Sentences with phrase «more than percentage»

Reuters reports that the U.S. same - store sales index rose only 3.5 percent during the previous month, more than a percentage point below expectations.

Median expected spending growth is more than a percentage point below its June 2015 level and has reached a new series low.

In no event will a policy pay to any insured more than the percentage of the loss equal to the insured's interest in the property.

The report does not point out that the $ 332 billion total capital cost over say 35 years would be $ 9.5 billion p.a., which is 0.73 % of GDP, and that is slightly more than the percentage of rich country GDP invested in all forms of energy in the early 2000s, not just electricity.

In 2018, it's estimated that 68 % of households own a pet (more than the percentage with children), which adds up to 84.6 million homes nationally.

And while bond investors have suffered setbacks recently as yields have risen by more than a percentage point from their 2016 lows in part because of concerns that tax cuts and infrastructure spending in a Trump administration could spur inflation, the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate bond index — a good proxy for the investment - grade taxable bond market — is actually up almost 2 % from the beginning of the year.

You would lose money if the price declined more than the percentage you received in yield over the life of your investment.

The fund's average annual return over the past decade is 8.4 %, more than a percentage point better than the S&P 500.

While that's more than the percentage for most compact SUVs, Honda wants to drive it higher, Lee said.

Students began to see learning as more than percentage points.

Many schools within the Ivy League report that roughly half their students receive financial aid — but according to Warikoo, when considering that Ivy League tuition fees exceed the country's median income, much more than that percentage would receive financial aid if Ivy League schools were truly representative of the U.S. population.

Teachers clocked in at 20 percent, with 58 percent saying it should be no more than that percentage.

Switching from oil will bring consumer savings and tax income that, together with environmental benefits, will add more than a percentage point to gross domestic product, Rosner said.

All he'd need to be Prime Minister with a workable majority, in the event of failing to win much more than that percentage, is a deal with the Liberal Democrats.

But when Carhart included zombie funds, the average compound return for stock funds dropped more than a percentage point, to 9.5 %.

The damage and production shutdowns caused by the wildfire that razed Fort McMurray could subtract more than a percentage point from economic growth in the second quarter, the central bank said.

As per above, post it more than that percentage of people love to receive gift cards instead of other gifts there are two benefits of gift cards if you give someone he can buy whatever he want or he can sell it for cash.

After tracing her lineage through a popular DNA testing site, Muse was faced with the reality that ancestry is more than percentages, and that although much of her ancestor's stories were engulfed by the tumultuous tides of the Transatlantic slave trade, their memories live within her.

Not exact matches

Alternative lenders tend to charge much higher interest rates than banks do — sometimes on the order of 50 percent annual percentage rates or more.

In fact, across the Arab world, women now earn more science degrees on a percentage basis than women in the United States.

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.

Cabins «may become like cattle cars... but a significant percentage would rather be treated that way and fly for X» than have far more legroom and have all kinds of things and travel for X plus 25 percent,» he told CNBC in May.

Your repeat purchase rate is the percentage of your customers who have bought from you more than once.

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.

Nothing speaks to this more than the fact that Tesla has the highest customer satisfaction levels and the highest percentage of customers who say that their next car will be a Tesla in the entire global auto industry.

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

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.

It's hard to believe that print marketing is more widely used than social media marketing and online advertising, but the percentage of businesses who intend to increase social media usage -LSB-...]

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

But while the idea of paying almost of a fifth of the telecommuting workforce to veg is enough to infuriate the calmest of managers, workplace expert and author Kevin Burns suggests keeping that percentage in perspective and applauding the other 75 % of employees who consistently put in more than four hours of work in a day.

Hong Kong and Israel have more self - made billionaires than any other place, when considered as a percentage of total population.

But it also looked at who's putting that knowledge into action, factoring in the percentage of state residents who held to good financial habits (like building an emergency fund), as well as bad ones (spending more than they earn or using payday loans).

It also corrects its percentage decline to «more than 90 percent» from «about 90 percent.»

The company tells investors to focus instead on the percentage growth of people who use it daily, which has increased more than 10 percent in each of the last three quarters.

More than one third of business owners said they expect to decrease capital spending in the year ahead, an increase of about 10 percentage points from the previous quarter.

The math is simple: More firms leaving than arriving means a shrinking percentage of business is being controlled by entrepreneurs.

In Gaza, more than 2,000 people were killed, with Israel putting the percentage of civilians killed at approximately 50 percent and the Palestinians estimating it to be closer to 70 %.

That's an increase of more than 2.5 percentage points since January.

More than one - third of Uber's global workforce is women, but the percentage shrinks when it comes to women in technical roles and leadership positions at the company.

Among the 2001 Inc 500 companies started at home, the percentage that, when they moved to their next location, had One to 5 employees: 62.98 % 6 to 10 employees: 10.58 % More than 10 employees: 7.69 % No employees: 18.75 %

In other sessions, he explains the results of our Bod Pod tests, suggesting that a balanced approach to eating and exercise that will reduce body fat percentages much more effectively than «running a marathon and eating anything you like.»

«It takes guts to make the claim that the percentage change is more important than the absolute number of daily users, especially considering that's the primary driver» of Twitter's business model, said James Cakmak, an analyst at Monness Crespi Hardt & Co..

He said any tax reform making it more simple to do taxes is more important than the exact percentage of the tax reduction.

The longest - term portion of the offering, $ 8 billion of bonds maturing in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.

Still, though China has managed not to rely on any single country for more than a small percentage of its oil needs, its imports are still quite concentrated in terms of geographical region and in unstable regions at that, namely the Middle East and Africa.

Plus, expats do well there — 25 % earn more than $ 200,000 per year (perhaps not coincidentally, the same percentage of the country's expats work in finance).

Just like in business in general, when you offer your clients a «done for you» service, even at a much higher price than general consulting, you will get a percentage of your clients who will be delighted to just have it done, and who will gladly pay much more for that privilege.

According to the company, Indians opened more than 200 million new bank accounts in the past several years, although there is still a large percentage of citizens who are considered unbanked.

At a time when Chinese wages are rising by double - digit percentages annually, Bangladesh has gained market share: it is now the world's second - largest exporter of apparel (behind China), sending more than $ 19 - billion worth abroad in 2012.