Sentences with phrase «less than a percentage»

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

The largest such S&P 500 fund, Vanguard's 500 Index Fund, boasts expense ratios of less than a percentage point.

Depending on the circumstances, it's possible to put down much less than the percentages shown above.

The rate of marriage has been steadily decreasing since the 1980s and in the last census the percentage of married adults was less than the percentage of single adults for the first time in American history.

According to projections from the State Comptroller, the rate of inflation will rise by less than a percentage point over the next year.

Consider this possibility: More than a few elections will be decided by less than a percentage point this year.

In practice, many counties in New York pay less than that percentage because of a state cap.

After my first year in office our score dropped to 65.8 percent, less than a percentage point away from getting off the significant stress list altogether.

As the above chart shows, the percentage of students in LAUSD deemed proficient or advanced rose, albeit by less than a percentage point, in a number of subjects: math, history and science.

Perhaps the margin of error is less than a percentage point which would mean there are twice as many eReader owners as Tablet owners.

The largest such S&P 500 fund, Vanguard's 500 Index Fund, boasts expense ratios of less than a percentage point.

Wages are down, growing less than a percentage point per quarter, down payments of 5 - 20 percent with traditional loans are an impediment to buyers and student loan debt is preventing a massive segment of young adults from buying.

Home prices are stagnant or rising less than a percentage point above inflation.

The share of transport emissions in total energy - related emissions Australia is around the OECD and European Union average, and is less than the percentage in Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA.

Wife further argued the contempt order would result in her receiving less than her percentage share of the marital assets.

Depending on the circumstances, it's possible to put down much less than the percentages shown above.

Not exact matches

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

Daily newspaper circulation as a percentage of population has steadily declined, from 35 % in 1945 to less than 15 % in 2014.

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

And due to its economies of scale and zero marketing needs, it would have very low management fees, less than half a percentage point.

The second conclusion is this: my guess is that, outside the sales field (which attracts people who are motivated by incentive pay), the percentage of people who find bonuses an incentive to change their day - to - day behavior is less than 10 %.

Business entries mean companies that were less than a year old, expressed as a percentage of total businesses.

Of those families with household incomes of less than $ 50,000 annually, the percentage is 39 percent.

The fees can vary from less than 1 percent to a few percentage points — and interest at the prime rate to several points over prime on the balance of receivables you sell, making it steeper than most bank loans.

The chance the chosen flip is a heads - equal to the percentage of heads in the bucket - we claim is less than 50 percent.

That was a percentage point more than in 2014, but two points less than in 2013.

Even though Neometals is now holding less than 15 % of Mt Marion, company management had the exceptional foresight to insist on the right to purchase a sizeable percentage the lithium off - take after about three years of operation.

Business owners calculate how much rent they can afford as a percentage of annual sales — generally, it's less than 10 percent of projected gross revenues, Fetscher says.

That being said, even if you have a startup short sale (i.e. selling for less than the valuation you did in your last round), you basically pay back the last round of funding first and start splitting the money on a percentage basis after that.

At these levels, Canadian energy companies are expected to reduce investment again, albeit by less than half 2015's drop in percentage terms.

Birch ranks Nebraska 49th in the country in two categories: the percentage of people working at companies that are less than 15 years old and the number of jobs lost to layoffs and closings.

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.

Investment - grade corporates pay about two percentage points more than short - term government bonds, and they're less risky than they used to be.

A Chinese currency devaluation is less of a concern than a Chinese slowdown, with real GDP forecast to be down 0.2 percentage points.

According to their research, the percentage of the population that regularly uses the Internet ranges from more than 50 % in Scandinavia to less than 1 % in many underdeveloped African, Central American, and South Asian countries.

Did you know that out of the current crop of «Unicorn» companies, less than 10 have a woman on the founding team, and only a small percentage include any women in their advisory boards?

Around that same time, a study came out that revealed that black head coaches, despite winning a higher percentage of games, were less likely to be hired (and more likely fired) than their white counterparts.

When Fortune compared companies» latest 2014 employee data to their numbers from 2013, we found that Facebook, Microsoft and H - P all increased their percentage of women by less than 1 %.

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

That percentage drops to 40 % for employees in companies with less than 25 workers.

In a study issued this week (Aug. 11 - 15), Goldman Sachs Bank USA economists Eli Hackle and Hui Shan showed that the homeownership rate of young adults, ages 25 - 34, who were carrying more than $ 50,000 in student, was 8 percentage points lower than for college graduates with less than $ 50,000 in student debt.

Data from the Census Bureau released last week showed that in 2014, 9.7 percent of the businesses in the St. Louis metro area were startups less than a year old, up three percentage points from 2009.

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.

Gain on sale was $ 0.3 million during the second quarter of 2017, primarily reflecting the Company's decision to reduce the percentage of term loans sold through OnDeck Marketplace to less than 5 %, as announced last quarter.

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

Because most wealthy Chinese seem to think about RMB in terms of USD or Hong Kong dollars, it is the fear that any depreciation of the RMB against those two currencies (the Hong Kong dollar is pegged to the USD through a modified currency board) greater than the couple of percentage points interest rate differential would yield less than equivalent USD or Hong Kong dollar bonds.

Wall Street forecasts for the S&P 500 for 2016 look for single - digit percentage gains and are less optimistic than last year's forecasts.

Ryan Avent pointed out that even if we enacted Trump's massive tax cuts and spending increaes, adding $ 34 trillion in new debt over the next two decades, our ratio of debt to GDP two decades from now would still be 30 percentage points less than Japan's government debt ratio is right now... and the market is still buying their negative interest rate long term debt...

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

Venture investments in Canada have fallen over 70 % in the past 10 years, and are less than half the rate of the U.S. (as a percentage of GDP).