Sentences with phrase «rate loses points»

Anything below or above that rate loses points and cities with a population loss receive zero.

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The four critical factors are: (a) businesses with recurring revenue bases — like a renewable subscription — are far better than ones dependent on constantly securing new customers; renewals are much easier and less expensive to secure than new sales; (b) customer retention is absolutely critical — all customers are very costly to acquire and very easy to lose in a world of almost infinite choices; (c) businesses based on products that require constant replacement or renewal (the «razor blade» model) are much more attractive than durable goods businesses (like selling refrigerators) where the products have very long repurchase or replacement life cycles and where the market could even fairly quickly reach saturation points; and (d) businesses that offer products or services that had a predictably high rate of obsolescence were much more attractive than those where the products had long, useful lives.

It also was at this point that B.C. lost its «triple A» credit rating.

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.

Scenario: an institution plans to establish a 90,000 DV01 risk exposure in the dollar denominated 10 year interest rates sector (basically the portfolio would gain or lose $ 90,000 for every one basis point, or 0.01 %, change in the 10 year sector).

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In what is shaping up to be one of the most open Premier League title races ever, those four games could be absolutely crucial at the rate of which Tottenham lost points in Dembele's absence this season.

Let's get the facts straight here.He never demanded # 400,000 a week.All that is just media talk.However, I support your point of the fact that him going does not mean disaster.We've survived with far better players leaving you know.If Arsenal had replaced Van Persie the season he left we would've challenged them for the title that season.However, at that time we were financially poor and had to settle for some second rate players.Now we are in a better financial position and I expect us to be more ambitious and that involves trying as much as possible to replace any player who leaves.This doom prediction doesn't show the character of a top club.Even Chelsea won't behave like how we do if they lost Hazard.I hate the way Arsenal allows players to treat it.I actually thought only smaller clubs behaved that way.

Mariota's QB efficiency rating on the day was 55 points better than Halliday's, so there's just about all you need to know about the importance of throwing for 557 yards on 89 passes and losing by 24.

Either their positioning and work rate were awful or they lost the nerve to sew together those lightning fast pass - pass - passes that earn them applause, points and silverware across Spain and Europe.

Another interesting data point: Cuomo's job approval rating has dropped from 64 percent in May to 56 percent in this poll, and he has lost ground with Republicans and independents — the very centrists he's now seeking to woo.

* finally, when the Tories introduce their # 150 marriage tax break through transferable allowances (which 1 in 3 married couples will get, though double - earner households won't), that will also be lost by anybody who gets it at the same point, exacerbating further this marginal rate issue at that point.

The state has lost another round in its legal fight against the Indian Point nuclear facility, with a federal regulator rejecting its effort to force the plant to undergo leak rate tests more often.

According to our figures (and I keep asking you to use the figures set out in the Liberal Democrat and Labour document not the figures given by the IFS who state they got their figures from these documents but actually give different figures) to reverse the cuts to Universal Credit cost # 3.665 billion and as I pointed out above these are the reductions in the amounts a person can keep before they start to lose their benefit, which were set much higher than the old benefits, but the withdrawal rate seemed to be higher with Universal Credit (65 % [reduced to 62 %] than with Tax Credit (41 % on gross income).

Subjects rated their happiness every few rounds as they won or lost points.

If you are losing / gaining weight at a rate I mentioned at the point # 3 of this article, then you should be fine.

Oh, and if you ever reach a point where you were losing weight at the ideal rate for a while but then it stops for a couple of weeks in a row, guess what you should do?

Meaning, a person might start off with a lot of fat to lose at which point they might lose it at a rate of 2 lbs or more per week for a while.

Here are a few points in which you lose testosterone, along with the rate of loss:

1.3 - Conclusion on point 1: Try to eat as much energy as you spend while you build muscle (without forgeting the protein rate) or, if you want to lose fat and maintain those muscles as you get lean try to do a hipocaloric diet 5 days a week (hipocaloric means less energy than the one you spend, but it does not mean you are eating less!)

So... the key to getting tighter skin is to lose more body fat, up to the point where your body composition rating is BETTER than average (in the «good» to «great» category, not just «okay»).

Scoring: Points are rated above average (7) If the game improved on the average, it'll gain points, if it falls behind the average, it loses pPoints are rated above average (7) If the game improved on the average, it'll gain points, if it falls behind the average, it loses ppoints, if it falls behind the average, it loses pointspoints.

A state that misses the required participation rate will lose points for academic achievement in the state's accountability system.

Popularity begins to decrease at lower GPAs for young black men than young black women (3.25 GPA compared with a 3.5), and the rate at which males lose friends after this point is far greater.

A school can lose points on the state report cards (a 5 - point deduction) if its test participation falls below 95 percent; however, a individual student who opts out of taking a required assessment is not counted in the calculation (i.e., is left out of the calculation) of proficiency rates for his or her school or district.

As Elias is making the state's case against the lower court ruling, he points to the high teacher attrition rate, saying California loses 22 percent of the workforce in the first four years of teaching.

The NHTSA gave the 2017 Grand Caravan a 4 - Star Overall Rating, as it lost points in tests for frontal crash and rollover.

Mortgage backed securities (MBS) lost -94 basis points (BPS) from last Friday's close which caused 30 year fixed mortgage rates to higher and more than wiped out the prior week's +75 BPS gain.

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If you're going to be a trader, you're going to lose money at some point, and in case you are still in the phase of trying to avoid all losing trades and searching for a «Holy - grail» trading system with a 75 % strike rate, you should forget about all that right now.

If interest rates rise by one percentage point, figure on the fund losing about 5 % of its value.

Mortgage backed securities (MBS) barely moved and lost only -3 basis points last week which helped to keep 30 year fixed rates at fantastic levels.

Finally, any stock with a rating below 25 % Buy loses one point.

The degree of credit damage you'll sustain varies but, in general, the better your credit rating is, the more points you'll lose when your unpaid maintenance fees go into collections.

Case in point: High - yielding stocks can sometimes serve as bond proxies, and lose value when rates rise.

If you don't settle within the lock - in period, you might lose the interest rate and the number of points you had locked - in.

For instance, a homeowner may find that cash - out refinancing is a way of borrowing cash at an interest rate (i.e. the interest rate on the new mortgage) that is lower than he or she could get with a personal loan and without losing the ability to write off interest and points (i.e. fees you pay to your mortgage lender to reduce your interest rate) on your taxes.

You can lose points on your credit rating.

For instance, if a bond has a duration of seven years, its price will likely climb 7 % if interest rates fall by one percentage point and lose 7 % if rates rise by a full point.

Short - term bond funds can lose at least some money when interest rates rise, as rates almost certainly will at some point.

Identity theft or an error on your credit report could easily cause your credit score to lose valuable points, resulting in higher interest rates or a denial for credit.

You may even lose your job at some point; experience a disability; retire early, transfer a commuted value lump - sum payment from your pension into a locked - in RRSP; or decide to defer your pension start date at retirement — all things that could create a year or number of years where your income is significantly lower and strategic RRSP withdrawals could be made at a lower tax rate than today.

If the fund has lost money or only made a few percentage points every year of its existence, it's not beating the yearly rate of inflation and probably not a good choice.

Paying points to get a lower interest rate is almost always a losing proposition because most homeowners don't keep their loans long enough to recoup the up - front costs.

That suggests that the fund's shares would lose about 6 % if rates rose one percentage point.

If all rates went up by 100 basis points annually, it would be reasonable to expect a broad - based bond index fund (with a duration of about seven years) to lose about 3 % over one year and about 5 % over three years.

A couple points may be the difference between winning or losing a game, but the difference of a few points in terms of interest rate can be a real game - changer.

Ultimately, consenting to a hard inquiry and temporarily losing about 5 points to check rates may be worth the savings you could gain from qualifying with a low - cost lender likeLightStream.