Sentences with phrase «percentage point a year»

Delivery contributed to 16 % of Company sales in the first quarter of 2018, an increase of 3 percentage points year over year.

Many advocates of the bill have said it would boost gross - domestic - product growth by 0.4 percentage points a year.

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.

They found that the discovery of a high - quality break can raise growth by 2.2 percentage points a year.

Smartphone Market Penetration While the incidence of smartphone use in 2013 has increased by 9 percentage points year over year and by 24 percentage points since 2011, the gap in customer satisfaction scores among smartphone manufacturers is narrowing.

GDP growth must drop every year for the next five or six years by at least 1 percentage point a year.

And the banks which generally do better when rates move up have outperformed the S&P 500 by about 2-1/2 percentage points this year, and would have gone even better had loan growth not been fairly anemic.

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.

The people who invest in those funds could improve their performance by about 1 percentage point a year by switching to other funds that don't pay brokers.»

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

«Samsung's smartphone sales declined 8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016 and its share dropped by 2.9 percentage points year on year.»

Huawei, Oppo and BBK accounted for 21.3 percent of smartphones sold to end users worldwide during the fourth quarter of 2016, an increase of 7.3 percentage points year on year.

Investment expenses and taxes each have cut returns by roughly one to two percentage points a year.

Prices rose by an average of 5.2 per cent a year between 1981 and 2012 in the country as a whole, or 1.3 percentage points a year faster than average incomes.

High - saving countries created employment, and low - saving countries enjoyed faster consumption growth as cheap imports meant that living standards rose by more than the increase in production — worth around half a percentage point a year in the United Kingdom.

In China, this has been the case since 2011, with total household consumption spending growing on average faster than overall GDP by 1.5 percentage points each year.

It has beaten the S&P 500 by three full percentage points a year, on an annualized basis since inception, making it the number one fund in its Large Blend category which includes over a thousand other funds.

Workers who aren't saving as much as they want to can aim to get there over time by having their contribution rate increase automatically by one or two percentage points each year, financial advisers say.

Add it all up and economists predict prices will rise by a handful of percentage points this year, although probably not as much as 2014's approximately 5 % gain.

The Bank of Canada's own forecasts overestimated global growth by an average of half a percentage point each year in the past four.

That number, which grew nearly one percentage point every year from 2008 to 2011, grew only 0.3 % last year — from 17.5 % in 2011 to 17.8 % in 2012 — making it the smallest increase over the past five years.

Kemba Walker and Nick «Swaggy P» Young are the lone exceptions, especially Young whose 3 - point percentage increased a shocking nine percentage points this year (32.5 % in» 15 - ’16 and 41.5 % in» 16 -» 17).

Consider this possibility: More than a few elections will be decided by less than a percentage point this year.

A United Nations report released Sunday said that governments must act faster to keep global warming in check and that a radical shift from fossil fuels to low - carbon energy such as wind, solar or nuclear power would shave only about 0.06 of a percentage point a year off world economic growth.

This standard rose by 5 percentage points every year, up to 50 percent in 2000.

A highly skilled work force can raise economic growth by about two - thirds of a percentage point every year.

The chronic absence rate goal for 2016 - 17 is 11 percent, then decreasing by 2 percentage points each year through 2018 - 19.

Under her contract, the five schools» passing rate must go up by 10 percentage points this year.

This cap will increase by one percentage point each year beginning in 2017 — 18 until the enrollment limit reaches 10 percent, then there will no longer be a cap.

When it comes to the proportion of pupils achieving the expected level in all early learning goals, the gap also decreased, from 15.7 percentage points last year to 14.7 percentage points this year.

PowerMyLearning partner schools have outperformed comparison schools in math proficiency by 7 percentage points each year.

PowerMyLearning schools outperformed comparison schools in math proficiency by an average of 7 percentage points each year.

For example, AP participation by Hispanic students increased an average 10 percentage points each year between 2009 and 2012, while Hispanic passing rates increased an average 6 percent each year

Public (Renewal) School 67 is supposed to increase its average math proficiency by only a hundredth of a percentage point this year, leaving it at a much lower rate than other NYC public schools (Taylor, 2017).

Within the U.S. market, Chrysler saw the proportion of its sales going to fleets decline by five percentage points year - over-year, to 23 percent, although its days supply (a measure of how many cars are unsold at dealerships) rose to 71 days.

Despite new competition, Escalade's retail sales were up 15 percent in March and 12 percent in the first quarter, transaction prices continue to grow and retail market share is estimated to be up 2 percentage points year to date.

The Chevrolet Silverado's estimated retail segment share was 27 percent in May, according to J.D. Power PIN data, up 3 percentage points year over year.

GM's incentive spending was 10.0 percent of ATP, down 1.6 percentage points from October 2015 and down 1.2 percentage points year over year.

In December, GM's incentive spending was 10.7 percent of ATP, down 0.1 percentage point year over year.

That is in line with March and down 0.6 percentage points year over year.

Industry average spending was 10.5 percent of ATP in November, down 0.3 percentage points month over month and up 0.2 percentage points year over year.

Boosting your savings rate even a couple of percentage points a year can have a major effect on the amount of savings you'll accumulate by retirement.

If you're prudent about active investing, the worst outcome is lagging the indexes by a few percentage points a year, which seems to be an acceptable trade - off to many investors.

A typical DSC starts at 5 % or 6 % of the amount of your original investment during the first year you own the fund, then gradually declines by a percentage point each year until it's at 0 % after about six years.

When we did, we discovered that over the last five years, our All - Stars beat the best Canadian equity fund (in either the pure or focused categories) by nearly two percentage points a year — and the second best fund by more than three percentage points a year.

Over the period Graham bested the markets by 2.5 percentage points a year on average, after fees.

Properly used, an annuity can allow you to increase your safe withdrawal rate by one or two percentage points a year without increasing the risk of ruin, says Moshe Milevsky, a professor at York University's Schulich School of Business.

Over the past half century, inflation has cut the purchasing power of your return by 3.5 percentage points a year.

But if you simply can't afford to save an additional 2 % or 3 % of salary immediately, you can do so gradually by increasing it by a percentage point every year or so or by saving half of any pay raises you receive.

Historically, existing shareholders have seen their claim on total corporate profits diluted at a rate of 2 percentage points a year, as new companies emerge and existing companies issue additional shares.