Sentences with phrase «point in the past year»

With those improvements, the company has seen reduced costs, boosting gross margin by six percentage points in the past year.

Hope our attack will be more hungry for more goals cause that has being our weakest point in past years, not scoring many goals

Sen. Claire McCaskill's (D., Mo.) net approval rating dipped by nearly 10 points in the past year, making her the least popular Democrat running for reelection in a state carried by Republicans in 2016, according to new polling data from Morning Consult.

Sen. Claire McCaskill's net approval rating dipped by nearly 10 points in the past year, making her the least popular Democrat running for reelection in a state carried by Republicans in 2016, according to new polling data from Morning Consult.

«More than 83,000 New York City school kids experienced homelessness at some point in the past year and an average of 23,000 children sleep in the City's homeless shelters each night,» said Borough President KATZ.

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Among African Americans, online casino however, support has increased from 42 percent to 64 percent, jumping 15 percentage points in the past year alone.

Based on the spread between nominal and inflation protected yields, the expected 10 - year inflation rate is 2.75 percentage points, up more than 100 basis points in the past year.

Average credit score climbs in Experian study — The U.S. consumer's average credit score rose 4 points in the past year, nearing pre-recession levels, according to the credit bureau Experian... (See Scores)

Sprint saw its 4G availability go up 9 percentage points in the past year, OpenSignal said.

Expected rates of return have dropped 50 to 100 basis points in the past year, yielding average returns of 9.25 % to 9.75 %.

The 30 - day LIBOR has risen nearly 200 basis points in the past year from 3.22 % a year ago to 5.16 % as of May 4.

According to Pontius, cap rates have compressed by a little over 100 basis points in the past year for medical net lease properties with terms of 10 to 15 years or longer, while cap rates on deals with lease terms of 5 to 10 years have remained relatively flat.

Spreads have compressed by about 75 to 125 basis points in the past year.

Higher mortgage rates: The 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage is up nearly a full percentage point in the past year, causing home buyers to face an increase in borrowing costs.

The 10 - year Treasury yield, meanwhile, has risen about 100 basis points in the past year to around 5.1 %.

When asked about the economy, those who say it is on the wrong track dipped 6 percentage points since October and a total of 25 percentage points in the past year.

Not exact matches

In the past year, the median outlook for the Fed's top rate in this hiking cycle has risen by nearly 60 basis points to 3.24 percenIn the past year, the median outlook for the Fed's top rate in this hiking cycle has risen by nearly 60 basis points to 3.24 percenin this hiking cycle has risen by nearly 60 basis points to 3.24 percent.

McLean points out that it took Atlantis 15 years to raise its first $ 30 million, whereas Blue Ant zipped past the same milestone in only 14 months.

To illustrate that point, the report cites data that suggests the U.S. has become less entrepreneurial over the past 40 years as startups have struggled to compete in increasingly consolidating industries.

For evidence, Ratner points to the way the rolling monthly trading volume of the Russell 1000 index has doubled in the past 20 years and become more spiky.

On average, the 30 large and small pharmaceutical and biotech companies IDEA Pharma examined got just 11 % of their 2017 revenue from drugs developed within the past five years, says Mike Rea, the firm's CEO and one of the most insightful people I've met — no exaggeration — when it comes to pinpointing innovation choke points in the drug industry.

He points out so far there hasn't been «an avalanche of cases,» and that only about 12 were launched in the past two years.

Jennings suggests soliciting anonymous input from your staff on a situation they were in during the past year that made them uncomfortable as a good starting point.

Here's the likelihood that a person has been married at least once at some point in his or her life for every year of age over the past few decades:

As lawmakers and the public scrutinize dramatic price increases for other old drugs — most recently with the Mylan - owned EpiPen, which saw its cost go up by 500 % in the past nine years — the next flash point may be insulin, a drug both ubiquitous and complicated.

Stay on point by learning from the past (yours and others») and applying the best judgment to wield value in the year ahead.

To emphasize this point, in the past year I've published a book, spoken at Google, maintained one of the most popular business podcasts on iTunes, and am having serious conversations about creating a television show about my life.

From the integration of media services like Netflix or «reading apps» from the likes of The Guardian, to the Like button that aggregates all of a user's online activity in one place, everything the social network has done over the past few years has suggested that it wants to be the go - to entry point of the Internet.

To Foster's point, Affliction, whose other staffers also sport huge muscles and acres of scar tissue, has seen average annual growth of more than 300 percent in the past two years.

In court documents filed with the Northern California District Court on Thursday, Uber argued that the class - action part of the suit should be dropped because the 160,000 drivers, «have little or nothing in common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.&raquIn court documents filed with the Northern California District Court on Thursday, Uber argued that the class - action part of the suit should be dropped because the 160,000 drivers, «have little or nothing in common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.&raquin common, other than their use of the Uber App in California at some point over the past six years.&raquin California at some point over the past six years.»

The issue of bond market liquidity has been a consistent theme over the past years or so with financial executives such as JP Morgan CEO Jamie Dimon, Blackstone CEO Steve Schwarzman, and Oaktree Capital's Howard Marks weighing in on the issue and generally pointing the finger at a lack of liquidity exasperating moves in financial markets.

Survival times for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, breast and colon cancers have improved dramatically over the past forty years, to the point where scientists are saying they are at «an amazing watershed» in understanding the disease.

And yet, as Reynolds points out, the Conservative - Liberal coalition government actually increased spending in real - dollar terms by 5.3 % in the past year.

The margin of victory has increased this year, he said, jumping to 13 points, compared to 6 or 7 points in the past.

In the past, 15 years ago, you used to make a quality product, put it on the get it onto the shelf, get it onto retail points of sale, and have good advertising, in other words create positive consumer impressions of those products and essentially that was how business workeIn the past, 15 years ago, you used to make a quality product, put it on the get it onto the shelf, get it onto retail points of sale, and have good advertising, in other words create positive consumer impressions of those products and essentially that was how business workein other words create positive consumer impressions of those products and essentially that was how business worked.

For the past year, researchers at iSight Partners, a cybersecurity firm in Dallas, have been tracking a new form of malware, dubbed ModPOS, that attacks point of sale, or POS, machines at the kernel.

Trump pointed to 19 - year - old suspected shooter Nikolas Cruz's «erratic» past in condemning America's most recent mass shooting.

Investors representing nearly 20 % of Jazz's shares have held talks with the company's top executives and board since the beginning of the year to voice their views, though the talks have accelerated in the past several weeks, the people said, adding that conversations with management remain friendly at this point.

So, while Hilton says HHonors's changes match those made by competitors over the past few years, customers who see loyalty points as cash in hand are still indignant.

For the past year or more, many investors suggested that fundamentals were improving, but that the equity market was overvalued at current levels and investors should use pullbacks in the market as entry points to invest.

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.

This past April, the United States Energy Information Agency released an estimate that fracking has effectively increased the volume of recoverable gas in the world six times over, to the point where it could satisfy current demand for 250 years — and that isn't counting a number of countries including Russia where the necessary geological data were unavailable.

Baker, reached by phone in New York, is quick to point out that the 47 - store chain, centred in nine northeastern states, is «making great strides,» with sales up 20 % over the past two years.

For the past 20 years, business pundits have pointed out that every industry is in a process of «disruptive innovation,» that today's markets change with lightning speed, and that only nimble companies can survive.

As Steve Jobs likes to point out, «In the past 15 years, there have been only a few tools that have actually increased the efficiency of the office worker — the IBM Selectric typewriters, the calculator, the Xerox copier, and the newer, advanced phone systems.

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.

Ultra high - definition screens have fallen around 85 per cent in the past two years, to the point where they're just about affordable for the average household.

The profit illusion created by Jarden's corporate strategy has driven shares up over 230 % in the past five years, to the point where the company's underlying business simply can not justify the share price.

NEW YORK (Reuters)- U.S. retailers enter the holiday season vowing to control discounting that has wreaked havoc on their results in the past, but competition between stores, consumers trained to expect discounts and a still - recovering economy point to a difficult year.