Sentences with phrase «of percentage points over»

First, there's little point in buying fixed income gradually, because these investments are not likely to move up or down more than a couple of percentage points over a short period.

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).

In contrast, trade union officials surveyed by the Australian Centre for Industrial Relations Research and Training (ACIRRT) have revised down their forecasts for inflation by around 1/2 of a percentage point over the next year and now expect inflation of around 3 per cent over the next two years.

In anticipation of the Fed's move, the market has already seen mortgage rates increase more than a quarter of a percentage point over the past few weeks.

Not exact matches

The Minneapolis metro area saw 2.3 % job growth over the past year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, almost a full percentage point more than the nation as a whole — adding nearly 45,000 jobs.

This gap surges to over 20 percentage points when calculated to include among the non-employed prime - age black men who are «missing» primarily due to incarceration or early death, according to the Council of Economic Advisers.

The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

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

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).

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.

The former First Lady is now enjoying a slight lead over Donald Trump, with most of the polls putting her ahead by a median of 3 percentage points.

And while 41 percent of small business owners say they don't see any indications that the recession is over, that's actually three percentage points lower than the number of consumers who say economic conditions have not improved.

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

According to an October 2013 Gallup Organization poll, 58 percent of Americans now favor legalization of marijuana - a jump of ten percentage points over the previous year.

The fees can vary from less than 1 percent to a few percentage points — and interest at the prime rate to several points over prime on the balance of receivables you sell, making it steeper than most bank loans.

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.

And if his margin of loss stays over half a percentage point, he or his campaign will have to finance the recount.

An ABC News / Washington Post poll released on Sunday showed Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton with a 1 percentage point national lead over Republican rival Donald Trump, within the margin of error.

According to the CIBC study, which examined various reports that have attempted to compute an annualized average «return on investment» on education and found stark divergences depending on the field of study, the university premium over college has also narrowed and now comes to 0.7 percentage points.

The stimulus from a weaker currency is over; if companies didn't respond to a 20 % drop over two years, they likely aren't going to respond to a decline of a few more percentage points.

Globally, 17 % of its tech employees are women, an increase of one percentage point over the previous year.

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.

And that's how, over time, you can lose a few percentage points of fat even if you don't change your exercise routine and don't change what you eat; keep all the other variables consistent and intermittent fasting will cause you to lose fat.

Smartphone Market Penetration While the incidence of smartphone use in 2013 has increased by 9 percentage points year over year and by 24 percentage points since 2011, the gap in customer satisfaction scores among smartphone manufacturers is narrowing.

Commentary: «New equipment orders at Otis were up 19 percent over the year ago third quarter including favorable foreign exchange of 7 percentage points.

Ryan Avent pointed out that even if we enacted Trump's massive tax cuts and spending increaes, adding $ 34 trillion in new debt over the next two decades, our ratio of debt to GDP two decades from now would still be 30 percentage points less than Japan's government debt ratio is right now... and the market is still buying their negative interest rate long term debt...

Some of the data in the figure comes from DR's table 1 showing the number of basis points (hundredths of a percent, so 100 bps is one percentage point) that the Fed has reduced the main tool it controls — the Federal funds rate — over a number of recessions.

On all the available information, resources sector investment will probably rise by another 2 percentage points or more of annual GDP over the next couple of years.

Shareholder resolutions related to corporations» political activities accounts for just over 25 percent of the total, down 4 percentage points from last year's mid-February tally, Proxy Preview notes.

Thirty - three percent (33 %) of adults 18 and over say they've seen a Tide ad in the last 30 days, just one percentage point short of post-Super Bowl levels.

The share of Web traffic from non-PC devices for directories / resources rose more than 20 percentage points from 6 % to 27 % of all Web traffic over the course of the year.

But then she quits her job, and an unscrupulous adviser recommends that she roll over her retirement fund into a new individual retirement account — and that she invest the IRA in a fund with a similar expected return, but with 1.5 percentage points of costs.

Interest rates may increase but probably not enough to make an impact to a CD that is up for renewal, Real estate income should increase over time but mostly a few percentage points here and there, I suppose you could manufacture more income by paying off one of the rentals assuming your income numbers are after expenses and not gross income.

A prudent estimate is that this could add another tenth or two of a percentage point to potential output over the medium term.

Borrowers who chose a loan with a shorter repayment term in order to get the lowest interest rate and maximize overall savings reduced their interest rate by 1.71 percentage points and will pay $ 18,668 less over the life of their new loan, on average.

In general terms, an ownership change results from a cumulative change in the equity ownership of certain stockholders by more than 50 percentage points over a three - year period.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

Over the long run, it reduces returns by an average of approximately 1.5 percentage points annually.

The yield on 10 - year bonds was 6.60 per cent in early November, a rise of 1.1 percentage points over the past six months (Graph 30).

The increase of around 1 percentage point in long - term interest rates over the course of this year was associated with a fall in dwelling investment in the September quarter.

According to the Federal Reserve Board's G. 19 Consumer Credit report, the total amount of consumer credit outstanding rose by 5.2 percent (SAAR) over the 1st quarter of 2017, 2.4 percentage points less than the 6.6 percent rate of growth in the 4th quarter of 2016.

Overall, the ratio of household debt to the disposable income of households (excluding unincorporated enterprises) has risen by 12 percentage points over the past two years to 94 per cent (Graph 16).

Underscoring the mixed - to - lower tone that emerged over the course of the day — not only was the NASDAQ off by nearly 50 points at its nadir — but the small - cap Russell 2000 had turned down by more than a full percentage points, as well, as losing stocks held a strong lead over gaining issues throughout.

Those fifteen large growth funds underperformed the Goldfarb Ten during those five years by an average of over 18 percentage points per year.

2 % over your small business's total credit card spending will likely be higher than 5x the points earned on a small percentage of your bill.

The most recent and thorough of these, by Lukasz Rachel and Thomas Smith at the Bank of England, concluded that for the industrial world, neutral real interest rates have declined by about 4.5 percentage points over the last 30 years and are likely to stay low in the future.

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.

Over the month of December, energy prices fell and subtracted.02 percentage point from the growth of headline CPI.

Over that year, the front - month version of DBC that I constructed outperformed DBC by about 4 percentage points.

Just over half of Americans surveyed said they expect home prices to rise in the next 12 months — an increase of eight percentage points over December.