Sentences with phrase «of percentage points for»

But while publisher Hachette UK's overall sales dropped a couple of percentage points for the third quarter of the year, its digital sales increased an astounding 80 % over the previous August, and 32 % over the previous July.

The average annual percentage rate (APR) soared to 15.22 percent — up nearly a quarter of a percentage point for its largest increase in 2011.

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 companies surveyed all had at least 20 employees, while the margin of error for the sample was plus or minus 3.54 percentage points, with a 95 % confidence level.

Since the beginning of 2008, the Russell 3000 growth index outperformed its value counterpart by more than 70 percentage points, returning 10.3 % annually, compared with 7 % for value stocks.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The 7 - 2 vote for the rate move, the Fed's third this year, raises the benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent.

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.

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.

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 averaFor 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 averafor her in the polling average.

After studying the decline in U.S. crime rates that occurred in the 1990s, it concluded that a drop of two percentage points in unemployment was responsible for a 9 % decline in burglary, 14 % drop in rape and robbery and 30 % plunge in assault.

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.

For example, the percentage of voters who trust Goldsmith in the categories of «public transport fares» and «reliability» has risen five points since Opinium's last poll.

U.S. and Beijing could both lose 0.2 percentage points of growth within the first year of a «limited trade war», AMRO's economic team said, and an additional 0.2 percentage points for the U.S. by the third year given Washington's relatively greater openness to global trade.

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!

Instead of worrying about bargaining for a few percentage points off the rate, spend time negotiating the lease's term and thinking about the company's true needs for the future.

The last time the U.S. went through a partial government paralysis in 1995 - 1996 — for roughly three weeks in two separate instances — economic growth slowed by a quarter of a percentage point during the last three months of 1995.

Half of shoppers say they will shop for themselves when shopping for others, an increase of 7 percentage points compared to 2014.

The margin of sampling error for all respondents is plus or minus 4.0 percentage points.

As for the percentage of the amount raised, Robb says 5 percent is typical, though he points out that there are very few hard and fast rules.

Dora Gicheva, an economist at the University of North Carolina, has found that for every $ 10,000 young people carried in student debt, the likelihood of getting married in the seven years following graduation dropped by some three or four percentage points.

If you want a 5 percent loan instead of a 6 percent loan, you're hoping for a reduction of 1 percentage point.

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 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 quarter - percentage - point rate hike means you'll pay an extra $ 2.50 a year for every $ 1,000 of debt, according to NerdWallet.

Given the current price - to - earnings ratio of the S&P 500, a 10 - percentage - point reduction would imply a 11 % gain for the S&P 500, to 2,450.

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.

That is, when debt service ratios are calculated using the discounted mortgage rates actually charged by banks (about 125 percentage points below posted rates), the average Canadian homeowner is paying just 25 % or so of income on mortgage payments, far below the 32 % benchmark used for mortgage - insurance qualification.

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.

Stephen Tapp, a former Bank of Canada economist who now is research director at the Institute for Research on Public Policy, reckons the reversal will cost 0.2 percentage points of gross domestic product annually over the longer term.

Based on historical trends, the share of working - age Americans who either have jobs or are looking for one could rise another 0.7 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.

Applying the lower of these two weighted - average calculations (24 percentage points) to Canada's existing automotive manufacturing footprint (and assuming that the dislocation for Canada's industry is only proportional to the overall North American shrinkage, an assumption which is probably optimistic), allows us to generate an estimate of the potential scale of economic loss if the U.S. - Japan rules were implemented.

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.

A recent survey of small - business owners conducted for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by Harris Interactive reported an 11 percentage point rise in the last year in the number of owners who are unsure of whether their business will be better off in the future than it has been in the past.

In total, the paper estimates that every increase of 1 percent in the unemployment rate prompts a 3.2 percentage point reallocation of the major choices of men, and 4.1 percentage points for women.

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.

«For every one percentage point in the (women's) participation rate, you are boosting Japanese GDP by about half a percentage points,» Jesper Koll, head of WisdomTree Japan, an ETF - provider, told CNBC.

As for its year - over-year progress, Pinterest reported that it increased its percentage of female employees by 2 percentage points (40 % to 42 %).

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.

$ 118 million change in revenue for each percentage point change in the federal estimate of 2014 Canada Corporate Taxable Income.

In a study issued this week (Aug. 11 - 15), Goldman Sachs Bank USA economists Eli Hackle and Hui Shan showed that the homeownership rate of young adults, ages 25 - 34, who were carrying more than $ 50,000 in student, was 8 percentage points lower than for college graduates with less than $ 50,000 in student debt.

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$ 17 million revenue change for each percentage point change in both the number and prices of housing resales.

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.

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