Sentences with phrase «percent do each year»

While most married couples file jointly — approximately 96 percent do each year — a joint return is not always the most beneficial way to boost your refund.

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In a survey we did this year, 52 percent of owners are confident the U.S. economy will improve over the next 12 months — up 21 percent over 2016.

For example, don't leave your money lying around in a bank, where the interest rate tends to be an insulting 1 percent a year.

Gross domestic product probably will expand by at least three percent this year, something that some economists thought our aging and relatively unproductive economy might never do again.

The stock did rally more than 40 percent last year, but Cramer thinks that only left Starbucks ripe for profit - taking in the wake of this most recent quarterly report.

Additionally, 41 percent of those making $ 150,000 a year also had below average resilience, as did 47 percent of those with a bachelor's degrees and 44 percent of respondents with a master's degree.

Only 45 percent of those surveyed said they trusted their leadership, while a little more than half said they were not happy at work, and one in every two employees did not expect to be with their organization for more than a year more.

Though the analyst cautioned that 2018 is an «investment year,» he did argue that the company could see pretax earnings climb 9 percent and 16 percent in 2018 and 2019, respectively.

«Last summer, about 40 percent of back - to - school searches were done on mobile devices, and already this year, mobile share is topping 50 percent,» Google said.

The investor was referring to a 2015 study from Goldman Sachs that showed 63 percent of millennials don't own a credit card and a third said they won't need a bank in five years.

On Tuesday, the yield on the 10 - year Treasury note topped 3 percent, the first time it's done this in more than four years, and extended gains on Wednesday.

The 20 - year - old social media maven and entrepreneur tweeted on Wednesday that she doesn't use Snapchat anymore and the next day, shares of Snap dropped 6.1 percent, wiping $ 1.3 billion of the company's market value.

«The Fed has moved up the short - end rate up to 2 percent, and the 2 - year note yield has moved up to the 2.5 percent level... It doesn't seem there's any significant slowdown in the economy.»

Yet, goals don't always work: According to Statistic Brain Research Institute, a mere 9.2 percent of participants the institute surveyed said they'd successfully achieved their New Year's resolutions so far in 2017.

A report by Aberdeen Group finds that businesses with social customer service experience around 7.5 percent year - over-year growth (compared to 2.9 percent without social customer service), so don't underestimate its value.

According to the Small Business Administration, the number of startups funded by VCs in 2012 was an abysmal 300 of the approximately 600,000 new businesses started in the U.S., that means 99.95 percent of entrepreneurs did not gain access to VC for their new businesses that year.

Bitcoin's awareness and adoption grew by leaps and bounds this year, but its value did the opposite, plummeting by more than 56 percent.

«Even if Uber can get 10 percent of that market, in the long run that still gives them a revenue of $ 200 billion [a year], which will make them one of the biggest companies in the world,» says Sundararajan, who didn't divine when he thought this might happen.

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In any case, she suggests, the SBA's role in the American economy is statistically insignificant — less than 1 percent of all businesses receive SBA loans each year — yet constitutes unfair competition to businesses that don't need such help and a potentially huge liability to taxpayers should the economy tank.

«There is just less fear from people who feel like they might lose their jobs... Our shoppers seem more confident than they did a year ago,» said Reed, 63, whose chain of four stores clocked a roughly 10 percent jump in sales from Thanksgiving to this week, compared to the year before.

The CNBC / SurveyMonkey Small Business Survey found that when asked what they were most likely to do with extra money received from a tax cut next year, the No. 1 response from small - business owners was «pay down debt,» chosen by 31 percent of respondents.

We did our first sales push starting at the end of October of last year — we hired salespeople, we brought in a CFO, and we grew 100 percent.

Seventy - five percent of American workers don't use all of their paid time off each year.

But if support this year exceeds 50 percent, the oil company likely would do more to explain potential business impacts from having to meet the Paris agreement's temperature goal.

(The marinas also had to contend with a 10 percent decrease in vacancy rates in the year following Sandy, as some tenants whose boats were damaged during the storm did not return.)

Three years after Dodd - Frank was passed, the alphabet soup of banking regulators collaborating to write some 400 new industry rules are just 39 percent done.

Nearly 70 percent said they conduct more marketing activities now than they did two years, and the majority said they conduct marketing efforts on a weekly basis.

As much as 45 percent of shoppers say they plan to get their shopping done before Black Friday, but 54 percent of shoppers do most of their shopping in December or even later, which shows it's an ongoing trend for the last quarter of the year.

Proving that all work doesn't mean no play, trampoline park creators Sky Zone lands the no. 273 spot on this year's Inc. 5000, with 2014 revenue of $ 24.4 million and a three - year growth rate of 1,674 percent.

Clayton Christensen, author of the «Jobs to be Done» theory of innovation, pointed out that of 20,000 products launched between 2012 and 2016, fewer than one percent thrived within two years.

Nearly four in 10 companies expect to pay a starting salary of $ 50,000 or more, versus 27 percent which did last year.

The aforementioned CareerBuilder survey found that 36 percent of workers surveyed do not participate in a retirement plan and 28 percent were unable to set aside money for savings last year.

And for those that do embrace automation for physical tasks, the report predicts an average productivity boost of about 1 percent a year.

In a survey of more than 800 full - time U.S. employees conducted by Globoforce in November of last year, 47 percent of respondents said they didn't think their company leaders cared about or were actively trying to create a «human» workplace.

In fact, roughly 77 percent of entrepreneurs with at least one million in assets own real estate, according to a study Morgan Stanley did last year.

If investing in security doesn't provide a visible enough return to convince your chief financial officer, just look to the statistics: in the past year, 43 percent of companies have experienced a data breach.

But the truth is that most of these rosy pictures don't ring true; entrepreneurs who claim they'll win 100 percent market share within a three - year period sound naive, which is a major turnoff to investors.

«However, it may be better to do the opposite — take your IRA distribution early and delay Social Security — because the IRA may not grow, but Social Security is guaranteed to grow by 8 percent per year up to age 70,» he said.

This year, nearly 60 percent of consumers plan on doing some form of online holiday shopping.

While Pew reports that one - third of 25 - to 29 - year - olds in the U.S. had completed at least a bachelor's degree in 2012 (a record number), a survey by Braun Research for staffing firm Adecco found that 66 percent of hiring managers do not believe college grads are ready for the work force.

«When you look at our track record of what we've done over the last several years, you've seen that effectively we were returning to our investors essentially about 100 percent of our free cash flow.

«If you invested in a very low - cost index fund — where you don't put the money in at one time, but average in over 10 years — you'll do better than 90 percent of people who start investing at the same time,» Buffett said at the 2004 Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting.

And while the teen years are often filled with aspirations and dreams, 54 percent of the respondents said they do not believe they will achieve millionaire status in their lifetime, perhaps an indication of a realistic perspective.

Believing that people do their best work when they're able to work flexibly, Kaplan allows about 85 percent of its workforce to work remotely, a move that has occurred in recent years.

About 30 percent of its sales coming from products that didn't exist five years ago, Thulin said.

In the last four years, DC's Man of Steel, Batman V Superman and Suicide Squad tanked with critics and didn't exceed a 60 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes.

In 1997, a DoD IG report found that the Air Force had failed to report 38 percent of fingerprint cards and 50 percent of criminal case outcomes to the FBI over a six - month period from 1995 to 1996, according to a Nov. 7 Associated Press report; a 2015 follow - up found the branch didn't report 39 percent of its fingerprint data over a two year period between 2010 and 2012.

After all, as Richard Florida reported last year, the Census Bureau finds that 86 percent of U.S. workers still commute by car and more than 75 percent do so alone.

Copyright, you are 5 percent more likely to hire your first employee in your first seven years than a company that doesn't own this IP.