Sentences with phrase «percent point less»

The second estimate is 0.1 percent point less than the 2.6 percent growth rate recorded in the first or «advance» estimate....

The second estimate is 0.1 percent point less than the 2.6 percent growth rate recorded in the first or «advance» estimate....

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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.

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.

Well, research shows that on average, people tend to talk about themselves during 60 percent of a conversation — and when there's something being sold by one person in the conversation, a less experienced salesperson could be tempted to fill a void of silence with a laundry list of more selling points and value propositions.

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.

Third Point, which settled a bitter proxy battle with Yahoo last year after months of criticism of the company, will still own about 20 million shares, less than 2 percent of the Internet media company's common stock.

Jonathan Krinsky, chief market technician at MKM Partners, pointed out in a note Thursday that less than 60 percent of stocks in the Russell 3000 are trading above their 200 - day moving average, a key long - term technical metric.

Let's say you do want to give (or hint strongly that you'd like to receive) a monetary gift, but not cash — something more interesting, less likely to be spent idly, and with a chance of growing at more than zero - point - something percent.

Data from the Census Bureau released last week showed that in 2014, 9.7 percent of the businesses in the St. Louis metro area were startups less than a year old, up three percentage points from 2009.

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.

Of course, with debt in 2016 rising by roughly 40 — 45 percentage points of GDP while nominal GDP grew by less than 8 percent, it isn't easy to explain how the real value of assets in China grew by roughly 40 — 45 percentage points of GDP, nor why it is proving so difficult to rein in credit growth without a sharp slowdown in GDP growth.

In fact, a new survey out today finds that 26 percent of workers have less than $ 1,000 put away at this point.

Nearly one in four investors (23 percent) expect allocations to rise by less than 5 percentage points.

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.

From a purely accounting point of view, parent company which owns less than one hundred percent, but more than fifty percent of a subsidiary presents the value of the remaining ownership, the minority ownership, on the balance sheet in a separate account.

The yield on the current 30 - year bond fell less than one basis point to 3.37 percent.

The one - day loss for many funds, including Vanguard Total Bond Market, iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond, Pimco Total Return and Metropolitan West Total Return, while less than a half a percentage point, still amounted to more than 10 percent of their current yield.

According to the Federal Reserve Board's G. 19 Consumer Credit report, the total amount of consumer credit outstanding rose by 5.2 percent (SAAR) over the 1st quarter of 2017, 2.4 percentage points less than the 6.6 percent rate of growth in the 4th quarter of 2016.

Yet April 30th 2008 was no less critical a turning point in the recession's history than these other dates, for it was then that the FOMC, having cut the Fed's target interest rate to 2 percent, resolved to cut it no further — drawing a line in the sand by which it unwittingly helped seal the fate of the US, and world, economy.

She found that, all else equal, for every one - percentage - point increase in the national unemployment rate, the starting income of new graduates fell by as much as 7 percent; the unluckiest graduates of the decade, who emerged into the teeth of the 1981 — 82 recession, made roughly 25 percent less in their first year than graduates who stepped into boom times.

But as Amazon is quick to point out, online sales still account for less than 10 percent of all retail sales, which is the more relevant figure as the line between online and bricks - and - mortar disappears.

Argentina's central bank raised its benchmark interest rate by 300 basis points to 33.25 percent on Thursday, but the second steep rate increase in less than a week failed to stop the country's peso currency from plunging.

These include: limiting loans to those with a debt - to - income ratio, excluding mortgage, of 35 percent or less, down from 40 percent; and raising interest rates on loans by between 0.39 percentage point and 1.17 percentage points, depending on the type of borrower and the duration of the loan.

In summary, we would point out that from 1960 to 1980 beef production in Central America increased 160 percent; of the 400,000 square kilometers of rain forest that existed in 1960 in Central America less than one - half remained by 1980 (Myers 1981).

«At this point in the United States, less than 5 percent of the companies have the SQF certification,» Mackin says.

In nine games this season, Ball has averaged about 16 points, three rebounds, and less than one assist, despite being held scoreless in his debut — all while shooting 44 percent from the floor and 45 percent behind the arc.

Teams have never cared less about offensive rebounds, and this season's offensive rebounding rate (22.4 percent) will be the lowest ever by nearly a full percentage point.

Additional research revealed that visiting underdogs of 6.5 or less points have covered and won straight - up 74.9 percent of the time, covered and lost 18.8 percent of the time and pushed 6.3 percent of the time.

Atlético at one point had less than 50 percent possession against LaLiga's bottom side, but Málaga were very disjointed and disconnected in open play.

Marbles Kids Museum's marketing department states in a list of talking points that even with the increase, admission fees still cover less than 40 percent of the cost of providing each museum visit, and at $ 7, Marbles Kids Museum remains one of the most affordable children's museums in North Carolina and across the country.

Christakis pointed out that in the United States, about 60 to 80 percent of women start breastfeeding their babies, but by four months less than 30 percent are still breastfeeding.

Mitt Romney won the district by less than 1 percent in 2012, but Obama won it by 7 points in 2008.

Point of reference: Last year, the executive budget proposal was $ 134 billion (all funds), or $ 3.7 billion less than this year for a 2.3 percent decrease.

«Less than five weeks until Election Day and Martins sits in a very strong position — a 25 - point lead, holding 82 percent of Republicans, winning among independents nearly two - to - one and picking up the support of one - third of Democrats,» said Siena pollster Steven Greenberg.

A report released Monday by the good - government group Citizens Union argued the current system for redistricting, dominated by the Democratic majority in the Assembly and Republicans who control the Senate, has led to less - competitive elections, reduced voter turnout and, over the past four election cycles, a 96 percent re-election rate for incumbents — who are returned to office by an average margin of victory of 61 percentage points.

Low wage earners would pay less than a percent on their income and it would work up to a few percentage points for higher earners, they propose.

The employer share is a flat 8 percent, which is roughly equal to the predicted, theoretical «normal» rate for Tier 6 but about 10 percentage points less than the current average rate for all New York State Employee Retirement System (NYSERS) members.

But Mr. de Blasio was quick to point out that, while Mr. Bloomberg's plan would have allowed for predominantly luxury construction, most of the new buildings would be 100 percent below - market, renting at rates affordable to a family of three earning $ 46,000 a year or less.

Mangelli noted he and Venditto were less than 1 percentage point apart, with the Republican at 50.8 percent, and the Democrat at 49.87 percent.

If outrage about corruption is pervasive statewide, recent polling suggests it may be even more acute in the suburbs: In a recent Siena College poll, 54 percent of suburban New York voters said they were less likely to re-elect their own legislators because of recent corruption scandals, about 10 percentage points more than the share of rural and New York City voters who said the same.

Thompson, a Democrat, still trails Bloomberg 37 percent to 47 percent among city voters, but this 10 - point gap is less than half of Bloomberg's 54 percent to 32 percent lead in mid-June, the poll reported.

Election Day is closing fast and a new CNN Opinion Research Corp. poll, released a few hours ago, shows that only 31 percent of Americans approve of how Republicans are handling their jobs, 3 points less than how they think Democrats are performing.

After my first year in office our score dropped to 65.8 percent, less than a percentage point away from getting off the significant stress list altogether.

Ms. Nixon has criticized Mr. Cuomo for his reliance on such large donors, pointing out that she has surpassed 10,000 donors to her campaign, 98 percent of whom gave less than $ 200.

Applicants who attended community college after high school before transferring to a four - year college or university were 30 percent less likely to be admitted, compared to those students who never attended a community college or only attended a four - year university to medical school, after adjusting for age, gender, race and ethnicity, parental education, grade point average and MCAT score.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that 37 percent of us get less than seven hours a night, generally considered the tipping point for health problems.

Atwater pointed out during a presentation following «The Future of Energy» panel that solar still represents less than one percent of energy generation today.