Sentences with phrase «percentage points in the past»

With those improvements, the company has seen reduced costs, boosting gross margin by six percentage points in the past year.

Among African Americans, online casino however, support has increased from 42 percent to 64 percent, jumping 15 percentage points in the past year alone.

Detail of the figures suggests the gap between the lowest 20 per cent of children and the average for all children has narrowed by more than five percentage points in the past four years.

The graduation rate, which has risen 1.7 percentage points from the previous year and more than 7 percentage points in the past decade, has reached its highest point since the late 1970s.

The Mind Trust selected Carson in large part because of her track record: ISTEP scores at Snacks Crossing have increased by 22 percentage points in the past five years, reading scores have consistently improved, and the school's state - issued grade has improved from a D to a B.

Sprint saw its 4G availability go up 9 percentage points in the past year, OpenSignal said.

Walsh notes that cap rates on office properties have dropped by 1 to 2 percentage points in the past two years.

Higher mortgage rates: The 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage is up nearly a full percentage point in the past year, causing home buyers to face an increase in borrowing costs.

When asked about the economy, those who say it is on the wrong track dipped 6 percentage points since October and a total of 25 percentage points in the past year.

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The Survey of Consumer Finances reports that in 2010, just 35 percent of families held some sort of retirement account offered through a current or past job, down 2.9 percentage points from 2007.

A recent survey of small - business owners conducted for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by Harris Interactive reported an 11 percentage point rise in the last year in the number of owners who are unsure of whether their business will be better off in the future than it has been in the past.

In the past three years, HYLD has returned negative 1.68 percent, while JNK is up by about the same percentage, with an expense ratio (0.40 percent) that is 83 basis points lower.

Assuming those were all indexed to Libor, the 1.19 percentage - point increase in the rate in the past year would mean $ 1.45 billion in additional income.

As the article chart below shows, McKinsey is forecasting that the average annual equity returns over the next 20 years will be between 1.5 and 4.0 percentage points lower than they were in the past 30 years.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

In the euro area, consumer prices (or inflation) ticked up by 0.1 percentage point to 0 % this past spring.

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 %).

The yield on 10 - year bonds was 6.60 per cent in early November, a rise of 1.1 percentage points over the past six months (Graph 30).

Over the past year, retail petrol prices have risen by 22 per cent, contributing 0.9 percentage points to the increase in the CPI over that time.

Despite some monthly volatility, the unemployment rate remains on a downward trend and has fallen by 1/2 percentage point over the past year to reach 4.4 per cent in December.

In the past 12 months, this small ETF has outperformed its main competitors such as IEMG and VWO by as much as 10 percentage points, as the chart below shows.

Measured in real terms, variable loan rates are as much as 1 percentage point below their average level over the past five years, and up to 2 1/4 percentage points below their average since the early 1990s (Graph 65).

According to S&P, «global non-financial corporate debt grew by 15 percentage points to 96 % of GDP in the past six years, with some 37 % of companies deemed to be «highly leveraged», up from 32 % in 2007.»

In the September quarter, this deficit stood at around 3 per cent of GDP, somewhat smaller than in the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decadIn the September quarter, this deficit stood at around 3 per cent of GDP, somewhat smaller than in the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decadin the previous quarter, but still around 2 percentage points larger than the average over the past decade.

In fact, over the past few years, credit unions» average personal loan rates have been approximately 1.24 percentage points less than those offered by banks.

Overall, Australia's trading partners are expected to grow by 4.1 per cent in 2004, around 1/2 a percentage point faster than the average of the past decade (Graph 1).

The 15 top out - performers among actively - managed mutual funds in China over the past three years a beat benchmarks by an average 15 percentage points, more than double the level in the U.S., according to data compiled by Bloomberg.

The frequency of reported capital outlays over the past 6 months surprisingly gained 9 percentage points in December, a remarkable increase.

Rent growth is pacing almost a full percentage point behind the overall rate of inflation, which stands at 2.4 percent as of the latest data release, and is even further behing the growth in average hourly earnings which have increased by 2.7 percent over the past twelve months.

The Bank of Canada's own forecasts overestimated global growth by an average of half a percentage point each year in the past four.

That number, which grew nearly one percentage point every year from 2008 to 2011, grew only 0.3 % last year — from 17.5 % in 2011 to 17.8 % in 2012 — making it the smallest increase over the past five years.

Over the past six years, since 2003 when SportsInsights.com started compiling «betting percentage» data, dogs have covered the point spread at a 51.1 % rate — a far cry from the low - to - mid 53 % to 55 % win - rate we saw in the early 2000's.

Democrat Bill de Blasio holds a commanding 44 percentage - point lead over Republican Joe Lhota in the race for New York City mayor, underscoring the GOP nominee's failure to gain any traction during the past three weeks, a poll from The Wall Street Journal - NBC 4 New York - Marist showed Thursday.

«I don't think anybody would look at the state legislature and its track record over the past few years and decide that only a couple percentage points of the people who are serving in Albany are not up to the task,» Mahoney said.

A report released Monday by the good - government group Citizens Union argued the current system for redistricting, dominated by the Democratic majority in the Assembly and Republicans who control the Senate, has led to less - competitive elections, reduced voter turnout and, over the past four election cycles, a 96 percent re-election rate for incumbents — who are returned to office by an average margin of victory of 61 percentage points.

The past two elections illustrate this: in 2005, Tony Blair turned less than three percentage points into a Commons majority of more than 50, while five years later David Cameron fell nearly 20 seats short of a majority despite a seven - point vote lead.

The Fabians» report said that examining Labour's general election performance over the past 40 years showed that its share of the vote was eight percentage points lower than its poll rating in the second year of the preceding parliament.

Among the key findings of the state comptroller's office audit of the Willsboro Central School District: The district overestimated appropriations in the adopted budgets by more than 10 percent over the past three years; the district has accumulated fund balance that exceeds the statutory limit by nearly 12 percentage points, and district officials did not develop a multi-year financial plan.

The study found that each 10 percentage point increase in the strength of a state's policy environment was related to an 8 percent reduction in the likelihood of youth drinking any alcohol, and a 7 percent reduction in the likelihood of binge drinking, defined as drinking past the point of intoxication.

The percentage of self - identified Christians has fallen 10 points in the past two decades.

That's an improvement of nearly 2 percentage points from the previous year and about 8 points in the past decade.

The graduation rate, which has risen nearly 2 full percentage points from the previous year and 8 points in the past decade,...

Asked about their support for «giving tenure to teachers,» just 33 % express a positive view and 49 % are opposed — but this reflects a jump in support for tenure of 5 percentage points over the past year.

In a dramatic change of opinion over the past year, support for charter schools has declined by 12 percentage points, from 51 % last year to only 39 % this year (36 % opposed).

But on the other side, the longer - running PDK poll identifies a 20 percentage point shift of opinion in a pro-charter direction over the past 5 years.

Improvements in primary schools over the past few years mean that the gap between the proportion of disadvantaged pupils with at least a good pass in English and maths and all other pupils is set to reduce from 24 percentage points (ppts) to 21.5 between 2017 and 2021.

The just released PDK survey of U. S. adults reveals an upward shift in public support for vouchers of 10 percentage points over the past four years, with 8 of those percentage points gained since 2015

Over the past seven years, the district has posted record enrollment increases (with a higher rate of enrollment growth than any other major urban school district in the country) and increased its four - year graduation rate by over 25 percentage points.

In contrast, education levels elsewhere in the developed world continue to rise, with college graduation rates increasing roughly 5 percentage points among the other countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) over the past 20 years alonIn contrast, education levels elsewhere in the developed world continue to rise, with college graduation rates increasing roughly 5 percentage points among the other countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) over the past 20 years alonin the developed world continue to rise, with college graduation rates increasing roughly 5 percentage points among the other countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) over the past 20 years alone.

Statewide, the gap between black and white students has closed by 7.5 percentage points in math and 3.6 percentage points in reading over the past five years.