Sentences with phrase «point decline in»

In particular, the November data show a 6 basis point decline in the average contract interest rate on loans to purchase newly - built homes, from 4.32 to 4.26 percent.

On Christmas Eve, the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) reported a 10 basis point decline in mortgage interest rates for the month of November.

In simple terms, roughly a one percentage point decline in the unemployment rate will reduce the seriously delinquent rate by 0.8 percentage points.

Coincident with a 14 basis point increase in Treasury rates to which most commercial mortgage interest rates are indexed and a five basis point decline in equity dividend rates, the RealtyRates.com Weighted Composite (Cap Rate) Index ™ increased six basis points, from 9.33 to 9.39 percent during the 4th Quarter of 2017.

There was also a 0.2 percentage point decline in the share of mortgages in some stage of the foreclosure process.

The figure below illustrates that the 49 basis point increase in the 10 - Year Treasury Note rate between 2016 and 2017 was partially offset by a 15 basis point decline in the mortgage risk premium, which is the residual between the 30 - Year Fixed Rate mortgage rate and the 10 - Year Treasury Note rate.

According to CNN Money, it was the biggest point decline in history during a trading day.

Buoyed by continued job growth, with 2.2 million jobs added in 2016 and another 2 million predicted this year, the report forecasts net absorption of 83 million sq. ft. nationally in 2017, with another 20 basis point decline in U.S. vacancy to 14.3 percent, marking the low point of the current cycle.

This represents the lowest overall Best Places to Work score since the rankings were first launched in 2003, and follows a 3.2 - point drop in 2012 and a 1 - point decline in 2011.

«A six - or seven - point decline in IQ may have substantial consequences for academic achievement and occupational potential,» says senior author Robin Whyatt.

If the futures and cash closed far enough apart, say by 8 points, then a 1 point decline in the futures would still leave a spread of 7 points, which, in our example, would be enough to trigger buy programs at the open.

This, by the way, is a faster decline in illiteracy than the four percentage point decline in white fourth - graders reading Below Basic (from 25 percent in 2002 to 21 percent in 2013); the percentage of white fourth - graders struggling with literacy declined by one percentage point between 2011 and 2013.

That is three percentage point decline from levels in 2011 and a six - point decline in functional illiteracy since 2002.

Because of an 8 percentage - point decline in Washington's 2011 middle school passage rate on state standardized tests, the state placed the school on its intervention list — despite a 15 percent jump in its high school test scores.

Researchers have typically found that a one - point decline in the average baseline achievement of a student's classmates leads to a smaller (e.g. one - tenth of a point) decline in the achievement of that student.

Whereas in 2007 the mere reference to «No Child Left Behind» led to a 14 - point decline in public support (from 71 to 57 percent), in 2008 support dropped by only 7 points (from 57 to 50 percent)(Q. 6).

[5] The results below indicate that a one standard deviation increase in test scores is associated with a seven - percentage - point decline in the opt - out rate.

That year, we found large shifts toward Obama's positions on charter schools (an 11 - percentage - point increase in support), vouchers (an 11 - percentage - point decline in support), and merit pay (a 13 - percentage - point increase in support).

An eight - point decline in IQ isn't negligible, the authors say.

This week's volatility brought on by testimony from Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell on Capitol Hill, featuring a 300 - point decline in the Dow Jones Industrial Average DJIA, +0.02 % on Tuesday and an even larger decline on Wednesday, is just the latest evidence of uncertainty.

Much of this comes about from the significant reductions in tax rates (reduction of two - percentage points in the GST, a six - percentage point decline in the general corporate income tax rate, among others), without offsetting reductions to program expenses.

These positive earnings drivers were more than offset by the combined impact of several factors, including increased energy - related provisions for credit losses, a 17 basis point decline in net interest margin, moderate growth of non-interest expenses, the addition of acquisition - related contingent consideration fair value changes reflecting performance within CWB Maxium Financial (CWB Maxium), higher preferred share dividends, and the 20 % increase to CWB's income tax rate in Alberta.

At the end of the day, the major averages finished down more than 7 %, and the DJIA had its largest point decline in history with a loss of 777 points.

Fears of a trade war breaking out rocked the financial markets on Thursday afternoon, with the Dow falling 724 points, the fifth - largest point decline in history.

For every 25 - basis - point decline in expectations, there is a 0.1 % decline in year - over-year growth rate for core PCE, Morgan Stanley estimates.

A 1 percentage point growth slowdown in China would lead to a 0.5 percentage point decline in global GDP for the world, excluding China.

«He's going to continue to raise rates and the balance sheet's going to continue to shrink... a measly 1,500 point decline in the Dow is not going to dissuade him.»

Fifty - three percent of the Dominion State's young black men in fourth grade were functionally illiterate in 2011, a mere one point decline from nine years ago; this trails the eight percentage point decline nationwide, and the even more dramatic 13 - and 16 point declines in functional illiteracy among young black male fourth - graders in respectively, Florida and Alabama.

February 5th and 8th both saw 1,000 + point declines in the Dow.

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In one of these instances he attempts to drive his point home by pointing to declining advertising revenue.

At various points in the Clinton, Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations, new stock market records and historically low unemployment rates were used as a synonym for a booming economy, or after the financial crisis, to signal that the economy was recovering — even though many workers and households experienced stagnating or steadily declining incomes for years or even decades.

Case in point: Soda sales declined in 2016 for the 12th consecutive year.

Analysts saw some weakness in the results, pointing to a decline in the profit margins on the wireless side, and Shammo's comment that the rate of device upgrades would be roughly the same as last year.

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The personal saving rate has since declined 1.5 percentage points in a span of four years.

On Thursday, the NASDAQ fell 129 points to 4,054, a 3 percent decrease, and the biggest decline the tech - heavy index has had in three years.

StatsCan pointed to the steady decline in marriages in favour of common - law unions and single - parent households, but that's probably not a factor.

However analysts point to a bounce in Teva's shares over the past four months and a slowing in the rate of decline of U.S. generic drug prices as bright spots.

Meanwhile, the report points out, federal funding for housing assistance programs has actually declined by 3 percent in the last seven years.

After studying the decline in U.S. crime rates that occurred in the 1990s, it concluded that a drop of two percentage points in unemployment was responsible for a 9 % decline in burglary, 14 % drop in rape and robbery and 30 % plunge in assault.

«When you have declining sales, it causes turmoil in any business, because people start pointing fingers,» says Bitove, who is in talks with lenders.

Germany's Ifo business climate index — a key chart of morale among German businesses — fell to 102.1 points in April from 103.3 points in March, marking the fifth consecutive month of declines.

Goldman Sachs» derivatives strategy team pointed out that a trade hedging against a moderate decline in the S&P 500 is reasonably priced.

In response, Iron Dome supporters have pointed to declining property damage rates.

«While one data point doesn't make a trend, this is the biggest monthly decline in Ireland's Treasury holdings since the data became available, and...

Chobani's McGuinness pointed to too many products, too much duplication and imitation, as well as a lack of innovation in yogurt for declines in the category.

Exactly when things went off the rails is subject to debate, but many point to the controversial acquisition of Compaq Computer in 2001 by HP's then - CEO Carly Fiorina as the start of the decline.

The biggest turning point in my life happened when I declined the security of a 9 to 5 job and decided to build a digital business on the simple principal of adding value to the lives of others.

By this point, for the first time in its history Microsoft was facing the prospect of a decline in its core business.

Chadwick said that he's looking to advise a small number of companies at this point in his career, though he declined to name others.