Sentences with phrase «percent lesser rates»

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Those business owners have long complained that the disparity is unfair, especially in view of the fact that many multinationals pay much less than the 35 percent statutory corporate tax rate by exploiting abundant loopholes and tax breaks available to large, global corporations.

In fact, a November 2017 report from CareerArc of 1,162 respondents found that female job - seekers surveyed were 33 percent less likely than male job - seekers to apply to a one - star rated company.

However, you can borrow up to $ 50,000 or 50 percent of the vested balance (whichever is less) and pay interest on the money at a rate of prime or prime plus 1 percent.

That works out to an acceptance rate of less than 1 percent.

But despite a steady increase in their share of entrepreneurial activity, founders from Latino communities along with those from other minority groups — which made up 40 percent of the U.S. population in 2015 — still receive less funding and fail at faster rates than their white counterparts.

«The startups in the tech incubator Y Combinator, whose acceptance rate is less than 3 percent, change products and markets so frequently that the idea they applied with is often irrelevant to the final product,» said Paul Graham of Y Combinator.

When he got down to less than 20 percent of his mortgage left to pay off, he also took his money out of escrow to avoid paying extra fees and negotiated his insurance rates down even further.

Defy's results include a recidivism rate of less than 5 percent.

They boast a bounce rate of less than 10 percent.

The fees can vary from less than 1 percent to a few percentage points — and interest at the prime rate to several points over prime on the balance of receivables you sell, making it steeper than most bank loans.

With less than half of companies rating their customer experience as exceptional yet 89 percent saying that they plan to compete primarily on the basis of customer experience by 2016, according to a recent Gartner report, businesses certainly have a lot of work to do.

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).

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.

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).

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.

Of the seven platforms studied, six had engagement rates (defined as the number of interactions divided by the number of fans) of less than.1 percent.

It took three months to implement an automated bar - code system, but our error rate fell to less than 2 percent.

The terms of the deal will allow Pfizer to domicile in Ireland, where corporation tax is just 12.5 percent, significantly less than the 40 percent rate charged in the U.S.

The unemployment rate fell to 6.7 percent, from 7 percent, but that was less about job creation than about people, fed up or unsuccessful in their job searches, dropping out of the labor force.

«Those monthly gains are simply unsustainable in an economy with a potential economic growth rate of less than 2 percent.»

But that's more or less where the rate has been since the recession, and it's still below pre-recession levels of more than 7 percent.

An undergrad who borrows $ 37,000 — and that's less than the national average for 2016 graduates — and has an interest rate of 4.45 percent will pay $ 8,908 in interest over 10 years, according to NerdWallet's student loan calculator.

While banks are offering interest rates of 1 percent or less (taxable), many cash - value policies are currently offering tax - free growth of about 5 percent.

The average contract interest rate for 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($ 453,100 or less) increased to its highest level since April 2014, 4.50 percent, from 4.41 percent, with points increasing to 0.57 from 0.56 (including the origination fee) for 80 percent loan - to - value ratio loans.

If you sell a quality product, accurately described in your marketing, at a price that's fair in relationship to its value, your return rate will be low — probably less than 5 percent.

If you see a bounce rate higher than 50 percent to 60 percent of your visitors, or an average time - on - site that's less than one minute, consider taking one or all of the following actions.

The average savings account yields just 0.11 percent, which is far less than the rate of U.S. inflation.

Both states continue to have significantly higher uninsured rates than the national average of less than 10 percent.

Yelp faces other concerns: Though the company recently announced that customers had rated 1 million local businesses in less than three months — bringing the total number of reviews north of 10 million — the site's monthly unique visits are down 2.97 percent (to 24.4 million) compared to a year ago, according to Compete.com.

If I have a guesstimate that Iron Dome's success rate is probably less than 5 percent, and Dick Lloyd has an estimate of 10 percent to 20 percent, how would this indicate that the probable level of success exceeds 90 percent?

As of August, short - term loans for less than three years had a monthly rate of 0.48 percent; midterm loans between three and nine years were at 1.80 percent; and long - term loans extending beyond nine years were at 2.78 percent.

And although women fill close to half of all jobs in the U.S. economy and are starting businesses at twice the rate of men, they hold less than 25 percent of STEM jobs nationwide.

The average contract interest rate for 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($ 424,100 or less) decreased to 4.28 percent from 4.34 percent, with points increasing to 0.38 from 0.31 (including the origination fee) for 80 percent loan - to - value ratio loans.

The average contract interest rate for 30 - year, fixed - rate mortgages with conforming loan balances of $ 424,100 or less decreased to 4.33 percent from 4.46 percent, with points increasing to 0.43 from 0.41, including the origination fee, for 80 percent loan - to - value ratio loans.

The average contract interest rate for 30 - year fixed rate mortgages with conforming loan balances of $ 424,100 or less increased to 4.23 percent from 4.20 percent, with points decreasing to 0.32 from 0.37, including the origination fee, for 80 percent loan - to - value ratio loans.

The average contract interest rate for 30 - year fixed - rate mortgages with conforming loan balances ($ 453,100 or less) remained unchanged at 4.69 percent, with points remaining unchanged at 0.43 (including the origination fee) for 80 percent loan - to - value ratio loans.

The military spouse unemployment rate sits around 26 percent — much higher than the general population — and military spouses are likely to make 38 percent less than their civilian counterpart.

Users click on or save ads delivered after check - ins more than 15 percent of the time on average, Rosenblatt said — a rate that beats the less than 1 percent engagement on a typical mobile ad.

More Jobs, Less Pollution: Growing the Recycling Economy in the U.S. shows the economic and environmental benefits of achieving a 75 percent national recycling rate, including job creation — particularly in manufacturing, pollution reduction and the strengthening of local communities and employment bases.

Atop Apple's offshore network is a subsidiary named Apple Operations International, which is incorporated in Ireland — where Apple had negotiated a special corporate tax rate of 2 percent or less in recent years — but keeps its bank accounts and records in the United States and holds board meetings in California.

This calculator lets you find the annualized growth rate of the S&P 500 over the date range you specify; you'll find that the CAGR is usually about a percent or two less than the simple average.

The loans can have annual interest rates that are as much as 15 percent, although a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg the interest rates on the loans are typically less than 15 percent.

The acceptance rate of less than 2 percent is lower than Harvard College's 5.9 percent for the coming year's freshman class.

For short - term deposits less than a year, banks are limited to offering as much as 150 percent of the benchmark rate.

County rates in Georgia range from less than half a percent to over 1.35 %.

The labor force participation rate has not been this low — 63.3 percent — since 1979, a time when women were less likely to be working.

Consumer prices, usually more stable than producer prices, have also accelerated on a similar basis from a recorded inflation rate of less than 1.0 percent last summer to 2.4 percent over the 12 - months ended this past March, also a smart acceleration in a brief time.

The increase was small — about 1 percent or less on average, on most types of accounts — and the initial rates were so paltry that the impact for most savers is negligible.

The average savings account rate, for example, increased less than 1 percent, to 0.18 percent in January from 0.179 percent in December.

Levels of price - earning ratios that would have looked bubbly with a 2 percent neutral real rate are much less so with a zero neutral real rate.