Sentences with phrase «tenths of a percent for»

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.

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On top of the more buoyant outlook for overall growth, Fed officials cut their estimates for the unemployment rate, to 3.9 percent in 2018 and 2019, two - tenths below the previous numbers.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Something I think has been somewhat overlooked in general euphoria over the strength of economic indicators, is the that commercial and industrial loans for all of the banks in the United States are now only up one - tenth of one percent in the last 12 months.

That business segment now represents only 3 percent of Citigroup's balance sheet, with $ 54 billion in assets but was profitable for the tenth quarter in a row.

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.

Where is the bigoted logic from that any regular Muslim can answer for the tenth of a one percent that have extremist tendencies?

Employment level index in the month of December stood at 47.5 percent, indicating a decline in employment in the manufacturing sector for the tenth consecutive month.

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

A candidate of a new political party must file signatures equal to at least one - tenth of 1 percent of the total votes cast for the winning presidential or gubernatorial candidate at the last general election in the district the candidate seeks to represent.

The Wilds of New Guinea Even though it is only about one - tenth the size of the United States, New Guinea has 7 percent of the world's biodiversity, making the island a living laboratory for evolutionary biologists like Christopher Austin, who observes firsthand the adaptive mechanisms that spark the creation of novel species.

As a result, the United States had just 800 megawatts of grid - connected solar photovoltaic power in 2008, and solar accounted for less than a tenth of one percent of all energy consumed in the country.

But when the figures flashed for just four tenths or two tenths of a second, the chimp trumped all, still hitting about 80 percent of the time, whereas his human challengers» success rate plummeted to 40 percent.

When the numbers were displayed for about seven tenths of a second, Ayumu and the college students both scored correctly about 80 percent of the time.

«There is a lack of strategy from political actors about how emissions from these industries should be reduced, even though these industries are responsible for a tenth of emissions of carbon dioxide in Europe and nearly 20 percent in Sweden,» says Johan Rootzén.

Our brains, which weigh an average of 2.7 pounds (1,200 grams), account for about 2 percent of body weight, compared with an elephant's under one - tenth of a percent.

As the energy output of the helium fusion process per unit mass is only about a tenth the energy output of the hydrogen process, this stage will only last for about 10 percent of a star's total active lifetime.

The honor is bestowed for «exceptional scientific contributions and attained acknowledged eminence in the fields of earth and space science» and is given to no more than one - tenth of one percent of all members of the organization.

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.

In addition to the nonsensical lunar - orbiting project, its budget projects spending $ 7.5 billion over the next three years on preparing the Space Launch System (SLS) for its first flight, when we already have SpaceX's Falcon Heavy, which can lift 70 percent of the SLS payload at one - tenth the cost.

Only two - tenths of one percent of the soldiers had antibodies to the enzyme of transglutaminase (a reliable marker for Celiac disease, an autoimmune disease triggered by gluten consumption).

Because white flour is enriched with iron and calcium propionate, a plain bagel provides 6 milligrams of iron and nearly one - tenth of the calcium you need daily, while a whole wheat bagel provides half as much iron and 2 percent of your daily value for calcium.

For example, in the Athens Area School District, student gains topped 87 percent, and of the eighty - nine Quakertown students who failed tenth - grade math, 72 percent are now getting A's, B's, or C's in their junior year.

The department plans to ask only for an additional $ 3 million — an increase of just a tenth of a percent — for the $ 3.8 billion program, which sends money to states and local districts to help them pay for special education costs, according to documents obtained by Education Week last week from the House.

The bill they passed, and that the President signed, reduced total discretionary and mandatory spending for education by just $ 60 million — a cut of less than one - tenth of one percent from the prior year's $ 71.66 billion budget.

Though $ 1.8 billion is a substantial sum, in the context of public spending for public education, it's a relative drop in the bucket — amounting to less than three - tenths of 1 percent of total spending on public education nationally.

Z4 sales for the first quarter of 2016 have since fallen by 47 percent with the car only accounting for three - tenths of one percent of BMW's brand volume.

Another editor in 1995 complained to me that she was spending 80 % of her time in meetings talking about electronic publishing that only accounted for less than one tenth of one percent of all sales at that time.

Vanguard charges.1 % (one tenth of a percent) for their Total Stock Market Index if your account is more than $ 100,000.

For example, the bank may offer 0.1 % (one tenth of one percent) APY for savings or 1.25 % APY for a 3 - year For example, the bank may offer 0.1 % (one tenth of one percent) APY for savings or 1.25 % APY for a 3 - year for savings or 1.25 % APY for a 3 - year for a 3 - year CD.

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.

Surprisingly, less than one tenth of one percent of debtors who file for bankruptcy even attempt to have their student loans discharged.»

At present it is hard to consider moving for 2 tenths of 1 percent, when both pay under 1.5 %!

After comparing CDs online, I found that a 1 - year CD in my ZIP code could pay as much as 1.2 % APY or as little as 0.1 % APY (the latter is one tenth of one percent, or $ 1 in interest for every $ 1,000 deposited for an entire year).

Today, you can manage your basic Couch Potato portfolio for less than one - tenth of one percent.

· 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!

You can get that again from Mr. Bogle for about 11 basis points, near a tenth of a percent.

If you can't do a simple portfolio like the second grader portfolio with one - tenth of what Edelman charges, then look for cheap alternatives such as Portfolio Solutions, which charges 0.25 percent, though you will need a larger portfolio to make this cost effective since they do have a $ 2,000 household minimum charge.

Although dairy cattle make up less than a tenth of the total cattle sent to market, data shows they account for 90 percent of the violative residues on an annual basis.

The upper - end estimate of 287,000 dogs entering the United States annually (including companion animals in addition to those intended for resale) represents less than four - tenths of one percent of the U.S. dog population.

These usually vary by only a tenth of a percent or so, but you can probably save a couple of bucks by choosing MasterCard for foreign transactions.

He writes: «the data of landfalling hurricanes in the U.S. is less than a tenth of a percent of the data for global hurricanes over their whole lifetimes», and shows that from such a small subset of data and given the amount of natural variability, there is no way you would be able to detect a trend by now.

The oil sands are still a tiny part of the world's carbon problem — they account for less than a tenth of one percent of global CO2 emissions — but to many environmentalists they are the thin end of the wedge, the first step along a path that could lead to other, even dirtier sources of oil: producing it from oil shale or coal.

While at first sight that might appear to be the more relevant statistic, it actually is a case like rolling the dice only twelve times: as Emanuel's calculations showed, the number of landfalling storms is simply far too small to get a meaningful result, as those data represent «less than a tenth of a percent of the data for global hurricanes over their whole lifetimes».

Thus, the government was attributing almost one - tenth of all health - care spending in the province to illnesses and mortality arising from coal power plants that were responsible for only one percent of annual particulate emissions, which is implausible.

The projected anomalous temperatures obtained by multiplying the climate sensitivity factor for the removal of sulfate aerosols -LRB-.02) times the net amount of reduction in SO2 aerosols between one year and another later year will give the anomalous temperature for the later year to within less than a tenth of a percent of actuality.