Sentences with phrase «fraction of a percent in»

Since its 2014 high on December 29, the S&P 500 Index has gained 1.5 % (not including a fraction of a percent in dividends), the Dow Industrial Average has gained 1.3 %, the Dow Transportation Average is down -5.8 %, the Dow Utilities Average is down -8.9 %, market breadth has churned sideways, and investment grade corporate spreads are flat (though junk spreads have come in about two - tenths of a percent).

The amount of alcohol in your blood becomes a mere fraction of a percent in your breastmilk.

Particularly since solar output has not increased in approximately 60 years, and has only increased a fraction of a percent in the past 300 years, as discussed above.

This will promote digital book sales, which obviously Microsoft wants, even if it accounts for a fraction of a percent in terms of their overall sales.

Continuing with our perfect 20 - 20 hindsight, in June of 2000 the growth index had a fraction of a percent in energy stocks, which as a group has risen 55 percent during the period.

The collateral funds will earn just a small fraction of a percent in interest, while the interest you pay on the loan will be higher at least ten times that amount and possibly more.

Particularly since solar output has not increased in approximately 60 years, and has only increased a fraction of a percent in the past 300 years, as discussed above.

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Moreover, the rate of growth in the fraction of non-employers (28.2 percent) run by women has been higher than the rate of increase in their share of non-employers (23 percent) over the past five years.

The Census Bureau recently released data showing that the new - business fraction of American companies has shrunk from 16.5 percent in 1977 to 8.2 percent in 2011.

The fraction of incoming college freshmen surveyed annually by the Cooperative Institutional Research Program at UCLA who reported that «becoming successful in a business of my own» was «essential» or «very important» to them declined from 52.1 percent in 1988 to 41 percent in 2004.

In fact, between 2004 and 2012, when student loan levels took off, the fraction of people interested in being successful at business ownership actually increased slightly to 41.2 percenIn fact, between 2004 and 2012, when student loan levels took off, the fraction of people interested in being successful at business ownership actually increased slightly to 41.2 percenin being successful at business ownership actually increased slightly to 41.2 percent.

As far as excess reserves are concerned, B&K argued back in 2016 (when the IOER was a mere 0.25 %), «the only potential loans that would have been affected by the Fed's payment of interest are those with risk - adjusted short - term returns between precisely zero and one - quarter percent — surely a tiny fraction of the total.»

Mass shootings actually make up a small fraction of America's gun deaths, constituting less than 2 percent of such deaths in 2013.

Each year banks make billions of dollars in overdraft fees, and more than three - quarters of this revenue is generated from just a small fraction of checking accounts, less than 10 percent.

To put it in perspective, if a website like Amazon were to increase their conversion rate by a fraction of one percent, it would contribute millions of dollars in extra revenue each month.

Any external upward pressure on interest rates beyond a fraction of a percent will have to be rapidly offset by a large reduction in the outstanding monetary base in order to avoid a deterioration in the value of money relative to goods and services (i.e. inflation).

Using U.S. Census data, the Kauffman Foundation found in a 2008 study that «the fraction of employment accounted for by U.S. private - sector business startups over the 1980 - 2005 period is about 3 percent per year».

The study — a survey of 1,500 consumers concluded that despite a rush of online retailers competing to offer same - day shipping, only a small fraction of consumers (9 percent of those surveyed) have any interest in such a service.

In 2010, they purchased over 250,000 tons of coffee, and only a fraction of a percent was certified in any waIn 2010, they purchased over 250,000 tons of coffee, and only a fraction of a percent was certified in any wain any way.

Yet only a fraction of a percent of that coffee is certified in any way, and the company has a lousy sustainability record.

This week's win has given us a chance but UCL history shows it be a small one, with a fraction over 20 percent of the other teams in this position making it to the next round, a report in The Mirror reveals.

The absolute numbers of women choosing home birth are so low, and the total of anomalies in the total population of women giving birth is low enough that I would expect that we would be thinking in fractions of one percent for homebirths in which the baby has a previously undiagnosed anomaly which is fatal.

At the same time, federal law allows school officials to vet only a fraction of the lunch applications they receive — in the case of CPS, fewer than 1 percent.

Cesarean deliveries held steady in 2013 by declining a fraction to 32.7 percent of births (compared with 32.8 percent for 2010 - 12).

This represents a fraction of one percent of the 28,000 operational CBT test takers and 60,000 CBT field test takers in spring 2017.

The study shows that only a small fraction of people living in the outer boroughs of New York City would find their commutes affected by the toll: four percent of the working people who live in the outer boroughs, and two percent of working poor.

In fact, our politicians waste roughly 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from the tiniest fraction of the one percent.

Fundraising totals revealed donations largely came from outside of the district — just 7 percent of contributions came from district residents in the final quarter of 2017 — and just a fraction of the total haul, 12 percent, were from small dollar donations of under $ 200, according to Federal Election Commission reports.

His campaign raised $ 26.2 million in the third quarter — 77 percent of which came from small donors, compared to just a tiny fraction from maxed - out donors — and spent only $ 11.3 million.

And in some areas, only a tiny fraction passed: On the reading exams, a mere 5.4 percent of Rochester students passed, 8.7 percent of Syracuse students passed and 11.5 percent of Buffalo students passed.

Historically, too - late - to - count ballots represent a fraction of a percent of the votes cast in an election.

Although the FDA collects safety data on drugs, experts estimate that only a fraction of the potentially related harms and deaths — about 10 to 50 percent — end up in FDA databases, in part because reporting is voluntary.

The finding dovetails with a landmark 1992 survey that documented a rise in the fraction of southpaws from about 3 percent of the U.S. population born in 1900 to a steady 11 percent of respondents born in the 1950s or later.

In all three groups, participants were abstinent on roughly 20 percent of days, on average, before treatment began, and the fraction of alcohol - free days rose to about 80 percent a year after treatment ended.

According to Martinot, the onslaught continued in 2006 as China stalked its goal of doubling the fraction of its energy that comes from renewables to 16 percent by 2020.

Using reweighting techniques to correct body mass index scores (BMI), she finds that the average BMI of pre-pregnant women in India is 19.5 percent and the fraction of women who begin pregnancy underweight is 42.2 percent.

Iron deficiency is present in approximately 50 percent of patients with heart failure with reduced left ventricular ejection fraction (HFrEF; ejection fraction: a measure of how well the left ventricle of the heart pumps with each contraction) and is associated with reduced functional capacity, poorer quality of life, and increased mortality.

It is almost as big as the Milky Way but is «ultra-diffuse,» meaning it contains just a vanishing fraction of the stars found in our galaxy — only 1 percent, in this case.

Many federal agencies have so far spent a small fraction of allocated funds — in the DOE's case, only about 6 percent.

Humans and Neanderthals did not merge into a single people, however; the 2.5 percent of Neanderthal DNA found in Asians and Europeans is a very small fraction.

At age 43, the fraction of unmarried men is about 17 percent for men born in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, but is expected to increase to 30 percent for men born in the 1990s (36 percent for women).

The fraction of additional deaths per year varied widely between locations, from 0.2 percent in Denmark to 7.8 percent in central India, «That's almost 40-fold variation across countries,» Murray says.

3) The fraction of women unmarried at age 43 has increased from 8 percent for women born in the 40s to 17 percent for women born in the 70s, and is projected to be 36 % for women born in the 1990s.

«If you look in the normal population and ask what fraction of people have [a defect in methylation in the gene encoding insulin - like growth factor 2] it's about 5 percent.

At age 23, the fraction of men who have never married has increased from 66 percent for men born in the 1950s to 88 percent for men born in the 1990s (81 percent for women).

2) The fraction of women unmarried at age 33 has increased from 9 percent for women born in the 40s to 38 percent for women born in the 80s, and is projected to be 47 percent for women born in the 90s.

Another important fraction of that 2 percent involves genes related to reproduction — the sorts of anatomical differences that split a species in two and keep them from interbreeding.

Although the primary endpoint was not met, a statistically significant 4 percent improvement was seen in a secondary endpoint, left ventricular ejection fraction — a measure of how much blood is being pumped out of the left ventricle — in patients whose STEMIs involved the front wall of the left ventricle (the heart's main pumping chamber), he said.

After hitting the water, their velocity decreases by more than 50 percent in a fraction of a second.

Seven of the 19 ears and 6.2 % of the kernels overall showed spotting; this occurs in less than a fraction of a percent of normal plants.