Sentences with phrase «percentage point rate»

In his first hour in office, the.25 percentage point rate cut on mortgage insurance premiums for loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) was removed, setting the table for what should be an interesting presidential term for real estate policy.

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.

Not exact matches

The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

Perhaps most concerning is the study's findings that the smoking rate hasn't changed in poor populations; among the rich, it's fallen more than five percentage points.

If rates rise across the board by one percentage point, it would amount to about $ 91 billion a year in extra income and thus extra spending money for these people and businesses.

The IMF staff report on Canada raises an issue that I wrote about during the election campaign: the unacceptably large gap — 10 percentage points — between the labour - force participation rates of men and women.

By this time next year, short - term rates might be a full percentage point higher than today.

The Bank of Canada announced this morning that it is dropping its target interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.75 %.

As Poloz indicated in Toronto, if something went terribly wrong tomorrow, he could cut the benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point before trying something else, such as creating money to purchase bonds.

It would increase the replacement rate by 10 percentage points to 35 per cent, lift the earnings cap by $ 10,000 (to $ 61,100), and be phased in over 10 years.

A few things stand out about this particular rate change: first, the magnitude of influence that just a quarter percentage - point change had on the stock market; second, the current rate with an upper range of.50 % compared to the various long - term averages of about 5 %; and third, the rate remains historically low, with only minute incremental changes, despite the relatively good news we continue to read about the economy.

Citing sluggish growth abroad and lower oil prices, the Bank of Canada this morning lowered the overnight lending rate one quarter of a percentage point, to 0.5 %.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

And those microseconds translated into over a ten percentage point difference in fill rates!

«A decrease in nominal GDP growth resulting solely from a one - year, 1 - percentage - point decrease in the rate of GDP inflation» reduces the budgetary balance by $ 1.9 billion.

And on anybody's forecast it's gonna be a long time before we're gonna be in a position to reduce rates by three percentage points.

The personal saving rate has since declined 1.5 percentage points in a span of four years.

What's more, the 10 - year Treasury rate is up by just 0.1 percentage points since Wednesday, to just over 2.2 %.

The 7 - 2 vote for the rate move, the Fed's third this year, raises the benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent.

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.

This raises the benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent

I think that we face a structural problem in monetary policy and that is when recession comes we lower interest rates by... three percentage points.

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 industrial capacity utilisation rate in the first three quarters reached 76.6 %, 3.5 percentage points higher than the same period last year.»

«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.

That rate is up two percentage points, compared to the third quarter.

The agency commissioned a survey that found 720,000 families would struggle to make payments on their home - equity loans if interest rates rose by a mere 0.25 percent, and almost one million would be in trouble if borrowing costs rose a full percentage point.

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.

After studying the decline in U.S. crime rates that occurred in the 1990s, it concluded that a drop of two percentage points in unemployment was responsible for a 9 % decline in burglary, 14 % drop in rape and robbery and 30 % plunge in assault.

The real funds rate is around zero, and the natural rate is around zero, and historically the Fed has gotten the economy into trouble when the Fed was about two to three percentage points above r *.

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.

«If you purchase a home but can't make the payments if interest rates go up by two percentage points, you probably shouldn't be buying that home in the first place,» he says.

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.

But it's still 2.6 percentage points away from the 79.7 percent prime - age employment rate in December 2007.

The CEPR researchers add that prime - age employment for men is now 3 percentage points lower than it was in December 2007, while the rate for women is 2.2 percentage points below where it was.

(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.)

Under this scenario, increasing the rate by one percentage point would increase revenues by one per cent of the original tax base.

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.

Instead of worrying about bargaining for a few percentage points off the rate, spend time negotiating the lease's term and thinking about the company's true needs for the future.

European revenues were up 18 percent, fueled by exchange rates and higher pricing, but margins were down 1.5 percentage points to 1.3 percent for the region.

Deutsche Bank economists predict the curve will invert in 2019 as the Fed keeps raising interest rates by a quarter percentage point every quarter, as markets expect.

The gap between Canadian and Australia youth unemployment rates is closing, but is still over 2 percentage points:

If you see a new report saying interest rates rose 1 percent, you can safely assume it means 1 percentage point.

A 25 basis point rate hike would see the global real GDP level about 0.4 percentage points lower, with US real GDP falling by about 0.5 percentage points.

Percent refers to a relative increase or reduction, while percentage point refers to the actual change in rate.

Long - term bond rates have risen about one percentage point since then, and that has caused bond values to fall.

But the analysis says raising the work - force participation rate of women by 4.5 percentage points by 2032 would lift Canada's potential growth to about 1.9 per cent.

That breaks down to boost of around 0.08 percentage points of added to the GDP growth rate per year.