Sentences with phrase «than a percentage point below»

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

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.

Not exact matches

The 0.3 - percentage - point estimate is slightly higher than most expectations but well below Republicans» assurances.

The CEPR researchers add that prime - age employment for men is now 3 percentage points lower than it was in December 2007, while the rate for women is 2.2 percentage points below where it was.

But the average rate on the 30 - year mortgage has jumped more than a full percentage point since May and was 4.57 per cent last week — just below the two - year high.

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).

As the article chart below shows, McKinsey is forecasting that the average annual equity returns over the next 20 years will be between 1.5 and 4.0 percentage points lower than they were in the past 30 years.

If we assume that disposable household income is currently half of GDP, eight years of real GDP growth of 6.9 % and real disposable household income growth of 7.7 % will only raise the household income share of GDP to 53.1 % in 2023, a little more than 3 percentage points higher and still below its 21st Century average and leaving China as dependent as ever on investment and the current account surplus.

This is the next great challenge for Beijing, and when the regulators finally do start to repair overextended balance sheet, with a much higher debt - to - GDP ratio than any other country at China's stage of economic development, according to a presentation Monday night by my very smart former student, Chen Long, I expect annual GDP growth rates will continue dropping steadily, by 1 - 2 percentage points a year through the rest of this decade (and there has been increasing talk in the past month or two that GDP growth rates are already 1 - 2 points below the printed rates).

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.

Budgetary revenues to the end of February are running about one percentage point below that forecast in the Match 2011 Budget, due primarily to lower - than - expected personal income tax and other revenues.

In the table below, you'll notice that 20 + year bonds historically earned half a percentage point more than 5 - year bonds, but with roughly double the volatility.

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.

That seems high, but it is 8 percentage point lower than how Democrats view Clinton and it is 13 percentage points below how the Teachout voters view Obama.

After controlling for average class size, per - pupil spending in 1998 - 99, the percentage of students with disabilities, the percentage of students receiving a free or reduced - price school lunch, the percentage of students with limited English proficiency, and student mobility rates, high - scoring F schools achieved gains that were 2.5 points greater than their below - average D counterparts in reading (see Figure 2).

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.

High school graduation rates have increased by more than 20 percentage points, from below 50 percent to more than 70 percent.

The school's ISTEP + passing rate has never topped 30 percent — more than 40 percentage points below the state's average — yet state figures show the school's enrollment has increased 60 percent since 2008.

Nicky Morgan, education secretary, has promised that «no more» than «1 percentage point more» would fall below the floor this year, as schools work under a tougher, more rigorous curriculum and testing regime.

Essentially, they have a lower proportion of disadvantaged pupils than their local communities — or to be precise, a -15 percentage points bias, as shown in the graph below.

She said: «Nicky has reiterated the commitment that no more than 1 percentage point more will be below the floor and we expect her to hold to that.

While the overall U.S. performance fell far behind top performers, such as Singapore, Japan, and Canada, the United States made the biggest improvement in equity from 2006 to 2015, increasing its percentage of «resilient students» — defined as disadvantaged students who perform better than predicted by their socioeconomic status — by 12 percentage points, as shown in the below image from the report.

This, by the way, is a faster decline in illiteracy than the four percentage point decline in white fourth - graders reading Below Basic (from 25 percent in 2002 to 21 percent in 2013); the percentage of white fourth - graders struggling with literacy declined by one percentage point between 2011 and 2013.

One out of every five suburban fourth grade young men from middle - class backgrounds were reading Below Basic in 2011, according to Dropout Nation «s analysis of NAEP data, just three points better than levels of illiteracy four years earlier; big - city districts brought down the levels of illiteracy for their middle class students by four percentage points in that same period, with nearly as many students from those backgrounds struggling with reading.

Even at a full percentage point higher than where they are now, interest rates still would be well below long - term norms.

This is more than a full percentage point below the 5.64 percent we saw as recently as July 2011.»

These rates are also more than a full percentage point below the average 30 - year fixed - rate mortgage cost — 3.73 %.

On average, the 60 - year SWR are more than a full percentage point below the 30 - year SWR (below the 45 - degree line), but in the region where it really matters, when the SWRs are low, the difference is «only» about 0.5 %.

Second, notice that the starting rates for adjustable - rate financing is just a little bit more than 1 percentage point below the low, low fixed rate.

But a second table in the study shows that, with some exceptions, if the tax rate you face in retirement is five to 10 percentage points or more below what it was when you made the contribution, the combination of a traditional IRA and taxable account will have a larger after - tax balance than the Roth account.

However, the average RISE score for energy efficiency is more than ten percentage points below that for renewable energy.

Let's consider a scenario in which an average household making $ 150,000, with minimal debt and a deposit of 20 per cent or more, gets approved for a mortgage rate that is more than two percentage points below the current Bank of Canada five - year benchmark of 4.89 per cent.

We can also expect economic growth in the 2.5 to 3.0 percent range, more than 0.5 percentage points better than was projected for 2013, with the unemployment rate falling below 7 percent, perhaps by mid-2014.