Sentences with phrase «terms of a percent»

But, it raises profound challenges to the interpretation of score trends on high - stakes tests, to the meaning of achievement trend and gap reports in terms of percent proficient, to the interpretation of crossnational achievement comparisons, and to popular assumptions about testing of students in special populations (including some assumptions written into law).

Across grades three through eight, the six grades tested annually in both Math and ELA, the Buffalo charter sector outperformed the district in terms of the percent of students scoring «proficient» by 8.2 percentage points in Math and 7.5 percentage points in ELA.

Annual Percentage Rate (APR)-- the rate of interest (in terms of a percent, such as 8.75 %) being charged for a loan over a year's time.

Real - estate linked ETFs remain the strongest sector in terms of their percent above their 10 month moving average.

Real - estate linked ETFs and US Equity ETFs remain the strongest sector in terms of their percent above their 10 month moving average.

The next round of reports are going to be significantly increased in terms of percent.

International equities and international real estate are the strongest sector in terms of their percent above their 10 month moving average.

It can also be quoted in terms of a percent of the current market price, referred to as dividend yield.

Investors often view the company's dividend by its dividend yield which measures the dividend in terms of a percent of the current market price.

Kentucky is ranked third in terms of percent of households that own dogs, — 45.9 percent — according to the

Effective Results must be quantified - either in terms of percent or dollars or both.

Not exact matches

«One percent of equity in something can be very different depending on what terms you have around it.»

That might sound like a lot of companies getting funded, but in terms of the number of deals it's actually quite a steep drop — 19 percent from a year earlier — and the lowest number since the first quarter of 2012.

However, Chiavegato notes that operations were slower than usual on Friday, in terms of employee productivity: «We are not at 100 percent,» he says.

The U.S. currently ranks far behind other large economies in terms of the percentage of goods and services it exports — about 13.4 percent, according to the World Bank.

In terms of budgeting, as a general rule, consider between 20 and 30 percent of predicted gross sales as the baseline budget for comprehensive coverage, including health and life insurance.

The truth is that in terms of customer acquisition and retention, email marketing continues to hit 80 percent, easily outperforming other tactics.

While I don't presume to read traders» (or trading computers») minds (see Barry ritholtz» note this morning about ex post facto rationalizations), generally speaking there is concern that the «taper» of long term bond purchases will cause bond yields (the percent of interest paid on them) to rise.

In terms of data, euro zone inflation jumped to 1.9 percent in April from 1.5 percent in March driven by energy prices, flash data showed Friday.

In other words, would pushing the short - term interest rate down to 0 percent, from the current rate of 0.16 percent, propel the GDP growth and inflation to such permanently higher levels?

That remains well off its long - term target of 30 to 35 percent.

At the moment, he estimates that only 5 percent of his customers order beverages through the app, but it's a number that's been picking up steam over the last few months; if the trend continues, and 5 percent grows to a more substantial slice of the pie, he says he'd push to renegotiate his terms with the company.

In terms of data, retail sales numbers in the U.K. came in higher - than - expected, showing an increase of 0.3 percent month - on - month in October.

Premiums for long - term - care insurance count toward the current deduction threshold (10 percent of adjusted gross income) for medical expenses.

In the study sample of 60 different inversion deals, approximately 15 - 20 percent of shareholders fell into this long - term investor category and were made worse off from the inversion.

«We retain our call that the deal has a 65 percent chance of collapsing during Trump's first term and a 60 percent chance that he pulls out on or before the 12 May waiver deadline.»

These short - term factors include: unclear payrolls data due to weather effects, uncertainty over the leadership of the Fed and comments of a potential 10 percent repatriation tax for U.S. firms, according to Gallo.

Over half, or 58 percent, now say that the problem of sexual harassment is being appropriately addressed, and 67 percent say the changes will be long - term, up from 60 percent in December.

Given the average inflation rate of -0.2 percent during that interval, real short - and long - term interest rates of 0.5 percent and 1.7 percent indicate an easy credit stance and a low cost of capital.

British inflation stood at 2.3 percent in annual terms in the month of March, unchanged from the near four - year high seen in the February reading.

Sixty percent of our survey respondents stressed that they use business content to help them understand complex issues in simple terms.

In terms of gender, between 60 and 70 percent of employees at each company are men.

The 8 percent align their short - and long - term goals toward conquering the top of the mountain.

«We remain firmly convinced that an extraordinary amount of monetary policy support, including through our forward guidance, is still necessary for the present level of underutilized resources to be re-absorbed and for inflation to return to and durably stabilize around levels close to 2 percent within a meaningful medium - term horizon,» Draghi said.

The yen has already gone down more than 16 percent against the dollar since the beginning of the year, and it is now down 12 percent in trade - weighted terms compared with the year before.

Fourteen percent of our sales are really digital — what does that mean for a country in terms of enhancing our overall competitiveness when you can buy your goods and completely avoid the Canadian tax net?

This definition of markup was probably developed to avoid using a term that admits to a 100 percent increase.

The value of commercial and industrial loans of less than $ 1 million — a common proxy for small business lending — was 17 percent lower in June of this year than it was at the beginning of the recovery — when measured in inflation adjusted terms.

The President boosted the number of federal regulations affecting small businesses by 13 percent during his first term in office, leading governmental regulation and red tape to overtake sales, taxes and the cost / availability of insurance as small business's biggest problem, respondents to the National Federation of Independent Business small business survey explain.

Investors are starting to realize that the long - term growth potential in the U.S. is «one and a half to two percent,» says Bob Boyda of Manulife Asset Management.

In 2016, 26 percent of employers surveyed by industry nonprofit the Society for Human Resource Management offer paid maternity leave beyond what's covered by short - term disability or state law.

The average AdWords account wastes 76 percent of its budget on search terms that never produce conversions, let alone sales.

We only spend about 10 to 15 percent of our time working on long - term projects that will not impact the business for years to come.

Lenders also examine the credit scores of owners with 20 percent ownership or more when deciding whether to extend a loan offer or deliberating its terms.

Loans of up to $ 300,000 will be available for terms of one to six months, with annualized interest rates ranging from 6 percent to 28.8 percent.

In terms of geographic breadth, US ICOs account for 57 percent of dollars raised across the top five countries.

Belarus's gross domestic product shrank by 3.5 percent in January to August and the average monthly wage has fallen by about a third in dollar terms since the start of the year to $ 420.

In a statement following the end of a two - day policy meeting, the Fed also said that «on a 12 - month basis is expected to run near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective over the medium term.»

There was the founder who had a term sheet from an American investor canceled after the investor saw something on the Internet about a protest in Argentina; the founder who had given up 80 percent of his company to secure seed capital; and the founder who was so strapped for cash that he had had to raise an angel funding round just to go to a trade show in San Francisco.

I mean M2 money supply is only 5 percent now year over year — that's a six - year low in terms of monetary growth.»