Sentences with phrase «percentage point at»

The extra yield investors demand to hold securities backed by government - guaranteed mortgages has risen to 0.24 percentage point this year, from 0.15 percentage point at the end of 2016, a relatively modest widening.

Economists surveyed by Bloomberg earlier this month saw the Fed lifting rates by a quarter percentage point at their Dec. 12 - 13 meeting.

Index ETFs don't always track the underlying asset perfectly and may vary as much as a percentage point at any given time.

On top of that, Lee said the rate would likely inch up a quarter - percentage point at a time, making the coming increases easier to manage than the towering Canadian levels of the early 1980s.

The most recent iterations of the Federal Reserve policy - setting committees have all shown a preference for small changes in the Federal funds rate, usually a quarter - percentage point at a time, with a few half - point (or more) exceptions, most often on the downside.

Its stock was down less than half a percentage point at $ 110.81 in midmorning trading.

Traders fully expect the Fed's monetary - policy committee to raise benchmark borrowing costs by a quarter percentage point at a meeting that starts Tuesday and culminates Wednesday with Powell's first press conference as chairman.

For example, Berekeley Haas» female student population has grown from 29 % to 41 % in the last two years alone (it has grown by five full percentage points at both Booth and Kellogg in the last year).

For results based on the total sample of baby boomers born 1946 - 1964, the margin of sampling error is ± 4 percentage points at the 95 % confidence level.

But Uber employees» shares together only add up to a few percentage points at best.

With a diverse mix of traditional banks and newer online mortgage providers, mortgage rates in New York state can vary as much as 0.75 percentage points at different lenders.

The sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level, whatever that means.

Labour is down four percentage points at 26 per cent, the Conservatives are down by the same amount to 39 per cent.

Performance at GCSE improved by 0.6 percentage points at grades A * - A (from 22.6 % in 2010 to 23.2 % in 2011), which is down on last year's increase of 1 percentage point.

For results based on the 233 parents of school - aged children, the margin of sampling error is ± 8 percentage points at the 95 % confidence level.

Charter students also outperformed the state average of students passing the AzMERIT English Language Arts and Math by 5 - 12 percentage points at every grade level.

It also increased by 8.1 percentage points at the least competitive institutions — from 11.7 to 19.8.

In the early years of secondary school the gap widens further, with boys outstripped by girls in English by 12 percentage points at age 14.

The proportion of spending in each category nationally has been remarkably stable for the past 20 years, fluctuating by one or two percentage points at most, and this stability holds true at the state level for the most part as well.

Both systems provide the regular array of modes (Comfort, Sport, etc), but they then allow you to fine - tune damping rates by small percentage points at a time and on individual axles, as well as setting the ride heights for specific conditions.

The main disadvantage is that they may see their interest rate go up by as much as six percentage points at the end of the seven - year period.

That will exert a downward drag on demand and inflation over the policy horizon: using the Bank's model ready - reckoners, by around 0.2 percentage points at the two - year horizon.

The total margin of error on weighted data for the full sample is plus or minus 3 percentage points at the 95 percent confidence level.

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However, if we look at estimates of earnings before interest and taxes, which removes the effect of tax payments, the S&P is expected to see an increase of 8.6 percentage points.

The companies surveyed all had at least 20 employees, while the margin of error for the sample was plus or minus 3.54 percentage points, with a 95 % confidence level.

«At these levels, it may shave off a tenth of a percentage point off global growth.»

With Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, the overall domestic summer box office is ten percentage points lower than it was at this time last year.

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These riches were at least as important to the Eritrean government as they were to Nevsun: by various estimates Bisha would provide about US$ 1 billion in royalties and revenues over its life, and raise the country's annual GDP by several percentage points.

The bonds of iHeartMedia have long been in the basket of «distressed debt,» meaning their prices have fallen so far to where their yields are at least 10 percentage points higher than equivalent Treasury yields.

Kallum Pickering, senior U.K. economist at Berenberg, told CNBC in an email that Brexit could reduce growth in the U.K. by 0.4 percentage points.

«At a certain point, I realized that there's a percentage of the population that no matter what you do or say, they're just not going to like you, and it's beyond your control,» Levy says.

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.

The longest - term portion of the offering, $ 8 billion of bonds maturing in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.

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.

A decision will be released at 2 p.m. (1900 GMT), with markets prepared for an initial 25 basis point «liftoff» that would move the Fed's target rate from the zero lower bound to a range of between 0.25 and 0.50 percentage points.

«The global unemployment rate would remain broadly constant during the next five years, at half a percentage point higher than before the crisis,» the ILO said.

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 quarter.

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.

«Our [point - of - sale] system gives percentages, and every night I look at lunch, dinner and our labor costs,» he says.

In Canada, hybrid sales represented only 1 % of the market in 2010, which is actually a drop of half a percentage point from the previous year, according to Geoff Helby, a director at the market research firm J.D. Power and Associates.

Our own national economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.3 % in the fourth quarter of 2010, a full percentage point above what the Bank of Canada expected.

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.

(It aims to keep prices increasing at an annual rate of 2 %, with a cushion of 1 percentage point on each side of that target.)

Wolfers's point about Obama and Trump stands even if you look at the percentage gains in the Dow under the six most recent presidents, though Trump either out - performs or slightly under - performs George HW Bush depending which index you use.

The tepid confidence level is somewhat at odds with how business owners view their current financial situations — 67 percent gave their situation a rating of good, the same as the prior quarter and an increase of two percentage points compared with the second quarter of 2015.

Meanwhile, small business loan approvals at small banks, which generally have been focusing on SBA loans in recent months, dipped to 48.7 % in December — a full percentage point from the previous month.

As a marketer, I can't really do anything with a data point about the percentage of business travelers who are women — at least not anything that will differentiate from all of the rest of my competitors.

Noting that the actual rebate should have been at least 10 percentage points higher, Wyden and Pallone said, «Today's letter is more evidence that while Mylan irresponsibly raised the price of EpiPen, they were also bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars.»