Sentences with phrase «parts by a percentage point»

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Kraft Heinz, whose brands include Velveeta cheese and Heinz ketchup, said it raised prices in the United States and in other parts of the world, driving overall pricing up by 1 percentage point.

Underemployment, still elevated by just under six million involuntary part - timers, was 9.7 % last month, about a percentage point above what I consider to be its full employment rate (though down from 10.4 % a year ago).

In the last quarter of 2000, basic material stocks rose 22 percent while tech stocks slid 33 percent, parting ways by 55 percentage points.

The Reserve Bank of India cut its main repurchase rate by 0.25 percentage point to 7.5 %, citing weakness in parts of the economy as well as favorable inflation figures and structural overhauls included in the government's proposed budget.

As an example we can take the exit polls from the 2012 presidential race, we see that while Obama won in most of the educational categories (look at the NYTimes) he did win by significantly higher margins in the postgraduate part of the population (+13 percentage points), lost college graduates by 4 %, and won people with some college by 1 %.

Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin is leading his Democratic opponent, Anna Throne - Holst by 15 percentage points in NY - 1, thanks in large part to the key voting bloc of independents, according to a new Siena poll.

Malliotakis beat the two - term lawmaker by a margin of 10 percentage points in a district that includes parts of Staten Island and southern Brooklyn.

Ex-congressman — and ex-con — Michael Grimm leads Donovan by 10 percentage points in the Republican primary in the district that covers Staten Island and part of southern Brooklyn, says a new poll.

The Mind Trust selected Carson in large part because of her track record: ISTEP scores at Snacks Crossing have increased by 22 percentage points in the past five years, reading scores have consistently improved, and the school's state - issued grade has improved from a D to a B.

The starting point for calculating this percentage is student data certified by LEAs as part of the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) Fall 1 submission.

The proportion of spending in each category nationally has been remarkably stable for the past 20 years, fluctuating by one or two percentage points at most, and this stability holds true at the state level for the most part as well.

The Virginia Index of Performance (VIP) program awards points to schools and divisions based on the percentage of students achieving at the advanced level on Standards of Learning assessments and progress made toward educational goals advocated by Governor Kaine and adopted by the Board as part of its comprehensive plan for further strengthening public education in the Commonwealth.

Points are part of those aforementioned closing costs charged by your lender, calculated as a percentage of the principal.

For example, if you have 20 years or less of earnings covered by Social Security, the reduction in the first part of your calculation would be 50 percentage points.

A satellite «shut - off valve» could be used too, which could be determined by measuring the percentage fall of all or part of the satellites» combined performance from a particular point such as a recent peak in the equity curve of the entire Core Satellite portfolio.

And while bond investors have suffered setbacks recently as yields have risen by more than a percentage point from their 2016 lows in part because of concerns that tax cuts and infrastructure spending in a Trump administration could spur inflation, the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate bond index — a good proxy for the investment - grade taxable bond market — is actually up almost 2 % from the beginning of the year.

Which means that by shaving a little more than a half a percentage point in annual investment costs, you're essentially able to save nearly an extra two percentage points of salary a year without actually having to part with that money or put additional strain on your budget.

PART is an inflationary token, therefore its supply increases by 5 percent in the first year and decreases by one percentage point until the fourth year, when the inflation rate reaches 2 percent.

Data from the BLS shows that in the past five years the balance of persons employed full - time and part - time has shifted by about two percentage points, as seen on the chart below.

This growth in graduation rates was driven in large part by significant gains in Hispanic and African American graduation rates, with Hispanic rates achieving the greatest gains, jumping 10 percentage points from 61 percent in 2006 to 71.4 percent in 2010.

NAHB is currently forecasting 2.8 percent growth, but that is because our forecast assumes that the fiscal cliff is for the most part avoided (producing only a 1 to 1.5 percentage point drag on GDP, compared to the 3.9 percentage point drag estimated by CBO).