Sentences with phrase «of a percentage point worth»

Was a difference of just 0.8 of a percentage point worth switching for?

After all, it's hard to discount BTC's hundreds of percentage points worth of gains over the past year.

Not exact matches

A simulation by Oxford Economics suggests a 25 percent U.S. tariff on $ 60 billion worth of Chinese exports, with comparable retaliation, would reduce China's growth by about 0.1 percentage point this year and a little less next year, chief Asia economist Louis Kuijs in Hong Kong said in a recent note.

The extra 1 % is splitting hairs to gain an extra fraction of a percentage point here or subtract one there; it's just not worth my time.

Just a 0.2 percentage point increase in Treasury yields could wipe out a whole year's worth of yield income.

Mr Major's appeal as leader, compared with Mr Kinnock's, was probably worth no more than one percentage point to the Tory share of the vote.

For both math and science, the study finds that a shift of 10 percentage points of time from problem solving to lecture - style presentations (for example, increasing the share of time spent lecturing from 60 to 70 percent) is associated with a rise in student test scores of 4 percent of a standard deviation for the students who had the exact same peers in both their math and science classes — or between one and two months» worth of learning in a typical school year.

That extra percentage point of interest would be worth $ 100 a year.

While a true value of MQMs is probably less than that, annual bonuses achieved this way are definitely worth a few percentage points on your spending.

The extra 1 % is splitting hairs to gain an extra fraction of a percentage point here or subtract one there; it's just not worth my time.

But it's worth pointing out the percentage of Americans who have renters insurance is the same percentage of Americans who don't vote — though not the same forty - four percent, we're sure.

My rule is that stocks need to pay a return at least two percentage points higher than what I can get with a super-safe asset class to make it worth it for me to take on the volatility of stocks).

To FL's point and yours, how does one arrive at determining an appropriate percentage of debt relative to total net worth, from FL's comment Dec 28, 2016:

You may decide that you're not taking any chances, and that the extra partial percentage point increase in money market fund yields is not worth any risk of principal loss whatsoever.

Notice that most of them occured in the 1930s — evidence of just how volatile the 1930s were (that and it was also probably due to the fact that the index traded for a lot less than it does now, which made each point worth a greater percentage).

Still, it is worth noting that, over the past 15 years, the advisers making it onto each year's honor roll on average over the subsequent 12 months went on to make 1.2 percentage points more a year than those who didn't, while nevertheless incurring 25 % less risk, as measured by volatility of returns.

As a rule of thumb, many suggest that it's worth going through the process whenever you stand to shave around 1 percentage point or more off your existing rate (take 1 percentage point off a 4.75 percent rate, and you get a 3.75 percent one).

I would estimate I lose several percentage points of gain on both sides of the trade, but the potential for extraordinary returns on these illiquid stocks is worth the time and effort.

While a true value of MQMs is probably less than that, annual bonuses achieved this way are definitely worth a few percentage points on your spending.

BTW, it's worth looking at my R code — there are a couple of useful stand - alone utilities included, in particular one that computes specified percentage points for multiple PDFs or CDFs (and from [profile] likelihoods) and can also add them to a graph as box plots.

Taking adaptation into account, rich countries will adapt to the negative impacts of global warming and exploit the positive changes, creating a total positive effect of global warming worth about half a percentage point of GDP.

Sometimes, dealing with a familiar bank can be worth paying extra half of a percentage point or so.

But it's worth pointing out the percentage of Americans who have renters insurance is the same percentage of Americans who don't vote — though not the same forty - four percent, we're sure.

«For most people, if you can shave three - quarters of a percentage point off your interest rate, it's worth looking at,» says Greg McBride, an analyst with Bankrate.com, a personal finance website.

Sometimes that feeling of less stress is worth a few percentage points.

A general role of thumb is that refinancing becomes worth your while if the current interest rate on your mortgage is at least 2 percentage points higher than the prevailing market rate.