Sentences with phrase «percent on an average»

At 1,400 ppm, for instance, the test subjects» performance dropped by 50 percent on average, and in some cases by much more.

The average transaction is about $ 300 and Western Union collects a fee of three to four percent on average.

In the year after each raise, the S&P rallied 12.5 percent on average.

CBO says economic growth from the tax cuts will add 0.7 percent on average to the nation's economic output over the coming decade.

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.

The annual percentage rate on retail cards is over 23 percent on average, compared to 10 percent for the average low rate card and 15 percent for the average cash - back or rewards card, according to a CreditCards.com analysis.

Parents still foot more than half of wedding costs, the survey found, with the bride's family contributing 44 percent on average and the groom's, 13 percent.

Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn declined an average 14 percent, while the Nasdaq rose 1.1 percent on average, Sanderson said.

Hospitals in states that expanded Medicaid were largely expected to benefit from more paying customers (unpaid bills fell 13 percent on average), but their 2014 operating margins did not increase any more than hospitals in the 22 states that did not expand Medicaid, Moody's found.

For example, from 2003 through 2005 mortgage rates declined to just under 6 percent on average, the lowest level since the first half of the 1960s.

Net revenue from discounted «book direct» loyalty rates exceeded net revenue from third - party agencies by 8.6 percent on average from May through December of 2016, according to Kalibri Labs, which tracks hotel revenue.

On the other end of the investing spectrum, the average annual returns on bonds since 1926 was just 5.5 percent on average, with a 32.6 percent gain in the best year and an 8.1 percent loss in the worst, according to Vanguard data.

From those peaks, home prices have fallen by about 30 percent on average, with much larger declines in some areas, while commercial real estate prices have fallen by about 40 percent on average.

The U.S. government on Monday said it would increase by 3.40 percent on average 2019 payments to the health insurers that manage Medicare Advantage insurance plans for seniors and the disabled, a higher - than - expected rise reflecting a projection of higher medical cost growth.

The $ 1.97 billion Market Vectors Junior Gold Miners ETF (NYSEArca: GDXJ) was also caught in the sell - off, tallying losses of 9.15 percent on average daily trading volume that neared 3 million shares.

While equities traders may see compensation rise by 7 percent on average, the picture is mixed for employees on fixed - income desks: Credit and commodities traders may suffer double - digit declines, while rates and currency traders get a 5 percent boost, according to Options Group.

For investors, 2014 was the sixth consecutive year that hedge funds have fallen short of stock market performance, returning only 3 percent on average.

This compares to nationally where they are down about 25 percent on average.

According to BofA Merrill Lynch, from 2001 to 2014, the yellow metal gained 14.9 percent on average between mid-summer and mid-autumn.

The chart below, courtesy of the World Gold Council (WGC), shows that annual gold returns were around 15 percent on average in years when inflation was 3 percent or higher year - over-year, between 1970 and 2017.

«In 1994... the increase in short - term interest rates saw a drop of 4.75 percent on average in the (net asset value) of short - term bond funds.

A study from Dow Jones shows that, over a 14 - year period, the typical successful startup had 7.1 percent female executives versus 3.1 percent for unsuccessful startups, and research firm Catalyst says that Fortune 500 companies with the highest ratio of female directors outperformed those with the lowest such ratio by 53 percent on average.

Romania's unemployment rate in May fell to 6.6 percent, compared to 10.1 percent on average for eurozone countries.

Benchmark rates in the U.S., Germany and Japan fell below 1 percent on average for the first time as deflation emerged in Europe, oil sank below $ 50 and American wages fell.

Most rating agencies and international organizations forecast the regional GDP growth to recover to 2.3 percent on an average in 2018 - 19, as opposed to just 0.6 percent...

Hotels had the lowest percentage of policy - compliant bookings (72 percent on average, according to the BTN survey) among the various travel categories.

S&P 500 companies that generate more than half their revenue overseas are posting first - quarter earnings growth of 19.9 percent on average, double that of companies that conduct most of their business domestically, according to FactSet.

However, on the overall basis, the payouts offered by this trading platform usually come to around 65 percent to around 90 percent on an average basis.

Since the end of the Great Recession, the U.S. economy has expanded 2.2 percent on average, with 2.3 percent growth in 2017.

Using hedge fund analytics tool Kensho, CNBC found the S&P 500 posts a gain of 2.3 percent on average 30 days after third - quarter earnings season begins, trading positive 79 percent of the time.

Analysts see commodities gaining 9 percent on average over the next three months, 11 percent over the next six months.

Within just one year, the hotels had reduced food waste from their kitchens by 21 percent on average, and over 70 percent had recouped their investment.

LeanPath - empowered kitchens see their food waste drop by 50 percent on average.

Proposed school tax hikes on Long Island are dropping below 2 percent on average for the first time in more than 40 years — reflecting the impact of low inflation and state «cap» restrictions entering their third year of enforcement.

Kinderhook, N.Y. November 1, 2016... With open enrollment for Obamacare beginning today, voters should know that its rates are skyrocketing for New York's struggling middle class: They'll go up another 16.6 percent on average in New York and upwards of 25 percent elsewhere, yet liberal New York City professor and NY - 19 congressional candidate Zephyr Teachout wants to expand the failing program even more, the campaign of fiscally responsible congressional candidate John Faso today noted.

Spending, however, is up by 2.1 percent, compared to the 1.8 percent on average in 2015.

Education aid, one of the costliest items in the budget aside from health care, is expected to increase by 4.8 percent in the current fiscal year and grow by 5.3 percent on average over the next three fical years.

«City agencies must do more to scrub their budgets and operations to identify more savings and efficiencies to help address our risks,» he said, pointing out that prior to 2014, agencies contributed 2.7 percent on average to the city's savings in a year, compared to 1 percent under Mayor de Blasio.

«Most of the boroughs are below capacity, but we exceed capacity at 108 percent on average,» Katz said of the more than 238,000 students enrolled in Queens schools.

DiNapoli's report found from 2001 through 2011, Rockland County's total revenues grew by just 2.7 percent on average annually, slower than the total for all counties in the state (3.5 percent annually), and slower than its own expenditures grew during that same time (3.3 percent).

The algorithm was particularly affective against background babble, improving hearing - impaired people's comprehension from 25 percent to close to 85 percent on average.

By thinking about their thinking, a practice called metacognition, these students raised their final exam scores by 10 percent on average — a full letter grade.

The funding situation in Canada remains very good — our pay line for grants is around 24 percent on average.

Patients will no doubt be stunned to learn surveys show that compliance with such rules now hovers at only around 50 percent on average at medical institutions in this country.

Simulations conducted in 2013 by the Reiner Lemoine Institut and Solarpraxis AG, both in Germany, showed that shading losses would be as low as 1 to 2 percent on average.

Only a small proportion of MGUS progresses to malignancy, with the annual risk of progression to MM or other related diseases being 0.5 percent to 1 percent on average.

It boosted the AI systems» overall accuracy by 1 to 3 percent on average, bringing some systems up to 99 percent.

The team reported in the journal Nature Medicine that during the two years the gene worked, it successfully slowed the progression of the disease by 49 percent on average.

On day 10, the segment of esophagus had increased in length by 77 percent on average.

The mental health coach used the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ9) to measure anxiety and depression scores prior to and after intervention, and scores decreased by 49 percent on average after three months.