Sentences with phrase «of a percentage point from»

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.

According to the Daily Record poll, UKIP are only a couple of percentage points from winning a seat:

Hispanic students are 53.3 percent of total enrollment, but make up 54.7 percent of suspensions, up 0.1 of a percentage point from the year before (Tables 2, 3).

African - American students are 6.2 percent of total enrollment, but make up 16.4 percent of students suspended, up 0.2 of a percentage point from the year before.

The suspension rate is 4.4 percent, down 0.7 of a percentage point from the year before.

Mortgage lenders Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the National Association of Realtors all forecast the 30 - year, fixed - rate mortgage to rise 0.2 % of a percentage point from April through June.

... The mortgage rate increase of one - half to three - fourths of a percentage point from the end of the Fed program would happen regardless of any Fed action in interest rates, Rosengren said.

Moody's Analytics expects that the negative «wealth effect» from housing — where people spend money based on the value of their home — subtracted around 0.25 of a percentage point from GDP last year and that it will shave 0.05 percentage point from GDP this year.

Not exact matches

The share of employees who failed to use all their vacation time was actually down one percentage point from 55 % in 2015.

An Angus Reid poll of 799 British Columbians last October suggested 75 % felt it should be taxed and regulated rather than prohibited, up six percentage points from a year earlier.

The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

Forty - eight percent of them used all their vacation time last year, up three percentage points from 2015.

The disintegration of investment in nonresidential structures and machinery and equipment subtracted almost a full percentage point from GDP; only 2009 and 1982 were worse in that regard, and neither of those years stand out as high points in Canada's economic history.

Brian Wieser, a Pivotal Research analyst who reviewed Nielsen digital consumption data, said Google properties, including YouTube and Waze, combined to account for 27.4 percent of all time spent on digital media — up 3 percentage points from the previous year.

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 decrease in nominal GDP growth resulting solely from a one - year, 1 - percentage - point decrease in the rate of GDP inflation» reduces the budgetary balance by $ 1.9 billion.

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.

SCS earnings before tax as a percentage of SCS total revenue and SCS operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure) were 5.3 % and 6.8 %, respectively, both down 90 basis points from the prior year.

The Survey of Consumer Finances reports that in 2010, just 35 percent of families held some sort of retirement account offered through a current or past job, down 2.9 percentage points from 2007.

DTS earnings before tax as a percentage of DTS total revenue and DTS operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure) were 4.4 % and 6.5 %, respectively, up 20 and 70 basis points from the year - earlier period.

FMS earnings before tax as a percentage of FMS total revenue and FMS operating revenue (a non-GAAP measure) were 4.0 % and 4.8 %, respectively, both down 60 basis points from the prior year, primarily reflecting higher depreciation due to vehicle residual value policy changes and lower used vehicle sales results.

A decision will be released at 2 p.m. (1900 GMT), with markets prepared for an initial 25 basis point «liftoff» that would move the Fed's target rate from the zero lower bound to a range of between 0.25 and 0.50 percentage points.

A recent survey from the Canadian Bankers Association found that nearly 70 per cent of Canadians do most of their banking on their computer or mobile device — up almost 15 percentage points since 2015.

In a sign of market interest, the longest portion of the offering, a 40 - year security may yield 1.45 percentage points above Treasuries, down from initial talk of 1.6 percentage points to 1.65 percentage points, said the person, who asked not to be identified as the deal is private.

That's a percentage point drop from the previous year and a steeper drop since 2011 when 26.7 % of U.S. population growth was focused in urban areas.

Health care followed in second place with 17 percent of venture capital dollars, up two percentage points from the first quarter of 2014.

In Canada, hybrid sales represented only 1 % of the market in 2010, which is actually a drop of half a percentage point from the previous year, according to Geoff Helby, a director at the market research firm J.D. Power and Associates.

The fees can vary from less than 1 percent to a few percentage points — and interest at the prime rate to several points over prime on the balance of receivables you sell, making it steeper than most bank loans.

A June survey by state statistics institute INEGI found 79 % of Cancún residents call the city «insecure,» up nearly six percentage points from December.

According to proprietary research by the call intelligence company Invoca, voice search is the preferred mode of communication for 20 percent of consumers making a purchase of $ 500 or more, only 2 percentage points removed from the 22 percent who prefer traditional online search.

Because of the surprising bias we discovered, their finding of only a negligibly higher field goal percentage for shots following a streak of makes (three percentage points), was, if you do the calculation, actually 11 percentage points higher than one would expect from a coin flip!

In every scenario they back - tested, various portfolios of CHAA — winning companies substantially outperformed the returns of the S&P from 2001 to 2014 — often by 200 percentage points or more.

That would be a percentage - point improvement from 2016, and better than any other country in the Group of Seven rich economies.

Similarly, 72 percent of business owners said they expect their financial situation 12 months from now to be good, an increase of one percentage point from the first quarter; 11 percent said they expect their situation to be poor, a decrease of one percentage point from the first quarter.

As a marketer, I can't really do anything with a data point about the percentage of business travelers who are women — at least not anything that will differentiate from all of the rest of my competitors.

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.

Despite a shortfall of workers, average hourly pay rose just 2.4 percent from a year ago, one - half percentage point lower than September's annual gain.

The service problems had dragged down sales by eight percentage points in the quarter, with three of those points coming from lost sales due to rep annoyance, Jung said.

P&G's portion of the U.S. laundry market fell 2.1 percentage points from 2008 to 2011.

The contract for September, which is a date many on Wall Street think is ripe for a hike, indicates a rate of just 0.43 percent, while December points to a 0.5 percent rate, a 0.13 percentage point increase from the current level that the CME tool translates to a 59 percent chance of a hike.

The latest index, compiled from six trillion data points, measured congestion between April and June of this year and is expressed in percentages that illustrate additional driving time.

The slowdown in China cut around 0.5 percentage points from year - on - year world trade growth in the first half of this year, Slater said.

The share of part - time work among university - educated Canadians also rose from 10 per cent in the 1990s to 13.5 per cent today, with the gap relative to high - school graduates narrowing to only one percentage point.

Year - over-year, Windows Phone's share of the U.S. smartphone market rose to 4.1 percent from 2.7 percent; in Great Britain, it rose to 6.7 percent from 3 percent; in Australia, it rose to 3.4 percent from 1.7 percent; and, in Italy, it posted a gain of 7.7 percentage points, rising to 13.1 percent from 5.4 percent.

These fees can vary from a quarter of one percent (25 basis points) to manage a stable portfolio of cash and bonds to a full percentage (100 basis points) or more to manage a more active portfolio of small cap stocks.

But in the quarter ending Dec. 31, which included the key holiday season, handbags costing $ 400 or more generated 50 % of sales, up 20 percentage points from a year earlier.

The stimulus from a weaker currency is over; if companies didn't respond to a 20 % drop over two years, they likely aren't going to respond to a decline of a few more percentage points.

The Morning Consult survey polled 3,891 voters from June 15 - 20 with a margin of error of plus or minus 2 percentage points.

In July, the proportion of Americans aged 25 through 54 who had a job or were looking for one rose to 81.8 percent, up a half - percentage point from a year earlier and the highest since December 2010.

Fifty - three percent of companies surveyed by internet security provider Check Point Software Technologies store sensitive customer information on mobile devices, and that percentage is expected to skyrocket as business continues to migrate from the desktop to phones and tablets.