Sentences with phrase «percentage point loss»

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And if his margin of loss stays over half a percentage point, he or his campaign will have to finance the recount.

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.

Preferred personal auto's underlying loss ratio improved 3.6 percentage points to 70.1 percent, driven by improved frequency and higher average earned premium slightly offset by higher severity.

The major index had the biggest point loss in its history, though its recent months of rapid growth means that as a percentage total the dip was less than 5 %.

Obama cited statistics released the same day in the White House's new report from his Council of Economic Advisers which show that conflicts likely lead, on average, to 1 percentage point lower annual returns on retirement savings as well as $ 17 billion of losses every year for working and middle - class families.

Volume / mix decreased 0.8 percentage points as the benefit from a shift in Easter - related sales as well as gains in frozen, macaroni and cheese, and condiments and sauces were more than offset by select distribution losses in cheese and meats as well as lower shipments in foodservice.

Volume / mix decreased 1.7 percentage points driven by a combination of distribution losses on Planters in the club channel, lower shipments in natural cheese and service - related losses in cold cuts.

Hasbro, average return in percentage points from Jan. 31 to May 02, in every year since 1998 — The stock posted relatively small losses on just four occasions.

The one - day loss for many funds, including Vanguard Total Bond Market, iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond, Pimco Total Return and Metropolitan West Total Return, while less than a half a percentage point, still amounted to more than 10 percent of their current yield.

Taking a look at the major market sectors, decliners were in the majority, led by basic materials with a loss of about half a percentage point.

Our past 48 long calls have outperformed the market by an average of 4 percentage points, increasing about 1 % compared to a 3 % loss for the S&P 500.

Yet even with the downbeat forecast, losses were relatively modest, with most benchmarks finishing less than half a percentage point lower.

At the same time, the worst 15 performers in China trailed their benchmarks by an average of just 3.2 percentage points, with the biggest loss at 8.6 percentage points.

As you can see, the one percentage point increase in interest rates results in a loss for Year 1, but by Year 2 the cumulative return turns positive because interest and principal reinvest at higher rates.

That's bad news for the Catholic Church, which has seen a 12 percentage - point drop in Hispanic members since 2010, with most of the losses coming from former Catholics under 50.

«Groups that have experienced a net loss from changes in affiliation include Baptists (net loss of 3.7 percentage points) and Methodists (2.1 percentage points).

Today, however, only 23.9 % of adults identify with the Catholic Church, a net loss of 7.5 percentage points.»

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

Prize money was determined by points scored as well as won - loss, and while Buchholz had a perfect 31.0 VASSS average, Roche edged him out in total earnings with $ 1,612.40, by virtue of winning a greater percentage of his points, even though he did lose an exciting 31 - 30 set to Drysdale.

We also show that the large electoral losses for the Social Democrats between 1994 and 1998 were much more pronounced among outsiders: according to our estimates, a typical member of the labour force became 18 percentage points less likely to support the Social Democrats if he was an outsider, but only 8.5 percentage points less likely to do so if he was an insider.

Optimistic partisans digging through the data have even found reason to cheer some of the special election defeats: In one of the Democratic losses, a race for a Connecticut seat held by Republicans for more than a century, the GOP candidate won by 10 percentage points, compared with a 22 - point GOP victory margin in an election for the same seat just three months earlier.

«Those two or three percentage points can mean the difference between a loss and a win and they want to make sure those points don't go to me,» McMurray (D) said.

While heaping plates of rehash were served up, Cahill did make the point that in his estimation Hein has more than enough in surplus stashed away to easily weather the estimated $ 6 million hit the part - year loss of a percentage point on the sales tax will cost the county.

Furthermore, after widespread job losses, suicide and suicide attempts among African - American youths rose by more than 2 percentage points.

This marks a decrease of 7.3 percentage points over the previous study year (2015 - 16), when loss rates were found to be 40.5 percent.

Most of the individuals have probably found themselves trying to lose weight at some point of time, but a very large percentage of them ended up disappointed up due to the activities and sacrifices a typical weight loss program requires.

After Kurt lost 87 pounds and 22 % percentage points of body fat on My Diet Is Better Than Yours, The Wild Diet shot up on the charts and hit # 28 of all books on Amazon, and # 1 in 12 different categories, including «Cooking,» «Lifestyle & Home,» «Health, Fitness & Dieting,» and «Dieting, Diets & Weight Loss.»

The show didn't air Jasmin's fat loss numbers, but she went from 47 % body fat to 34 % body fat, losing only 13 % percentage points of fat.

We estimate that improvement from the 25th to the 75th percentile of test - score change — that is, moving from a loss of 4 percentile points to a gain of 3.8 percentile points between 1999 and 2000 — produced on average an increase of 3 percentage points in an incumbent's vote share.

Exposure to a single disruptive peer in an elementary class of 25 students leads to a 1.6 percentage point reduction in college enrollment, a 2.6 percentage point reduction in the likelihood of receiving a college degree (including two - year degrees), and a three - to - four percent loss in earnings.

Reduce the union membership rate of pre-K through 12 and special education teachers by 4.8 percentage points — a loss of 88,000 members of teachers» unions over time.

A move of five percentage points would now require a 50 % return or a 50 % loss, both of which aren't likely to happen very often.

That means the fund's price would drop roughly 6 % for each one - percentage - point rise in interest rates (although that loss would be offset by the fund's annual yield of a little less than 2.5 %).

You may decide that you're not taking any chances, and that the extra partial percentage point increase in money market fund yields is not worth any risk of principal loss whatsoever.

While a $ 50 billion national loss of interest sounds monstrous, it may not be convincing enough for you to believe that by just a few percentage points to your interest, your financial future could be brightened.

Given that those bonds yield a 1.5 percentage point premium over government bonds (which have a default risk close to zero), a corporate bond investor is likely to be left with a one percentage point advantage over government bonds after accounting for the risk of loss.

To offset those potential losses, investors are demanding a 5.5 percentage point premium over government bonds to buy these high - risk bonds.

«The loss of export sales will probably take about three - quarters of a percentage point off the growth rate of our economy in 1999,» says Fred Flick, NAR vice president of economic research.

If inflation rises to 3 percent by 2015, which is more likely than not, mortgage rates will have to rise by a full percentage point to compensate lenders for the loss in purchasing power of the money returned to them.

The West and South, while still negative for the year, also saw improvements over last month's report, shrinking their annual losses by 1.4 percentage points and 0.3 percentage points respectively.

This loss is five percentage points deeper than the second hardest hit MSA, Columbus, OH, which posted a loss of -7.5 percent.