Sentences with phrase «percent fewer positions»

Compared to this time last year, the federal government has added 3 percent fewer positions, according to Elizabeth Norton, managing research director of the Mid-Atlantic region at real estate services firm Transwestern.

Not exact matches

A Brigade analysis of user - generated positions, or debate - starters, at the turn of the month showed fewer than 10 percent of such posts did not explicitly reference Clinton, Trump, their campaigns or surrogates.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

Numerous times in the past, a cluster of distribution days after an extended rally, combined with the suddenly poor performance of individual leadership stocks, has been enough to prompt us to exit long positions within just a few percent of a market top (check out this actual such example from mid-2012).

Still, I did increase the Fund's call option purchases near the end of the week, and expect to add to that position toward 2 % of assets if the market clears its overbought condition by a decline of a few percent further (provided that we don't also observe a substantial deterioration of internal market action).

In the event of a reasonable market pullback (say, a few percent), and assuming market internals were still intact at that point, I would be inclined to increase our call option position toward about 2 % of assets, which would provide good exposure to any market advance that might begin from that lower base.

Fifty - one percent of the owners hired or tried to hire in the last three months and 44 percent (86 percent of those trying to hire or hiring) reported few or no qualified applicants for open positions.

Breech positioning is relatively uncommon, occurring in fewer than five percent of all births.

Fewer than five percent of babies prefer the bottom - down (or breech) position by full - term — so don't worry if your little bean hasn't assumed the head - down position yet.

Seventy - nine percent agreed that too many Ph.D. s were being trained for too few independent positions.

What is less appreciated is that it would have also indicated a fully unhedged position with - a few percent of assets in call options to provide leverage - in over 50 % of historical periods since 1940.

Almost a year after graduation in 2011, only 55 percent of law school grads held full - time, long - term positions requiring a legal degree and bar passage; fewer than half of graduates found jobs in private practice (good - bye marbled lobbies and fancy associate titles!).

«About 90 percent of $ 200K + positions are not openly posted, and the few that are found on job boards receive such a high volume of unqualified responses that hiring managers think twice about pursuing candidates from the posts.»

This may not seem like much, but with a current 777,000 employees in this field, 2 percent ends up being upwards of 15,000 fewer positions within those years.