Sentences with phrase «percent points in»

The most recent Freddie Mac survey found national averages at 4.16 percent with.05 percent points in September 2014.

This is an increase of 13 percent points in just three months.

That compares to 48 percent of all others who said the same and is an increase of 13 percent points in just three months.

Today, 41 % plan to put less than 10 % down, representing a jump of 13 percent points in 12 months.

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In the past year, the median outlook for the Fed's top rate in this hiking cycle has risen by nearly 60 basis points to 3.24 percenIn the past year, the median outlook for the Fed's top rate in this hiking cycle has risen by nearly 60 basis points to 3.24 percenin this hiking cycle has risen by nearly 60 basis points to 3.24 percent.

Go all - in on each opportunity, a la the concept of «wantedness,» which suggests that relying on data points to effortlessly decide when giving 1,000 percent makes sense.

Twenty percent of those surveyed said that using all of their earned vacation days in the next 12 months was a top priority, up seven points from last year.

The current outlook for the S&P 500 at 2,787 for the end of this year is now 150 points, or 5 percent, below the outlook in January.

The yield on the U.S. 10 - year Treasury note added roughly 60 basis points this year, topping the 3 percent mark this week for the first time in four years.

In addition, 27 percent said they have positions they are unable to fill right now, a 6 percentage point increase compared with September 2014.

The Labor Department said its Consumer Price Index inched up 0.1 percent last month, pointing to subdued inflation which could make Federal Reserve policymakers cautious regarding another interest rate hike in 2017.

NFIB found that a net 23 percent of respondents raised wages in the three months prior to September, a 5 percentage point increase compared with the same period a year earlier.

However, in Europe as a whole, G4S says 80 percent of point - of - sale transactions are still conducted in physical currency.

For example, ComScore reported that in June 2013, its core search market share fell 0.5 percentage points to 11.4 percent — while Bing gained the same amount and Google controlled nearly 67 percent of the market.

In the Bloomberg report, the now public rant pointed fingers at his customer service department because of an increase in canceled orders, which climbed to 17 percent, up from 5 percenIn the Bloomberg report, the now public rant pointed fingers at his customer service department because of an increase in canceled orders, which climbed to 17 percent, up from 5 percenin canceled orders, which climbed to 17 percent, up from 5 percent.

The SNB also cut interest rates deeper into negative territory, by 50 basis points to negative 0.75 percent, in an effort to help cushion the blow.

The Dow fell 100 points in early trading as financials dropped more than 1 percent.

The pan-European Stoxx 600 closed down 0.08 percent yet off its session lows, while sectors pointed in different directions.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

The two - year yield touched 2.500 percent, which was last seen in September 2008 before subsiding to 2.483 percent, up 1 basis point on the day.

One sticking point is a U.S. demand for 50 percent U.S. parts in vehicles, and another is disagreement over how disputes would be resolved.

The Survey of Consumer Finances reports that in 2010, just 35 percent of families held some sort of retirement account offered through a current or past job, down 2.9 percentage points from 2007.

Some women shy away from jobs in fields that require long workweeks, knowing they won't have the time: a 10 percent cut in free time for women reduces their share in high - hour occupations by about 14 percent relative to men, according to the researcher's model.In total, that difference in time spent on at - home labor results in an 11 percentage point gender wage gap, their analysis estimates.

On Thursday, the NASDAQ fell 129 points to 4,054, a 3 percent decrease, and the biggest decline the tech - heavy index has had in three years.

The purchase worth as much as 26.5 billion rupees could increase Singtel's stake in Bharti Telecom by up to 1.7 percentage points to 48.9 percent and its holding in Bharti Airtel, the country's biggest mobile carrier, by up to 0.9 percentage points to 39.5 percent.

As a result, Point Defiance Zoo's online ticket sales grew more than 700 percent in one year.

Economists at Macroeconomic Advisers boosted their forecast for fourth - quarter economic growth by three - tenths of a percentage point to an annualized rate of 2.4 percent, on the «unexpected strength» in consumer spending.

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.

If, instead, like many, you apply the 80/20 rule and figure that fixing the 20 percent of your most egregious cases will cover 80 percent of your problems, you've missed a big point of the exercise — both in how you communicate and your learning.

Forrester VP and principal analyst Nate Elliot writes in a blog post marketers couldn't «count on much organic reach or engagement anyway» and points to an Ogilvy report which stated large brands» Facebook posts reached only 2 percent of fans.

Meanwhile, the report points out, federal funding for housing assistance programs has actually declined by 3 percent in the last seven years.

The Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index increased 6.5 percentage points to 63.5 percent, reflecting growth for the 13th consecutive month at a faster rate than in November.

In tandem with that reading, 9 percent of repsondents said they planned to decrease head counts at their companies in the next 12 months, which represents a decrease of two percentage points, compared to the third quarteIn tandem with that reading, 9 percent of repsondents said they planned to decrease head counts at their companies in the next 12 months, which represents a decrease of two percentage points, compared to the third quartein the next 12 months, which represents a decrease of two percentage points, compared to the third quarter.

The agency commissioned a survey that found 720,000 families would struggle to make payments on their home - equity loans if interest rates rose by a mere 0.25 percent, and almost one million would be in trouble if borrowing costs rose a full percentage point.

The Prices Index increased 6.8 percentage points to 70 percent, indicating that prices increased significantly in December.

The New Orders Index increased 5.3 percentage points to 63 percent, and the Employment Index decreased 2.2 percentage points to 50.5 percent, indicating growth in employment for the fourth consecutive month, but at a slower rate.

U.S. two - year Treasury yields reached 2.453 percent on Friday, the highest level since September 2008 as the two - year's spread versus two - year German Bunds grew to 302 basis points, the widest in more than three decades.

Still, Wall Street has continued to lower its estimates for growth this year and next, with GDP now expected to be 1.95 percent for 2016, 19 basis points lower than in March and below 2 percent for the first time since the question was first asked a year ago.

In Australia, the ASX 200 gained 42.80 points, or 0.72 percent, to 5,953.6, with all sectors gaining.

Health care followed in second place with 17 percent of venture capital dollars, up two percentage points from the first quarter of 2014.

Poland's 10 - year government bond yield rose 7 basis points to 3.14 percent, its highest level in four weeks, rising more than U.S. and German yields which it often tracks.

That's down three points from 2015, when 56 percent of respondents reported not having taken a vacation in a year and 41 percent admitted to having not been on a leisure trip of at least a week to a place 100 miles or more from home in more than two years.

But in a letter to Kerry and other State Department officials, Kristin Delkus, TransCanada's general counsel, pointed to new policies on carbon emissions in Canada, specifically a federal rule issued in May to cut emissions down to 70 percent of their 2005 levels within 15 years.

«Our research shows that 87 percent of respondents have experienced cash flow problems at some point in time with their company,» Harp says.

Case in point, independent research conducted by the Capgemini Digital Transformation Institute confirms that 51 percent of consumers already utilize voice assistants, with 81 percent of those users primarily accessing the voice assistant through a smartphone, citing convenience, multitasking enablement and speed as value - adds from the voice assistant experience.

The report, called Tracking & Hacking: Security & Privacy Gaps Put American Drivers at Risk, found that nearly 100 percent of vehicles on the market come with wireless entry points or WEPs that could be a way in for hackers.

To that point, 87 percent of respondents said stocks were the top choice for «where to put capital to work in 2014.»

But it's still 2.6 percentage points away from the 79.7 percent prime - age employment rate in December 2007.

Shares of Sprint dropped more than 13 percent at one point after Nikkei first reported on Monday that the deal could be in jeopardy.

The company's lone outstanding junk bond, worth $ 1.8 billion and maturing in 2025, briefly dropped two points to as low as 85 cents on the dollar for a yield of around 8 percent on Monday, according to MarketAxess data.