Sentences with phrase «percent less a year»

Some studies suggest that this causes most investors to earn a massive five percent less each year than the S&P 500 index.

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Over the same period, the proportion of American workers employed by companies less than five years old has dropped, from over 20 percent to less than 11 percent.

In 2011, when Justin Woolverton began experimenting with a dessert of frozen Greek yogurt blended with fruit, he wasn't trying to start a business — much less one that would draw in revenue of $ 49 million in 2016, up almost 21,000 percent over a three - year period.

Nearly 90 percent of lottery winners go through their winnings in five years or less, leaving them back in the same situation they were in before they won.

A survey I conducted with colleagues showed 38 percent of U.S. workers have signed one, and 12 percent of those without a bachelor's degree who are earning less than $ 40,000 a year had one in 2014.

As of last June, less than 2 percent of active participating security SBICs had losses high enough to be considered «impaired,» compared with 20 percent a few years ago.

The value of commercial and industrial loans of less than $ 1 million — a common proxy for small business lending — was 17 percent lower in June of this year than it was at the beginning of the recovery — when measured in inflation adjusted terms.

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.

In fact, according to a 2013 survey, 43 percent of small business owners are taking less vacation time than five years ago.

«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.

From Vox, citing a study at the University of Texas: «If 10 percent of the vehicles... were self - driving cars, the country could save more than $ 37 billion a year due to fewer deaths, less fuel, more free time, etc..

That's only a three percent increase from last year, and more or less in line with general inflation (two percent) and the average increase of workers wages (2.3 percent).

According to a report on food franchising by Franchise Business Review, 51.5 percent of food franchises earn profits of less than $ 50,000 a year; roughly 7 percent top $ 250,000, with the average profit for all restaurants coming in at $ 82,033.

«The U.S. should not settle for anything less than 4 percent growth a year,» Bush said.

They are climate - controlled and hydroponic, allowing for a year - round growing season using 80 percent less water than an outdoor farm.

To cite just one (easily verifiable) example, Ms. Fowler alleges that in less than 1.5 years, her engineering team dropped from over 25 percent women to less than 6 percent.

In the Aflac survey, employees who were offered voluntary benefits were 19 percent more likely to be satisfied with their jobs and 14 percent less likely to look for a new job in the next year.

In addition, more than 76 percent of engaged employees surveyed by Quantum Workplace this year said they were satisfied with the health and wellbeing benefits their employer provided, compared with less than 49 percent of hostile employees.

Capital Economics noted that after nearly two years in operation, investment via the Shanghai - Hong Kong connect was less than 1.0 percent of the total market capitalization of both exchanges.

The 10 - year held around 2.83 percent on Friday, but declined on Thursday after Powell sounded less hawkish than anticipated.

According to U.S. Department of Labor statistics, female participation in the workforce was less than 40 percent in 1960 but is predicted to reach 62 percent by the year 2015.

For SBA loans between $ 25,000 and $ 50,000, maximum rates are not permitted to exceed 3.25 percent (for loans that mature in less than seven years) and 3.75 percent (for loans with longer terms of maturity).

The alums fingered a complicated tax code, an inefficient political system, a struggling K - 12 education system, and persistent pressure from abroad as reasons why the U.S. will become less competitive over the next three years — something 71 percent think will happen.

According to the SBA, fixed rate loans are not allowed to exceed the prime rate plus 2.25 percent if the loan matures in less than seven years.

RICHMOND, Va. (AP)-- Dominion Energy Virginia said Tuesday that it plans to build at least eight new natural gas - fired plants during the next 15 years, cementing its shift away from coal, while depending on renewables for less than 10 percent of its energy capacity.

The deal would also strengthen Microchip's base in the computing and communications sectors, which together accounted for less than 15 percent of its full - year sales.

For SBA loans totaling less than $ 25,000, the maximum interest rate can not exceed the prime rate plus 4.25 percent for loans with a maturity of less than seven years (for loans that mature after seven years, the interest rate can be as much as the prime rate plus 4.75 percent).

A simulation by Oxford Economics suggests a 25 percent U.S. tariff on $ 60 billion worth of Chinese exports, with comparable retaliation, would reduce China's growth by about 0.1 percentage point this year and a little less next year, chief Asia economist Louis Kuijs in Hong Kong said in a recent note.

In 2014, per person health - care spending grew 5.4 percent, well above the overall inflation rate of less than 1 percent, and the center expects spending to rise at an average rate of 5.8 percent a year from 2014 to 2024.

Booking site Hipmunk reported that its reservations for Trump hotels are down nearly 60 percent over this time last year, the Globe said, while a survey of more than 2,000 Americans by travel trend tracking website Skift found 56.9 percent of respondents said they were less likely to stay in a Trump hotel because of his campaign.

«If Donald Trump and Scott Pruitt are serious about ending the national scandal that is EPA, they will accept nothing less than a 20 percent cut this year and make this year's cut the first step in a five - year plan to replace the organization,» said Joseph Bast, the group's president.

Female - owned firms in the survey are 10 percent less likely to hire their first employee, even after seven years, than male - led firms, according to Fairlie and Miranda.

Total fees of less than 1.25 percent a year.

In less than five years, 65 percent of the eight billion people on Earth will be digitally connected.

Female - owned firms in the survey are 10 percent less likely to hire their first employee, even after seven years, than male - led firms, according to

Square charges merchants just 2.75 percent per swipe or, for merchants who swipe less than $ 250,000 a year, a flat fee of $ 275 per month.

By now you know the backstory: Ledbetter worked for 19 years as a supervisor at Goodrich Tire and Rubber, only to discover near the end of her career that she was earning 20 percent less than her male colleagues.

Germany, by comparison, has much less to complain about: Its goods trade deficit with China remains on a steeply declining trend, falling last year to 14.2 billion euro, a 21.5 percent drop from 2016.

If you're flexible enough to fly on Christmas Eve or Christmas Day and return on New Year's Eve or New Year's Day, airfares can be 25 percent to 50 percent less.

The cryptocurrency skyrocketed 35,000 percent in 2017 after kicking off the year at less than a penny, according to data from CoinMarketCap.

So far this year, about 70 percent of China's outbound deals have been valued at $ 1 billion or less, according to Dealogic data.

Consider a report out of no less an august institution that Oxford University, which predicts that nearly half of all jobs (47 percent to be exact) will be lost in the next 25 years.

The measure received even less than the 40 percent support it had received last year.

Only two years later, that figure had fallen to less than 40 percent.

«This slowdown has been most notable in the chocolate category (about 75 percent of Hershey's sales), which has seen higher price elasticity and less significant innovation in recent years.»

Correction: Less than 0.04 percent of federal tax returns prepared and filed so far this year through Credit Karma have filed a Form 8949 for cryptocurrency gains and losses.

Traders on the fed funds futures market now are indicating a less than 50 percent chance that the central bank will move three times this year.

Meanwhile, nearly one - in - five Americans say they'll be sending less to Uncle Sam next year, while 9 percent forecast a bigger bill, according to a new Gallup survey.

Stakeholder turnover is less than 1 percent per year.

«While women still make up less than 20 percent of U.S. boards on average, movement toward greater gender parity is evident with the proportion of new nominees that are women nearly doubling over the past seven years at larger firms,» Kamonjoh said in a statement.