Sentences with phrase «of a percentage point in»

The Fed funds rate remained there for seven years before the central bank nudged it up a quarter of a percentage point in December.

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.

Citing emerging domestic price pressures and stronger - than - expected household spending and housing market activity, the Reserve Bank of New Zealand raised its policy rate by 1/4 of a percentage point in January to 5 1/4 per cent.

The Bank of England increased its policy rate by 1/4 of a percentage point in November to 3 3/4 per cent, noting the better global outlook and the unexpected strength of consumer spending and the housing market.

The only hope for the Dems is for Batterdino to sign on to help the Assemblywoman and provide some of his great sound bites that can drain away chunks of percentage points in a single news cycle.

«A decline of one - tenth of a percentage point in the employment - to - population ratio is basically no change.

Rates are actually lower now than after the Federal Reserve raised them a quarter of a percentage point in December, says mortgage lender Elysia Stobbe of NFM Lending in Jacksonville, FL. «That's pretty ironic.»

The additional costs can be everything from half of a percentage point in the loan rate at the last moment to paying for closing costs.

Rates for all federal student loans increased by 0.69 of a percentage point in 2017.

Mortgage interest rates have already risen by over a quarter of a percentage point in 2018.

Giving up a few dollars or a couple of percentage points in gains to get back into position isn't a big deal, it's a smart way to play.

On a 30 - year fixed rate mortgage with a reduction option, the homebuyer pays an extra one - fourth to three - eighths of a percentage point in the interest rate on the mortgage plus a quarter to three - eighths of 1 percent of the loan amount (points) at the time of closing.

Average card rates have climbed steadily this year, expanding by more than three quarters of a percentage point in just nine months.

Housing added 0.43 of a percentage point in the first quarter, when the economy grew by 2 %.

This year, housing should add around 0.3 of a percentage point to GDP, according to estimates by Moody's Analytics, before adding 0.5 of a percentage point in 2013 and 0.8 in 2014.

Rather than the slow pace of rate hikes so far that has kept interest income at a low level, increase rates by a half or three - quarters of a percentage point in one shot.

Mortgage interest rates have already risen by over a quarter of a percentage point in 2018.

On average, urban office loans are 89.6 % occupied, and suburban offices lagged that number by half of a percentage point in July.

Not exact matches

The OECD data shows that 72.4 per cent of Canadians aged 15 - 64, what is normally considered the working age, were employed in the fourth quarter of 2013, compared to 73.7 per cent who had a job in the second quarter of 2008, for a differential of minus 1.3 percentage points.

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

Since JetBlue announced plans to rebrand in late 2014, the percentage of people polled who have said they are positive about the JetBlue brand has fallen almost eight points, according to YouGov, a research firm that surveys brand perceptions.

Delivery contributed to 16 % of Company sales in the first quarter of 2018, an increase of 3 percentage points year over year.

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.

On a positive note, I have seen a slight improvement by a few percentage points in most of the core metrics since I last checked back in November 2016.

Because the margin of error is 3 points, the pollsters are confident that support for Trump in the total population is between 40 % and 46 % — or 43 % plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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).

NFIB found that a net 23 percent of respondents raised wages in the three months prior to September, a 5 percentage point increase compared with the same period a year earlier.

For example, ComScore reported that in June 2013, its core search market share fell 0.5 percentage points to 11.4 percent — while Bing gained the same amount and Google controlled nearly 67 percent of the market.

Sales growth and operating profit growth reported in Danish kroner are now expected to be 6 and 9 percentage points lower than in local currencies, respectively, compared with a previous forecast of 7 and 10 percentage points lower.

Ford said that over the next couple of years it will increase its SUV mix 10 percentage points and decrease its car portfolio 10 percentage points in North American.

Shipments have steadily ticked up a few percentage points each week in the second half of 2014, relative to their 52 - week average, according to MillerCoors.

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.

«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.

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.

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.

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.

The personal saving rate has since declined 1.5 percentage points in a span of four years.

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.

The longest - term portion of the offering, $ 8 billion of bonds maturing in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.

Economists at Macroeconomic Advisers boosted their forecast for fourth - quarter economic growth by three - tenths of a percentage point to an annualized rate of 2.4 percent, on the «unexpected strength» in consumer spending.

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.

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.

For instance, in Pennsylvania and Michigan, Clinton's total percentage of the final vote fell within 2 points of what had been predicted for her in the polling average.

In tandem with that reading, 9 percent of repsondents said they planned to decrease head counts at their companies in the next 12 months, which represents a decrease of two percentage points, compared to the third quarteIn tandem with that reading, 9 percent of repsondents said they planned to decrease head counts at their companies in the next 12 months, which represents a decrease of two percentage points, compared to the third quartein the next 12 months, which represents a decrease of two percentage points, compared to the third quarter.

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.

A half - percentage - point difference in fees will translate into thousands of dollars less in total return over an investor's lifetime.

Among their findings is that robots contributed 0.37 percentage points annual to gross domestic product growth, or one tenth of total GDP expansion in the time period.

A conversion increase of a few percentage points could result in thousands of dollars (or hundreds of thousands) in new revenue.

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.