Sentences with phrase «of a percentage point higher»

If rates stay elevated into May, rates on new government loans will be about eight - tenths of a percentage point higher than they are today.

«They're very closely aligned with our forecasts,» said Brett House, the deputy chief economist at Scotiabank, where the prediction for Canada is one - tenth of a percentage point higher than what the IMF projects.

The revised data including the financial intermediation service charge suggest a slightly higher debt - servicing ratio over recent years than that indicated by the RBA's earlier estimates, with the revised ratio averaging 1/4 — 1/2 of a percentage point higher over recent quarters.

The percentage of Ferguson - Florissant's black children condemned to the top five special ed categories is just three - tenths of a percentage point higher than the 9.5 percent of kids in St. Louis» perpetually - failing traditional district labeled in the top five special ed categories.

She explains how the interest rate on the personal line of credit (PLC) debt is a couple of percentage points higher than her mortgage and car loan so it needs to be brought down to zero.

Experts predict that rates will increase by the end of 2017 and will be about three - quarters of a percentage point higher, at 4.5 %, by the end of 2018.

Interest rates for renovation loans are usually one - eighth to one - quarter of a percentage point higher than they are for a conventional mortgage because these loans are riskier for the lender.

At this early point in the discussion many economists believe mortgage rates would be one half of a percentage point higher without the government sponsored enterprises.

I recommend that you not finance more than 90 percent of the value of the house and that you charge an interest rate a couple of percentage points higher than what the banks will — 6 percent to 8 percent, for example.

The rates on no - cost loans are usually about 1/2 or 5/8 of a percentage point higher than the «full cost» rate.

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The bonds of iHeartMedia have long been in the basket of «distressed debt,» meaning their prices have fallen so far to where their yields are at least 10 percentage points higher than equivalent Treasury yields.

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.

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).

The percentage of Americans living in poverty has fallen for the second year in a row, but is still slightly higher than in 2007 and still 1.4 percentage points higher than in 2000.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

This tripling of the itinerant workforce resulted in unemployment being 3.9 percentage points higher in Alberta and British Columbia, where the use of temporary foreign workers is prevalent, according to a recent study by Simon Fraser University professor Dominique Gross.

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.

Put another way, the investment would lose almost a fifth of its value in 30 years if the fees were only 0.65 percentage points higher.

A group of companies that spend the least on employee pay has outpaced a basket of high - labor cost stocks by 13 percentage points over the past year, according to data compiled by Goldman Sachs.

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!

Collegium Pharmaceutical was one of the largest gainers by percentage points Thursday, closing 19.3 percent higher after news that its chronic pain medication, Xtampza, will be more accessible to patients with United Healthcare insurance.

Noting that the actual rebate should have been at least 10 percentage points higher, Wyden and Pallone said, «Today's letter is more evidence that while Mylan irresponsibly raised the price of EpiPen, they were also bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars.»

They found that the discovery of a high - quality break can raise growth by 2.2 percentage points a year.

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.

To qualify for federally regulated mortgages, borrowers must be able to afford interest rates that are two percentage points above the contracted rate or the Bank of Canada's five - year benchmark rate, whichever is higher.

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.

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.

Stéfane Marion, chief economist at National Bank Financial, noted earlier this month Canadian factories currently are using 82 % of their production capacity, a historically strong number that is seven percentage points higher than the corresponding capacity - utilization rate in the United States.

It is understandable «Types of current credit» garnered the highest percentage of incorrect responses because this factor accounts for a mere 10 percent of credit score points.

In a sample that we studied for a recent report, there was a 27 - percentage - point difference in top - line growth between brands that scored highest in terms of advocacy and those with the lowest scores.

Apple originally had planned to pay music owners 71.5 % of Apple Music's subscription revenue after the trial period ended, Re / code previously reported, which was «a few percentage points higher than the industry standard,» to account for the longer trial period.

A one percentage point increase in the growth rate of productivity has been associated with between two - thirds and one percentage point higher growth in median worker compensation in the period since 1973, and with between 0.4 and 0.7 percentage points higher growth in production / nonsupervisory worker compensation.

I am currently thinking of ways to increase my savings a couple of percentage points, but that proves to be a challenge as living expenses in Switzerland are notoriously high.

Mortgage payments as a percentage of income (MPPI) rose 0.6 points, as a 6.6 % increase in house prices outweighed lower mortgage rates and a higher average median income.

The poll was conducted using an online panel of 1,021 Canadians from Dec. 7 to Dec. 12 and is considered accurate within 3.5 percentage points for the national numbers, with higher margins of error for regional breakdowns.

«By the end of the first quarter (of 2015) inflation will stand by around 3.5 (percentage points) higher than we expected.

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The researchers calculate that the rational response to a reduction of a percentage point in the rate at which banks themselves can raise funds is to boost the credit limits of the 37 % of cards issued to those with the highest credit ratings by $ 2,203 each.

Thirty - one percent of technology marketers report that their organization's overall content marketing approach is extremely or very successful — that's up seven percentage points from the previous year, when 24 % reported high success.

In other words, equity dividends are higher by a third of a percentage points than quality bond yields, and that's before the dividend tax credit and before any capital gains.

This will lead GDP to be higher than otherwise by between about 1/2 and 3/4 of a percentage point over the course of two years (Graph 1).

Mortgage rates are not historically high today, but they are about half a percentage point higher since the start of this year and are clearly on an upward trajectory.

The Chicago - based airline generated about 39 percent of last year's revenue abroad, about 10 percentage points higher than Delta or American, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

Relative to the five - year average, Korean credit default swaps, the cost of insuring against defaults, is 3 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) higher while the Korean Won is 3 % lower.

That's 26 percentage points higher than the national average and the most of all 10 major cities surveyed.

Currently, 22 % of consumers say they have bought Tide in the last 30 days, one percentage point higher than where it reached after the Super Bowl.

The differences in rate were minimal: most lenders kept their rates the same regardless of zip code, and rate increases for the largest markets went no higher than 0.08 percentage points.

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.

Roughly 82 per cent of the prime - age population is now employed, about 13 percentage points higher than 40 years ago.

Our survey of mortgage and refinancing rates at Ohio's biggest lenders revealed a spread of 0.75 percentage points between the highest and lowest offers on a 30 - year fixed rate mortgage.