Sentences with phrase «full percentage point»

The projection for the retail price index is nearly one full percentage point higher.

More than half say their revenues have been stable year over year, up 10 full percentage points since 2014.

Such mortgages generally have fewer restrictions on them but typically charge significantly higher interest rates - often as much as three full percentage points above the best agency rates.

You're a very profitable customer for them so they'll typically lower the interest rate by a half or even full percentage point immediately.

Having rates increase more than one full percentage point does start adding up to real money in a household budget.

Still, you may be able to find offers that shave at least a few full percentage points off the average.

For example, Berekeley Haas» female student population has grown from 29 % to 41 % in the last two years alone (it has grown by five full percentage points at both Booth and Kellogg in the last year).

If one country's test - score performance was 0.5 standard deviations higher than another country during the 1960s — a little less than the current difference in the scores between such top - performing countries as Finland and Hong Kong and the United States — the first country's growth rate was, on average, one full percentage point higher annually over the following 40 - year period than the second country's growth rate.

The graduation rate, which has risen nearly 2 full percentage points from the previous year and 8 points in the past decade,...

Hiring in the Boston area has picked up in the past several months and helped dropped the market's unemployment rate one full percentage point since July.

The yields on Portugal debt are now more than full percentage point above the average cost of its debt currently outstanding.

The Minneapolis metro area saw 2.3 % job growth over the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost a full percentage point more than the nation as a whole — adding nearly 45,000 jobs.

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 this time next year, short - term rates might be a full percentage point higher than today.

As Poloz indicated in Toronto, if something went terribly wrong tomorrow, he could cut the benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point before trying something else, such as creating money to purchase bonds.

The disintegration of investment in nonresidential structures and machinery and equipment subtracted almost a full percentage point from GDP; only 2009 and 1982 were worse in that regard, and neither of those years stand out as high points in Canada's economic history.

(An index that measures the value of the dollar against the currencies of the U.S. main trading partners had risen almost a full percentage point through Asian and European trading.)

The agency commissioned a survey that found 720,000 families would struggle to make payments on their home - equity loans if interest rates rose by a mere 0.25 percent, and almost one million would be in trouble if borrowing costs rose a full percentage point.

Our own national economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.3 % in the fourth quarter of 2010, a full percentage point above what the Bank of Canada expected.

Meanwhile, small business loan approvals at small banks, which generally have been focusing on SBA loans in recent months, dipped to 48.7 % in December — a full percentage point from the previous month.

That's down a full percentage point from the average R&D spend in the previous four years.

Mall occupancy rate declined a full percentage point to 91.6 %.

In the U.S., interest rates on long - term loans, including mortgages, shot up by a full percentage point over the summer, threatening to choke the one - year - old housing rally.

The Fed's mere mention of trimming QE, though, sent mortgage rates up by a full percentage point this summer.

Last week government forecasters sharply downgraded their outlook for the next few years, predicting annual growth of barely 1.5 percent — almost a full percentage point below Britain's historic trend.

He said that between the beginning of 1993 and passage of the bill later that year, the interest rate on 10 - year Treasury securities fell by more than a full percentage point.

But the average rate on the 30 - year mortgage has jumped more than a full percentage point since May and was 4.57 per cent last week — just below the two - year high.

New menu items will consistently be a welcomed addition, such as the Garlic White Cheddar Burger, Pico Guacamole Burger, Sweet BBQ Burger, and the Artisan Grilled Chicken line, but I don't believe they put this company over the top and actually drive a full percentage point difference in LFLs.

Treasury yields have spiked by a full percentage point from their lows about eight weeks ago.

Over all, government expenditures plunged 12.6 percent in the fourth quarter because of the partial federal shutdown and a broader fiscal squeeze, lowering total growth by nearly a full percentage point.

Four years ago labor force participation still a full percentage point higher, representing 2.5 million more workers.

The 10 - year U.S. Treasury yields have risen by nearly a full percentage point from the January lows, and short - term rates are starting to climb as well.

Since October, the U.S. savings rate has climbed by a full percentage point.

For instance, a borrower with an LTV ratio of 95 % may be approved for a new mortgage, but the interest rate may be up to a full percentage point higher than a borrower with an LTV ratio of 75 %.

Quarterly growth has averaged 3.7 per cent over the past four quarters, compared to 2.2 per cent in the U.S. Economists are now projecting growth of above 3 per cent in Canada for all of 2017, a full percentage point above the U.S.

To see why this is so important, in 2009 residential investment exerted a 0.4 percentage point drag on GDP growth, while in 2013 it is likely to provide a boost to growth on the order of 0.5 percentage point — a swing of nearly a full percentage point.

When you put those two together they probably reduced the growth rate by one full percentage point.

Even more remarkably, the carrier revised its full - year cost outlook down by 3 full percentage points.

Mortgage rates today are nearly a full percentage point (100 basis points) higher than they were at the start of last year.

That's almost a full percentage point below last year.

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

In fact, the interest rate on the 10 - year Treasury rose a full percentage point between the announcement in May and the following September.