Sentences with phrase «percent points above»

As default rates on junk - rated debt is above nine percent, companies with junk status face an average interest rate that is a whopping ten percent points above Treasuries — these days, that translates into roughly 12 percent for a five - year loan.

As default rates on junk - rated debt is above nine percent, companies with junk status face an average interest rate that is a whopping ten percent points above Treasuries — these days, that translates into roughly 12 percent for a five - year loan.

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The S&P 500 has had a remarkable year — up 19 percent — while the Dow Jones industrial average added more than 150 points intraday Tuesday to trade at an all - time high above 24,000.

The above - referenced editorial also points out that 48 % of state and local revenues collected in N.J. come from property taxes, which is off - the - charts high: «No other state derives more than 41 percent of its revenue from that source; the U.S. average is 33.1 percent.»

Bitcoin surged Thursday more than 17 percent in a sudden move to above $ 8,000 at one point, according to trading on Coinbase.

The average forecast of those above: 3.95 percent, or 55 basis point above the median, with one official at 4.9 percent.

Belgium, in particular, has 26 years with debt - to - GDP above 90 percent, with an average growth rate of 2.6 percent (though this is only counted as one total point due to the weighting above).

The generation with the largest chunk of savers holding equity stakes at least 10 percentage points above Fidelity's recommended allocation for their age is baby boomers, coming in at 26 percent.

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.

Republican Sen. Marco Rubio's net approval dipped 6 points, leaving him 4 points above water — 44 percent approve versus 40 percent disapprove.

In stock markets, a market cycle said to be complete when the Standard & Poor composite index, (S&P 500) is fifteen percent above the lowest point, or fifteen percent below the highest point.

JETS, by comparison, ended the year with more than $ 42 billion in profits and an impressive 7.6 percent profit margin, 300 basis points above the broader market, according to FactSet data.

The salient points are (I) inflation is below target and expected to remain well sub-target for the next 5 10 20 and 30 years; (II) it has been well below target and Fed forecasts for a decade suggesting great skepticism about models that predict acceleration (iii) the 2 percent target is supposed to be an average so inflation should sometimes exceed it especially after a long shortfall (iv) if the 9th year of expansion with unemployment approaching 4 percent is not the time for above target inflation when will that moment ever come?

The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 208 points, or 1.8 percent, to close above 12,000 for only the third time since early August.

Surely if, as the Fed forecasts, the economy enters a 10th year of recovery with unemployment below five percent inflation should be expected to be above 2 percent at that point.

On March 21, the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the US Federal Reserve Board under its new chairman, Jerome Powell, raised benchmark interest rates, or the target for the federal funds rate, by 25 basis points to 1.5 - 1.75 percent, effectively bringing the federal funds rate to a little above 1.6 percent.

... inflation between one and two years ahead is projected to be no more than a half percentage point above the Committee's 2 percent longer - run goal, and longer - term inflation expectations continue to be well anchored.

Now Britain wobbles upward with the other advanced industrial countries in a band plus or minus a few percentage points from the average, excepting the big, rich nation of churchgoers, which persists at 30 percent above the rest.

«That has brought about the re-emergence of the economy category, which is a larger percentage of the overall beer business now, especially for us considering at one point in time 95 percent of our business was coming from the premium category and above,» he notes.

This is seven percentage points above the percent of the monthly food budget spent by total U.S. diners on food prepared outside the home.

Both teams shot above 60 percent and scored a combined 69 points in the first 12 minutes.

Milton isn't the most explosive point guard, but he has great size (6» 6) and has shot above 40 percent from three - point range every year of his college career.

Each point above or below 100 represents 1 percent better or worse than the average team.

As Liz pointed out earlier, Gillibrand holds wide leads over all three challengers, with none polling above 27 percent.

Republicans campaigned against a state income tax, pointing to a recent measure approved by the Seattle City Council that would implement a 2.25 percent tax on income above $ 250,000.

New York State's unemployment rate remained unchanged in August, hovering at 9.1 percent — one point above the national average.

The latest Des Moines Register / Bloomberg poll shows Texas Sen. Ted Cruz with 31 percent support — a 21 - point jump from just two months ago, and 10 points above consistent front - runner Donald Trump.

More to the point, says the Empire Center, «School spending in New York [state] was driven primarily by instructional salaries and benefits — which, at $ 14,769 per pupil, were 114 percent above the national average of $ 6,903, the census data show.»

During the same period, an average 3.4 percent of Michigan children and 3.3 percent of U.S. children had lead levels above the CDC reference point.

«Q4 17 organic sales of 5.5 percent is 50 basis points above Inquiry Financial consensus of 5 percent, strong 2018 outlook,» Liberum analysts wrote in a note, retaining a «hold» rating on L'Oréal shares.

Using the paper's estimates, that would imply the recent recession caused a decline in female enrollment in elementary education of 33.6 percent (the 5.6 percentage point change in the unemployment rate multiplied by the 6 percent figure above).

To measure the effect of being in the top 10 percent, the authors compared the grade point averages of students whose class rank was just above or just below the cutoff.

The parents of a student whose performance is 1 standard deviation above the mean are about 8 percentage points more likely to make a request than the parents of an otherwise similar student whose performance is 1 standard deviation below the mean (19 percent vs. 11 percent).

Western Governors says its students pass teacher certification tests administered by Pearson Education at a rate of 96.2 percent, and that they pass the Educational Testing Service's Praxis teacher tests at a rate that's 3.8 percentage points above the national average.

Whitman says that 96 percent of its students go to college; its SAT scores in math and critical reading are 250 points above the national average.

For example, in Alabama's 94 Reading First schools, the percentage of all 4th graders deemed to be proficient (stanine 5 and above) on the Stanford Achievement Test rose 12.7 points, from 40.1 percent in 2003 to 52.8 percent in 2007, more than twice as fast as the gain for students at other schools (which rose 5.5 points, from 64.2 percent to 69.7 percent in the same period).

And in 2017, the school saw a 100 percent graduation rate — 17 percentage points above the national average — and a 98 percent college acceptance rate.

The school districts in New Orleans beat the state average with 77.8 percent, a staggering 25 percentage points above the 2004 rate, when only 54.4 percent of students graduated from high school.

New Orleans beat the state average with 77.8 percent, a staggering 25 percentage points above the 2004 rate, when only 54.4 percent of students graduated from high school.

They pointed out that what quantitative work there was attested to «the intellectual underdevelopment of too many young adolescents,» noting that only 28 percent of 8th graders nationally scored at or above the «proficient» level in reading in 1994.

Noble students were 15 percentage points more likely to attend a four - year school and 14 percentage points more likely to attend a college where the median two - subject SAT score was above 1000 — increases of 50 and 78 percent, respectively.

Inner - city neighborhoods are where all these dynamics interact, the study points out, and in neighborhoods with poverty rates at or above 40 percent, higher rates of school dropout, teenage pregnancy, and crime, and lower rates on cognitive and verbal skill tests and health indicators among school - age children continue.

A Hypersegregation Index score of.45 would show that 45 percent of schools in a given district have an FRPL rate that was 20 percentage points above or below the district FRPL rate.

There, the percentage of Florida fourth - graders struggling with literacy declined by 15 points (from 40 percent to 25 percent) between 2002 and 2015, while the numbers reading at and above grade level increased by 11 percentage points (from 27 percent to 38 percent).

In contrast, 55 percent of Wiseburn's poor black students passed the English test — 11 points above the statewide average for all students.

This year's report shows that the percentage of Scholarship Program students scoring Basic or above on the LEAP and iLEAP rose 2.4 percentage points, from 41.6 percent in 2012 - 2013 to 44 percent in 2013 - 2014.

Among 12th grade students — remember that a significant group of students has already dropped out by this point — 26 percent score at or above proficient levels in math, and 38 percent are proficient or better in reading (National Assessment of Educational Progress, 2013)

Since 2006, according to an analysis of state testing data by the city's Department of Education (which used 2010's recalibrated proficiency levels to compare 2006's testing data to 2010's), the city's elementary and middle schools have seen a 22 - point increase in the percentage of students at or above grade level in math (to 54 percent) and a 6 - point increase in English (to 42 percent).

Also that spring, 51 percent passed English with proficiency, a jump from 25 percent the previous year, and 20 percentage points above the 31 % statewide average.