Sentences with phrase «of a percentage point below»

The Bank of Canada has already raised interest rates three times since July, but the benchmark rate is still three - quarters of a percentage point below the 2 - per - cent inflation target.

On average, the harmonised measure has been 3/4 of a percentage point below the retail series, although the differential between these measures has widened recently.

That means you can find a deal that's at least a quarter of a percentage point below the national average of 15 - year home loans — 2.97 %, according to our latest survey of major lenders.

I don't care how much we cut by 2020 in terms of percentage points below 2005, which my environmental friends have focused on as the most important thing.

iPhone X was consistently a couple of percentage points below its Android counterparts, but nothing that would suggest it had such a smaller battery.

Rates run almost one - half of a percentage point below conventional rates according to Ellie Mae.

Not exact matches

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).

A recent Bank of Montreal note pointed out the percentage of businesses reporting difficulty hiring in the Bank of Canada's business outlook survey is 25 %, well below the 15 - year average of 35 %.

The pork shortage, along with the bad weather that afflicted the eastern half of the U.S. this winter, lowered Chipotle's comparable sales growth by about 2 percentage points to 10.4 % in the first quarter, below the 11.8 % analysts were projecting.

That is, when debt service ratios are calculated using the discounted mortgage rates actually charged by banks (about 125 percentage points below posted rates), the average Canadian homeowner is paying just 25 % or so of income on mortgage payments, far below the 32 % benchmark used for mortgage - insurance qualification.

On Wednesday, the Fed raised its key short - term lending rate to a range of 0.50 % - to - 0.75 %, or about two percentage points below where we said it would be.

Bartlett said growth is tracking well below the 1.9 per cent pace expected by the Bank of Canada with the first half rate roughly 1.8 percentage points below the bank's latest forecast.

And borrowing costs in Canada are still highly stimulative, almost two percentage points below what the Bank of Canada estimates is their «neutral» rate.

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).

In 2017, high yield spreads (based on the Barclays High Yield Index) declined in 8 of 12 months, with relatively minor spread widening, 20 to 25 basis points (bps, or.20 to.25 percentage points) in March and August (see the chart below).

In 1970, Canada's manufacturing - to - GDP ratio was 6 percentage points below the average of members of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).

Points raised in the blog post include the following: - In Canada, public social spending as a percentage of our GDP is well below the OECD average.

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.

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 level of intermediaries» interest rates for households and small businesses remains historically low — in particular, notwithstanding the fact that the cash rate exceeds by 1.5 percentage points its level at the previous cyclical trough in 1993/94, rates paid by borrowers, especially for housing, typically remain below their level at that time.

Budgetary revenues to the end of February are running about one percentage point below that forecast in the Match 2011 Budget, due primarily to lower - than - expected personal income tax and other revenues.

This percentage is above the 5 - year average of 64 %, but below the percentage at this same point in time for Q4 2013 (86 %).

The graph below showcases that user queries by time of the day and the line chart in red represents the percentage points of the tweets replied by the brands.

Falls in mortgage interest rates detracted 0.5 of a percentage point from the quarterly headline rate and, on a year - ended basis, interest rate reductions that have already occurred will keep the headline inflation rate below the underlying rate for some time.

The table below shows a breakdown of the NFL point spread betting percentages from our seven contributing sportsbooks.

Child poverty rose even more — by 3 percentage points — leaving three out of every 10 city children in homes below the poverty level.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

As shown in Figure 2 below, a one - thousand dollar increase in tuition level is associated with a 3.5 - percentage point decrease in the likelihood of participating in the LSP.

When asked to give their own estimate, without any hint or help as to what the right answer might be, those surveyed came up with an even more pessimistic estimate of 66 percent, 9 percentage points below actual levels.

The parents of a student whose performance is 1 standard deviation above the mean are about 8 percentage points more likely to make a request than the parents of an otherwise similar student whose performance is 1 standard deviation below the mean (19 percent vs. 11 percent).

A second important outcome was that the lower - performing students, so these were students who were about the bottom third of our sample, these were students who were earning Grade Point Averages (GPAs) of a C or below in the semester prior to the intervention [and were] most likely going to be struggling in school; for these students, the intervention increased their GPAs and also increased their likelihood of passing core courses like Math, English, Social Studies and Science - and increased that by around 6.5 percentage points.

Among respondents living in districts that spend less than $ 9,440 ($ 3,000 below the average district), 61 % of uninformed respondents support higher spending, just 12 percentage points above such views among the uninformed.

This was 24 percentage points below the pass rate in the rest of the state.

The aggregate proficiency rate of black students in Boston today is about 35 percentage points below that of white students, almost unchanged since 2001.

But when respondents in below - average districts are told about state and national rankings, the level of confidence in teachers falls by 7 and 8 percentage points, respectively.

The overall impact of double - dosing on college enrollment is almost entirely due to its 13 - percentage - point impact on below - average readers (see Figure 3).

The Hypersegregation Index calculates the share of schools in a district that have a poverty rate at least 20 percentage points above or below the district average.

That's 4.5 percentage points below the national average of 13 %.

A Hypersegregation Index score of.45 would show that 45 percent of schools in a given district have an FRPL rate that was 20 percentage points above or below the district FRPL rate.

That is also 10 percentage points below the national rate of 26 per cent.

Essentially, they have a lower proportion of disadvantaged pupils than their local communities — or to be precise, a -15 percentage points bias, as shown in the graph below.

Only 40 percent of black enrollees at four - year public universities graduate within six years — 18 percentage points below the nationwide average.

There, fourth - graders reading Below Basic declined by 25 percentage points (from 69 percent to 44 percent) between 2002 and 2015, while the number of kids reading at Proficient and Advanced levels increased by 17 percentage points (from 10 percent to 27 percent).

The percentage of black fourth - graders reading Below Basic declined by 19 percentage points (from 61 percent to 42 percent) in that period, while the percentage of Latino fourth - grade peers struggling with literacy declined by 18 percentage points (from 47 percent to 29 percent).

58.5 The percentage of Americans who will spend at least one year below the poverty line at some point between ages 20 and 75.

In the first year alone, the restructured schools reduced the number of students scoring below basic levels by 15 percentage points in math and 11.3 in reading.

But District 220 attendance in 2015 dropped to 93 percent, one percentage point below the state average, according to figures from the Illinois Report Card, a website maintained by the Illinois State Board of Education.

While the overall U.S. performance fell far behind top performers, such as Singapore, Japan, and Canada, the United States made the biggest improvement in equity from 2006 to 2015, increasing its percentage of «resilient students» — defined as disadvantaged students who perform better than predicted by their socioeconomic status — by 12 percentage points, as shown in the below image from the report.

The percentage of all young male eighth - graders reading Below Basic in 2011, a one - point decline from 2002.

Thirty - nine percent of fourth - graders attending urban schools scored Below Basic in 2011, a one point drop from the levels four years ago; while the percentage of rural fourth - graders who were functionally illiterate declined from 31 percent in 2007 to 29 percent in 2011.