Sentences with phrase «of a percentage point adds»

Dealers usually charge a fee for their services, often in the form of percentage points added to a lender's offered interest rate.

The fee might be a flat fee, a percentage of the mortgage amount, or a fraction of a percentage point added to the rate you lock - in.

Your lender also determines the margin you will pay, which is the number of percentage points added to index.

It's pretty rare to find other rate reduction offers like these, but even a quarter of a percentage point adds up to a big savings over the life of your loan.

The fee might be a flat fee, a percentage of the mortgage amount, or a fraction of a percentage point added to the rate you lock - in.

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.

She added that by Congressional Budget Office estimates, cited by Harvard professor and former Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, a 0.2 percentage point increase in GDP would eliminate any long - term budget gap.

More importantly, 23 percent said they plan to add workers, a decrease of three percentage points from the first quarter; 9 percent said they planned to scale back on the number of workers they have, an increase of two percentage points.

That breaks down to boost of around 0.08 percentage points of added to the GDP growth rate per year.

«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.

That doesn't mean that every time customers call or send E-mail, they should get a «little five - point questionnaire,» adds Seybold, who recommends that companies start slowly by polling a percentage of their customers each week.

On their face, the added levies would boost inflation measures by one - tenth of a percentage point while reducing annual GDP growth by one or two tenths, Barclays said in a note that assumes the moves would not have massive repercussions from U.S. trading partners.

A study of the S&P 500 by Research Affiliates finds that since 2012, buybacks have modestly boosted growth in earnings per share — adding around 0.16 percentage points per year.

[10] Adding a potential Fed rate increase of 0.25 percentage point to the average credit card APR of 14.87 %, the average household would owe $ 919 in credit card interest per year.

That could add one - fourth to one - half of a percentage point to annualized GDP growth in the quarter, he said.

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...

A prudent estimate is that this could add another tenth or two of a percentage point to potential output over the medium term.

Conservative estimates suggest that removing interprovincial trade barriers could add one - or two - tenths of a percentage point to Canada's potential output annually.

If recent trade trends continue, Mr. Bryson said net exports could add one percentage point to the pace of GDP growth in the fourth quarter.

Analysis by the economist Gareth Olds, for instance, found that the expansion of food stamps in the mid-2000s, which increased enrollment by 3 — 5 percentage points, added the equivalent of 1.1 million additional workers to the labor force by relaxing household credit constraints.

Add it all up and economists predict prices will rise by a handful of percentage points this year, although probably not as much as 2014's approximately 5 % gain.

As a result, inventory investment contributed 0.73 percentage point to third - quarter GDP growth, after adding just over a tenth of a percentage point to growth in the prior period.

The add - on for federal direct loans for graduate school students is 3.6 percent, while rates for PLUS loans equal yields on 10 - year Treasury note plus an add - on of 4.60 percentage points.

The sharp leap in social - security taxes to be levied above the former limit of $ 92,000, for instance, will add another dozen or so percentage points on current tax rates for the middle class earning above that limit.

How much did your actual production on the court translate into percentage contribution to wins (Win Shares), the net value of points scored while you were on the floor (Box Plus Minus), and the value that your individual game added relative to a «replacement level» player (VORP)?

Picking underdogs of six points or more — in combination with «betting percentages» has been a good way to add handicapping value.

He added just 3 % to one of the Tories» worst ever election percentages and he added those three points in almost perfect electoral conditions.

Most of the extensions add a percentage point to the existing sales taxes collected by the counties, bringing the total to 4 percent.

It extends the logic of the millionaire's tax with a series of four additional tax brackets starting at $ 5,000,000 and adding at most 1.5 percentage points of incremental tax on incomes over $ 100,000,000 per year.

Should she treat herself to a dish of ice cream for dessert, she adds another 260 calories, including over 100 calories as fat, but her percentage of calories as fat drops 9 points to 57 percent because of the high levels of carbohydrate calories from the sugar in the ice cream.

And considering the World Health Organization suggests we cut sugar intake to less than five percent of total daily calories (11 percentage points less than Americans consume on average), maybe it's best we avoid what Sonic calls «the added awesomeness of NERDS Candy.»

Adding latrines also decreased dropout rates, reducing the fraction of students who dropped out by 5.3 percentage points in the middle schools and by 12.2 percentage points in primary schools.

Percentages do not always add precisely to 100 as a result of rounding to the nearest percentage point.

(See Table 5) When examining just the winter season, adding one winter sport increases the percentage of students performing proficiently by 0.4 of a percentage point, while an additional 10 student able to directly participate in sports during the winter season relates to a 0.6 percentage point increase in students at or above proficiency (see Table 5)

«Closer to home in New York State if we added a single percentage point to the college attainment rate of adults in New York it would add $ 17.5 billion in economic activity,» said King.

Short term, one percentage point adds a couple of bucks to the monthly payment.

The number of percentage points (for example, 2.75) the lender adds to the index rate to calculate the ARM interest rate at each adjustment.

The American Association of Individual Investors (AAII) finds that 49 % of those polled now believe that stocks will rise during the next six months, up by 12 percentage points from the previous week, the Journal adds.

«Reverse mortgage rates are a heck of lot better than they used to be,» McLister says, adding that CHIP variable rates got as high as six percentage points above prime in 2009.

As well, 5 bonus points have been added based on the percentage of people employed in arts, culture, recreation and sports.

Miscellaneous administrative fees plus HST will add to the cost of owning XDV, CDZ and HAL by an estimated 0.2 to 0.3 percentage points.

As I have noted before, every an additional 10 % of your portfolio in equities adds about one half of a percentage point per year to your return.

The downgrade could add up to 0.7 of a percentage point to Treasuries» yields over time, increasing funding costs for public debt by some $ 100 billion, according to SIFMA, a U.S. securities industry trade group.

Granted, real estate also provides value in the form of imputed rent (less expenses such as property taxes, maintenance and insurance) that would add a few percentage points to the price gain.

Now I'm not suggesting that mortgage rates are headed back to 12 %, but every percentage point of interest added to the cost of a mortgage makes paying it down more attractive versus investing the money instead.

On top of that, PLUS loans carry a costly 4.3 percent up - front disbursement fee, which has the same effect as adding a full percentage point to the annual percentage rate (APR).

The high - yield stocks outperformed the market by an average of 4.1 percentage points a year from 1977 through to the end of 2016, which really adds up.

Adding the max number inquiries of 2, that number improves a full percentage point to 9.4 % ROI.

Margin The number of percentage points the lender adds to the index rate to calculate the ARM interest rate at each adjustment.

There are plenty of other smart moves that investors can make to boost their lifetime returns, but if you act on one or more of these three suggestions, you'll likely add more than a half percentage point to your return.