Sentences with phrase «percentage point estimate»

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The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the combination of tax increases and spending cuts could trim economic growth this year by about 1.5 percentage points.

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.

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.

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 GDP release also delivered an unwelcome surprise on government spending: budget trimming by federal agencies, especially the defence department, shaved an estimated eight percentage points off growth.

She added that by Congressional Budget Office estimates, cited by Harvard professor and former Secretary of the Treasury Larry Summers, a 0.2 percentage point increase in GDP would eliminate any long - term budget gap.

The 0.3 - percentage - point estimate is slightly higher than most expectations but well below Republicans» assurances.

Goldman Sachs cut its second - quarter GDP growth estimate by three tenths of a percentage point to 1.0 percent.

Erin Weir, a labour economist running for the NDP in Saskatchewan, has estimated that each percentage point increase in the corporate tax rate would generate about $ 1.5 billion in revenue each year.

Wang estimates Democratic congressional candidates would need to win the 2018 nationwide vote by 7 to 12 percentage points to capture enough seats to win control of the House.

Goldman Sachs estimated that GDP growth would increase 0.3 percentage points above their baseline in 2018 and 2019.

There are some estimates that the impact of that is the equivalent of 1 percentage point rate hike, because it is a form of tightening — you're reducing the money supply.

Page 287 of the 2014 Budget has an estimate that a 1 - percentage point decrease in GDP growth would reduce «the budgetary balance by $ 3.7 billion in the first year, $ 4.5 billion in the second year and $ 6.0 billion by the fifth year.»

Applying the lower of these two weighted - average calculations (24 percentage points) to Canada's existing automotive manufacturing footprint (and assuming that the dislocation for Canada's industry is only proportional to the overall North American shrinkage, an assumption which is probably optimistic), allows us to generate an estimate of the potential scale of economic loss if the U.S. - Japan rules were implemented.

Looking at the global economy, the Fund noted that «global economic activity continues to firm up» and is estimated to have grown by 3.7 percent in 2017, which is 0.1 percentage points faster than projected in the fall.

In total, the paper estimates that every increase of 1 percent in the unemployment rate prompts a 3.2 percentage point reallocation of the major choices of men, and 4.1 percentage points for women.

In a paper co-authored with colleagues at Stanford and the University of Chicago, Bloom estimates an increase in policy uncertainty between 2006 and 2011 might have shaved up to 2.3 percentage points off GDP growth.

$ 118 million change in revenue for each percentage point change in the federal estimate of 2014 Canada Corporate Taxable Income.

And borrowing costs in Canada are still highly stimulative, almost two percentage points below what the Bank of Canada estimates is their «neutral» rate.

The increase in hiring by small businesses is an encouraging sign for the economy amid estimates that the 16 - day government shutdown could have sliced off as much as 0.6 percentage point from fourth quarter gross domestic product (GDP) growth.

We estimate that the oil price shock, on its own, took about 1 1/4 percentage points off GDP growth in the first half of the year.

The fund reduced its estimates of American growth in 2012 and 2013 by a tenth of a percentage point, anticipating that the economy will expand just 2 percent this year and 2.3 percent next year.

Inflation is estimated to rise by somewhat less than 1/4 percentage point per annum over 2 — 3 years.

Economists, who had expected a $ 40.00 billion trade gap in September, said the wider deficit could cut as much as a half a percentage point off that growth estimate.

The Bureau of Economic Analysis, the Commerce Department unit that tracks G.D.P., said the full effect of the government closure «can not be quantified,» but estimated that the hours lost as government employees stayed home shaved off 0.3 of a percentage point.

Recent estimates suggest that they can add between two and three percentage points to a candidate's result.

At the time, Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody's Analytics, estimated higher oil prices had chopped 0.5 percentage points from growth in the first quarter.

We estimate that the Alberta fires will reduce annualized growth in the second quarter by about 1.00 to 1.25 percentage points.

«we estimate the last 1.5 percentage point reduction in corporate tax rate would increase Canadaâ $ ™ s capital stock by about $ 30 billion and employment by about 100,000 jobs in the long run (4).

Estimates for S&P 500 2016 earnings have fallen by 2 percentage points over the past five weeks, Bloomberg data show.

«MSCI estimates some $ 17 billion will flow into Chinese markets — both from passive funds that automatically track its indexes and active fund managers — when the country's stocks are included a year from now,» giving indexers something like a quarter of a percentage point of China's stock market, which is the second - biggest in the world behind America's.

Bell said recent quarterly results have seen outperformance of about 3 to 4 percentage points better than analysts» consensus estimates on average, compared with the 5.7 percentage points earnings are currently running ahead.

Morgan Stanley U.S. chief economist Ellen Zentner estimates that a 20 % broad - based tariff increase could, after four quarters, result in a 1 percentage point drag on real U.S. GDP growth.

A prudent estimate is that this could add another tenth or two of a percentage point to potential output over the medium term.

Conservative estimates suggest that removing interprovincial trade barriers could add one - or two - tenths of a percentage point to Canada's potential output annually.

Some make the case that BTC should rightfully command a piece of gold's market share, and use their estimate as to what percentage as their starting point to calculate its value.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

Our Q1 GDP estimate is currently tracking 3.3 %, with an increase in final sales of 2.0 %, and a contribution from inventory accumulation of 1.2 percentage points.

At year - end 2013, we estimate pension funding levels for our 50 largest rated US corporate issuers increased by 19 percentage points to 94 % of pension obligations, compared with a year earlier.

One big reason that the economy stabilized last summer and fall is the stimulus; the Congressional Budget Office estimates that without the stimulus, growth would have been anywhere from 1.2 to 3.2 percentage points lower in the third quarter of 2009.

This is a percentage point lower than average potential growth in the decade prior to the crisis... We estimate that the real neutral policy rate is currently in the range of 1 to 2 per cent... This translates into a nominal neutral policy rate of 3 to 4 per cent, down from a range of 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 per cent in the period prior to the crisis.»

Using the LoanPerformance data published by the New York Fed, we estimate that the typical reset for sub-prime borrowers has been around 5 percentage points.

Last year, for example, the Congressional Budget Office estimated that fiscal headwinds slowed the pace of real GDP growth in 2013 by about 1-1/2 percentage points relative to what it would have been otherwise.

He estimates that could bump up the rate you get by as much as a percentage point.

In the short and medium term, however, the adjustment would likely be only partial; this partial exchange rate adjustment would result in an increase in the price of imported goods, with a temporary boost to inflation that we estimate could be around one percentage point.

Recent estimates produced with models similar to JCT's have found the tax bills may increase the growth rate by 0.03 to 0.09 percentage points per year, producing as much as $ 200 billion of dynamic feedback.

The latest ABS projections, based on Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) estimates, indicate that farm GDP fell by around 30 per cent over the year to the June quarter 2003, subtracting a little under 1 percentage point from GDP growth, which is a slightly smaller subtraction than previously expected.

Analyst Jamie Baker also cited pending cost increases, estimating a 55 cent effect on earnings per share and 5 percentage - point boost in costs for each seat flown a mile next year from expected new employee contracts.

The revised data including the financial intermediation service charge suggest a slightly higher debt - servicing ratio over recent years than that indicated by the RBA's earlier estimates, with the revised ratio averaging 1/4 — 1/2 of a percentage point higher over recent quarters.

Although sales taxes on soft drinks in Ireland and France have both been associated with a reduction in consumption, the health effects have not been studied.15 16 No significant effect on obesity of US state sales taxes has been found, although the level of taxation there has probably been too low to affect health.13 17 The modelled estimates of the health effect of a 20 % sugar sweetened drink tax in the United States vary, but such a tax has been predicted to reduce obesity by up to three percentage points.13 18 The effect of a sugar sweetened drink tax in the UK has not, until now, been formally estimated.