Sentences with phrase «percentage point would make»

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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.

Because of the surprising bias we discovered, their finding of only a negligibly higher field goal percentage for shots following a streak of makes (three percentage points), was, if you do the calculation, actually 11 percentage points higher than one would expect from a coin flip!

Facebook stock is up a few percentage points after CEO Mark Zuckerberg said the recent scandals hadn't made «any meaningful impact» on the business.

Most advocates said that the bill would need to generate an additional 0.4 percentage points of GDP growth in order to make up the revenue shortfall.

Left side has a range of 9 percentage points while the right has 16 (and the divisions make no sense).

Although I wouldn't advocate leaving money in a savings account for 30 years — unless it's an emergency fund you're lucky enough not to touch — it's worth illustrating the difference just one percentage point can make.

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.

Support for the right to die rises 30 percentage points for those who picture God as a «spouse» and have not tried to convert anyone else to Jesus, as opposed to those who picture God as a «master» and have tried to make converts.

Ingram's long range shooting — he made a higher percentage from three - point range than two - point range in two of his four NCAA seasons — could have earned him a steady paycheck in one of Europe's many basketball leagues.

His shooting made him difficult to defend: he'd wind up leading the league in three - point percentage twice while making at least 44 percent of his shots from long range in nine of his 10 seasons.

While other teams like the Rockets and Wizards have made big jumps on the odds list over the first month, their implied probabilities have only gone up by a couple percentage points.

While it may seem counterproductive to go against the percentages, you are going to have to make some upset picks at some point, so you might as well do it in games where most people are going chalk.

«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.

The poll, the first independent survey to be made public in the general election campaign, has a margin of error of plus or minus 4.6 percentage points.

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.

In September, a Newsday / News 12 / Siena College Poll indicated that the incumbent had a comfortable 10 percentage point lead, but Mr. Zeldin was shown to have made great strides in a Newsday / News 12 / Siena College poll that was published 10 days before Election Day.

How far could tens of millions of dollars go in smaller, less expensive states where Democrats have a better chance to make pickups, such as Arizona and Nevada, or the five states where incumbent Democratic senators face electorates that favored Donald Trump by at least 17 percentage points in 2016 (Indiana, Missouri, Montana, North Dakota and West Virginia)?

The only independent poll made public in the 24th District race shows Katko had a 19 percentage point lead over Deacon.

«We've still got a lot to learn,» he notes, pointing out that overweight and obese people, who make up a significant percentage of the obstructive apnea population, are not considered good candidates for the procedure because of their excess airway tissue.

I am sure that there are some old research studies that support the BMI and which have made it into what it is today but I won't even bother looking for them because my main point is this: measure your body fat percentage instead.

Democratic support for federal decision - making has dropped by 8, 6, and 7 percentage points, respectively.

The Ofsted survey, which was answered by 1,529 staff, also found that 70 per cent of staff had confidence in the decisions made by senior managers — up by seven percentage points from last year.

That year, the annual Education Next poll found that being told President Obama supported charter schools had the effect of making respondents 11 percentage points more likely to endorse charter schooling.

In reading, students made comparable improvement (roughly 5 percentage points) across question type, suggesting that test preparation may have played a larger role in math than in reading.

Since then, Boston's students made great strides in math and its fourth - graders have grown faster than average on reading, too, rising to within a percentage point of the national average.

The graduation rate is still 18 percentage points higher than in the year before the 2005 storm, but schools now face the possibility that they've hit a plateau and need to rethink how to keep making progress.

She chose the University of Virginia program because it promised results, telling Cincinnati that it would be able to help schools make AYP — or gain at least 10 percentage points within two years.

And since you're probably wondering, we should point out that by distributing your book to these sites, you have to agree to sell the book for the same price everywhere, so you can't sell your book for $ 2.99 on Amazon and more on BN.com to make up the royalty percentage difference.

I've priced it at what I think is both economical for the user without trying to gouge anyone as well as at a price point where I think there could be some nice sales volume that will allow me to make a profit after I pay the programmers, Amazon takes their percentage, and the US government takes what they believe is their fair share.

Let's say the risk - free rate of return is 1 %, the market itself is expected to return 4 percentage points more than the risk - free rate (so the market's risk premium is 4 %), and a stock has a beta of 1.5, which makes it more risky than the market.

Narrow them down to two or three personal loans according to which has the lowest APR — even one - half of a percentage point makes a huge difference in your monthly payments.

Additional income would not make any difference up to $ 252,500, but another 2 percentage points would disappear with the next $ 1 of income.

Most interestingly, there is a quote from Warren Buffett which is perhaps the most quantitative statement he has made in recent years on interest rates and current asset prices: «Warren Buffett, the most famous disciple of Ben Graham, said this week that stocks would look cheap in three years» time if interest rates were one percentage - point higher, but not if they were three percentage points higher.»

I think this is a great point to make to encourage higher education but I would be curious to see the percentage of them that finished school with massive student loans.

43.26 percent of this year's respondents stated that their children have made late payments that negatively impacted their credit scores, an increase of 7.46 percentage points.

Some analysts reckon that when the program is fully underway it could make fixed - rate mortgages perhaps a quarter percentage point higher than they would otherwise be in «normal» market conditions, so the effect on mortgage rates should be only modest.

Some lenders may offer a 1 percentage - point rate reduction after 36 on - time payments have been made in a row.

If the fund has lost money or only made a few percentage points every year of its existence, it's not beating the yearly rate of inflation and probably not a good choice.

If your portfolio has deviated more than 5 percentage points from your objective, it may be time to make some changes.

Since institutional investors make or lose thousands of dollars on seemingly minute percentage changes, they have divided each percentage point into 100 points, each of which is called a «basis point» (bp).

«While improvement has been made in the percentage of employment - based retirement plan participants rolling over all of their balances on job change, this behavior varied significantly across participants» ages at the point of distribution and the amount of the distribution.»

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.

«Even after the additional income, his marginal tax rate is at least a few percentage points higher than hers, so he'd benefit more by making his own RRSP contributions,» says Noel D'Souza, a Toronto CFP with Money Coaches Canada.

But a second table in the study shows that, with some exceptions, if the tax rate you face in retirement is five to 10 percentage points or more below what it was when you made the contribution, the combination of a traditional IRA and taxable account will have a larger after - tax balance than the Roth account.

But an important point we would like to make is just because a company has a large percentage of the market does not mean that company is necessarily the «best» company.

The bonus is a percentage of the Citi ThankYou Points you've earned from purchases that you make during the year (provided you remain a member).

The Bank of Canada cut interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point twice in 2015 to help the economy deal with a plunge in oil prices, but it said Wednesday that adjustment has been made.

Note that it doesn't take a majority of people, or anywhere close, to have a significant — even decisive — impact: In an apathetic world, the active involvement of only a few percentage points of the citizenry is sufficient to make a difference.

Humans are probably responsible for most of the CO2 rise based on the observations of the CO2 we are emitting, but to make the claim that Fred has made would require the ability to make accurate measurements of total CO2 at any point in time and then to accurately determine what percentage of that total CO2 is of human origin.

Yes, if you took the sun and cranked it significantly down or up, say a whole percentage point, it would make a huge difference.