Sentences with phrase «half percentage point»

The difference between the two is 1.8 percentage points, and it is reasonable to assume that is what earnings buybacks are doing to boost earnings.

The OECD data shows that 72.4 per cent of Canadians aged 15 - 64, what is normally considered the working age, were employed in the fourth quarter of 2013, compared to 73.7 per cent who had a job in the second quarter of 2008, for a differential of minus 1.3 percentage points.

The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the combination of tax increases and spending cuts could trim economic growth this year by about 1.5 percentage points.

That's up six percentage points from three years ago.

An unnamed source says the cost could be up to 25 basis points per transaction, compared to 15 down south (a basis point is 1 / 100th of a percentage point).

However, if we look at estimates of earnings before interest and taxes, which removes the effect of tax payments, the S&P is expected to see an increase of 8.6 percentage points.

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 companies surveyed all had at least 20 employees, while the margin of error for the sample was plus or minus 3.54 percentage points, with a 95 % confidence level.

They also report that social media is the second most likely way U.S. Millennials will learn about a new product (26 percent of respondents), just 3 percentage points behind TV advertising (29 percent).

The share of employees who failed to use all their vacation time was actually down one percentage point from 55 % in 2015.

Think of what would happen if we could grow that by even a few percentage points.»

This gap surges to over 20 percentage points when calculated to include among the non-employed prime - age black men who are «missing» primarily due to incarceration or early death, according to the Council of Economic Advisers.

An Angus Reid poll of 799 British Columbians last October suggested 75 % felt it should be taxed and regulated rather than prohibited, up six percentage points from a year earlier.

Prime - age black men are 13 percentage points less likely to be employed than prime - age white men.

Only 37 percent contemplate leaving to advance their careers — five percentage points lower than millennials.

The slowdown in business inventories trimmed 1.5 percentage point from growth in the fourth quarter and the reductions in defence spending cut another 1.3 percentage point from growth.

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.

But Chinese exports of automobile parts to North America are growing about a percentage point slower than they are to the rest of the world, suggesting NAFTA actually makes U.S. automobile companies more competitive.

Those private forecasts tend to be within a few tenths of a percentage point of each other.

Gross margins have grown by three to four percentage points.

«At these levels, it may shave off a tenth of a percentage point off global growth.»

Forty - eight percent of them used all their vacation time last year, up three percentage points from 2015.

With Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, the overall domestic summer box office is ten percentage points lower than it was at this time last year.

ISM's Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) had positive results to show on Thursday, increasing 4.5 percentage points to 55.4 % from its June 50.9 % reading.

For the most part, that spread historically has been fairly negligible, usually no more than 1 or 2 percentage points.

These may be measurable in dollars and percentage points, or improved brand perception and purchase intent over time.

At the bottom end of the scale are the known «sick sisters» of Europe, including Greece with a negative 12.9 percentage point differential, Spain at minus 10.3 percentage points, Ireland at minus 7.0 percentage points and Portugal at negative 6.2 points.

Perhaps most concerning is the study's findings that the smoking rate hasn't changed in poor populations; among the rich, it's fallen more than five percentage points.

Delivery contributed to 16 % of Company sales in the first quarter of 2018, an increase of 3 percentage points year over year.

Goldman Sachs economists predict his fiscal policy will boost U.S. growth by 0.6 percentage point in 2018.

In their own report on volunteerism in the workplace, the company stated, «For each percentage point our employee engagement index goes up or down, the impact on our operating profit was between $ 35 million and $ 45 million.»

And, we're still 2 percentage points away.»

Shipments have been steadily ticking up a few percentage points each week during that time, relative to their 52 - week average, according to MillerCoors.

Indexing benefits to inflation instead of wages, the latter of which are forecast to grow 1.5 percentage points faster annually, would return the program to balance without damaging purchasing power.

These riches were at least as important to the Eritrean government as they were to Nevsun: by various estimates Bisha would provide about US$ 1 billion in royalties and revenues over its life, and raise the country's annual GDP by several percentage points.

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.

The bonds of iHeartMedia have long been in the basket of «distressed debt,» meaning their prices have fallen so far to where their yields are at least 10 percentage points higher than equivalent Treasury yields.

If rates rise across the board by one percentage point, it would amount to about $ 91 billion a year in extra income and thus extra spending money for these people and businesses.

That's down 4 percentage points from last year.

Since the beginning of 2008, the Russell 3000 growth index outperformed its value counterpart by more than 70 percentage points, returning 10.3 % annually, compared with 7 % for value stocks.

By increasing exports a mere two percentage points, GDP would grow by an additional $ 300 billion, according to the centrist think tank Third Way.

The IMF staff report on Canada raises an issue that I wrote about during the election campaign: the unacceptably large gap — 10 percentage points — between the labour - force participation rates of men and women.

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

The Bank of Canada announced this morning that it is dropping its target interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.75 %.

The divide in Canada was in the high single digits; by comparison, the spread in Italy and Japan was more than 20 percentage points.

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.

It would increase the replacement rate by 10 percentage points to 35 per cent, lift the earnings cap by $ 10,000 (to $ 61,100), and be phased in over 10 years.

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.

On a positive note, I have seen a slight improvement by a few percentage points in most of the core metrics since I last checked back in November 2016.

Citing sluggish growth abroad and lower oil prices, the Bank of Canada this morning lowered the overnight lending rate one quarter of a percentage point, to 0.5 %.