Sentences with phrase «percent were optimistic»

46 percent thought having a flexible job would improve their sex life, and another 28 percent were optimistic it would.

But they are more conservative than men owners — 54 percent of men owners are optimistic about their local economies and 58 percent are optimistic about the national economy, the survey found.

The poll found that a slight majority of New York voters — 51 percent — are pessimistic about the nation's future under Trump, while 47 percent are optimistic.

An impressive 80 percent are optimistic that their business will fare -LSB-...]

However, they look to the new year with anticipation: A full 65 percent are optimistic about the housing market in 2014 and a nearly 60 percent believe home sales will increase during the year.

Schuh notes, however, that «15 percent is optimistic.

Not exact matches

In a study of more than 5,100 adults, researchers from the University of Illinois found that those who were the most optimistic were 76 percent more likely to have health scores in an ideal range.

Even so, parents and students alike are optimistic: 64 percent of parents surveyed expect that their children will be able to find a job after graduation — though not necessarily one in their field — within six months, and 67 percent of students agreed.

Close to 90 percent said they're optimistic about their companies» prospects into the first quarter of 2016.

Although we've had two months of similar hiring and paycheck numbers, the SurePayroll small business owner optimism number plummeted 11 points, revealing that only 55 percent of business owners are optimistic about the economy.

This month 63 percent of small business owners indicated they're optimistic about the economy, versus last month's 57 percent.

Despite the optimistic outlook, the increase in spending is expected to fall short of last year's gain of 5.2 percent.

Despite Gov. Ricardo Rosselló's optimistic promise of getting 100 percent power back by Christmas, most people have accepted that this will be a Navidad without lights.

NEW YORK, April 3 - Investors raised their bets against Tesla Inc shares by 10 percent since mid-March, according to data provided by S3 Partners LLC on Tuesday, betting the market was too optimistic on the electric car maker's prospects.

NEW YORK, April 3 - Investors raised their bets against Tesla Inc shares by 10 percent since mid-March on the view that the market was too optimistic on the electric car maker's prospects, financial analytics firm S3 Partners said on Tuesday.

Even among significant frustration, 73 percent of the survey respondents report being optimistic about the economy and having a desire to grow their businesses.

With small business owner sentiment remaining low (only 54 percent of business owners reported to SurePayroll that they are optimistic about the small business economy in August), I'd count on the latter to be true.

Seventy - one percent of the self - made millionaires in my study were optimistic about life.

I'm extremely optimistic about millennials — members of a generation that will make up 75 percent of the workforce by 2025.

Economists led by Jan Hatzius at Goldman Sachs are even more optimistic, saying this week that they are looking for a 4.1 percent expansion in 2018.

The majority of those polled in a new j2 Global JCOM, +1.21 % survey (88 percent) are optimistic about their businesses» growth for the remainder of 2013, compared to 76 percent last year.

This seems optimistic given both the market expectations discussed above and the fact that current interest rates are 0.50 percent nearly eight years after the last recession.

On the positive side, the majority of small businesses are more optimistic with their economic outlook, with 29 percent finally beginning to see signs that the economy has improved, and another 22 percent having seen definitive evidence that the economy is improving.

More optimistic owners like Southeastern, with its 8.5 percent stake, could be in a position to force the price higher.

SpaceX is optimistic that the use of reusable rockets will help the company shave off 30 percent from launch costs.

29 percent of real estate professionals are now feeling optimistic about UK's commercial real estate market.

In a survey, 49 percent of the employees interviewed were optimistic about the benefits of technologies such as robotics and artificial intelligence.

With the S&P 500 Index (SPX) having made an all - time high as recently as last month and still being within two percent of its high it would be normal for sentiment to be near an optimistic extreme.

With the stock up more than 35 percent since the start of 2017 alone, are analysts optimistic there is room for further gains...

PREPA executive director Ricardo Ramos meanwhile was optimistic that Puerto Rico could hit Rosselló's target of getting electricity back to 95 percent of utility customers before the end of the year.

Eighty percent of business owners said they are optimistic about the financial outlook of their businesses over the next 12 months, and 71 percent of business owners said their businesses had improved over the last year.

Morelli feels optimistic about the future, though he is unsure about collaborating with the populist Five Star Movement, which won more than 30 percent of the vote, mostly in impoverished southern regions where the League still has a bad name for its previous calls for separation.

If we became wildly optimistic, and estimated that 75 percent would opt for over a year's treatment, then at a two - third success rate, 50 percent would still be addicted.

A majority of the operators who participated in L.E.K's study say they are optimistic business will improve and 74 percent say growth over the next three years will be stronger than it was for the past three years.

Only Morhaus» neighbor is optimistic — «he's at 51 percent thinking that they'll stay.»

The Nationals are projected with a 100 - percent chance to win the National League East per FanGraphs, with Baseball Prospectus slightly less optimistic, at 99.9 percent.

He pointed to a recent Quinnipiac University poll showing 59 percent of voters were optimistic about the next four years with Cuomo as governor, though only 45 percent said he would be able to fix government.

Voters in New York City are the most optimistic of those polled, with 52 percent believing the state is headed on the right track.

Overall, voters aren't terribly optimistic (46 - 38) that Cuomo and the Legislature will be able to fix the state's budget woes, even though 69 percent believe that should be the No. 1 priority in the coming year.

Most optimistic about the long - term outcome is the Southern Tier, where 43 percent believe there will be a positive benefit.

The survey found 73 percent of New York City residents polled are «generally optimistic» about the next four years under Democratic Mayor - elect Bill de Blasio, and with a broad majority of voters backing his selection for police commissioner, Bill Bratton.

A month earlier, poll respondents were nearly evenly divided, with 49 percent optimistic and 48 percent pessimistic.

CIVIC CENTER — Mayor Bill de Blasio is enjoying a «honeymoon» with New York City voters, with 67 percent of them feeling optimistic about the upcoming four years, according to a new poll.

He's been a candidate for everything from governor to common councilor, and is still optimistic he'll win the mayoral race, noting he's gotten 35 percent of the vote in the past, and believes that's enough to win this election.

House Speaker Joe Aresimowicz, D - Berlin, said he's optimistic a budget agreement will be reached since state income tax revenues are coming in 80 percent higher than expected.

Devlin says that's too optimistic: «In our experience, we can't achieve 100 percent sterility.»

The company is optimistic, however, that textile makers can solve that problem — and then it can offer a 100 percent Bluesign - approved product line.

In the 2014 - 2015 survey, 66 percent reported they were optimistic that markets were growing compared with 61 percent in the 2004 survey and 45 percent in the 2009 survey.

The research, conducted by researchers at New York University and the University of Miami (Fla.), shows that «doom and gloom» language was present in only 10 percent of the analyzed U.S. newspaper articles; by contrast, optimistic language — such as, «the oceans are mostly intact, still wild enough to bounce back to ecological health» (New York Times, January 15, 2015)-- was present in more than a quarter of these stories.

Interestingly, while doom and gloom language was present in 10 percent of all articles in this study, only 4 percent contained only this type of language (e.g., «At this point, without human intervention, the species could go extinct within our lifetimes,» Los Angeles Times, July 4, 2012); the remaining articles expressed both doom and gloom and optimistic language.