Sentences with phrase «less than a percentage point»

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.

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.

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.

Not exact matches

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

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 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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

Its stock was down less than half a percentage point at $ 110.81 in midmorning trading.

The major index had the biggest point loss in its history, though its recent months of rapid growth means that as a percentage total the dip was less than 5 %.

Nine in 10 (89 %) job seekers report they're likely to use a mobile device during their job search in the next 12 months, up seven percentage points (82 %) from less than a year ago.2 Also, 45 % of job seekers say they use their mobile device specifically to search for jobs at least once a day, up two percentage points in less than a year.

«In the United States, there is the illusion that we can do without world markets, and indeed we export less as a percentage of GDP than you do,» points out Christopher Sands, a professor and director of the Center for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

The one - day loss for many funds, including Vanguard Total Bond Market, iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond, Pimco Total Return and Metropolitan West Total Return, while less than a half a percentage point, still amounted to more than 10 percent of their current yield.

Looking ahead now to a new day and to the start of the FOMC meeting, we see that stocks were modestly higher in Asia overnight, with the gains generally less than half a percentage point.

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.

If undertaken over five years, the 1.5 percentage point hike for employers would be just 0.3 per cent per year, which is less than ordinary year - to - year variations in wages.

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.

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

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.

The unemployment rate has fallen less in NSW than in the smaller states, and it is now above the national average for the first time since the early 1990s, whereas Queensland's unemployment rate has fallen almost 2 percentage points to be the lowest across all states.

Yet even with the downbeat forecast, losses were relatively modest, with most benchmarks finishing less than half a percentage point lower.

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

During the Obama election years, as many as a quarter of evangelicals voted Democrat; with Clinton, it was nearly 10 percentage points less than that.

Membership fell nearly one percentage point to just less than 16 million members.

He ultimately conceded Wednesday's election, trailing in the polls by less than 10 percentage points.

When filtering the data down to strictly home teams receiving less than 20 % of spread bets, I was wondering what the winning percentage was for home dogs getting 7 or more points that are receiving less than 20 % of spread bets?

He was on pace for career - highs in scoring at 18.6 points a game, blocks with 1.5, field goal percentage at 56.7, and he was fouling less than ever.

Using our statistical filters, we were able to isolate teams with a three - point shooting percentage of greater than 30 % with defenses that allow less than 95 points per game (ppg).

I am fairly sure that a large percentage of Arsenal fans are finding it hard to get enthused about the defence of the FA cup trophy, because two points from the last three Premier League games has left the Gunners down in third place and our challenge for the Premier League title looking a lot less assured than it was a couple of weeks ago.

For example, knowing that teams receiving less than 30 % of public bets is valuable information, however, if you only examined the specific data points (i.e. 17 %) with the highest units won, you could create a system with a greater ROI but you wouldn't have learned anything particularly valuable — especially considering that the public betting percentage could move a single point after placing your bet, thus falling out of your system.

I don't want to see him on the roster until he can hit a FT and up his 3 point shot percentage (31 % from the international 3 will likely be less than that from the NBA 3).

Only by performing an occult statistical manipulation called «ordered probit estimates» do the authors manage to tease out any trend at all, and it is a tiny one: «Women were one percentage point less likely than men to say they were not too happy at the beginning of the sample [1972]; by 2006 women were one percentage more likely to report being in this category.»