Sentences with phrase «of percentage points short»

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On Wednesday, the Fed raised its key short - term lending rate to a range of 0.50 % - to - 0.75 %, or about two percentage points below where we said it would be.

Just like it did a year ago, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday sent its key short - term interest rate up by a quarter of a percentage point.

It is really about picking up nearly 2 percentage points more of yield while waiting for Mr. Carney to act on rates, at which time, it would be best to switch to shorter duration holdings.

Whenever the Fed decides to act, the initial rate increase will be small — a quarter of a percentage point — but it looms large psychologically because it will be the first increase in short - term rates by the Fed since June 2006.

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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.

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.

Those borrowers, who had an average of $ 56,202 in student loan debt outstanding, will realize those savings through interest rate reductions of 1.71 percentage points on average, and shorter loan terms on their new loans (about 5 years on average).

In the short and medium term, however, the adjustment would likely be only partial; this partial exchange rate adjustment would result in an increase in the price of imported goods, with a temporary boost to inflation that we estimate could be around one percentage point.

The net short of the commercials as percentage of the total o / i at the low - point in total o / i was 0.74 % — again in the December 1, 2015 COT report.

In short, the «war on women» rhetoric and the inopportune statements by U.S. Senate candidates Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock only resulted in a three - percentage - point gain in «pro-choice» sentiment» a difference that falls within the poll's margin of error.

At grade A * - C, the Short Course results show a decline of 0.8 percentage points from 54.5 % to 53.7 %.

The past two elections illustrate this: in 2005, Tony Blair turned less than three percentage points into a Commons majority of more than 50, while five years later David Cameron fell nearly 20 seats short of a majority despite a seven - point vote lead.

This high proportion of overseas students on campus also inflates our graduation rates: if international students are excluded, the report says the ratio of students completing tertiary courses drops by a startling 17 percentage points while the rates for first - time shorter and more vocationally oriented rates fall by only 3 percentage points.

The U.S. high school graduation rate increased by 6 percentage points, a substantial shift in a relatively short period of time.

Short term, one percentage point adds a couple of bucks to the monthly payment.

Long story short: Prices are pretty much the same as they were a few weeks ago, but there have been tiny declines in the percentage of books at the price points to which Apple, the Apple 5 publishers, and the agency model were supposedly driving ebook prices:

In short, for understanding some of my claims in my blog, the key points to know are that during a bull market I try to use 50 % of the underlying equity's value as my cost to determine my gain percentage from a trade.

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.

Even if you sell short term call options that are 5 % or 10 % out of the money, you could increase your annual yield by several percentage points.

The comparison period was relatively short — just five years — and the margin of outperformance was pretty slim, about a quarter of a percentage point a year.

During the normal and healthy conduct of monetary policy, the measured rate of inflation often deviates from official targets within a range of a percentage point or two because of the challenges of defining, measuring, and hitting a precise inflation target over a short - term period.

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.

The most recent hike was in December, lifting the benchmark short - term federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point to a range of 1.25 to 1.5 percent.

, lifting the benchmark short - term federal funds rate by a quarter percentage point to a range of 1.25 to 1.5 percent.

In your second short paragraph or list of 3 bullet points hit the benefits you have delivered that match what the recruiter will be looking for from a new hire - use numbers such as dollars and percentages.

Most significantly, short term credit nose - dived 8 percentage points to 60.22 % of South Africans whose accounts were paid in «current».

Those shorter - term mortgages often carry interest rates a quarter of a percentage point to three - quarters of a percentage point lower than their 30 - year counterparts.

The Fed announced that short - term interest rates will increase by one - quarter of a percentage point and suggested that two similar increases likely will occur later this year.

«When markets are balanced, we normally see prices rise one to two percentage points above the rate of inflation, but foreclosures and short sales are holding back median prices.»

Investors looking to make money on hotel acquisitions may want to hurry up — in March, hotel prices in the U.S. were just one percentage point short of their pre-recession peak, according to Moody's / RCA...

About 35 percent of refinancing homeowners chose shorter - term loans that year, saving themselves about half a percentage point in interest compared with a 30 - year loan, Freddie Mac economist Frank Nothaft says.