Sentences with phrase «point average above»

Even students can get discounts by keeping their grade point average above a 3.0.

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There is one positive sign that Snap has timed its IPO perfectly: U.S. stocks hit new highs on Wednesday, with the Dow Jones industrial average rising more than 300 points to above 21,000 for the first time.

And as the EIA points out, this brief wholesale price drop hasn't been matched by overall drops in California's consumer electric rates, which remain well above average.

Investors will look to send U.S. stocks to their fifth straight week of gains with a strong finish to a week that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average finally get back above the 17,000 - point mark and creeped into positive territory for the year.

The S&P 500 has had a remarkable year — up 19 percent — while the Dow Jones industrial average added more than 150 points intraday Tuesday to trade at an all - time high above 24,000.

The company is six points above the state average.

The above - referenced editorial also points out that 48 % of state and local revenues collected in N.J. come from property taxes, which is off - the - charts high: «No other state derives more than 41 percent of its revenue from that source; the U.S. average is 33.1 percent.»

In the article, Irving says that 18 % of the technical jobs at GoDaddy are held by women — though he notes that that figure puts the company just 1 percentage point above the average for Silicon Valley.

The average forecast of those above: 3.95 percent, or 55 basis point above the median, with one official at 4.9 percent.

She expects to see 3 % to 4 % sales growth per year going forward, while operating margins will grow to 18.5 % by 2017, which is 300 basis points above the its five year average.

Belgium, in particular, has 26 years with debt - to - GDP above 90 percent, with an average growth rate of 2.6 percent (though this is only counted as one total point due to the weighting above).

The company's U.S. malls and outlets are 96.3 % full (about four percentage points above the industry average).

And if — inflation is gonna average 2 %, it'll be above by a few percentage points from time to time.

Jonathan Krinsky, chief market technician at MKM Partners, pointed out in a note Thursday that less than 60 percent of stocks in the Russell 3000 are trading above their 200 - day moving average, a key long - term technical metric.

As default rates on junk - rated debt is above nine percent, companies with junk status face an average interest rate that is a whopping ten percent points above Treasuries — these days, that translates into roughly 12 percent for a five - year loan.

We can debate the merits of this study (done by a real estate association of course) all day long (demographic sampling, housing price changes, etc), but the point is, «above average» people generally all own homes and are wealthier, be it 2X wealthier or 40X wealthier than the average renter.

The rate has averaged around 36 basis points, about 25 basis points above its average level over the analogous year - ago period, when the target range was zero to 25 basis points.

Our forecasts suggest that by the end of 2018, inflation will be, on average, 30 basis points above the long - term average across countries.

Case in point is recent IPO Acacia Communications ($ ACIA), which broke out on the week of July 12 to close 40 % above the first print of its 10 - week moving average.

The Dow utility average plunged another 12 points, the Transports dropped by nearly 100, the Industrials failed their recent basing pattern, the number of stocks hitting new lows jumped above new highs on both the NYSE and the Nasdaq, decliners led advancers by more than 2 - to - 1, and the U.S. dollar weakened further, among other ugliness.

He points to the sector's Tier 1 capital ratio of 15 %, in line with the EU average and well above the 4.5 % minimum.

Not least because the Shiller p / e is, at 25, well above the historical average and other market indicators (like the Q ratio) are pointing the same way.

From around the middle of 2017, the average interest rates on the stock of outstanding variable interest - only loans increased to be about 40 basis points above interest rates on equivalent P&I loans (Graph 2).

The averages above do hide a significant amount of variation in returns, and the direction of equity valuations at any given point in time also matters.

As explained in the video, the key point in buying the pullback of a stock that has already broken out is to look for a retracement to the 10 - day moving average, then buy the first move above that that day's high.

The salient points are (I) inflation is below target and expected to remain well sub-target for the next 5 10 20 and 30 years; (II) it has been well below target and Fed forecasts for a decade suggesting great skepticism about models that predict acceleration (iii) the 2 percent target is supposed to be an average so inflation should sometimes exceed it especially after a long shortfall (iv) if the 9th year of expansion with unemployment approaching 4 percent is not the time for above target inflation when will that moment ever come?

➢ Another 2014 study found that one - year - advance growth forecasts from the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the European Central Bank from 2008 to 2012 showed «substantial over-optimism, averaging 1.6 to 2.4 percentage points above actual growth.»

The bank ranked a dozen points above the average score in JD Power's 2017 survey of consumer satisfaction among US mortgage servicers.

He bragged about it in his speech to Congress on Tuesday night, and then got more to the point on Wednesday, when the Dow Jones industrial average closed above 21,000 for the first time.

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 Peso is the strongest currency at present as we are still trading above the 20 and 100 - day moving average as the U.S. dollar is up 45 points as the European currencies are selling off.

The Dow Jones industrial average jumped 208 points, or 1.8 percent, to close above 12,000 for only the third time since early August.

With the exception of 1986, and the 1987, 1990 and 2009 lows, which were moderately but not severely below longer - term historical norms, every point in this chart is «above average» from the standpoint the longer historical record.

PICTURED ABOVE AND BELOW: The City of Seattle is averaging about 750 new townhome and single - family home sales per year, but is witness to a diminishing number of sales at price points below $ 750,000, with no such new home sales occuring in 2018 below $ 500,000 — not surprisingly, the median home prices are rising.

Accordingly, the Bank late last year lifted the cash rate to the point that resulted in most lending rates in the economy being a little above average.

The point is, home buyers shouldn't be intimidated by the above - average down payment percentages shown above.

[1] The participation rate increased to be 63 3/4 per cent in the December quarter, which is 1/4 percentage point above its recent average levels.

HY spreads remain above average and roughly 200 basis points wide from their 2014 lows.

Dow reaches new milestone One thousand points isn't what it used to be, accounting for a move of less than 5 % at present levels, but markets took note of this week's milestone nonetheless as the venerable Dow Jones Industrial Average broke and closed above the 22,000 mark for the first time.

With earnings of about $ 100 per share and a price above 1500 points, today's average earnings yield on the S&P 500 index is about 6.5 %.

As long as the point value is still above the 2.1 cents per point average it is a great deal.

This percentage is above the 5 - year average of 64 %, but below the percentage at this same point in time for Q4 2013 (86 %).

In early August, yields on 10 - year bonds were around 75 basis points above the cash rate, slightly less than the average differential since the mid 1990s (Graph 66).

On either measure of real cash rates shown here, they are well below the average of the second half of the 1980s; they have declined since their most recent peak in 1995, but remain above the low point reached in 1993/94.

The spread between 10 - year Australian and US bond yields has fluctuated around 150 basis points over the past few months, which is around 50 basis points above its average for the past few years (Graph 54).

The unemployment rate has fallen less in NSW than in the smaller states, and it is now above the national average for the first time since the early 1990s, whereas Queensland's unemployment rate has fallen almost 2 percentage points to be the lowest across all states.

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.

To determine these initial values, we used the 2010 Survey of Consumer Finances to compute average values for each of the above data points.

That's one percentage point higher than what residents paid during the market's previous peak — and way above the 26 % nationwide average.

He proposed a new indictment of priestly celibacy, pointing out that by the year 2000 «more than one million» «above - average» Catholics will not have existed because the forty thousand «on average, above average» priests living in 1900 could not marry and have children.