Sentences with phrase «than a percentage point above»

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

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The light green line in the chart above shows interest rates would need to jump more than one percentage point to wipe out a year of income in the two - year Treasury note.

Rather than let your investments drift with market movements, it may make more sense to rebalance your holdings periodically (say, once or twice a year) or when your mix drifts a set amount from your target (you may allow your mix to fluctuate a maximum of 10 percentage points above or below the level you target).

When the sentiment index is more than one standard deviation above (below) its historical average, monthly returns average -0.34 % (+1.18 %) for the value - weighted market and -0.41 % (2.75 %) percentage points for the equal - weighted market.

The recent widening of this spread is, of course, much smaller than was seen in 1994 in the previous episode of globally rising bond yields, when the yield on 10 - year bonds in Australia moved from 1 percentage point to about 3 percentage points above the comparable US yield.

The unemployment rate has fallen less in NSW than in the smaller states, and it is now above the national average for the first time since the early 1990s, whereas Queensland's unemployment rate has fallen almost 2 percentage points to be the lowest across all states.

The Fed will now «print» $ 85 billion a month until the unemployment rate falls below 6.5 % and inflation projections remain no more than half a percentage point above 2 % for two years out.

... inflation between one and two years ahead is projected to be no more than a half percentage point above the Committee's 2 percent longer - run goal, and longer - term inflation expectations continue to be well anchored.

That's one percentage point higher than what residents paid during the market's previous peak — and way above the 26 % nationwide average.

He also shot 30 percentage points better than season average on 3's Yeah... he played above his head, and kudos to him for doing it.

In addition, investigators with citations above the median (more than 24 citations) at the time of application were 3.6 percentage points (P <.001) more likely to receive an R01 award (14).

We find that students just above the GPA threshold were about 21 percentage points more likely both to be admitted and to enroll in the online program than students just below the threshold (see Figure 3).

The parents of a student whose performance is 1 standard deviation above the mean are about 8 percentage points more likely to make a request than the parents of an otherwise similar student whose performance is 1 standard deviation below the mean (19 percent vs. 11 percent).

Among respondents living in districts that spend less than $ 9,440 ($ 3,000 below the average district), 61 % of uninformed respondents support higher spending, just 12 percentage points above such views among the uninformed.

And on the Massachusetts Comprehensive Assessment System (MCAS)- the state's standardized test, first administered in the spring of 1998 - Worcester public school students in different grade levels were 8 to 20 percentage points less likely to score at or above proficiency than were students statewide.

For example, in Alabama's 94 Reading First schools, the percentage of all 4th graders deemed to be proficient (stanine 5 and above) on the Stanford Achievement Test rose 12.7 points, from 40.1 percent in 2003 to 52.8 percent in 2007, more than twice as fast as the gain for students at other schools (which rose 5.5 points, from 64.2 percent to 69.7 percent in the same period).

The district classification rate for specific learning disability (SLD) and speech - language impairment (SLI) combined was no more than one percentage point above the state combined rate as reported in the fall of 2010 (approximately 9 %)

In 2014, only 30 % of fourth grader students performed at Basic or Above in ELA; in 2017, 62 % of fourth grade students performed at Basic or Above, reflecting an increase of more than 30 percentage points.

Since 2008, the percentage of students scoring above «basic» in English has risen by more than 13 points.

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.

Forty - six percent of Virginia grade - 4 students scored proficient or above in mathematics — six points higher than the percentage nationwide and a three - point increase since 2009.

It is reasonable to assume that they price their best selling ebooks higher, so it is reasonable to assume that a much higher percentage than just 20 % of sales are at a price point above $ 9.99.

as long as the unemployment rate remains above 6-1/2 percent, inflation between one and two years ahead is projected to be no more than a half percentage point above the Committee's 2 percent longer - run goal, and longer - term inflation expectations continue to be well anchored.

«Reverse mortgage rates are a heck of lot better than they used to be,» McLister says, adding that CHIP variable rates got as high as six percentage points above prime in 2009.

As an example, Lamont points out that, early this year, five - year bonds issued by the big Canadian banks were yielding more than 6 % — more than four percentage points above Government of Canada bonds of equivalent term.

The card lets you earn FOUR extra percentage points on the first $ 6,000 in U.S. supermarket spending alone in the year: this surplus above the BankAmericard more than pays for the annual fee of $ 95.

In particular, the Committee decided to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at 0 to 1/4 percent and currently anticipates that this exceptionally low range for the federal funds rate will be appropriate at least as long as the unemployment rate remains above 6-1/2 percent, inflation between one and two years ahead is projected to be no more than a half percentage point above the Committee's 2 percent longer - run goal, and longer - term inflation expectations continue to be well anchored.

Every year, the rate you're charged could climb two percentage points, though it can never climb more than six points above your initial rate.

Those loans averaged 7 percentage points higher than the typical home loan in 2013, according to a Center for Public Integrity / Times analysis of federal data, compared with just 3.8 percentage points above for other lenders.

NAR expects the rate on a 30 - year fixed rate mortgage to average 6.5 percent in 2006, about one percentage point higher than in 2003 and 2004, but not much above the expected average for 2005 of 5.9 percent — all extremely low by historical standards.

The 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage started the year more than a full percentage point above its average last year at this time.