Sentences with phrase «percent most years»

«The governor touts his 2 percent spending cap, but if you dig deeper into the numbers, you start to see some accounting shifts and some other things that show spending growth is really closer to 4 percent most years,» said David Friedfel of the Citizens Budget Commission.

Not exact matches

Forty - five percent of us go so far as to call it the most stressful day of the year.

According to Nielsen's latest Global Trust in Advertising report, online consumer reviews are already the second most trusted source of brand information and messaging, with 70 percent of global consumers indicating they trust online reviews, an increase of 15 percent in four years.

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.

In fact, 62 percent of respondents told Sage that access to digital skills (including the ability to operate mobile tech) would have the most impact on their businesses through the next year.

The most Fed - sensitive 2 - year yield fell about 3 basis points to 2.49 percent, from a more than nine - year high.

Most of Vietnam's startups are in e-commerce, a sector where sales grew around 35 percent last year to $ 4 billion, and whose 2.7 percent contribution to overall retail sales indicates ample room for growth.

The consumer price index (CPI), released on Friday, showed the cost of living in America rising only 1.6 percent compared to the same month last year, significantly down from the most recent high of 2.8 percent in February and below the Fed's target of 2 percent.

Real estate site Trulia said more than six percent of last year's home sales were flips — the most since before the financial crisis.

Universal Entertainment shares tumbled 16 percent, their daily limit and the most in almost five years, in trading in Tokyo on Friday.

The entire U.S. venture industry invested $ 84 billion last year, a 22 percent increase from the prior year and the most for any year since the dot - com bubble of the early 2000s, according to the National Venture Capital Association.

The most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics numbers show that the fraction of the civilian, non-institutionalized population that is self - employed and running a corporation (incorporated self - employment) was 5.1 percent below its level five years ago, when the current economic recovery was getting underway.

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.

In my 40 years in business, I estimate that at most 10 percent of salespeople follow any of these rules.

Safety experts point to the numbers: U.S. pedestrian deaths have been on the rise, with 5,376 in 2015 and nearly 6,000 last year, the most in two decades and up 22 percent from 2014, according to data compiled by the Governors Highway Safety Association for a recent report.

The 2 - year yield, the most reflective of Fed policy, briefly rose above 2.27 percent but was back to 2.26 percent.

The number of marketers who said social video was «most important» increased by 10 percent in the past year.

Yet its the latter that investors have been most eager to reward: Year to date, Walmart's stock is up nearly 40 percent, while the online retail giant's is up nearly 60 percent.

The share of companies in the S&P 500 with a split structure has risen to 41 percent in 2011 (the most recent figures available) from 23 percent in 2003, according to a report by Deloitte last year.

So far, domestic small - to - mid-cap companies that get most of their revenues at home have weathered prospects of higher trade costs the best, with the Russell 2000 index of smaller companies up 2.8 percent for the year, nearly double the 1.5 percent gain in the larger - cap and more internationally - exposed S&P 500 index over the same time.

Although tummy tucks were not among the most popular procedures in past years, they're regaining popularity, with 129,753 performed in the US this year, a two percent increase from 2016, according to the ASPS annual plastic surgery statistics report.

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.

And these investors are dipping into some dogs of the market this year, such as telecom — 27 percent of million - dollar accounts said telecom was among the sectors with the most potential in the fourth quarter, up from 18 percent in Q3.

Wichita, Kansas - based Spirit makes some 70 percent of the structure of the 737, the world's most - sold commercial plane, but has faced disruptions this year in its own supply chain as parts makers scrambled to meet soaring demand.

By 2013, the most current year data is available, the percentage of single - person households soared to 27.4 percent, the highest in U.S. history.

The most popular element of the law is allowing young adults to stay on their parents» insurance until age 26, which is favored by 75 percent of 18 - 30 year olds.

And while wages fell slightly for the second month in a row (down a tenth of a percent from April), pay is still up 0.2 percent year - to - date, giving us confidence that it is, for the most part, stable.

Carlyle said most of its funds generating performance fees appreciated by 3 percent on average, even as the S&P 500 index slid 1.2 percent in the first three months of 2018, the index's first quarterly fall in 2-1/2 years.

A year prior respondents on average said 15 percent of their sales would come from discounts, however in the most recent survey that number jumped to 26 percent.

Greenlight Capital, one of the hedge fund industry's most closely watched firms, lost 13.6 percent so far this year, Einhorn wrote in a letter to clients...

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.

Lasser said most U.S. households will see an increase in disposable income of 2 percent to 4 percent within the year, adding up to at least $ 200 billion in additional cash for the nation's consumers.

In 2013, the most recent year for which data are available, the government reports roughly 37 percent of men and 42 percent of women claimed Social Security at age 62.

The results come the day after China slapped an aggressive 25 percent retaliatory tariff against U.S. soybeans, farm countrys most valuable export to China last year.

The most recent to change in course was the Indianapolis Museum of Art, which on April 7 added an $ 18 general admission and aims to increase revenue by 17 percent this year, Matthew Gutwein, the museum board's vice chair said last week.

In fact, for most of the five years we were in business, I was turning business away because I didn't have the capacity to take on new work when I was already growing nearly 80 percent a year.

Not only has anxiety surpassed depression as the most common mental health complaint among teens, but an incredible 62 percent of undergrads report feeling «overwhelming» anxiety in the previous year, the same article reports.

The benchmark rose more than 35 percent year - to - date, with major blue chips contributing most of those gains.

Then, if the company is operating within a niche that is either huge — greater than $ 1 billion — or is growing at a rate in excess of 20 to 40 percent per year, and the company is perceived to have the best and most competitive product to enter this niche in recent memory, then it might be worth an additional $ 1 to $ 2 million.

The poll found that Americans are most downbeat about the relationship with Russia: 56 percent think it will get worse over the next year, while just 13 percent think it will improve.

The bank with the most defecting customers is Bank of America, as the study found more than 10 percent of its customers plan to leave next year.

Analysts at CFRA expect corporate earnings to have surged 16.3 percent in the first quarter, the most in seven years.

He noted that the baseline scenario for tests in 2015 — which projected an economic contraction of 2.3 percent for that year — was more dramatic than the 1.3 percent contraction used in the most conservative scenario in the current tests.

«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.»

As usual, Google's advertising business accounted for most of its revenue, posting $ 26.642 billion in the first quarter, up nearly 20 percent year - over-year.

Greater China and North Asia contributed the most to the bank's income compared to other regions, up by 8 percent from a year ago.

These days, most private equity investors expect annual returns of between 20 and 35 percent, compared with between 25 and 40 percent several years ago.

You can not collect 100 percent of your benefit until you reach your full retirement age — 66 or 67 for most, depending on the year in which you were born.

The internet giant earned $ 166 million on subscriptions in its most recent quarter, a 5.4 percent decline from the previous year's second quarter.

Venture capital investment continues to pour into these states — California alone accounted for $ 78.4 billion of investment over the past three years, or 56 percent of all VC investment in the nation, according to the most recent Moneytree report.