Sentences with phrase «several percentage points since»

And now, after watching the Standard & Poor's 500 - stock index fall by several percentage points since Thursday and bounce some of the way back on Tuesday, you have a different kind of fear: that all the stock market riches have been won already or that your emotions will get the best of you amid all of the volatility.

Not exact matches

For several years, data suggested that the city had seen improvements among all ethnic groups, including in graduation rates, which have risen about 14 percentage points for black and Hispanic students since 2005, and a national standardized test given every other year to a sampling of fourth and eighth graders.

Surveys of the climate science community since 1996 have found the percentage of climate scientists agreeing on human - caused global warming has steadily increased to the point where in the last few years, several independent surveys have found 97 % agreement among actively publishing climate scientists.