Sentences with phrase «points rates for»

Hotels have been successfully offering cash plus points rates for much longer in part because they seem happy to offer cash plus points rates that actually make clear sense for consumers.

Not only that, but they have very fair points rates for many properties on or near the beach.

It helped me a lot because I did not realize that airlines and hotels often have a fixed point rate for their flights / rooms, I assumed that they flucuated with the market cash price.

We have won Gold medals and very high point ratings for our wines, and some have been named, for example, «Best Chardonnay in Canada» on two occasions for Meyer Family Vineyards.

The average three - point rate for title teams over the past decade is 31.2 % — lower than the 33.4 % rate for all teams during that span.

Or you can book a cash and points rate for $ 150 + 12,500 Hyatt points per night.

American Airlines is often the listed airline for flights, but sometimes they are codeshare partners (listed below) and you can receive the 1.6 cents per reward point rate for these flights.

Not exact matches

The heart rate monitor is a huge selling point for Apple Watch.

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 percent.

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.

So there's almost more concern for locking in a long - term rate of income than there is for just maybe catching a higher yield at one point in the cycle in the front end.

His remarks can't be considered a roadmap for the future path of interest rates; he made a point of stating that every policy meeting is «live,» meaning the latest data could alter assumptions.

If rates rise across the board by one percentage point, it would amount to about $ 91 billion a year in extra income and thus extra spending money for these people and businesses.

Forget about open rates for a second, and push aside those click - through data points.

Analysts point out that the challenge for social media companies, including Facebook and Snapchat, will be continuing to get individual users to generate content at the same rate that advertisers want to sell.

One of my constant points on this blog for the last several years has been that households» refinancing of their mortgage debt at lower and lower rates has put more money in their pockets for spending and for paying down debt.

With the country locked in a national debate about what an appropriate living wage should be, pay — in particular the minimum hourly rate — has become a sticking point for many businesses and their workers.

«The FOMC statement reinforced market expectation for another 25 basis points rate rise in its June meeting,» Tai Hui, chief market strategist at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, said in a note.

In order for businesses to be successful over the long haul, they must demonstrate a constant willingness to reevaluate and negotiate rates, terms and contracts with the respective parties at every point on the supply chain.

«The fact that they stuck with the three rate - hike forecast sends a signal that at this point they're not ready to adopt a potentially more aggressive stance that a number of people have been talking about for next year,» said Craig Bishop, lead strategist for U.S. fixed income at RBC Wealth Management.

That's almost 2 points higher than the overall satisfaction rate for all the companies and services we deal with throughout the year.

Although each Hilton point isn't as valuable as one point from another currency, like Chase Ultimate Rewards, the card's high earning rate makes up for it.

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.

Economists at Macroeconomic Advisers boosted their forecast for fourth - quarter economic growth by three - tenths of a percentage point to an annualized rate of 2.4 percent, on the «unexpected strength» in consumer spending.

A decision will be released at 2 p.m. (1900 GMT), with markets prepared for an initial 25 basis point «liftoff» that would move the Fed's target rate from the zero lower bound to a range of between 0.25 and 0.50 percentage points.

The Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index increased 6.5 percentage points to 63.5 percent, reflecting growth for the 13th consecutive month at a faster rate than in November.

In private industry, says the Bureau of Labor Statistics, wages and salaries rose at 2.6 % for the 12 months ended September 2017 — 20 basis points above the rate the prior year and notably higher than what we saw in the first half of the decade.

While Fink is right to point out that low interest rates are putting a large burden on those of us trying to save retirement, he does not address the fact that central banks aren't primarily responsible for the fact that bonds of all types are yielding less today than we're used to.

The New Orders Index increased 5.3 percentage points to 63 percent, and the Employment Index decreased 2.2 percentage points to 50.5 percent, indicating growth in employment for the fourth consecutive month, but at a slower rate.

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.

For example, when Japan went to negative interest rates, their stock market dropped over 1,000 points.

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.

The Amazon Fire TV Stick was rated by six of the above sources (including us), for instance, so its total review score at this point in the process was divided by six.

«Our members have overwhelmingly voted for strike action because British Airways» pay rates are indefensible and the crew are at breaking point.»

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.

Erin Weir, a labour economist running for the NDP in Saskatchewan, has estimated that each percentage point increase in the corporate tax rate would generate about $ 1.5 billion in revenue each year.

The CEPR researchers add that prime - age employment for men is now 3 percentage points lower than it was in December 2007, while the rate for women is 2.2 percentage points below where it was.

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.

The reason for such a broad range all has to do with financing, which includes rates, terms, buying points, etc., so find a good lender who can explain all your options, and continue to educate yourself more about the process on our mortgage page and other helpful housing and financial sites.

A bigger problem for Trump and the GOP: Whatever reduced rate ends up in proposed legislation, critics are bound to point out that there's little evidence to support the idea that corporate tax cuts create jobs or raises wages.

Instead of worrying about bargaining for a few percentage points off the rate, spend time negotiating the lease's term and thinking about the company's true needs for the future.

European revenues were up 18 percent, fueled by exchange rates and higher pricing, but margins were down 1.5 percentage points to 1.3 percent for the region.

At this rate, AWS (amzn) remains on track to deliver $ 14 billion in revenue for the year, as Amazon CFO Brian Olsavsky pointed out on the company's earnings call.

«For 30 years, interest rates have been coming down, lower highs and lower lows but we're at a point now in terms of a long - term trend line where 2.6 percent represents the point where an interest rate reversal should take place.

Market conditions may have shifted to the point where they have no choice but to renegotiate a lower rate for you.

China's central bank on Thursday raised interest rates for its reverse repos and medium - term lending facility (MLF) loans by 5 basis points.

Since 1997, the workforce participation rate for Canadians aged 55 and over has increased 12 percentage points to 34 % and is now higher than it was in 1976.

For example, a stock photographer can point to the number of downloads of his material and the ratings users have given him as a measure of his aptitude behind the lens.

At this point, pretty much any economic data report is of interest to U.S. markets, with the Federal Reserve watching closely for evidence of a sustained economic recovery before it finally implements its long - awaited interest rate hike.

It's not clear to me, though, that the proper reference point for judging what's «normal» should be pre-recession employment rates, for two reasons.