the last three years — two percentage points lower than the S&P 500.

A 25 basis point rate hike would see the global real GDP level about 0.4 percentage points lower, with US real GDP falling by about 0.5 percentage points.

Looking at the global economy, the Fund noted that «global economic activity continues to firm up» and is estimated to have grown by 3.7 percent in 2017, which is 0.1 percentage points faster than projected in the fall.

But the explanations why the rate fell by nearly half a percentage point in Statistics Canada's latest jobs report hint at another trend — the first wave of baby boomers leaving the workplace.

Devaluation risks are much less of a concern to investors now compared with the near panic in 2015 when the currency fell by a few percentage points.

In Murphy, output falls, relative to the baseline, by about half a percentage point.

Of the funds, the Highland Energy MLP Fund has had the best absolute performance through August 25, with year - to - date returns of 18.64 %, but these gains actually fall short of the category average by 0.21 percentage points.

Estimates for S&P 500 2016 earnings have fallen by 2 percentage points over the past five weeks, Bloomberg data show.

But in each case inflation fell during the subsequent two years by between 1 and 2 percentage points (see chart, right)-- even during the 1970s, now recalled unfondly as a bubbling cauldron of inflation.

During the second quarter of 2014, affordability measures at the national level fell by 0.9 percentage points to 48.0 per cent for two - storey homes, by 0.6 percentage points to 42.5 per cent for detached bungalows and by 0.4 percentage points to 27.4 per cent for condominium apartments.

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.

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

Bonds issued by Banca Popolare di Vicenza fell around 5 percentage points to 74.5 percent of par as of 1000 BST on May 25, after Reuters reported that a May 23 meeting between the Italian Treasury and the European Commission «turned out negatively».

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 %.

The day following a Spanish bailout request, the official predicted, interest rate on 10 - year notes of Spanish government debt could fall by 1.5 percentage points while the Spanish stock market could surge 15 %.

Despite some monthly volatility, the unemployment rate remains on a downward trend and has fallen by 1/2 percentage point over the past year to reach 4.4 per cent in December.

And now, after watching the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index fall by several percentage points since Thursday and bounce some of the way back on Tuesday, you have a different kind of fear: that all the stock market riches have been won already or that your emotions will get the best of you amid all of the volatility.

Canada's tax rate on corporate profits has fallen by more than 14 percentage points since the turn of the century, to just 15 percent this year.

She found that, all else equal, for every one - percentage - point increase in the national unemployment rate, the starting income of new graduates fell by as much as 7 percent; the unluckiest graduates of the decade, who emerged into the teeth of the 1981 — 82 recession, made roughly 25 percent less in their first year than graduates who stepped into boom times.

The latest ABS projections, based on Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) estimates, indicate that farm GDP fell by around 30 per cent over the year to the June quarter 2003, subtracting a little under 1 percentage point from GDP growth, which is a slightly smaller subtraction than previously expected.

The effect of the drought can also be seen in farm output, which fell by around one - third over the year to the March quarter, subtracting 1.1 percentage points from aggregate GDP growth.

The former effect reflects the narrowing of margins on housing and small business loans: the rate on standard variable rate housing loans has fallen by 1.3 percentage points more than the cash rate since mid 1996; in 1998, the average variable - rate on small business loans has fallen by 0.7 of a percentage point relative to the cash rate.

The predominant standard variable rate on housing loans has fallen by about 3 percentage points since early 1996, to 7.5 per cent.

In total, the standard variable rate was lowered by 1 1/2 percentage points over and above the falls that accompanied the three monetary policy easings.

In recent months, the interest rate on secured fixed - rate personal loans has been reduced by 2.1 percentage points to 9.9 per cent, and that for unsecured fixed - rate loans has fallen by 1.2 percentage points to 11.1 per cent.

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.

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.

Achieving that goal would result in debt falling to about 71 percent by 2028, a nearly 30 percentage point difference.

A 2015 survey by Pew Research found the number of Canadians who held a favourable impression of China fell by 19 percentage points to 39 per cent, compared to 10 years earlier.

But despite the fact that joblessness has fallen by more than two percentage points since then, median hourly wages were the same in the first quarter of 2015 as a year earlier.

In short, the «war on women» rhetoric and the inopportune statements by U.S. Senate candidates Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock only resulted in a three - percentage - point gain in «pro-choice» sentiment» a difference that falls within the poll's margin of error.

Tight margins across the on - and off - trade also contributed to gross margin falling by 1 percentage point to 8.6 %.

For example, when pollsters fail to prompt by party names when asking voting intention, the Lib Dem vote share falls by several percentage points.

Nor would it be by any means unprecedented in the depth of spending cutbacks it entailed (an overall 7 percentage point fall in spending relative to GDP between 2011 and 2017, assuming all plans are implemented, but an annual average of only 1).

When Ukip appeared, the Tory vote fell by six percentage points, and Labour by eight.

Venditto's Republican town board allies handily won re-election, but their victory margins fell by two - thirds to 3 - to - 4 percentage points.

This strong showing by Martins is not being experienced by the man at the top of the GOP ballot this fall, Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino, who is trailing the Democratic governor by 29 percentage points.

Earlier this week the yield on Italian ten - year debt rose to a record seven per cent before falling back by around 0.5 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.

Although satisfaction fell among Conservative supporters when Labour came to power, it rose by 12 percentage points to reach a high of 61 per cent in 2009.

That pales in comparison to when agriculture's share of U.S. jobs fell by almost four percentage points per decade in the first 40 years after World War II.

The researchers found this proportion fell by an average of 8 percentage points when there was exposure to mobile phones.

And a year after South Korea introduced a law in 2007 that required users of popular websites to register with proof of identity, abuse had fallen by only 0.9 percentage points.

Overall, employment increased by 5.3 percentage points from fall 1995 levels, the survey of 247 U.S. math departments revealed.

Despite that game's impressive score, Sony saw its Metascore average drop by over three points over the past year, while its percentage of games receiving positive reviews fell from 54 % to 43 %.

Worse still, the proportion of these toddlers enrolled in early childhood classes fell by 4 percentage points between 2005 and 2011 compared with an average increase of the same amount for all OECD countries.

Support falls by 13 percentage points among Republicans (from 60 % to 47 %) and by 11 percentage points among Democrats (from 45 % to 34 %), leaving the partisan gap on the issue largely unchanged.