Sentences with phrase «percent over the base»

First, to give parents more schooling options for their children, the government introduced a number of changes to its national voucher program, instituting a weighted voucher (more than 50 percent over the base voucher) to compensate for the higher costs of educating disadvantaged students and to provide schools with financial incentives to enroll low - income students.

Fuel savings are said to improve by roughly 25 percent over the base model, for an average of 25 / 36 - mpg during city and highway driving.

For 2017, the BMW i3 (94 Ah) receives a new, more efficient lithium - ion battery that extends its range to 114 miles, more than 50 percent over the base i3 (60 Ah).

Not exact matches

Seat availability based on June schedules from Cincinnati is down 35 percent from June 2008, while it dropped 18 percent from Milwaukee over the last 10 years.

-- James Roche, CEO of Houseplans.com, a San Francisco - based stock home design site that has grown 25 percent year over year.

As a result, the Zurich - based firm's shares jumped over 4 percent.

According to a study published this week by the Pittsburgh - based market research group CivicScience, digital device addiction is at an all - time high: 59 percent of U.S. online consumers over the age of 13 consider themselves at least «somewhat» addicted to their digital devices.

In Germany, prices in major cities have increased more than 30 percent over the past five years, according to Berlin - based research firm Bulwiengesa.

At the top of the leaderboard, shares of Smurfit Kappa rose over 18 percent after Europe's largest producer of paper - based packaging rejected an unsolicited proposal from International Paper — arguing it is better to remain as an independent business.

By year two, it grew its user base 1,600 percent, and signed up more than 2,000 companies across 47 states, serving over 50,000 employees.

In a statement following the end of a two - day policy meeting, the Fed also said that «on a 12 - month basis is expected to run near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective over the medium term.»

The Cupertino, California - based company is expected to post a 25 percent surge in profit over the three months to March, slightly higher than the blended earnings growth rate on the S&P 500.

The world's largest producer of gasoline engines posted earnings on Wednesday, delivering a 1 - cent earnings beat off of an 83 - cent basis and revenue up just 1.2 percent year over year.

Some of the best businesses with a huge base of regulars have monthly churn rates of 10 to 15 percent, while some of the worst are over 60 percent.

If all those accounts become Robinhood Crypto customers, that will mark an increase of over 30 percent to the company's overall user base.

According to a new study for the Labor Department conducted by Sanat Monica, California - based nonprofit research firm the RAND Corporation, nearly half of U.S. employers with a minimum of 50 workers offered workplace wellness programs in 2012, while 90 percent of companies with greater than 50,000 workers offered the programs over the same period.

The Palo Alto, California - based online payroll firm surveyed 478 small business owners and found that 87 percent would start their business again given the chance to do it over.

On a monthly basis, palladium is the biggest riser among the major precious metals in April, up 1.1 percent after U.S. sanctions on major producer Russia stoked concerns over supply.

Its rate - setting committee said inflation had «moved close» to its target and that «on a 12 - month basis is expected to run near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective over the medium term.»

The analyst said Spotify expanded its monthly active user base by 38 percent annually over the last three years.

According to a poll based on 1,140 students who used 101's pilot program, Weinberg says, 77 percent of respondents preferred Chem101 over existing courseware.

Meantime, Coca - Cola Hellenic surged to the top of the European benchmark, up by over 9 percent after announcing that it remained on track to reach broad - based revenue and margin growth forecasts for the full year.

Coca - Cola Hellenic surged to the top of the European benchmark, up by over 9 percent after announcing that it remained on track to reach broad - based revenue and margin growth forecasts for the full year.

Looking out over five years, the percentage drops to twelve percent and twenty - nine firms, which suggests that the creation of female - founded venture firms is accelerating, albeit off a very low base.»

Bonds due in 2018 and won by BofA were «aggressively» priced with a 1.64 percent yield that narrowed Illinois» spread over Municipal Market Data's benchmark triple - A yield curve to 70 basis points from 100 basis points ahead of the sale, Greg Saulnier, a MMD analyst, said.

BofA won bonds due in 2029 with a yield of 3.78 percent, which slightly increased the spread over the scale to 165 basis points from 163 basis points, according to MMD, a unit of Thomson Reuters.

Conductor, a New York City - based SEO technology company, had a track record that spoke for itself: a 6,700 percent revenue increase from just over $ 100,000 in 2009 to more than $ 7 million in 2012.

That invention was the genesis of New York City - based BrandYourself, which Ambron predicts will have revenue north of $ 4 million in 2014 — a 400 percent increase over 2013, its first full year in operation.

The survey found that over a third (37 percent) of small business owners say they run over half their business in the cloud and 44 percent use more than two cloud - based tools to manage their company's daily operations.

This is over 100 basis points higher than its recent low of 0.501 percent seen as recently as August.

Inflation on a 12 - month basis is expected to run near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective over the medium term.

«Given XRP's ~ 4000 percent increase over the course of the year, R3 suddenly wants to tap into the value of XRP, though the facts are clear that they did not earn any option based on our agreement.»

Some of the data in the figure comes from DR's table 1 showing the number of basis points (hundredths of a percent, so 100 bps is one percentage point) that the Fed has reduced the main tool it controls — the Federal funds rate — over a number of recessions.

Under an income - contingent repayment program, borrowers with Direct Stafford loans of any kind, PLUS loans made to students, and consolidation loans have their monthly payment based on the lesser of 20 percent of discretionary income or the amount due on a repayment plan with a fixed payment over 12 years, adjusted for income.

The Minneapolis - based financial services company also announced a dividend of 90 cents per share, an 8 percent increase over the previous quarter and the 11th quarterly dividend increase in the last nine years.

Variable annuity sales rose 1 percent over the year - ago period, the Lansing, Mich. - based company said.

Looking out over five years, the percentage drops to 12 percent and 29 firms, which suggests that the creation of female - founded venture firms is accelerating, albeit off a very low base.

And so every time the market went up, people piled into that fund, when market went down, they pile out, when the fund outperformed, they piled in, when the fund underperformed they piled out and they took that 18 percent annual gain when the market was flat so that's great on an annualized basis over 10 year period to beat the market by 18 points, but for outside investors, they went in and out so badly that the average investor on a dollar weighted basis lost 11 percent a year and --

The Chicago - based jet manufacturer, which represents a little over 3 percent of JETS, was the best performing stock in the Dow Jones Industrial Average in 2017, returning 89.43 percent.

To determine how long a million will last, GOBankingRates calculated how much a million - dollar windfall would grow over time, assuming a 20 percent deposit in savings based on the annual median income and the average savings account annual percentage yield (APY) for each state.

The average annual return has been over 15.7 percent, based on Bloomberg data.

According to the Financial Times, as many as 30 northern Chinese cities are expected to cut aluminum capacity by more than 30 percent, a move that's seen as very favorable to the rally that's already helped the base metal gain over 11 percent so far in 2017.

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.

Twitter's daily active users also grew 10 percent year over year, a growth metric the company like to point to instead of its total user base.

The Lakeland - based supermarket chain netted $ 680.3 million in profits, a 22.5 percent increase over the year before.

The price has fallen 37 percent since last summer and, based on Bernstein research, could continue to drop over the next few years.

The Energy Select Sector SPDR (ETF)(NYSE: XLE), the largest equity - based exchange - traded fund tracking the energy sector, is up nearly 12 percent over the past month.

China's benchmark 10 - year government bond yield traded just shy of 4 percent in early December, up almost 100 basis points over the course of 2017.

The Consumer Price Index — Urban Consumers (CPI) rose by 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis over the month of November and 2.2 percent over the past 12 months on a not seasonally adjusted basis.

He continued, «If it is, the stock goes right back to where it was after 3Q, which from here is about a 30 percent move up and I am playing for like a double over the next two to three years based on what's happening fundamentally at this company.»