Sentences with phrase «points than gain»

In fact, if anything, I'd admire their courage for being proud of their faith despite the fact they're more likely to lose social status points than gain them.

Its as much about making the other big teams drop points than gaining them, making ourselves difficult to beat is important.

Not exact matches

Put another way, Goldman Sachs alone is responsible for more than 400 points out of the Dow's total 1,400 - point gain during the «Trump Bump.»

After it hit 14,000 at the height of the housing bubble in 2007 — less than three months after passing 13,000 — the Dow wouldn't gain another 1,000 points until six years later, in May 2013.

The 30 - stock average is now up more than 5,000 points in a year, marking its biggest annual - points gain ever.

A 25 percent jump would take the Dow to over 30,400, a gain of more than 6000 points from current levels.

Despite a shortfall of workers, average hourly pay rose just 2.4 percent from a year ago, one - half percentage point lower than September's annual gain.

To get to that point, you've got to be willing to play the long - game, rather than constantly looking for short - term wins and gains.

President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner are unlikely to reverse several scheduled tax increases, including the 0.9 percentage point increase in the Medicare tax rate on wages and salaries of more than $ 200,000 for single filers ($ 250,000 for married filers); a 3.8 percent Medicare tax on unearned income of higher income filers; and an increase in the capital gains tax rate.

Siegel thinks that earnings per share can grow about half a point faster than nominal GDP — in the 5 % range including inflation — chiefly because of big gains in the technology sector.

Futures extended gains, with the Dow indicating a higher open, briefly rising more than 350 points and implying a plus - 450 point open.

In other words, equity dividends are higher by a third of a percentage points than quality bond yields, and that's before the dividend tax credit and before any capital gains.

On the London Metal Exchange, it was nickel's turn in the spotlight as it soared 12 per cent at one point to a more than three - year high of $ US15, 875 a tonne, before closing up 7.5 per cent at $ US15, 275, its largest daily gain in 6-1/2 years, Reuters reported.

Since then, the arbitrage strategy has declined in a nearly linear fashion to the point where there were no years where the strategy yielded more than $ 200 between 1959 and 1974 and in 11 of these 16 years an investor either lost money or gained less than $ 100.

Gains in the Fab Five have contributed a total of 30 index points to the benchmark index this year through Wednesday, more than the 21 points that the S&P 500 added as a whole, data compiled by Bloomberg show.

The economic gains and market returns that emerged during the Reagan Administration began from a starting point of 10.8 % unemployment, a current account surplus, and market valuations that - on the most historically reliable measures - were less than one - quarter of present levels.

Our starting point has always been that the imposition of the GST should not have an effect on wages because wage - earners will gain more from the accompanying fall in income tax rates than they will lose from the introduction of the GST.

Critics of investing in individual stocks in an IRA point to the fact that capital gains tax (currently 15 % -20 %) is likely lower than your income tax level (20 - 40 %), so you lose that long term capital gains tax advantage in an IRA since you get taxed at your income rate.

Volume / mix decreased 0.8 percentage points as the benefit from a shift in Easter - related sales as well as gains in frozen, macaroni and cheese, and condiments and sauces were more than offset by select distribution losses in cheese and meats as well as lower shipments in foodservice.

Very quickly those gains reversed and as the trading day began to unfold, we saw the 10 - year Treasury note yield rise above 2 %, approximately 20 basis points wider than where it was trading just a few days ago.1

January's big gains sent the ETF higher by more than 6 % at its best point, and many investors predicted even better times ahead for the fund thanks to positive impacts from U.S. tax reform and strong corporate fundamentals.

The key point is this: while monetary easing has been positively associated with stock market gains over the following 10 months or so, the essential driver of those gains has been the recovery of preceding losses in the months leading up to each round of QE, rather than de novo returns.

Looking ahead now to a new day and to the start of the FOMC meeting, we see that stocks were modestly higher in Asia overnight, with the gains generally less than half a percentage point.

Stocks stayed in a narrow range, holding on to a better - than 100 - point gain posted by the blue chips by late morning, until about 3:00 P.M., when the market began to drift lower.

Underscoring the mixed - to - lower tone that emerged over the course of the day — not only was the NASDAQ off by nearly 50 points at its nadir — but the small - cap Russell 2000 had turned down by more than a full percentage points, as well, as losing stocks held a strong lead over gaining issues throughout.

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In contrast, between late - 2011 and mid-2014, T - bill yields averaged less than 5 basis points, and the majority of the intervening market gains overlapped the roughly one - third of that span when our present, adapted measures would encourage a constructive outlook (largely on the basis of favorable market internals).

According to an article in the Journal of Commerce (JOC), the U.S. economy has been expanding at a rate greater than 3.5 percent for four of the last five quarters, creating enough freight demand to significantly boost trucking revenue while tightening supply to the point where carriers can gain considerable rate increases.

Whiteheadians seem able to imagine such ecstatically spanned unities - across - time on the so - called «microscopic» scale of the «specious present,» but give up on the idea as the scope of the temporal disclosure space is widened to the scale of human lifetime and of generations.7 But worse than this from the point of view of Heidegger's temporal problematic, by submitting the ecstatic unities of their «specious presents» to the before / after ordering and metric properties of linear time, at least in terms of their mutually external relations and arrangements, they give back ontologically every advantage they gained from the use of an cc - static - temporal disclosure horizon in the first place, even though it was only the single horizon of presence.

The man who is wholly taken up with the demands of everyday living or whose sole interest is in the outward appearances of things seldom gains more than a glimpse, at best, of this second phase in our sense - perceptions, that in which the world, having entered into us, then withdraws from us and bears us away with it: he can have only a very dim awareness of that aureole, thrilling and inundating our being, through which is disclosed to us at every point of contact the unique essence of the universe.

Its amazing satan has gained control of the entire world to the point where you can take a random man and claim that he is of «God» that he is «holy» The pope is nothing more than servant of satan.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

The point is what God thinks of people who lie and deceive people for nothing more than a little gain.

The students at these levels may not master the finer points of Aristotelian philosophy, but they at least gain an introduction to the history and greatest books of western civilization --- which is to say, they're receiving a better liberal arts education than most of today's college students.

In order to gain some insight into this remarkable possibility we need to examine the phenomenon of shame more closely than we have up to this point.

As mankind progresses and leaves the Dark Ages farther and farther behind, knowledge and science inexorably debunks myth after religious myth to the point where religion is exposed as nothing more than a sick joke, nothing but a method to gain control and power over the masses.

There is no point from which to gain an overview other than the socio - culturally influenced locus where one is.

The key point, however, is that if the secularized academic community can not on its own terms sustain moral standards, gain epistemological assurance or avoid the virtual deification of the human, then far more than fairness and open - mindedness is at stake in its relationship with Christians.

I'm annoyed we yet again couldn't win a big game against a big team, not even at home, it's 2 points lost rather than 1 gained in my opinion.

Only one team in Premier League history has gained more points from their opening 27 games than United's 68 this season (Chelsea had 69 in 2005 - 06).

Iowa gained just 200 yards in 54 snaps on an icy pitch in Yankee Stadium; the Hawkeyes went three - and - out five times in 12 possessions and twice scored points on drives of fewer than 20 yards.

We win huge upside we lose respectable say less than 7 - 9 points make it a game we gain cred.

Denvis Manns of New Mexico State, who played in near total obscurity on a losing team, might have gained much more than his 1,120 yards if Aggies coach Jim Hess, by his own admission, packed a few more IQ points.

It would say that we gained more points than the other 19 teams so therefore were the best team in this season.

Claude Puel has seen his new Southampton side struggle to only gain one point from the first three games of the season, but he believes his team is better than that and will give Arsenal a run for their money in Saturday's game at the Emirates.

So it is little wonder that the media were more interested in talking about the lack of action in the transfer window rather than the lucky point gained by the Gunners.

Despite the acquisition of three world class players in recent years, and Wenger keeping hold of his stars, we have gained less points than the previous three seasons, and have had the same amount of defeats (7).

That's the team we should be wary of because City are gaining steam and will not only be two points ahead of us of they win but have the experience in their squad for a late title charge as they've done it more than once.

There wasn't much movement in the point standings overall — no driver gained or lost more than two spots — but race winner Jeff Gordon was among those who moved up multiple positions.

So far this season, Manchester city has gained more than 10 points due to luck.