Sentences with phrase «percentage points when»

For these disputes, the probability of a judge deciding in favor of the party alleging discrimination decreases by about 10 percentage points when the judge is a male.

We found that borrowers in both groups were able to reduce their interest rate by an average of 1.56 percentage points when they refinanced their loans with lenders who compete for business through the Credible marketplace.

This year, LendEDU's cosigner survey revealed an increase of 5.50 percentage points when it came to cosigners who asked their private student loan lenders for cosigner release.

The first year college - going rate increased six percentage points when enrollments beyond the first fall were considered.

For them, support for charter schools jumps by 14 percentage points and by 11 percentage points when they learn about the state and national ranking, respectively.

Support among those residing in below - average districts does drop by 7 percentage points when statewide ranking information is provided, but even among this group a clear majority remains supportive.

The difference between the informed and the uninformed in below - average districts is slightly larger: 6 percentage points when given state ranking and 11 percentage points when given national ranking.

In both high - and low - performing districts, however, support for this requirement drops 5 percentage points when respondents are informed of how students in their community compare with the rest of the nation.

However, their support dropped by 12 percentage points when told of the President's opposition.

The gap widens to almost 12 percentage points when we compare only low - income students.

Despite that stability of public opinion about charters, aggregate support increased by 11 percentage points when respondents were told that Obama backed them (see Figure 4).

The percentage of respondents who would have their child pursue a four - year degree drops by 7 points when only cost information is provided, and it increases by 8 percentage points when respondents receive only earnings information.

The researchers found this proportion fell by an average of 8 percentage points when there was exposure to mobile phones.

Additionally, the number of infants receiving supplemental formula went up 10 percentage points when binkies became verboten.

We found that borrowers in both groups were able to reduce their interest rate by an average of 1.56 percentage points when they refinanced their loans with lenders who compete for business through the Credible marketplace.

However, the sector's likelihood of outperformance only increased by five percentage points when its valuations were in the bottom quartile.

We found that, when rates were low to begin with, high - dividend stocks outperformed the market by an annualized 2.4 percentage points when rates started to go up.

This gap surges to over 20 percentage points when calculated to include among the non-employed prime - age black men who are «missing» primarily due to incarceration or early death, according to the Council of Economic Advisers.

Economists said the two reports combined suggested that the third - quarter 3.5 percent annual growth pace could be cut by as much as half a percentage point when the government publishes its revisions later this month.

ISM ®'s New Export Orders Index registered 57.7 percent in April, a decrease of 1 percentage point when compared to the 58.7 percent reported for March, indicating growth in new export orders for the 26th consecutive month.

In the summer of 2010, public support for merit pay actually decreased by 1 percentage point when respondents were told that the president favored the idea.

Not exact matches

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.

That's a percentage point drop from the previous year and a steeper drop since 2011 when 26.7 % of U.S. population growth was focused in urban areas.

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 *.

That's down 21 percentage points from when they were asked the same question in mid-2006.

Half of shoppers say they will shop for themselves when shopping for others, an increase of 7 percentage points compared to 2014.

That is, when debt service ratios are calculated using the discounted mortgage rates actually charged by banks (about 125 percentage points below posted rates), the average Canadian homeowner is paying just 25 % or so of income on mortgage payments, far below the 32 % benchmark used for mortgage - insurance qualification.

Devaluation risks are much less of a concern to investors now compared with the near panic in 2015 when the currency fell by a few percentage points.

This marks a modest increase since 1999, when 23 % of moms were home with their children, but a long - term decline of about 20 percentage points since the late 1960s when about half of moms were at home.

Interest rates are up, but there's good news: growth companies continue to win new bank financing at the robust clip they've maintained since early 1993, when rates were about a percentage point lower.

Rather than let your investments drift with market movements, it may make more sense to rebalance your holdings periodically (say, once or twice a year) or when your mix drifts a set amount from your target (you may allow your mix to fluctuate a maximum of 10 percentage points above or below the level you target).

Also, some commentators will be tempted to draw attention to what they might describe as «large 1/2 percentage point changes» when the forecasts are revised, even though any such revisions may reflect much smaller adjustments if it is the case that the forecasts have merely crossed rounding barriers.

While the «pure» MSCI World High Dividend Yield Index outperformed its parent MSCI World Index from November 1998 to August 2015, when we applied screens to the stocks in our study to avoid yield - traps, the active return increased to an annualized 3.3 percentage points.

Thirty - one percent of technology marketers report that their organization's overall content marketing approach is extremely or very successful — that's up seven percentage points from the previous year, when 24 % reported high success.

And the banks which generally do better when rates move up have outperformed the S&P 500 by about 2-1/2 percentage points this year, and would have gone even better had loan growth not been fairly anemic.

Monetary policy was also able to respond rapidly when the outlook turned for the worse, with the cash rate being reduced by 4 1/4 percentage points over a seven month period.

The writing was already on the wall last year, when Buffett announced the index fund was beating the hedge funds by nearly 44 percentage points.

According to a 2014 study by the Kauffman Foundation and Hebrew University, it turns out that when a female entrepreneur tries to raise money on Kickstarter, she is 7 percentage points more likely to be funded than a man.

«MSCI estimates some $ 17 billion will flow into Chinese markets — both from passive funds that automatically track its indexes and active fund managers — when the country's stocks are included a year from now,» giving indexers something like a quarter of a percentage point of China's stock market, which is the second - biggest in the world behind America's.

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).

The Teranet — National Bank National Composite House Price IndexTM was unchanged in March — the first time outside a recession when the March composite index was not up at least 0.2 percentage points from February and the first time outside a recession when March indexes were up for only four of the 11 metropolitan markets of -LSB-...]

When the sentiment index is more than one standard deviation above (below) its historical average, monthly returns average -0.34 % (+1.18 %) for the value - weighted market and -0.41 % (2.75 %) percentage points for the equal - weighted market.

The recent widening of this spread is, of course, much smaller than was seen in 1994 in the previous episode of globally rising bond yields, when the yield on 10 - year bonds in Australia moved from 1 percentage point to about 3 percentage points above the comparable US yield.

Even if your net worth is low, when the market goes up and down by a few percentage points in a day, there can be sizable dollar amounts at stake.

When you talk about a loan as big as a mortgage, even 1 or 2 percentage points on your interest rate makes a significant difference.

Instead of worrying about a few percentage points here or there, I love when the market gives me the chance to average down on positions I already own.

But when Carhart included zombie funds, the average compound return for stock funds dropped more than a percentage point, to 9.5 %.

Signs of more general competition on housing rates emerged in late 1994, when banks responded to the rise of 2 3/4 percentage points in cash rates by raising housing rates by only 1 3/4 percentage points.

When we're talking compounded interest, every percentage point counts as over the course of 40 or 60 years, one to two percent can result in millions of dollars lost.

The woman wasn't satisfied with her $ 300,000 house crawling up a few percentage points in value when stocks had risen by double digits annually since 2009.