Sentences with phrase «points over last year»

Although one in three households (33 percent) carry credit card balances from month to month, the percentage with balances below $ 2500 has increased by 4 percentage points over last year, while the proportion of those with balances of $ 2500 or more has decreased by the same amount.

Seasonal jobs commanding higher pay Thirty - seven percent of employers plan to increase pay for their seasonal staff, up 10 percentage points over last year.

The amount of companies planning to hire in 2015 is up 12 percentage points over last year, setting the stage for a more competitive environment for recruiters that may lend itself to some movement in wages.»

Sixty - six percent of consumers say they are at least somewhat likely to recommend ownership of life insurance to others, an increase of 11 percentage points over last year.

Steve Swink's SCALE is a title I've had the pleasure of running into at several points over the last year, and besides looking beautiful, it's also a clever core concept.

This card has been toggling between 30,000 bonus points and 40,000 bonus points over the last year or so.

Jaguar's second - place finish also came with a most improved award: it improved 20 points over last year, making it one of the top - three biggest brand leaps.

Madison's strongest gains were among eighth grade math scores, with the percentage of black students scoring proficient gaining 8 percentage points, Hispanic students gaining 16 percentage points and low - income students gaining 6.5 percentage points over last year.

De Blasio's speech also transformed several of Fariña's central talking points over last year into official policy.

And, sure, it's Seguin, so he's a positive possession guy, but his CF % is up just 0.4 percentage points over last year's low.

Usage of our proprietary cards increased 10 basis points over the last year in the quarter reaching 48.7 % and while on the subject of credit I want to point out that we signed over new loan expansions of our partnership with Citi that now goes until 2025 instead of 2016 expiration of our original contract.

«For those who did not attend church at all, they were twice as likely to die prematurely than those who attended church at some point over the last year.»

Elementary schools: 70 % of potential being realized, down 1 point Secondary schools: 50 %, down 1 point over last year.

About 93 percent of the state's 11th - graders scored proficient or better on the High School Proficiency Assessment in Language Arts, an increase of one point over last year, and almost 86 percent were proficient in math, a 2.3 point gain.

The current price is near the lowest point over the last year, and most analysts have a valuation of around $ 40 to $ 41 per share (roughly what I paid), with an overall «hold» rating.

The inclusion of a microSD slot is another big plus point over last year's offering, making the One Mini 2 a far stronger media machine.

Not exact matches

«But over the last years, it's become this really popular trend to the point where now it's a buzzword.

Greven points out that when Kube's last company, Performance Software, took the same step, 150 government agencies signed on to their services over the course of three years.

In fact, over the last five years, social entrepreneurship has increasingly become the motivation behind startup business plans and a point of consideration in corporate boardrooms.

Hiring is down a tenth of a point over last month, bringing us to 4.2 percent growth year to date.

For all the reasons mentioned above, font sizes have increased over the last few years to the point that many view 14 px as the very minimum font size, and many sites go even bigger with 18 px as a minimum, especially when a lot of reading is involved.

Its share has fallen 6 percentage points over two years according to last month's data, dropping to fifth place.

Timmer: Yeah, so last August which was a key inflection point for the market — because at that point, nobody was expecting tax cuts anymore and the 10 - year Treasury had fallen to 2 %, and the bond market which of course is always pricing in the potential future, was pricing in only one more rate hike over the subsequent two years.

Since January, Apple's stock has fallen by 5 percent, and it's only up 23 percent over the last three years — two percentage points lower than the S&P 500.

«It used to be that Silicon Valley had the attitude that Washington was inconvenient,» Vivek Wadhwa, an entrepreneur and researcher of public policy at Stanford Law School, says, but over the last few years Silicon Valley has reached a turning point, and that perspective has changed drastically.

The founders point out how attendance at conferences in general has gone up dramatically over the last five years because people are making these digital connections with brands and peer - to - peer, and want to meet people in real life.

Crossing the tipping point in efficiency and cost has made returns on those sources, respectively, jump to 10 % and 17 % annually over the last three years, with lower volatility.

He points out that North American box office receipts have increased 6.8 % over last year at this time, while attendance should grow by 9.6 % to 17.7 million people.

«Over the last three years the technology and performance has come down to the point where it's possible to think about a mass - market audience,» Paul says.

But then as GQ pointed out, over the last year or so...

But as Neil Dutta, Chief Economist with Renaissance Macro Research points out, if you look at the actual flow data showing the number of people each month entering and exiting the labor force, the rate at which workers are entering the labor force is actually lower today than at any point over the last two years.

By this point last year, however, we had five films — «Split,» «The Lego Batman Movie,» «Fifty Shades Darker,» «Logan,» and «Kong: Skull Island» — open to over $ 40 million.

Two out of 10 Canadians (21 per cent) planned to travel on reward points this year, up seven per cent over last year.

«Some of the major breaches that have happened over the last couple years originated on end points, whether on PC or mobile,» Malloy said.

It still points towards the positive trend that we've seen in payroll growth over the last several months and the last couple of years actually,» said Tony Bedikian, head of global markets at Citizens Bank.

A Harris poll of phone owners found that nearly 10 % said their phone had been stolen at one point, and a recent study found that lost and stolen cell phones cost consumers over $ 30 billion last year.

Gordon correctly points out that total income, measured at the family level, has seen some growth over the last twenty years.

In a move that caught everyone off - guard, Canada Post announced a five point â $ œaction planâ $ last week that included phasing - out home delivery of the mail over the next five years, making Canada the only G7 nation to do so.

Shareholder resolutions related to corporations» political activities accounts for just over 25 percent of the total, down 4 percentage points from last year's mid-February tally, Proxy Preview notes.

Further reinforcing my thesis that the average household has largely reached a point of «saturation» on the amount of debt that it can support, the Federal Reserve reported that credit card delinquencies on credit cards issued by small banks have risen sharply over the last year.

And over the last three years, Total has slowly but surely closed the gap on rival oil major Esso (from 10 points behind in March 2009 to effectively level now).

The 1980s and the first half of the 1990s were terrible, but much of those losses have been recovered over the last 15 years (this is Brian Lee Crowley's point).

At this point, it's human nature to say — as I've often heard from clients over the last 39 years, whenever short rates rise above long rates — why buy a 20 - year bond when I get a higher yield on a 2 - year piece of paper?

Prices rose sharply over the last few years, to the point that they outpaced income growth.

The 15 - year average rose to 3.24 % this week, a jump of two basis points over last week.

The most recent and thorough of these, by Lukasz Rachel and Thomas Smith at the Bank of England, concluded that for the industrial world, neutral real interest rates have declined by about 4.5 percentage points over the last 30 years and are likely to stay low in the future.

The Federal Housing Finance Agency reported that mortgage contract rates on purchases of newly built homes rose by 11 basis points over the month of February to 4.14 percent, near its last peak level of 4.18 percent established one year ago in February 2017.

But when you've spent five years crunching over 328 million data points on 3,000 stocks, looking for patterns that happen 90 to 100 % of the time for the last 10 years, you've earned the right to a moneymaking tool to call your own.

The Commerce Department stated that there were more new apartments and single - family houses made than at any point over the last four years.

He has propped up his narrative with some data that estimate the numbers of men in this category and their ages over the last hundred years, but data is not really the point here.