Sentences with phrase «rate by a percentage»

Yet enrollment rates by percentage of the population have not even gone up by 1 percentage point between 2000 and 2009.

Follow this rule of thumb: It's worthwhile to refinance if you can lower your rate by a percentage point or more.

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The rate of new firms entering the marketplace has fallen by nearly half over the 40 - year period from 1978 to 2012, to 8 percent, compared with a steadily increasing rate of new firm closures, up two full percentage points, to about 10 percent, over the same period, according to the Brookings Institution, a policy think tank.

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.

By this time next year, short - term rates might be a full percentage point higher than today.

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 %.

As Poloz indicated in Toronto, if something went terribly wrong tomorrow, he could cut the benchmark interest rate by a full percentage point before trying something else, such as creating money to purchase bonds.

It would increase the replacement rate by 10 percentage points to 35 per cent, lift the earnings cap by $ 10,000 (to $ 61,100), and be phased in over 10 years.

Fortune ran numbers to calculate how much extra revenue the U.S. would need to raise, over the next decade, if it lowered the rate of growth in Social Security by one percentage point, reduced increases in Medicare, Medicaid, and other health care spending by a proportional amount, and held discretionary spending below growth in GDP (albeit from the higher base established by the new laws).

Under the Credit Card Accountability and Disclosure Act, cardholders actually have the right to refuse to pay a higher annual percentage rate set by the credit card company if they meet certain requirements.

«A decrease in nominal GDP growth resulting solely from a one - year, 1 - percentage - point decrease in the rate of GDP inflation» reduces the budgetary balance by $ 1.9 billion.

And on anybody's forecast it's gonna be a long time before we're gonna be in a position to reduce rates by three percentage points.

What's more, the 10 - year Treasury rate is up by just 0.1 percentage points since Wednesday, to just over 2.2 %.

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.

The other 41 states have either a flat income tax — meaning everyone, regardless of how much they earn, pays the same percentage of their income to the government — or a progressive income tax, which means your tax rate is determined by your income.

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

I think that we face a structural problem in monetary policy and that is when recession comes we lower interest rates by... three percentage points.

The agency commissioned a survey that found 720,000 families would struggle to make payments on their home - equity loans if interest rates rose by a mere 0.25 percent, and almost one million would be in trouble if borrowing costs rose a full percentage point.

«If you purchase a home but can't make the payments if interest rates go up by two percentage points, you probably shouldn't be buying that home in the first place,» he says.

Under this scenario, increasing the rate by one percentage point would increase revenues by one per cent of the original tax base.

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.

Deutsche Bank economists predict the curve will invert in 2019 as the Fed keeps raising interest rates by a quarter percentage point every quarter, as markets expect.

A 25 basis point rate hike would see the global real GDP level about 0.4 percentage points lower, with US real GDP falling by about 0.5 percentage points.

The net promoter score is derived by subtracting the percentage of «detractors» (customers who rate the business from 0 to 6) from the percentage of «promoters» (who rate the company 9 or 10).

But the analysis says raising the work - force participation rate of women by 4.5 percentage points by 2032 would lift Canada's potential growth to about 1.9 per cent.

Investors seem to be looking at potential positives such as the fact that Trump may roll back regulations of businesses and lower the corporate tax rate by a much as 20 percentage points.

That is, when debt service ratios are calculated using the discounted mortgage rates actually charged by banks (about 125 percentage points below posted rates), the average Canadian homeowner is paying just 25 % or so of income on mortgage payments, far below the 32 % benchmark used for mortgage - insurance qualification.

The rates are based on a percentage of the streaming company's revenue or total content costs, agreed upon payment amounts by all parties.

«If hand hygiene compliance rates increased by 8.7 percentage points across the board during a typical work shift, this could potentially eliminate as many as 1.2 million infections per year, save up to $ 25 billion, and prevent up to 70,000 unnecessary deaths in the United States,» reports Knowledge@Wharton.

Online lenders to businesses can charge annual percentage rates (APRs) of 50 percent or more, and they are unfettered by many of the regulations that apply to consumer lenders, Pratt says.

The Fed's mere mention of trimming QE, though, sent mortgage rates up by a full percentage point this summer.

Yum Brands, in reporting third - quarter earnings, stated «foreign currency translation remains a strong headwind» and that it expected the exchange rate «to impact full - year earnings per share by about 5 percentage points.»

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.

«For every one percentage point in the (women's) participation rate, you are boosting Japanese GDP by about half a percentage points,» Jesper Koll, head of WisdomTree Japan, an ETF - provider, told CNBC.

But Kentucky, which ran its own Obamacare insurance marketplace and expanded Medicaid, saw its uninsured rate plunge by 12.9 percentage points, landing at 7.5 percent of all state residents as of 2015.

Mortgage rates, which track the movements of long - term Treasury yields, rose by about a percentage point during the summer.

But the explanations why the rate fell by nearly half a percentage point in Statistics Canada's latest jobs report hint at another trend — the first wave of baby boomers leaving the workplace.

Trudeau's concern about an untargeted reduction in the small business tax rate being used by wealthy Canadians to save on their tax bills is warranted, in Wolfson's view, but one could quibble about his assertion that a «large percentage» of small businesses are doing so.

Bartlett said growth is tracking well below the 1.9 per cent pace expected by the Bank of Canada with the first half rate roughly 1.8 percentage points below the bank's latest forecast.

Borrowers should keep in mind that lower interest rates at the beginning of a loan result in more actual savings than lower interest rates towards the end of a loan since the principal is lower as time goes by (interest charged is a percentage of the current loan balance).

A 1 percentage point reduction in tax rates increases investment by 4.7 percent of installed capital, increases payouts by 0.3 percent of sales, and decreases debt by 5.3 percent of total assets.

2 The percentage change has been calculated using actual exchange rates in use during the comparative prior year period to enhance the visibility of the underlying business trends by excluding the impact of translation arising from foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations, which is considered a non-GAAP financial measure.

Refinery utilization rates rose by 0.7 percentage point.

On the cost side, the same increase in the policy rate might cut output by up to 1 per cent and push inflation down by 0.5 percentage point relative to what it would have been otherwise.

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

In the post-Volcker period, for example, short - term interest rates in the United States have jumped by more than two percentage points within a one - year period on several occasions.

Reducing the growth rates of these programs by one percentage (from 6 % to 5 % for the CHT and 3 % to 2 % for the CST would save the federal government an incremental $ 425 million per year.

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The researchers calculate that the rational response to a reduction of a percentage point in the rate at which banks themselves can raise funds is to boost the credit limits of the 37 % of cards issued to those with the highest credit ratings by $ 2,203 each.