Sentences with phrase «percentage points while»

Since the peak, homeownership rates for married couples with children plunged 5.1 percentage points while those for single - parent and other families with children were down 4.6 percentage points.

The net share of those who think prices will go up over the next 12 months was down 3 percentage points while the net share of those who expect mortgage rates to go down over that time period rose 5 percentage points.

The investor is able to pick up four or five additional percentage points while also participating in the opportunity for capital gain.

These gaps are shrinking fast in D.C.: from 2010 - 11 to 2014 - 15, the African American to white students gap narrowed by 9 percentage points while gaps in other cities with available data [9] did not shrink.

The Clark County School District increased their rate by 2.8 percentage points while Washoe and White Pine Counties increased their graduation rate just less than 2 percentage points.

The attainment gap — the difference in performance at GCSE between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged pupils — is largest for Irish and white British teenagers; the attainment gap for Irish pupils stands at 46 percentage points while for white British pupils it is 32 percentage points.

This high proportion of overseas students on campus also inflates our graduation rates: if international students are excluded, the report says the ratio of students completing tertiary courses drops by a startling 17 percentage points while the rates for first - time shorter and more vocationally oriented rates fall by only 3 percentage points.

As expected, the effects of informing respondents that «President Donald Trump has expressed support for charter schools» differ across party lines, lifting Republican support by 15 percentage points while reducing it by 3 percentage points among Democrats.

He claimed that in local elections contested by all four Scottish parties this year «it is the Lib Dems who are leading the pack, rising by an average of ten percentage points while the others flatline or decline».

The day following a Spanish bailout request, the official predicted, interest rate on 10 - year notes of Spanish government debt could fall by 1.5 percentage points while the Spanish stock market could surge 15 %.

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

On their face, the added levies would boost inflation measures by one - tenth of a percentage point while reducing annual GDP growth by one or two tenths, Barclays said in a note that assumes the moves would not have massive repercussions from U.S. trading partners.

The EFSF will now be able to loan the full amount allotted to the fund, it will be allowed to buy sovereign bonds on the primary market, and the interest rate on loans to Greece was cut by a percentage point while the maturities of the loans were extended.

Not exact matches

The companies surveyed all had at least 20 employees, while the margin of error for the sample was plus or minus 3.54 percentage points, with a 95 % confidence level.

For example, ComScore reported that in June 2013, its core search market share fell 0.5 percentage points to 11.4 percent — while Bing gained the same amount and Google controlled nearly 67 percent of the market.

Sales for clothing stores like Reed's grew a particularly strong 1.2 percentage points over the prior month, while electronics and appliance outlets saw a sizable 0.9 percent gain.

And while 41 percent of small business owners say they don't see any indications that the recession is over, that's actually three percentage points lower than the number of consumers who say economic conditions have not improved.

But while shorting can add up to three percentage points to his annual return, he says, that's not the main reason his fund is outperforming the S&P / TSX composite total return index.

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.

Noting that the actual rebate should have been at least 10 percentage points higher, Wyden and Pallone said, «Today's letter is more evidence that while Mylan irresponsibly raised the price of EpiPen, they were also bilking taxpayers out of millions of dollars.»

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

The contract for September, which is a date many on Wall Street think is ripe for a hike, indicates a rate of just 0.43 percent, while December points to a 0.5 percent rate, a 0.13 percentage point increase from the current level that the CME tool translates to a 59 percent chance of a hike.

Additionally, Love's percentage of shots from two - point range fell from 64.5 % to 58.8 % last year, while his three - point attempts rose 35.5 % to 41 %.

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.

Smartphone Market Penetration While the incidence of smartphone use in 2013 has increased by 9 percentage points year over year and by 24 percentage points since 2011, the gap in customer satisfaction scores among smartphone manufacturers is narrowing.

While interest rates may rise, they aren't likely to spike several percentage points overnight.

From 2012 to 2016, the engagement of small companies grew by five percentage points, while the engagement of other companies barely budged or even diminished.

Of course, with debt in 2016 rising by roughly 40 — 45 percentage points of GDP while nominal GDP grew by less than 8 percent, it isn't easy to explain how the real value of assets in China grew by roughly 40 — 45 percentage points of GDP, nor why it is proving so difficult to rein in credit growth without a sharp slowdown in GDP growth.

While statistical margins of error are arguably not applicable to online panels / online studies of this nature, we have assumed that the same margins of error apply as if it were a true unweighted random probability sample with a margin of error of + / - 3.7 percentage points, nineteen times out of twenty.

While Facebook is still rated as the most effective platform overall, confidence in the platform slightly dropped (4 percentage points from last year.)

It is really about picking up nearly 2 percentage points more of yield while waiting for Mr. Carney to act on rates, at which time, it would be best to switch to shorter duration holdings.

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.

Private sector economists have now revised down their forecasts of real GDP growth for 2015 by about 0.6 - percentage points, while the IMF cut its from 2.2 % to just 1.5 %.

During that period, Wynn's (NASDAQ: WYNN) share grew just one percentage point to 17 %, while MGM's (NYSE: MGM) share dropped from 10 % to 7 %.

Relative to the five - year average, Korean credit default swaps, the cost of insuring against defaults, is 3 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) higher while the Korean Won is 3 % lower.

This is not simply because Harper is better liked by Canadians who prefer to steer an SUV while sipping their Starbucks (though polls suggest he is); this is because Conservative candidates finished within a few percentage points of winning quite a few of those suburban ridings in 2006.

While we were pleased to learn of the government's September 2017 announcement to cut the small business income tax rate from 2.5 per cent to 2 per cent, we note it was accompanied by an increase to the general corporate income tax rate of one percentage point (to 12 per cent).

To see why this is so important, in 2009 residential investment exerted a 0.4 percentage point drag on GDP growth, while in 2013 it is likely to provide a boost to growth on the order of 0.5 percentage point — a swing of nearly a full percentage point.

Most, if not all, of these transactions create unreported contingent liabilities even while reducing the growth rate of debt — in this case by more than five percentage points.3

After learning of it, respondents with an unfavorable view of the company increased to 25 percent, while its favorability rating rose 1 percentage point.

The add - on for federal direct loans for graduate school students is 3.6 percent, while rates for PLUS loans will be equal to the 10 - year Treasury note yield plus 4.60 percentage points.

The one - day loss for many funds, including Vanguard Total Bond Market, iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond, Pimco Total Return and Metropolitan West Total Return, while less than a half a percentage point, still amounted to more than 10 percent of their current yield.

Small Caps Hold Up Despite Market Swoon... Since Jan. 1 the small - cap S&P 600 has beaten the Dow by five full percentage points, rising 2.25 %, while the Dow has fallen 2.8 %.

In the last quarter of 2000, basic material stocks rose 22 percent while tech stocks slid 33 percent, parting ways by 55 percentage points.

He lends at about 7 percentage points above Libor, while a standard financial institution offers Libor +3.

Leverage in the financials sector is down roughly 40 percentage points, while household leverage is down some 20 percentage points.

Forecasts of earnings growth for the current financial year were revised up by around 4 percentage points to 36 per cent, while forecasts for growth in 2005/06 were revised up slightly to 9 per cent.

This explains our attitude which while hopeful of achieving a striking margin of superiority over average investment results, nevertheless, regards every percentage point of investment return above average as having real meaning.

The add - on for federal direct loans for graduate school students is 3.6 percent, while rates for PLUS loans equal yields on 10 - year Treasury note plus an add - on of 4.60 percentage points.

The deterioration of neighborhoods in our inner cities, the decline of elemental safety — never mind education — in many of our schools, the burgeoning of jail populations (to the point that we have the highest percentage of incarcerated citizens of any country in the industrial world), the great strains on the family, the general slackening of discipline, which a consumerist and media - driven society relentlessly encourages, and a huge transfer of wealth In the 1980s and «90s (during this period, the upper 1 percent of Americans more than doubled its wealth, while the lowest 20 percent suffered an actual decline)-- all these changes signal a community at risk.