Sentences with phrase «percent points over»

A company with the lowest of the four investment grade ratings - Baa in Moody's rating system and a BBB from S&P - can borrow at an average of 3.6 percent points over benchmark treasury.

Not exact matches

The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

To his point, over half (57 percent) of chief executives say the stability of the European Union is an issue that keeps them up at night.

Last Tuesday, however, a new poll from Monmouth University showed Clinton with a nine - point lead over Trump, 48 percent to 39 percent.

To that point, 92 percent of the 3,500 - plus readers who had taken our survey as of Dec. 4 said they would not roll over their 401 (k) funds into a company pension plan.

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.

Sales for clothing stores like Reed's grew a particularly strong 1.2 percentage points over the prior month, while electronics and appliance outlets saw a sizable 0.9 percent gain.

And while 41 percent of small business owners say they don't see any indications that the recession is over, that's actually three percentage points lower than the number of consumers who say economic conditions have not improved.

Hiring is down a tenth of a point over last month, bringing us to 4.2 percent growth year to date.

According to an October 2013 Gallup Organization poll, 58 percent of Americans now favor legalization of marijuana - a jump of ten percentage points over the previous year.

First quarter sales of $ 15.2 billion were up 10 percent over the prior year, including 6 points of organic sales growth and 3 points of foreign exchange.

A 25 percent jump would take the Dow to over 30,400, a gain of more than 6000 points from current levels.

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.

Since January, Apple's stock has fallen by 5 percent, and it's only up 23 percent over the last three years — two percentage points lower than the S&P 500.

«We expect revenue to compound over 20 percent annually to $ 2.4 billion by 2022, at which point Blue Apron will be generating more than $ 150 million of free cash flow — representing more than one - third of the company's current enterprise value,» Trusz wrote.

And a Des Moines Register / Bloomberg Politics poll released over the weekend showed Biden gathering support from 14 percent of likely Democratic caucus - goers without even announcing — while Clinton's support slumped to 37 percent, her lowest numbers there yet, and independent Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders only 7 points behind.

Bernstein's Monteyne pointed to the risks of bringing together companies with different cultures, noting that Morrisons - Safeway lost 28 percent of their sales through a combination of store sales, integration problems and culture clash during the last big UK grocery merger over a decade ago.

In fact, fifty - one percent of global marketing executives point to video over other types of content for best return on investment and marketers who use video grow revenue forty - nine percent faster than non-video users.

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.

Tarullo, who is the Fed's point man on bank regulation reform, said the Fed was considering capital requirements that could amount to between 20 percent to more than 100 percent over the Basel III requirements.

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

Commentary: «New equipment orders at Otis were up 19 percent over the year ago third quarter including favorable foreign exchange of 7 percentage points.

Eight percent predict higher sales, which is an increase of five points over November.

The Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 400 points, or 1.5 percent, on Thursday before climbing back to a slight gain as traders showed their jitters over interest rates, trade wars and geopolitics.

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.

They also examined moves after the news of an FBI investigation into Clinton emails, and when Trump won key Republican primaries.PredictIt.org on Friday put the odds of a Trump win at 31 percent and a Clinton win at 74 percent, an improvement of about 6 points for Clinton over Thursday's level.

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 --

Systemwide occupancy rose 1.8 percentage points year over year during the first quarter to 71.8 percent, and average daily rate increased 1.2 percent to $ 145.21.

Shareholder resolutions related to corporations» political activities accounts for just over 25 percent of the total, down 4 percentage points from last year's mid-February tally, Proxy Preview notes.

Thirty - three percent (33 %) of adults 18 and over say they've seen a Tide ad in the last 30 days, just one percentage point short of post-Super Bowl levels.

For the week the index was off over 1,400 points or approximately 5.7 percent.

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.

Third Point was up over 20 percent in 2012 and is up 13 percent so far in 2013.

With the latest slide rooted in disappointment that Beijing did not announce expected policy support over the weekend, all index futures contracts < 0 #CIF: > < 0 #CIC: > < 0 #CIH: > slumped by their 10 percent daily limit, pointing to more bad days ahead.

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.

In fact, the analyst pointed out that the company has been investing in building an «enterprise - oriented» sales force with a global distribution market that could sustain organic revenue growth of 20 percent or better over the coming years.

Cainiao, in which Alibaba Group has a 48 percent stake, has established a global network of warehouses, transport and distribution points and will work with logistics partners all over the world to ensure quick customs clearance and delivery of 11.11 goods.

Discount retailer Five Below Inc (NASDAQ: FIVE) was performing strongly Thursday, up over 12 percent at one point during the day following a Q4 earnings beat on both the top and bottom lines.

Case in point: Eighty - five percent of executives surveyed said they plan to increase their organization's use of independent freelance workers over the next year.

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.

To Burkly's point, six of the eight highest - beta stocks have fallen 20 percent or more over the past year, perhaps reflecting the propensity of volatility to the downside to outpace volatility to the upside.

After falling to 3.93 percent following its February 2017 peak of 4.18 percent, rates on purchases of newly built homes have risen 12 basis points over two months to 4.05 percent.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that mortgage contract rates on purchases of newly built homes rose by 11 basis points over the month of February to 4.14 percent, near its last peak level of 4.18 percent established one year ago in February 2017.

«The lack of inventory has pushed up home prices by 48 percent from the low point in 2011, while wage growth over the same period has been only 15 percent,» Yun says.

The credit card net charge - off rate increased 48 basis points year over year, to 3.3 percent.

Around 70 percent of people over age 65 will need long - term care at some point in their lives, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

When we're talking compounded interest, every percentage point counts as over the course of 40 or 60 years, one to two percent can result in millions of dollars lost.

«Thirty, forty percent is not unreasonable,» he said, pointing to the «long» US bull market, a correction in which would spill over into other markets «including emerging markets.»

Rent growth is pacing almost a full percentage point behind the overall rate of inflation, which stands at 2.4 percent as of the latest data release, and is even further behing the growth in average hourly earnings which have increased by 2.7 percent over the past twelve months.