Sentences with phrase «less points by»

But, you can actually get to your final destination for less points by booking a stopover.

Not exact matches

Researcher Ruta Aidis, a fellow at George Mason University, gave Canada (and Australia) an overall score of 69 out of a possible 100 — just two points less than the No. 1 - ranked country, the United States — in the 31 - country survey, commissioned by Dell.

A recent survey published by insolvency trustee MNP Ltd. found 48 per cent of Canadian respondents were $ 200 or less away from being unable to fulfill their monthly financial obligations, an eight point increase since September.

Clinton lost to Trump in Wisconsin by about 22,000 votes, or less than 1 percentage point.

By some metrics, houses are less affordable now than at any point over the past 30 years.

The rest of the afternoon flies by and before I know it, it's time to check out the evening commute report, dinner options in my neighborhood, and my outfit for tonight's date, which was put together by WhatToWear (at some point all these companies stopped coming up with clever names and just called themselves by descriptions; less confusing for me).

Despite a record one - day point decline on the Dow Jones index, many Wall Street experts believe the sell - off was less tied to fundamentals and was instead exacerbated by volatility - linked products and algorithmic trading.

Lam also points out a less often discussed way podcasts can develop your brain — by helping you master a new language.

Of course, at one point it was worth asking how a company founded by a then 19 - year - old could invent a new, less - invasive way of drawing blood from patients.

A simulation by Oxford Economics suggests a 25 percent U.S. tariff on $ 60 billion worth of Chinese exports, with comparable retaliation, would reduce China's growth by about 0.1 percentage point this year and a little less next year, chief Asia economist Louis Kuijs in Hong Kong said in a recent note.

The point of the last piece, the subsidies, is to keep enough people in the pool of insured to avoid triggering a so - called death spiral of declining enrollment, a growing proportion of less healthy people and premium increases by insurers.

The Monmouth poll found that in counties that Trump or Hillary Clinton, his Democratic challenger, won by less than 10 percentage points in the 2016 presidential election, 30 % of people say they approve of the bill and 38 % say they disapprove.

Today Independent Street points out a provocative entry by GreenBiz.com's editor Joel Makower, which advocates that businesses actually encourage customers to buy less stuff.

Well, research shows that on average, people tend to talk about themselves during 60 percent of a conversation — and when there's something being sold by one person in the conversation, a less experienced salesperson could be tempted to fill a void of silence with a laundry list of more selling points and value propositions.

Latest economic data from China show both industrial production and retail sales grew by less than expected at the start of the year, pointing to an uncertain outlook.

Slack also reported the percentage of its staff that identifies as LGBTQ, a data point less frequently shared by tech companies.

It might take some work, but by remembering your talking points (instead of looking at a screen every five seconds), you can rely less on PowerPoint and more on yourself.

By loudly owning her choices, Sandberg makes it a little safer for the rest of us to declare that parents working late into the night is killer on families (Mashable points to research «that children are healthier, happier and better performing students when they eat with their families») and on personal productivity and health, making it a bit easier for those of us with less lofty positions to take back our schedules and admit that we need to work saner hours.

Companies with less than 25 employees far outpace organizations of any size, besting their engagement by a difference of eight to 12 percentage points.

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.

Of course, with debt in 2016 rising by roughly 40 — 45 percentage points of GDP while nominal GDP grew by less than 8 percent, it isn't easy to explain how the real value of assets in China grew by roughly 40 — 45 percentage points of GDP, nor why it is proving so difficult to rein in credit growth without a sharp slowdown in GDP growth.

Nearly one in four investors (23 percent) expect allocations to rise by less than 5 percentage points.

Issuers can give smaller increases without any additional steps, but for larger ones, your lender likely will request a copy of your credit file — also known as «a hard credit pull» — a move that will ding your credit score modestly — typically by 5 points or less.

Inflation is estimated to rise by somewhat less than 1/4 percentage point per annum over 2 — 3 years.

The last flat year was 2011, when the S&P finished down by less than 0.1 point.

I think most people will earn less by redeeming fewer points at once.

One data point does not make a trend, but also take note of the fact that employment growth for June in the U.S. would bring the rolling average of job creation, as measured by the last few months, to less than 150,000.

One of the selling points for users of Bitcoin cryptocurrency is the anonymity that the digital currency provides but that anonymity is less useful on Amazon's platforms thanks to the technology described by U.S. Patent No. 9947033, titled Streaming Data Marketplace.

He went on to say that in his opinion «Canadians culturally are quite a bit more utilitarian, more conservative, more practical in some ways [than Americans]» which he points to as being the main reason why initial interactions with Tilt by Canadian users have been less robust than Tilt's experience with American users of the platform.

Borrowers who chose a loan with a shorter repayment term in order to get the lowest interest rate and maximize overall savings reduced their interest rate by 1.71 percentage points and will pay $ 18,668 less over the life of their new loan, on average.

Argentina's central bank has hiked its interest rates by 300 basis points for a second time in less than a week, in its latest attempt to halt the peso's dramatic slide against the US dollar.

He said the cost of holding a digital gold certificate issued by Perth Mint will be less than the 30 to 40 basis points charged by ETFs.

According to the Federal Reserve Board's G. 19 Consumer Credit report, the total amount of consumer credit outstanding rose by 5.2 percent (SAAR) over the 1st quarter of 2017, 2.4 percentage points less than the 6.6 percent rate of growth in the 4th quarter of 2016.

The weighted average of the MERs charged by the component ETFs works out to about 21 basis points per year, which means the Sleepy Portfolio costs about $ 275 every year or about 75 cents a day — less than half the cost of a large double - double these days.

Yet April 30th 2008 was no less critical a turning point in the recession's history than these other dates, for it was then that the FOMC, having cut the Fed's target interest rate to 2 percent, resolved to cut it no further — drawing a line in the sand by which it unwittingly helped seal the fate of the US, and world, economy.

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.

It's because the two precious metals are not only money but, from the point of view of free individuals, the best sort of money, less susceptible to what governments see as the most desirable quality of money — the susceptibility to control by government and particularly its susceptibility to devaluation.

The 666 point drop on the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) less than two weeks ago was likely triggered by a spike in bond yields.

But during these periods inflation was mild, ranging from being unchanged to rising by less than 2 percentage points.

Many people believe that a credit check will affect your credit score by less than 5 points on a scale of 850 points.

Basically, when oil went down by 20 - 30 %, I started buying them, and as you know, oil went down much less and at a point, these were showing heavy losses and some still do.

Case in point: according to a 2016 study by the Finra Investor Education Foundation, only 2 in 5 Americans is able to spend LESS than they earn.

In fact, over the past few years, credit unions» average personal loan rates have been approximately 1.24 percentage points less than those offered by banks.

In 2010 and 2011, lesser overvalued, overbought, overbullish extremes were followed by significant market losses, even though Treasury bill yields were only in the range of 10 - 15 basis points.

At the time of its December meeting, the available information confirmed the assessment that a less expansionary policy setting was needed, and the cash rate was therefore raised by a further 25 basis points, to 5.25 per cent.

Argentina's central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by 300 basis points to 33.25 percent on Thursday, but the second steep rate increase in less than a week failed to stop the country's peso currency from plunging.

Because of their ability to invest in these longer duration securities of slightly less credit quality, stable value funds have outperformed money market funds on average by 150 - 200 basis points (1.50 % -2.00 %) net of fees annually over the past 20 years.

Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross plans to ask Congress for a major increase in funding Thursday to salvage the 2020 Census, a program beset by cost overruns, poor preparation and a population of Americans who are less likely than at any point in recent history to self - report their existence to the...

These include: limiting loans to those with a debt - to - income ratio, excluding mortgage, of 35 percent or less, down from 40 percent; and raising interest rates on loans by between 0.39 percentage point and 1.17 percentage points, depending on the type of borrower and the duration of the loan.

... over the next five years bonds will probably outperform stocks by a few percentage points, but both will return much less than double digits.