Sentences with phrase «than a percentage point»

Students began to see learning as more than percentage points.

Consider this possibility: More than a few elections will be decided by less than a percentage point this year.

Perhaps the margin of error is less than a percentage point which would mean there are twice as many eReader owners as Tablet owners.

Home prices are stagnant or rising less than a percentage point above inflation.

Hsiang and his co-authors have estimated that every degree Celsius the earth warms will cost the country more than a percentage point of GDP, worsening income inequality as well.

And while bond investors have suffered setbacks recently as yields have risen by more than a percentage point from their 2016 lows in part because of concerns that tax cuts and infrastructure spending in a Trump administration could spur inflation, the Bloomberg Barclays U.S. Aggregate bond index — a good proxy for the investment - grade taxable bond market — is actually up almost 2 % from the beginning of the year.

Reuters reports that the U.S. same - store sales index rose only 3.5 percent during the previous month, more than a percentage point below expectations.

GEICO's $ 935.1 million in ad expenditures increased less than a percentage point between 2012 and 2013, but the company still spent $ 280 million more than Allstate, the next - highest spender...

Since many bonds can wilt when the economy and inflation heat up, it's no wonder fixed - income prices have fallen lately, pushing yields on 10 - year Treasuries up more than a percentage point since last summer.

According to projections from the State Comptroller, the rate of inflation will rise by less than a percentage point over the next year.

After my first year in office our score dropped to 65.8 percent, less than a percentage point away from getting off the significant stress list altogether.

The black / white employment gap for women increased almost sixfold during the post-recession years, from less than a percentage point in 2008 to a high of 5.5 percent points in 2011.

Users of Grindr — another app highly linked to hookup culture — rated love as their # 2 reason, less than a percentage point ahead of hookups.

Despite the challenges facing America's high schools, the Research Center found that the pace of improvement has been slow, with the nation's graduation rate increasing by less than a percentage point annually between...

The fund's average annual return over the past decade is 8.4 %, more than a percentage point better than the S&P 500.

Wages are down, growing less than a percentage point per quarter, down payments of 5 - 20 percent with traditional loans are an impediment to buyers and student loan debt is preventing a massive segment of young adults from buying.

The November 2011 unemployment rate in the city was 7.9 percent, more than a percentage point lower than the statewide rate for Indiana, and.8 percent lower than the US rate of 8.7 percent.

LendingTree says that rates can vary by more than a percentage point for a borrower looking for a 30 - year fixed loan.

Median expected spending growth is more than a percentage point below its June 2015 level and has reached a new series low.

Italy's former Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi staged his stunning political comeback, and came within less than a percentage point of winning the last week's election, on an anti-austerity, anti-German platform, mixed with promises of rescinding a widely resented and highly regressive real estate tax.

The damage and production shutdowns caused by the wildfire that razed Fort McMurray could subtract more than a percentage point from economic growth in the second quarter, the central bank said.

But when Carhart included zombie funds, the average compound return for stock funds dropped more than a percentage point, to 9.5 %.

The largest such S&P 500 fund, Vanguard's 500 Index Fund, boasts expense ratios of less than a percentage point.

Adjusted operating expenses rose 35 %, outpacing revenue growth and causing operating margin to fall more than a percentage point, to 54.2 %.

In the last ten years (1999 - 2009) Greece has spent 3.7 % of its GDP on defence, more than a percentage point more than any other European nation.

Switching from oil will bring consumer savings and tax income that, together with environmental benefits, will add more than a percentage point to gross domestic product, Rosner said.

As the above chart shows, the percentage of students in LAUSD deemed proficient or advanced rose, albeit by less than a percentage point, in a number of subjects: math, history and science.

The numbers also show that Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich increased more than two percentage points from the previous month to total a 25.8 % share, and that Jelly Bean's share grew more than a percentage point to roughly 3 % of all devices.

The largest such S&P 500 fund, Vanguard's 500 Index Fund, boasts expense ratios of less than a percentage point.

A major national builder recently began offering a 7/1 ARM with an interest rate of 3.875 % — more than a percentage point and a half below even conforming 30 - year FRMs — to buyers of its houses.