Sentences with phrase «points of the year by»

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The Congressional Budget Office has estimated that the combination of tax increases and spending cuts could trim economic growth this year by about 1.5 percentage points.

It confounds me that in a year of record lending by the Small Business Administration, entrepreneurs still struggle to get the financing they need even when all indicators point to the opportunity for growth.

The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

And then there are the more nuanced signs of trouble, such as the collapse of support among rural Americans, whom Democrats lost by eight points in 2008 and by 28 this year.

The combined ratio of 97.5 % improved 2.1 points due to higher net favorable prior year reserve development (1.7 points) and a benefit (0.8 points) from catastrophe losses, partially offset by a higher underlying combined ratio (0.4 points).

By that year, customers had gradually turned their backs on a brand many now saw as schlocky; Coach's share of the handbag business had fallen 12 percentage points, and Kors was No. 1.

The drugstore chain is one of Canada's strongest retail brands, and the company climbed by 4.6 points and two spots in this year's Reputation Institute survey.

Postelection selling of longer - dated maturities ran yields up by as much as 90 basis points, with the 10 - year briefly crossing 2.60 % on two separate occasions.

The combined ratio of 95.5 % decreased 0.5 points due to higher net favorable prior year reserve development (1.0 point), as well as a benefit (0.2 points) from catastrophes, partially offset by a higher underlying combined ratio (0.7 points).

While some viewers called it «gross» and «vulgar,» the spot racked up some 20 million YouTube views by the end of last year, at one point yielding one share for every nine views — proof positive that schoolyard humor never goes out of style.

The combined ratio of 97.5 % increased 1.1 points due to a higher underlying combined ratio (1.1 points) and higher catastrophe losses (0.1 points), partially offset by higher net favorable prior year reserve development (0.1 points).

If the Bank of Canada ultimately raises its benchmark rate by 50 basis points from the start of the year, that could increase borrowers» monthly payments by approximately 5 per cent, according to Rob McLister, founder of comparison site RateSpy.com.

«We often use that service as the thin edge of the wedge,» says Kureluk, pointing out that this software gives Yardstick the opportunity to upsell other products and services to its customers, such as the «e-learning» software tools developed by a firm that Yardstick bought earlier this year and sold online.

«This is only a few billion below the figure at a comparable time last year, and above the figures reported for some earlier years (almost 60 % of the full year's refunds are typically received by this point in the year).»

«A decrease in nominal GDP growth resulting solely from a one - year, 1 - percentage - point decrease in the rate of GDP inflation» reduces the budgetary balance by $ 1.9 billion.

Forty - five percent of those surveyed by NFIB said they found few or no qualified workers to fill open positions, which is 3 percentage points higher than September a year earlier, and 4 percentage points higher than the same time period in both 2013 and 2012.

And it also means that bond market traders believe we're likely to see at least a quarter point hike in interest rates by the middle of next year.

If the bulls are right, EPS would grow 8.5 points faster than the economy (assuming 2.5 % real annual GDP growth plus 2 % inflation) for the next ten years, hitting over 16 % of national income by 2028.

The 7 - 2 vote for the rate move, the Fed's third this year, raises the benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent.

He points to the fact that Smith is currently investigating the activities of federal climate scientists whose research last year undermined claims by Climate Change skeptics that global warming was going through a «hiatus».

Many advocates of the bill have said it would boost gross - domestic - product growth by 0.4 percentage points a year.

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By the end of the year, Best Buy shares soared more than 28 points, from $ 11.67 per share on Dec. 21, 2012, to $ 40.17 per share on Dec. 27, 2013.

The state government has extended its discounted charges at the Utah Point bulk handling facility by another year, to help junior miners continue exporting iron ore, as debate around the sale of the port continues.

Bloomberg maintained high approval ratings for nearly all of his 12 years as New York City's mayor (2002 - 14), winning his first reelection by a 20 - point margin, the largest ever for a Republican in the heavily Democratic city.

In effect, the BCA set caps mandating that discretionary outlays rise a couple of points a year from a low baseline established by the deep cuts between 2011 and 2013.

If the average Western consumer hasn't heard of Lenovo by this point, they inevitably will over the next few years.

«Indicators for 2003 point toward a better year, with a lot of movement by companies expected,» Mrs Kusinski said.

As well, points out Jurock, the recreational and retirement property boom of a few years ago was «driven by Dad,» whose investing prowess during the stock market run - up put him in a position not only to buy that retirement dream home but to front the kids a down payment for their own place.

A group of companies that spend the least on employee pay has outpaced a basket of high - labor cost stocks by 13 percentage points over the past year, according to data compiled by Goldman Sachs.

Larson ranks second this year after being docked points by NASCAR for a violation on his car, but at this rate, he's at the front of the pack so often he has to be considered the favorite to win his first Cup.

U.S. and Beijing could both lose 0.2 percentage points of growth within the first year of a «limited trade war», AMRO's economic team said, and an additional 0.2 percentage points for the U.S. by the third year given Washington's relatively greater openness to global trade.

A survey published earlier this year by Junior Achievement and PwC found that 24 % of students aged 18 to 29 believe that their loans will be forgiven at some point.

A simulation by Oxford Economics suggests a 25 percent U.S. tariff on $ 60 billion worth of Chinese exports, with comparable retaliation, would reduce China's growth by about 0.1 percentage point this year and a little less next year, chief Asia economist Louis Kuijs in Hong Kong said in a recent note.

The research mirrors what a team led by Giovanni Chiodini from the Italian National Institute of Geophysics reported late last year, when they too modelled Campi Flegrei's activity and found that it's dangerously close to hitting a critical pressure point that could trigger another eruption.

In 2014, 47 % of millennials said they wanted to be mentored by their bosses, a figure that actually crept up by one percentage point in this year's survey, even though these workers have two more years of work experience under their belts, and many are even becoming managers themselves.

However, a recent report by the College Savings Association showed plans were successfully funded at a rate of 93 % in 2011 — up 2 points from the prior fiscal year.

MarketWatch reports that interactions on niche Reddit forums (known as «subreddits») devoted to cryptocurrency have soared by a massive 930 % this year, and that at one point users were joining one of the main bitcoin forums at the rate of 1,300 a day.

Dora Gicheva, an economist at the University of North Carolina, has found that for every $ 10,000 young people carried in student debt, the likelihood of getting married in the seven years following graduation dropped by some three or four percentage points.

By the end of 1996, John McManus, cofounder with his wife, Gloria, of Magellan's, a seven - year - old travel - gear catalog company, had reached the point where he could take no more.

Thomas points out that, not only does this natural ebb and flow sound delightful, it also results in an impressive level of productivity (a book a year is a hefty output by any writer's standards).

Page 287 of the 2014 Budget has an estimate that a 1 - percentage point decrease in GDP growth would reduce «the budgetary balance by $ 3.7 billion in the first year, $ 4.5 billion in the second year and $ 6.0 billion by the fifth year.»

In other tweets, Pwn All The Things also pointed to a smoking gun to show a series of hacks targeting U.S. political figures was carried out by the same group, dispelling the suggestion that the DNC hacks could have been carried out by a 14 - year - old or any other single individual.

They found that the discovery of a high - quality break can raise growth by 2.2 percentage points a year.

According to recent statistics released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 15.8 million U.S. households — that's 12.7 percent of the total — didn't have enough food to eat at some point last year, the latest period for which numbers are available.

The report points to September 2015 data released by the Government Accountability Office, which shows about 330,000 people, or roughly 11 % of the Americans who've taken out Parent Plus loans, have gone at least a year without making a payment.

UAVs are «a mainstay,» said Ryan Hartman, senior vice presidents of Programs at Insitu, owned by Boeing.Over the next 25 years, he said, «Technology will have evolved to the point where we'll be operating unmanned systems in the national airspace safely and responsibly.»

Britain was cited as one of the most improved over the past six years, raising its score by eight points since 2012 to 82.

Under this system, tariff s of 200 % to 300 % are imposed on foreign milk and milk products while here at home, prices are manipulated to the point where, according to a paper by former Liberal MP Martha Hall Findlay, a typical Canadian family is paying in excess of $ 300 a year more than they need to for milk alone.

A Forbes piece recently highlighted the next five years of user experience trends, and made key points about how users are being changed by the internet of things, voice and bots.