Sentences with phrase «much every point by»

However, it does sound convincing because the company has been hinting at a higher price tag at pretty much every point by offering more features than last year's flagship models.

Not exact matches

As the auditing firm KPMG points out, automating repetitive administrative tasks has the potential to reduce operational costs by as much as 75 percent.

You can start off small by making just a few changes to an integral part of your business — one you probably don't give much thought to anyway — your Point of Sale (POS) system.

Postelection selling of longer - dated maturities ran yields up by as much as 90 basis points, with the 10 - year briefly crossing 2.60 % on two separate occasions.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

Now, you might be thinking at this point, that by introducing as much content as possible, you are spamming people.

As much as it's significant to speak for yourself and stand by your point, it's also necessary to avoid pointless arguments at work.

Another point that we were surprised by was how much higher level thinking and setting of vision is appreciated by the team.

By having an expert on your team, you'll know your customers and understand their language and pain points, which will make you a much more empathetic, trustworthy and credible partner.

CBS News recently reported that 40 million Americans have an error on their credit report, with half of these errors significantly lowering the innocent person's credit score, sometimes by as much as 50 points.

The purchase worth as much as 26.5 billion rupees could increase Singtel's stake in Bharti Telecom by up to 1.7 percentage points to 48.9 percent and its holding in Bharti Airtel, the country's biggest mobile carrier, by up to 0.9 percentage points to 39.5 percent.

You can still go back and you can look on the Zillow blog and see posts that I wrote, and Stan, who by this point had become our chief economist, wrote about how it was obvious, in our opinion, that housing was going to crash and that it was built on the foundation of sand and there was too much easy credit that had allowed people to buy homes who really couldn't afford them.

When customers are opting to spend twice as much to buy an Apple laptop than an HP, it's time to massively shake up that business or get out of it entirely (by the way, I'm not sure if anybody has pointed out the obvious yet, but it sure seems like Microsoft Windows is at the core of HP's problem in this area).

Phillips 66 CEO Greg Garland said in an April earnings call that the company had been running «pretty much max gasoline,» a point echoed by several other CEOs that month.

But some investors point out that even Y Combinator is an «overfished pond,» with startup valuations driven up by too much investor interest.

To that point, 18 percent of adults ages 18 to 29 said they have too much student loan debt alone to consider saving for retirement, a separate survey conducted by Bankrate found.

Economists said the two reports combined suggested that the third - quarter 3.5 percent annual growth pace could be cut by as much as half a percentage point when the government publishes its revisions later this month.

Most websites with as much traffic as Plenty of Fish would have by this point raised millions of dollars from venture capitalists, hired dozens of engineers and business - development types, and figured out a way to keep someone as unconventional as Markus Frind from making any major decisions.

The Obama campaign retorts that a mandate won't do much good either unless it comes with enforcement mechanisms — something that neither Clinton nor Edwards offered to detail until, as NPR's Julie Rovner points out, criticized by Obama.

The problem of how much to pay CEOs from this point of view, and what combination of kinds of payment to offer (cash, stock options, etc.), is hotly debated by top business scholars and economists.

I have to wonder if #RaceTogether would have made its point better by trusting the front line people in whom they've invested so much.

He points out that while the Internet has slashed or even eliminated the price of entertainment, people have historically enjoyed many leisure activities that didn't cost much money, including taking solitary walks in the park and spending quality time with family members who weren't perpetually distracted by Twitter.

To that point, nearly 64 percent of those polled said it's too much of a hassle to constantly worry about securing their online information, according to a survey by Experian.

«There's a certain point at which, in the life of a group, or the life of a person, there's not much more that can be learned by more success,» he says.

Investors seem to be looking at potential positives such as the fact that Trump may roll back regulations of businesses and lower the corporate tax rate by a much as 20 percentage points.

Much of SEO is fairly common knowledge by this point.

The post points out that with technology putting so much knowledge at our fingertips, specific skills are pretty easy to come by.

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.

Mr. Lawson is scathing as to the the City institutions» lack of competence, exceeded only by their greed (always pointing out how much more venal their global partners were, to be sure).

The increase in hiring by small businesses is an encouraging sign for the economy amid estimates that the 16 - day government shutdown could have sliced off as much as 0.6 percentage point from fourth quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth.

Kogan described it as a «big leap» to connect the piece of research to Kremlin efforts to use online platforms to interfere in foreign elections — before essentially going on to repeat a Kremlin talking point by saying the US and the UK engage in much the same types of behavior.

At this point in the U.S. presidential election, Trump had proven himself a very competitive candidate, trailing the much more politically experienced Hillary Clinton by single digits.

Try to arrive at a ballpark estimate of how much your future will cost and how much you hope to save by various points in time — say, by age 55 and again by age 65.

During the middle of the 18th Century and well into the beginning of the 19th Century India produced far more textiles — and usually much cheaper and of better quality — than did England, but a number of measures aimed at undermining Indian textile producers and protecting British textile producers (tariffs that almost always exceeded 50 %, for example, and by 1813 were as high as 85 %) meant that at some point in the first half of the 19th Century the British textile industry had become the most efficient in the world and was able largely to eliminate the Indian textile industry from global competition.

An accounting identity is something that is true by definition, and true at every point in time without lags, much like two plus three is equal to five.

A decline much more than 2 % below that average could provoke coordinated exit attempts by trend - followers, at valuations nowhere near the point where value - conscious investors would be eager to absorb those shares.»

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

The powers conveyed by Bill 12 are much broader than that: since these proposed licenses could be instituted such that they are only required by certain firms, the Minister could stipulate that a particular oil company was no longer able to export crude - by - rail (the method of export) to BC (the point of export), for example.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

Homeownership tends to encourage spending on durable goods and hence its depressed levels could explain why real U.S. consumption growth over 2011 - 2017 has been much weaker (by about half a percentage point annualized every quarter) than the pre-recession average.

The index was down by as much as 550 points earlier in the day.

«A single 30 - day late payment can drop one's credit score by as much as 100 points,» Yates says.

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by The two below videos pretty much sum up what I have to say so I will not add too much here other than the following couple of points.

VA mortgage rates are lower than comparable conventional rates by as much as 37.5 basis points (0.375 %).

That yield, by the way, isn't just much higher than the broader market, it's also almost 90 basis points higher than the stock's own five - year average yield.

Both options are worth considering, though, because VA mortgage rates can be lower than conventional rates by as much as 37.5 (0.375 %) basis points, which can increase the profitability of your rental.

Still, as you should be able to tell by this point, there is much to choose between most quality safety razors.

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.

CHARLIE MUNGER: Well, the truth of the matter is we don't pay much attention to trying to get an extra two basis points by being gamey on our short - term things and that credit default position is a weird, historical accident.