Sentences with phrase «quarter point»

None of those stats you mentioned take into account that fourth quarter points are more important to winning.

... The 40 first - quarter points represented a season high.

Measure quarter points around the rim and stick strips in a contrasting pattern running from top to bottom.

Mitchell is fifth in fourth quarter points in the nba this year.

Just use that number and divide by how many slices you get out of the bread (slice it first, or estimate from mid point and quarter point of loaf, taking into account that end slices and middle slices might vary a little).

The U.S. Federal Reserve has already started to raise its key interest rate with the latest quarter point increase on Wednesday to a range of one per cent to 1.25 per cent.

He also leads the Lakers in total fourth quarter points on a respectable 47 percent shooting from the field and 36.8 percent shooting from behind the arc.

The shooting guard scored a game - high 21 points to go along with five rebounds — and with the help of 15 fourth - quarter points from teammate Jordan Schakel — led the Knights to a 70 - 63 win over then state - No. 1 Sierra Canyon - Chatsworth in the Southern Section Open Division semifinal at the Galen Center in Los Angeles on Feb. 24.

Indeed, the Bank's policy rate today is 0.5 per cent, just one - quarter point above the record low set in 2009, a dark time for the global economy.

The one - quarter point reduction is expected to save FHA - insured borrowers with a closing date on or after Jan. 27, 2017 an average $ 500 this year.

The chanting seemed to have a positive effect, for the home team quickly began scoring more points and by the end of the third quarter the point lead had increased to 20, with the Tigersharks leading 55 - 35.

The Giants led 16 - 13 entering the fourth quarter, but the teams combined for 24 fourth quarter points including a game - winning touchdown pass from Tony Romo to Jason Witten with just seven seconds left.

Twenty of the Heat's 32 first quarter points game in the paint, and they shot 12 - of - 20.

This move incorporated six rate hikes, including three quarter - point moves, two half - point increases, and one three - quarter point move to close out the cycle on November 15.

Not even a gratuitous quarter point bump.

At this point, most on Wall Street are expecting a nominal quarter point hike in rates.

While I admit that Janet Yellen and the other members of the Federal Reserve have hardly reached Martin Sheen status as irrelevant, I have to wonder about the market's reaction to Wednesday's decision by the Fed to raise interest rates an entire quarter point.

Assuming of course that the curve actually does get to completely flat before recession something not assured but based on the Fed's timid quarter point steps toward that Minsky moment is still likely.

So in June, the consensus fell on rates rising an additional quarter point by year's end.

Christopher Whalen: I think it's a lot simpler than you put forward which is: go ahead and keep your little quarter point march and if you see spreads start to widen, you stop.

Cleveland and Los Angeles combined for 30 first - quarter points before the Clippers pulled away and made a mockery of their opponents in a 108 - 78 rout.

Late Saturday night bad beat # 2: Cal (+3 to +4) gave up 31 4th quarter points including an onside kick return for TD with 48 secs left to lose 51 - 41.

One quarter point hamburger requires over 660 gallons of water to produce it.

December brought us our first FED quarter point rate hike in God knows how long.

REDMEN ROLL Smith Center (Kans.) opened the Class 2 - 1A playoffs on Oct. 30 by scoring a national high school record 72 first - quarter points in an 83 — 0 win over Plainville.

To keep the economy on a sustainable path, I expect that it will be appropriate to remove monetary policy accommodation at a regular but gradual pace — and perhaps a bit faster than the three, one - quarter point increases envisioned for this year in the assessment of appropriate policy from the December 2017 FOMC meeting.

Daniel Ives of FBR Capital Markets & Co. commented in a note on Monday that his recent field checks within the cybersecurity sector through the third quarter point to «white hot deal momentum» as companies and governments continue upgrading to next - generation security platforms and software.»

After the 21 - year - old Webster torched the Jazz for 24 third - quarter points on Jan. 5, Utah reserve Matt Harpring observed, «It was tough when what's - his - face got hot.»

Kuzma is second among rookies in total fourth quarter points this season with 368 points, trailing only Donovan Mitchell, who has 464.

The central bank's policy committee voted unanimously on Dec. 14 to raise its benchmark interest rate a quarter point to 0.5 %.

The Fed left rates unchanged Wednesday, after hiking a quarter point in March, and added minor tweaks to its comments on inflation and the economy.

Graeme Wheeler on Thursday cut the Reserve Bank of New Zealand's benchmark rate by a quarter point to 2.75 %, citing «elevated volatility» in financial markets and «renewed falls» in commodity prices.

Gross domestic product contracted at an annual rate of 0.5 % in the second quarter and 0.8 % in the first, which is exactly what the Bank of Canada predicted in July when it dropped its policy rate by a quarter point.

Millions of Americans will, of course, be affected with rates going up by a quarter point.

Governor Mark Carney and the rest of the British central bank's policy committee voted unanimously to cut the benchmark lending rate a quarter point to 0.25 %, the lowest ever.

Yellen announced that the Federal Reserve is raising the interest rates by a quarter point to 1.5 %.

The Bank of Canada's surprise decision to drop its benchmark lending rate by a quarter point in January will keep downward pressure on interest rates.

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.

The benchmark interest rate is within a quarter point of its record low, yet overall executives remain hesitant to spend.

The Federal Reserve had been expected to raise its benchmark interest rate a quarter point to a target range of 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent.

So it would be unfair to call Poloz a currency manipulator: he has dropped Canada's benchmark interest rate to within a quarter point of its record low because otherwise inflation would drop below 1 %, the low end of the Bank of Canada's comfort zone.

About half the economists surveyed by Bloomberg News now say the Bank of Canada will drop its benchmark interest rate a quarter point to 0.5 % today.

In the years ahead of the financial crisis, Alan Greenspan, the former Fed chairman, systematically raised the benchmark rate a quarter point every time he gathered the Federal Open Market Committee.

«A quarter point is not going to kill the economy at all.

The economy may be healthy enough for them to raise interest rates, but the new 0.5 percent to 0.75 percent target for the benchmark fed funds rate, up a quarter point from where it had been, remains far below the historical norm — and, by all indications, the Fed still expects rates to stay low for at least a few more years.

The bets for an earlier shift receded after the latest inflation numbers, but there now is a consensus the Bank of Canada will raise its benchmark interest rate by a quarter point in the autumn, probably October.

As a result of this new dynamic, since 2010 a one point increase in the VIX Index has been associated with about a quarter point decrease in equity multiples.