Sentences with phrase «more than percentage points»

Students began to see learning as more than percentage points.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

Trump had won the Arizona district by more than 20 percentage points in 2016.

Since then, housing prices have grown by 4 % annually, or about 1.2 percentage points more than inflation every year.

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

But it also turns out that we phone users are a price - sensitive bunch and reduce our phone usage by more than 1 percent for each percentage point increase in our bills.

«A profitable firm at which 30 percent of leaders are women could expect to add more than 1 percentage point to its net margin compared with an otherwise similar firm with no female leaders,» the report notes.

Masters degrees or PhDs signal more specialized skills than a bachelor's degree, but that hardly translates to unemployment statistics, with the jobless rate premium falling to just 0.5 percentage points.

That could be as much as 2 percentage points more than even its closest rivals, like Bank of America (BAC), Wells Fargo (WFC), Citigroup (C), or even Goldman (GS).

The company's stock dropped 8 % (which is still three percentage points more than the BlackBerry's market share) in early November after analysts at Pacific Coast Securities said the BlackBerry 10 would be dead on arrival.

President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner are unlikely to reverse several scheduled tax increases, including the 0.9 percentage point increase in the Medicare tax rate on wages and salaries of more than $ 200,000 for single filers ($ 250,000 for married filers); a 3.8 percent Medicare tax on unearned income of higher income filers; and an increase in the capital gains tax rate.

But the average rate on the 30 - year mortgage has jumped more than a full percentage point since May and was 4.57 per cent last week — just below the two - year high.

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.

The light green line in the chart above shows interest rates would need to jump more than one percentage point to wipe out a year of income in the two - year Treasury note.

Unemployment was almost seven percentage points lower that year than it would have been, with about 10 million more jobs.

In the post-Volcker period, for example, short - term interest rates in the United States have jumped by more than two percentage points within a one - year period on several occasions.

Rather than let your investments drift with market movements, it may make more sense to rebalance your holdings periodically (say, once or twice a year) or when your mix drifts a set amount from your target (you may allow your mix to fluctuate a maximum of 10 percentage points above or below the level you target).

Ten - year U.S. yields will advance more than 0.1 percentage point by the end of 2015, based on Bloomberg surveys of economists.

Broadband providers are traditionally more competitive on pricing than any other area of the home services market, and despite Sky's recent promotional activity its share in this market dropped two percentage points to 25 %.

Growth was more than 1 percentage point lower relative to normal periods, and the average duration of the overhang was 23 years.

Had this economic cycle been similar to 2001, unemployment might already be lower than 5 percent and gross domestic product growth could be a half - percentage point higher — and there would be a lot more U.S. debt issued.

Most, if not all, of these transactions create unreported contingent liabilities even while reducing the growth rate of debt — in this case by more than five percentage points.3

According to a 2014 study by the Kauffman Foundation and Hebrew University, it turns out that when a female entrepreneur tries to raise money on Kickstarter, she is 7 percentage points more likely to be funded than a man.

The most recent GDP release is a case in point: the drag induced by the drop in inventories subtracted more than two percentage points from the annualized fourth quarter GDP growth rate.

If we assume that disposable household income is currently half of GDP, eight years of real GDP growth of 6.9 % and real disposable household income growth of 7.7 % will only raise the household income share of GDP to 53.1 % in 2023, a little more than 3 percentage points higher and still below its 21st Century average and leaving China as dependent as ever on investment and the current account surplus.

is a case in point: the drag induced by the drop in inventories subtracted more than two percentage points from the annualized fourth quarter GDP growth rate.

The share of Web traffic from non-PC devices for directories / resources rose more than 20 percentage points from 6 % to 27 % of all Web traffic over the course of the year.

This means that, in 19 out of 20 cases, survey results will differ by no more than 2.5 percentage points from what would have been obtained by the opinions of all target group members in the U.S.

Pricing decreased 0.4 percentage points reflecting timing of trade promotion recognition in the prior year that more than offset price increases in cheese.

Volume / mix was 0.7 percentage points lower as strong growth in condiments and sauces was more than offset by a combination of significantly lower shipments in India, unfavorable holiday - related shipment phasing in Indonesia, as well as the impact of distributor network realignment in several markets.

Volume / mix decreased 0.8 percentage points as the benefit from a shift in Easter - related sales as well as gains in frozen, macaroni and cheese, and condiments and sauces were more than offset by select distribution losses in cheese and meats as well as lower shipments in foodservice.

Volume / mix increased 0.6 percentage points, reflecting growth in condiments and sauces that more than offset the discontinuation of select cheese products.

According to the alternate gauge, consumer prices in November rose close to 10 percent year - over-year, or 7.75 percentage points more than the CPI.

Pricing was 0.4 percentage points lower as timing of promotions in North America and Europe more than offset price increases in Rest of World markets, primarily Latin America.