Sentences with phrase «quarter of a percentage point of»

«MSCI estimates some $ 17 billion will flow into Chinese markets — both from passive funds that automatically track its indexes and active fund managers — when the country's stocks are included a year from now,» giving indexers something like a quarter of a percentage point of China's stock market, which is the second - biggest in the world behind America's.

Purely on the basis of your credit score and loan - to - value (LTV) ratio, Fannie now plans to charge an extra quarter of a percentage point of the loan amount, in this case $ 1,000.

Not exact matches

The OECD data shows that 72.4 per cent of Canadians aged 15 - 64, what is normally considered the working age, were employed in the fourth quarter of 2013, compared to 73.7 per cent who had a job in the second quarter of 2008, for a differential of minus 1.3 percentage points.

Delivery contributed to 16 % of Company sales in the first quarter of 2018, an increase of 3 percentage points year over year.

The Bank of Canada announced this morning that it is dropping its target interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 0.75 %.

A few things stand out about this particular rate change: first, the magnitude of influence that just a quarter percentage - point change had on the stock market; second, the current rate with an upper range of.50 % compared to the various long - term averages of about 5 %; and third, the rate remains historically low, with only minute incremental changes, despite the relatively good news we continue to read about the economy.

Citing sluggish growth abroad and lower oil prices, the Bank of Canada this morning lowered the overnight lending rate one quarter of a percentage point, to 0.5 %.

More than one third of business owners said they expect to decrease capital spending in the year ahead, an increase of about 10 percentage points from the previous quarter.

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.

This raises the benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent

In tandem with that reading, 9 percent of repsondents said they planned to decrease head counts at their companies in the next 12 months, which represents a decrease of two percentage points, compared to the third quarter.

Health care followed in second place with 17 percent of venture capital dollars, up two percentage points from the first quarter of 2014.

Our own national economy grew at an annualized rate of 3.3 % in the fourth quarter of 2010, a full percentage point above what the Bank of Canada expected.

Goldman Sachs cut its second - quarter GDP growth estimate by three tenths of a percentage point to 1.0 percent.

The pork shortage, along with the bad weather that afflicted the eastern half of the U.S. this winter, lowered Chipotle's comparable sales growth by about 2 percentage points to 10.4 % in the first quarter, below the 11.8 % analysts were projecting.

Analysts expect the 16 - day shutdown will shave between 0.2 and 0.6 of a percentage point off fourth - quarter annualized GDP growth.

The tepid confidence level is somewhat at odds with how business owners view their current financial situations — 67 percent gave their situation a rating of good, the same as the prior quarter and an increase of two percentage points compared with the second quarter of 2015.

Similarly, 72 percent of business owners said they expect their financial situation 12 months from now to be good, an increase of one percentage point from the first quarter; 11 percent said they expect their situation to be poor, a decrease of one percentage point from the first quarter.

More importantly, 23 percent said they plan to add workers, a decrease of three percentage points from the first quarter; 9 percent said they planned to scale back on the number of workers they have, an increase of two percentage points.

The last time the U.S. went through a partial government paralysis in 1995 - 1996 — for roughly three weeks in two separate instances — economic growth slowed by a quarter of a percentage point during the last three months of 1995.

The service problems had dragged down sales by eight percentage points in the quarter, with three of those points coming from lost sales due to rep annoyance, Jung said.

The quarter - percentage - point rate hike means you'll pay an extra $ 2.50 a year for every $ 1,000 of debt, according to NerdWallet.

These fees can vary from a quarter of one percent (25 basis points) to manage a stable portfolio of cash and bonds to a full percentage (100 basis points) or more to manage a more active portfolio of small cap stocks.

But in the quarter ending Dec. 31, which included the key holiday season, handbags costing $ 400 or more generated 50 % of sales, up 20 percentage points from a year earlier.

Just like it did a year ago, the Federal Reserve on Wednesday sent its key short - term interest rate up by a quarter of a percentage point.

The Nielsen survey also found that recessionary sentiment is growing in Malaysia, up a «notable» 16 percentage points in the third quarter, with «nearly nine in 10 Malaysians feeling the country is currently in a state of recession.»

We might see an extremely modest rate increase — perhaps a quarter of a percentage point — «but it won't go up a lot,» says Devlin.

Commentary: «New equipment orders at Otis were up 19 percent over the year ago third quarter including favorable foreign exchange of 7 percentage points.

The U.S. central bank's monetary - policy committee raised benchmark borrowing costs by a quarter percentage point to a range of 1.5 % to 1.75 %, in Jerome Powell's first meeting as Fed chairman.

In the latest quarter, the percentage of QSRs using kiosks rose four percentage points, to 41 percent of the industry.

The Fed funds rate remained there for seven years before the central bank nudged it up a quarter of a percentage point in December.

Feb 02, 2017 In December 2015, the Federal Reserve raised the federal funds rate by a quarter of a percentage point.

That could add one - fourth to one - half of a percentage point to annualized GDP growth in the quarter, he said.

«By the end of the first quarter (of 2015) inflation will stand by around 3.5 (percentage points) higher than we expected.

Whenever the Fed decides to act, the initial rate increase will be small — a quarter of a percentage point — but it looms large psychologically because it will be the first increase in short - term rates by the Fed since June 2006.

As expected, as their meeting concluded yesterday, Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen and company decided to raise the benchmark interest rate they control by one - quarter of a percentage point.

For the first quarter of Fiscal 2017, the Company's consolidated pretax profit margin was 10.9 %, a 0.2 percentage point decrease compared with the prior year.

In a recent set of data released by research firm comScore for the second quarter, RIM with its BlackBerry OS is revealed to have lost 1.6 percentage points from its 12.3 percent share in the first quarter of the year in the US.

The Bank of Canada has already raised interest rates three times since July, but the benchmark rate is still three - quarters of a percentage point below the 2 - per - cent inflation target.

RBC's housing affordability measure for the benchmark detached bungalow in Canada's largest cities in the second quarter of 2014 is as follows: Vancouver 81.8 (down 0.3 percentage points from the previous quarter); Toronto 55.9 (down 0.2 percentage points); Montreal 37.3 (down 1.6 percentage points); Ottawa 36.0 (down 0.4 percentage points); Calgary 33.6 (down 0.8 percentage points); Edmonton 31.7 (down 1.1 percentage points).

«Samsung's smartphone sales declined 8 percent in the fourth quarter of 2016 and its share dropped by 2.9 percentage points year on year.»

Depreciation expense in the quarter was 27 basis points higher as a percentage of sales basis compared to last year due to increased new units and remodels.

The Bank of Canada today announced that it is lowering its target for the overnight rate by one - quarter of one percentage point to 1/2 per cent.

The country's biggest banks raised their prime rates after the Bank of Canada hiked its overnight lending rate earlier this month by a quarter of a percentage point to 1.25 per cent.

Fourth quarter same — fourth quarter restaurant labor expenses were 50 basis points lower than last year on a percentage of sales basis due to increased productivity and lower restaurant manager incentive compensation expense.

During the second quarter of 2014, affordability measures at the national level fell by 0.9 percentage points to 48.0 per cent for two - storey homes, by 0.6 percentage points to 42.5 per cent for detached bungalows and by 0.4 percentage points to 27.4 per cent for condominium apartments.

Huawei, Oppo and BBK accounted for 21.3 percent of smartphones sold to end users worldwide during the fourth quarter of 2016, an increase of 7.3 percentage points year on year.

-LRB-...) the big driver was what the Bureau of Economic Analysis dubs motor vehicles -LRB-...), production of which hiked first - quarter GDP by 1.12 percentage points, more than double the rise they provided in last year's fourth quarter.

The Fed raised its benchmark overnight lending rate at its March 20 - 21 meeting by a quarter percentage point to a target range of between 1.50 percent and 1.75 percent.