Sentences with phrase «percentage points off»

The vacancy rate was only 0.6 percentage points off the peak rate of 11.1 percent that was reached two years ago.

Failure to do that could take three percentage points off U.S. GDP and send the country back into recession.

Your insurance company might also knock a couple percentage points off your vehicle insurance rates if you are a long - term policyholder with the company or if you pay your premium in full instead of on a monthly basis.

Economic modeling suggests that this would shave 0.06 percentage points off global economic growth each year.

According to an economic analysis within Sunday's report, an investment to stop climate change will only knock 0.06 percentage points off the world's annualized economic growth rate from now till the end of the century.

The researchers found «that if warming continues at recent rates, it could shave 3 to 6 percentage points off of the country's gross domestic product by century's end — the warmer it gets, the bigger the hit to the economy.»

If you reduce your APR by just 3 percentage points off the average, you'll save yourself $ 150 in interest charges per year on a $ 5,000 balance.

This would knock another 1.5 to 2 percentage points off the safe withdrawal rate.

Education Refinance Loan holders can obtain one of the biggest interest rate discounts compared to other loan providers; get 0.25 loyalty percentage points off your APR if a cosigner has a Citizens Bank account, and another 0.25 % discount for automatic payments, for a potential 0.5 % rate reduction.

«For example, putting down 10 % instead of 9.9 % saves you 0.75 percentage points off your entire mortgage amount.

If any asset class in an account drifts more than five percentage points off the target, we rebalance the portfolio.

In the past many financial experts advised against refinancing unless you could shave at least two percentage points off your interest rate.

The second is based on thresholds: a rebalance might be triggered any time an asset class is five percentage points off its target.

We will look at portfolios at least quarterly to see if any one asset is more than 5 percentage points off its neutral allocation (called a «tolerance band»).

Citi's advertised mortgage rates are slightly tricky to navigate because they assume the purchase of discount points, which shave percentage points off the initial number in exchange for an upfront fee.

Going back to our example, your return of — 2.53 % is 3.61 percentage points off the benchmark return.

We recommend checking your rate with a few companies to see if you can shave some percentage points off your APR..

We've also witnessed recently how committed Malloy is to school desegregation — 17 years after Sheff, 5 years after a settlement, and several percentage points off a minimum target, all Malloy can say is «Are we there yet?

In 8th grade math, Alabama was nine percentage points off.

Alabama's 4th grade reading results were seven percentage points off from the NAEP scores.

It has a score of 49 percent on Rotten Tomatoes, which is two percentage points off from the marks for its predecessor.

Increasing sleep from 7.5 to 10 hours a day among 18 - year - olds could shave four percentage points off the proportion of teens with a BMI over 25, the researchers predicted.

The G and G like to cite the effect of the Conservatives» cut of two percentage points off the GST, and certainly that was and remains a costly blunder.

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.

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.

In other words, demographics alone have shaved two percentage points off participation, as the large baby boomer generation started to reach retirement age around the start of the recession.»

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.

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.

«At these levels, it may shave off a tenth of a percentage point off global growth.»

Analysts expect the 16 - day shutdown will shave between 0.2 and 0.6 of a percentage point off fourth - quarter annualized GDP growth.

The GOP proposal would end their deductibility, which could wipe 1 percentage point off that earnings boost.

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.

Full - blown trade war may slash as much as 0.8 of a percentage point off city's growth next year, commentator warns.

Combined, the aftermath of the territorial spat with China will shave 0.8 percentage point off Japan gross domestic product growth for the fourth quarter, sending Japan's overall economy slightly downward, instead of the initial forecast for flat growth, according to J.P. Morgan.

In 2013 it's set to increase to 2.7 per cent, but still the best part of a percentage point off the Chancellor's earlier estimate.

Each point you buy will knock one - eighth to one - quarter of a percentage point off your mortgage rate, which is less than points would buy a few years ago.

One factor driving BMO's promise of a full percentage point off the five - year variable rate is transparency, which the bank figures will help it compete with alternative lenders who aren't bound by the same lending restrictions, experts say.

As a rule of thumb, many suggest that it's worth going through the process whenever you stand to shave around 1 percentage point or more off your existing rate (take 1 percentage point off a 4.75 percent rate, and you get a 3.75 percent one).

According to the bank's forecasts, the precipitous decline in the price of oil is expected to knock about a third of a percentage point off of Canada's GDP this year.

OK, now lets assume that fighting global warming knocks 1 percentage point off world economic growth, for a new growth of 2 % real.

«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.

For example, just half a percentage point off the interest rate of a 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage on a $ 200,000 home could equal a $ 56 per month savings, Graham says.

The premium reduction is not huge — just one quarter of 1 percentage point off the previous charge — but it will lower FHA monthly mortgage payments at a time when the rest of the market is trending costlier because of rising interest rates.

«For most people, if you can shave three - quarters of a percentage point off your interest rate, it's worth looking at,» says Greg McBride, an analyst with Bankrate.com, a personal finance website.

But it still was only 0.6 percentage point off of the peak rate of 11.1 percent seen two years ago, Reis said.

Not exact matches

And he saw close Senate races had polls that were off, too, favoring Democrats by a median of 6 percentage points.

A sharp sell off in the equity market «exerts a significant drag on world growth» in the period that follows, according to Deutsche Bank, with real GDP reduced by about 0.5 percentage points.

I might be off by 5 or 10 percentage points, but it's definitely a big, scary number.

If a large percentage of viewers quit watching at a later point in the video, you can try to determine what turned them off at that juncture.

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.