Sentences with phrase «few percent a year»

Arbitrages that produce just a few percent a year, to arbitrages that produce over 30 percent a year.

Most large corporations are filled with so much inertia that no change can come unless they are acquired or forced to downsize by massive proportions not chipping away a few percent each year.

You can easily and safely use leverage to turn appreciation of a few percent a year into double - digit gains.

Such increases should be gradual and predictable, with a few percent of motorists shifting to the new price structure each year, forcing insurers to raise flat - rate premiums a few percent a year.

Not exact matches

A Gallup poll last year found that 73 percent of Americans ages 18 to 29 checked their devices a few times an hour — including 22 percent every few minutes.

The Federal Reserve's decisions over the past 12 months to continuously raise interest rates from the near zero percent level of the past few years have made it more profitable for big banks to lend money.

And lastly, if rates start hiking significantly, they will be breaking away from the trend registered in the past few years — the 10 - year paper hasn't hit 3 percent since 2014.

By 2026, 22 million fewer Americans would have health coverage and enrollment in the Medicaid safety net program for the poor «would fall by about 16 percent and an estimated 49 million people would be uninsured, compared with 28 million who would lack insurance that year under current law.»

About 30 percent of Fortune 500 CEOs spent the first few years of their careers developing a strong foundation in finance, according to a study by consulting firm Heidrick & Struggles.

It shows that 90 percent of startups fail within just a few years.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

As of last June, less than 2 percent of active participating security SBICs had losses high enough to be considered «impaired,» compared with 20 percent a few years ago.

Research published in February shows that 2016 was the first year in which the iPhone dropped in the rankings of smartphone sales in China, falling from 15 percent of market share to 11 and selling fewer units even as demand for smartphones grew.

«As more people move out of their parents» basement — and there's still quite a few living there — we expect to see continued healthy demand for homes,» said Svenja Gudell, chief economist for Zillow, which found millennials made up 42 percent of homebuyers last year.

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

About 60 percent of Americans listened to over-the-air radio while driving as of a few years ago, according to an industry study, a number that has been falling.

That's a 19 percent hike from a year ago, and the vast majority of growth comes from businesses with fewer than 100 employees, according to Kravitz Inc., a consulting firm.

Clayton Christensen, author of the «Jobs to be Done» theory of innovation, pointed out that of 20,000 products launched between 2012 and 2016, fewer than one percent thrived within two years.

It also plans to lift productivity in its retail business by around 20 percent over the next few year...

A study from research firm, Gartner, revealed that in the next few years, some 70 percent of B2B e-commerce websites will use personalized content to help executives make informed decisions faster.

Maybe that's why socially responsible investments in the United States actually grew 4 percent faster than any other sector of U.S. stocks in the past few years.

For example, Lee Coulter, VP of business processes at Ascension Healthcare in Indianapolis, reports that Ascension reduced outsourcing over 50 percent in the past few years for its 84 hospitals and 400 health care centers.

Depending on the research you read, anywhere between 70 to 80 percent of the Internet will be consumed by video within the next few years.

With share prices falling across the board in a grim few weeks for U.S. technology majors, Tesla's shares are now down 19 percent this year.

Over the last few years, China's debt - to - GDP has ballooned to more than 300 percent from 160 percent a decade ago, causing many people, including Chinese officials, to warn of a financial - sector debt bubble that's waiting to burst.

I expect 15 percent earnings growth the next few years.»

Money managers that rolled out smart beta ETFs in the last few years have received just 5 percent of cumulative investor inflows since 2012, with the bulk of new money going to the largest companies, the Goldman report said.

Just one additional hour of sleep a week increased wages by 1.5 percent over the course of a season and 4.9 percent over the course of a few years.

On average, 27 percent of small - business owners say they receive fewer checks today than they did three years ago, according to the survey.

A 20 or 30 percent correction in stock prices after the run of the last few years would be very healthy.

Anderson told «Mad Money» host Jim Cramer that Topgolf's customer breakdown is 40 percent golfers and 60 percent non-golfers (or people who play fewer than eight rounds of golf per year).

Nevertheless, the latest gain in earnings left them up just 2.1 percent from a year ago - in the same tepid range they have been in for the past few years and well below the 3 percent or more economists say the Fed would want to see before lifting benchmark interest rates.

Although the southern European country has been growing above 1 percent in the past few years, unemployment levels are still over 11 percent and an inflow of immigrants has deepened social tensions.

China will raise the ownership limit to 51 percent within a few months, and fully scrap the restriction in three years.

Many (66 percent) think the threat of identity theft diminishes over time after their personal information is stolen, with 14 percent believing risks lasted just a few days after an information theft, 20 percent saying a few months and 23 percent a few years.

Although the southern European country has been growing above 1 percent in the past few years, unemployment levels are still over 11 percent.

The economy may be healthy enough for them to raise interest rates, but the new 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent target for the benchmark fed funds rate, up a quarter point from where it had been, remains far below the historical norm — and, by all indications, the Fed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more years.

Spotify, which is planning a stock market listing this year, has grown around 20 percent in value to at least $ 19 billion in the past few months.

That's about 10 percent fewer than the year before.

Engaged employees take an average of nearly 60 percent fewer sick days per year than disengaged employees.

A few years ago, Microsoft did some research into this problem and found that people spend on average 5.6 hours each week in meetings, and that 71 percent of American employees reported that these meetings «aren't very productive.»

During the first few months of 2017, ransomware attacks were up 250 percent over the previous year.

Senior writer Cat Clifford breaks down a new report from the Kauffman Foundation which found that the rate of new entrepreneurs starting a business each month rose from 0.28 percent in 2013 to 0.31 percent in 2014, reversing a downward trend over the past few years.

«I think this journey is still one percent complete,» Facebook engineering director Hussein Mehanna told Recode, «but it's still far more revolutionary than what we had a few years ago.»

The average premium for employer - sponsored family coverage among firms with fewer than 200 employees increased 5 percent to $ 16,625 compared with the prior year, according to a Kaiser Family Foundation survey.

Boy Scout membership dropped about 13 percent in just five years according to the AP (from 2.6 million to 2.3 million)-- and it's way down from a height of 4 million a few years back.

We have a country that started from scratch, with just 4 million people living here in 1790, and ended up with close to 25 percent of the world's GDP and more than 300 million residents a few hundred years later.

48:41 — Andy notes that there are 50 percent fewer public companies than there were about 10 years ago.

Moreover, 14 percent fewer consumers had a bankruptcy notation added to their credit reports in the third quarter of this year compared to the same quarter in 2014.

Over the last few years, the number of campus recruits coming to Goldman from science - and - technology majors has gone up 5 percent each year, while the total head count has barely budged.