Sentences with phrase «tenth of a percent»

They deserve a hard - working, honest governor who will fight for all of them and not just the top tenth of a percent.

It goes up one - tenth of a percent annually until the measure expires, so by the end of the program, 5.9 percent will go for transporting seniors and the disabled.

After the free promotion, I went from being an Amazon nobody to being in the top tenth of a percent of digital authors in sales.

Even after you account for the higher expense ratio and the fact that its distribution yield is a few tenths of a percent lower, the outperformance is still meaningful.

And that's what this life insurance company bought a lot of, picking up a princely few extra tenths of a percent in interest over the AAA bonds for a lot more risk.

Even tenths of a percent matter given compound interest and time.

Mr. Gentile showed the graphs to reporters after the event, which illustrated that Mr. Donovan's violent felony conviction rate is just one - tenth of a percent lower than that of the Brooklyn district attorney's office.

· Lower transaction cost — Commission for trading a futures contract is one - tenth of a percent while it is as much as one percent for trading stocks!

Even tenths of a percent matter given compound interest and time.

The idea of taking more risk just to squeak out an extra tenth of a percent makes no sense.

That leads to an interesting question: Because carbon dioxide increases have been bouncing around four - tenths of a percent per year for three decades, why do climate modelers insist on using the wrong number?

A few tenths of a percent management fees separate mutual fund winners from losers.

Ford said on Tuesday that its sales fell 3.6 percent in December compared with sales in the month a year earlier and fell four - tenths of a percent for the year.

Fortunately, as Gallagher notes, the news is not all bad: «Since 2000, three of the five leading marriage indicators have actually stabilized or begun to improve: The proportion of first marriages that are intact plunged from 77 percent to under 60 percent between 1970 and 2000; it actually climbed three - tenths of a percent since 2000.

The SUNY scientists have harvested more than 10,000 of them, but less than one - tenth of a percent form culture growths that can then be coaxed into whole plants.

Following the revival of ACS WFC during the Servicing Mission 4 (SM4) in 2009 May, CTE corrections are now typically several tenths of a percent and should be included, even for our bright standard star observations that utilize a standard reference point which is only 512 rows from the CCD amplifier B readout corner.

The reason these allocations include tenths of a percent instead of being rounded to single digit percentages is to match the way they show up in Paul's Motifs at Motif Investing.

Again, we'd encourage readers not to focus too strongly on a few tenths of a percent here or there, but rather to recognize that JtB, as currently constructed, has — over time — accomplished its long - term goals.

While tax rates in the range of tenths of a percent sound small they would have large effects on stock values.

«They transfer that two tenths of a percent chance that the nuke melts down or the oil spill happens, or whatever the abomination is, to the state.

Idaho's school finance formula assumes each district will contribute three - tenths of a percent of local property value to the total foundation program.

G.M. sales fell six - tenths of a percent in 1997, with car sales dropping 3.5 percent but sales of light trucks rising 3.4 percent.

The increase has been about four - tenths of a percent per decade, averaged over the last 30 years — not 1 percent.

Another way to look at it is that mobile in - store payments accounted for just under a tenth of a percent of in - store retail volume in the US in 2014.

China's tariffs «amount to about three - tenths of a percent of our GDP.

And yet Ceres — the largest object in the asteroid belt — is less than one - tenth of a percent the size of Earth and less than 2 % the size of the moon:

And while wages fell slightly for the second month in a row (down a tenth of a percent from April), pay is still up 0.2 percent year - to - date, giving us confidence that it is, for the most part, stable.

It's true that the total rate of business ownership increased by a scant two tenths of a percent to 6 percent of the general population in 2014, equivalent to about 11 million businesses.

As a percentage of Gross Domestic Product, or GDP, NAM reports, the U.S. spends about a tenth of a percent supporting exports.

Property tax rates are represented in «mills,» a unit equal to one tenth of a percent (so 1 % equals 10 mills).

Since its 2014 high on December 29, the S&P 500 Index has gained 1.5 % (not including a fraction of a percent in dividends), the Dow Industrial Average has gained 1.3 %, the Dow Transportation Average is down -5.8 %, the Dow Utilities Average is down -8.9 %, market breadth has churned sideways, and investment grade corporate spreads are flat (though junk spreads have come in about two - tenths of a percent).

And prices actually fell by a tenth of a percent last...

The unemployment rate fell to 4.3 percent, its lowest level since 2001, but for the wrong reason: labor force participation fell by two - tenths of a percent.

Meanwhile, small banks, though down by two - tenths of a percent, are granting more than half of requests they receive from entrepreneurs.

Over the past 12 months, Disney insiders have bought 25 thousand shares and sold 438 thousand shares for a net effect of 413 thousand shares sold, or less than a tenth of a percent of Disney's total shares outstanding.

It's one - tenth of a percent in the United States.

At only two - tenths of a percent of the prison population, self - identifying atheists are, as previously suggested, extremely law - abiding.

The United Nations has asked the wealthiest countries to give at least seven - tenths of a percent of their GNP to foreign aid.

The crisis that derailed ranked choice in 2017 began all the way back on Election Day 1879, when Republican gubernatorial candidate Daniel Davis missed an outright majority by three - tenths of a percent in a three - way race.

The assemblyman's office noted he had co-sponsored a measure that would peg the then - $ 8 hourly minimum wage to the urban inflation rate, which has increased by an average of 1.7 percent annually over the last five years (and only increased by a tenth of a percent in 2015)-- which would have resulted in a far more modest rise in the pay floor.

To no great surprise, he says it will go down (best guess: a few tenths of a percent, as in recent budgets).

Earth is mostly rock and iron; only about a tenth of a percent is water.

In the dye - sensitized solar cell world, every tenth of a percent counts in making devices more efficient and commercially viable.

In tests, the researchers dispersed nanodiamonds in mineral oil and found that a very small concentration — one - tenth of a percent by weight — raised the thermal conductivity of the oil by 70 percent at 373 kelvins (about 211 degrees Fahrenheit).

The risk of schizophrenia to someone who carries one of these markers is increased by as little as one - tenth of a percent.

(The new value differs from the old by less than a tenth of a percent.)