Sentences with phrase «of percentage points above»

The interest you pay, generally a couple of percentage points above the prime rate, goes into your retirement account.

The yield on 90 - day bank bills had risen to 5.40 per cent in early November, 0.65 of a percentage point above the previous cash rate target of 4.75 per cent.

Most economists expect inflation to edge up and end the year a few tenths of a percentage point above the Fed's target.

Not exact matches

The longest portion of the offering, a 30 - year security, yields 1.95 percentage points above Treasuries, after initial talk of around 2.15 percentage points, according to people with knowledge of the matter, who asked not to be identified as the details are private.

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.

Our own national economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.3 % in the fourth quarter of 2010, a full percentage point above what the Bank of Canada expected.

In the article, Irving says that 18 % of the technical jobs at GoDaddy are held by women — though he notes that that figure puts the company just 1 percentage point above the average for Silicon Valley.

The generation with the largest chunk of savers holding equity stakes at least 10 percentage points above Fidelity's recommended allocation for their age is baby boomers, coming in at 26 percent.

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.

The light green line in the chart above shows interest rates would need to jump more than one percentage point to wipe out a year of income in the two - year Treasury note.

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).

At about the same time, APRA acted to ensure that the interest rate «buffer» used in the serviceability assessments for all loans was at least 2 percentage points above the relevant benchmark rate (with an interest rate floor of at least 7 per cent).

➢ Another 2014 study found that one - year - advance growth forecasts from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the European Central Bank from 2008 to 2012 showed «substantial over-optimism, averaging 1.6 to 2.4 percentage points above actual growth.»

France's Socialist government announced the first real - terms increase in the minimum wage for six years on Tuesday, but limited the rise to 0.6 percentage points above inflation as it sought to balance election promises with fears of damaging employment.

The recent widening of this spread is, of course, much smaller than was seen in 1994 in the previous episode of globally rising bond yields, when the yield on 10 - year bonds in Australia moved from 1 percentage point to about 3 percentage points above the comparable US yield.

The math I worked above showed how much extra money you could get over 30 years of saving and investing if your company boosted your 401 (k) employer match by a single percentage point.

This was 1 percentage point above the corresponding ratio in June 1990 and 2 1/2 percentage points above the minimum capital ratio of 8 per cent.

Kenya's central bank is partially to blame for the country's new economic challenges: Its 2016 Banking Act caps lending rates at a maximum of four percentage points above the central bank benchmark rate of 10.5 %, resulting in limited lending and corporate growth.

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

This explains our attitude which while hopeful of achieving a striking margin of superiority over average investment results, nevertheless, regards every percentage point of investment return above average as having real meaning.

Now Britain wobbles upward with the other advanced industrial countries in a band plus or minus a few percentage points from the average, excepting the big, rich nation of churchgoers, which persists at 30 percent above the rest.

The sharp leap in social - security taxes to be levied above the former limit of $ 92,000, for instance, will add another dozen or so percentage points on current tax rates for the middle class earning above that limit.

«That has brought about the re-emergence of the economy category, which is a larger percentage of the overall beer business now, especially for us considering at one point in time 95 percent of our business was coming from the premium category and above,» he notes.

This is seven percentage points above the percent of the monthly food budget spent by total U.S. diners on food prepared outside the home.

New York also has finished with a point percentage above.500 in each of the last 12 seasons, the second - longest active streak in the league (San Jose, 13).

Through 19 weeks of play, Roma has averaged 2.16 points per game, well above the league average of 1.33, which obviously contributes to their impressive winning percentage (63 %), which is also well above the league average 33 %.

The campaign is also going up against the fundraising juggernaut that is Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand and while the Turner camp took solace in the fact that today's Q - poll put him above the rest of the GOP pack, he's still down by 30 percentage points.

In addition, investigators with citations above the median (more than 24 citations) at the time of application were 3.6 percentage points (P <.001) more likely to receive an R01 award (14).

The results of the study, co-authored with Dr Lorenzo Neri from QMUL, show that a three percentage point increase (from a baseline of 26 per cent) in the number of students who perform above expectations at Key Stage 2 increases local house prices by 1.5 per cent.

In its own analysis, ANet says the number of its youngsters who scored proficient or above on state tests last year increased by 7 percentage points in English and 4 percentage points in math in Chicago, and by 5 points in English and 3 points in math in New Orleans.

In 2016, UK schools saw a disappointing decline in A * - C grades at GCSE level, with the proportion of pupils who gained a C grade or above dropping by 2.1 percentage points from the previous year.

Using the paper's estimates, that would imply the recent recession caused a decline in female enrollment in elementary education of 33.6 percent (the 5.6 percentage point change in the unemployment rate multiplied by the 6 percent figure above).

We find that NCLB accountability increased the share of students performing at or above basic in math by 10 percentage points among 4th graders and 6 percentage points among 8th graders.

In recent years, the percentage of Kettle Moraine students deemed proficient or advanced in reading or math has been 5 to 25 points above the state average on Wisconsin's state standardized tests.

On the four indicators of social disruption mentioned above, the district — charter difference in the percentage identifying a problem as serious or very serious is on average 8 percentage points.

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).

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 easy for reading, since the «prepared» level is set at the same point as «proficient» — and it's a breeze to find the percentage of students at or above proficient since 1992.

And on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)- the state's standardized test, first administered in the spring of 1998 - Worcester public school students in different grade levels were 8 to 20 percentage points less likely to score at or above proficiency than were students statewide.

Western Governors says its students pass teacher certification tests administered by Pearson Education at a rate of 96.2 percent, and that they pass the Educational Testing Service's Praxis teacher tests at a rate that's 3.8 percentage points above the national average.

This means that the net difference was a 5.1 - percentage - point increase in graduation rates over and above the influence of other factors that were affecting low - performing schools citywide.

For example, in Alabama's 94 Reading First schools, the percentage of all 4th graders deemed to be proficient (stanine 5 and above) on the Stanford Achievement Test rose 12.7 points, from 40.1 percent in 2003 to 52.8 percent in 2007, more than twice as fast as the gain for students at other schools (which rose 5.5 points, from 64.2 percent to 69.7 percent in the same period).

In 1996 there was a 15 - percentage - point gap nationally in the percentage of boys and girls achieving level 4 or above.

The difference between the percentage of National School Lunch Program eligible White students scoring Proficient and Above on the NAEP mathematics assessment and those from more prosperous families scoring at that level was 31 points.

The district classification rate for specific learning disability (SLD) and speech - language impairment (SLI) combined was no more than one percentage point above the state combined rate as reported in the fall of 2010 (approximately 9 %)

The school districts in New Orleans beat the state average with 77.8 percent, a staggering 25 percentage points above the 2004 rate, when only 54.4 percent of students graduated from high school.

New Orleans beat the state average with 77.8 percent, a staggering 25 percentage points above the 2004 rate, when only 54.4 percent of students graduated from high school.

(See Table 5) When examining just the winter season, adding one winter sport increases the percentage of students performing proficiently by 0.4 of a percentage point, while an additional 10 student able to directly participate in sports during the winter season relates to a 0.6 percentage point increase in students at or above proficiency (see Table 5)

Noble students were 15 percentage points more likely to attend a four - year school and 14 percentage points more likely to attend a college where the median two - subject SAT score was above 1000 — increases of 50 and 78 percent, respectively.

With respect to grades K — 8, the Institute says, «the percentage of public school students in Orleans Parish at and above basic has increased 15 percentage points since 2009.