Sentences with phrase «than a percentage point for»

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For the most part, that spread historically has been fairly negligible, usually no more than 1 or 2 percentage points.

Since the beginning of 2008, the Russell 3000 growth index outperformed its value counterpart by more than 70 percentage points, returning 10.3 % annually, compared with 7 % for value stocks.

The percentage of Americans living in poverty has fallen for the second year in a row, but is still slightly higher than in 2007 and still 1.4 percentage points higher than in 2000.

The Non-Manufacturing Business Activity Index increased 6.5 percentage points to 63.5 percent, reflecting growth for the 13th consecutive month at a faster rate than in November.

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.

Because of the surprising bias we discovered, their finding of only a negligibly higher field goal percentage for shots following a streak of makes (three percentage points), was, if you do the calculation, actually 11 percentage points higher than one would expect from a coin flip!

Since 1997, the workforce participation rate for Canadians aged 55 and over has increased 12 percentage points to 34 % and is now higher than it was in 1976.

But it also turns out that we phone users are a price - sensitive bunch and reduce our phone usage by more than 1 percent for each percentage point increase in our bills.

President Barack Obama and Speaker of the House John Boehner are unlikely to reverse several scheduled tax increases, including the 0.9 percentage point increase in the Medicare tax rate on wages and salaries of more than $ 200,000 for single filers ($ 250,000 for married filers); a 3.8 percent Medicare tax on unearned income of higher income filers; and an increase in the capital gains tax rate.

A recent survey of small - business owners conducted for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce by Harris Interactive reported an 11 percentage point rise in the last year in the number of owners who are unsure of whether their business will be better off in the future than it has been in the past.

Apple originally had planned to pay music owners 71.5 % of Apple Music's subscription revenue after the trial period ended, Re / code previously reported, which was «a few percentage points higher than the industry standard,» to account for the longer trial period.

In a study issued this week (Aug. 11 - 15), Goldman Sachs Bank USA economists Eli Hackle and Hui Shan showed that the homeownership rate of young adults, ages 25 - 34, who were carrying more than $ 50,000 in student, was 8 percentage points lower than for college graduates with less than $ 50,000 in student debt.

In the post-Volcker period, for example, short - term interest rates in the United States have jumped by more than two percentage points within a one - year period on several occasions.

«They're very closely aligned with our forecasts,» said Brett House, the deputy chief economist at Scotiabank, where the prediction for Canada is one - tenth of a percentage point higher than what the IMF projects.

The Office for National Statistics said the unemployment rate in May fell to 7.8 per cent in the three months to May, 0.2 percentage point lower than the previous two - month period.

But Kondrk says Apple's payouts are a few percentage points higher than the industry standard, in part to account for the lengthy trial period; most paid subscription services offer a free one - month trial.

In its October 2014 World Economic Outlook (WEO), the International Monetary Fund (IMF) reduced its forecast for global economic growth to 3.3 percent for 2014, 0.4 percentage points lower than in the April 2014 WEO.

The differences in rate were minimal: most lenders kept their rates the same regardless of zip code, and rate increases for the largest markets went no higher than 0.08 percentage points.

The share of Web traffic from non-PC devices for directories / resources rose more than 20 percentage points from 6 % to 27 % of all Web traffic over the course of the year.

I highlighted the 1.08 percent average expense ratio of «similar funds,» which is 1.03 percentage points higher than Vanguard's advertised expense ratio.5 The Investment Company Institute finds an average expense ratio of 0.89 percent for actively managed equity funds, versus 0.12 percent for equity index funds, or a 0.77 percentage point difference.

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).

The report was issued today by Anthony Nieves, CPSM, C.P.M., A.P.P., CFPM, Chair of the Institute for Supply Management ® (ISM ®) Non-Manufacturing Business Survey Committee: «The NMI ® registered 56.8 percent, which is 2 percentage points lower than the March reading of 58.8 percent.

Nine in 10 (89 %) job seekers report they're likely to use a mobile device during their job search in the next 12 months, up seven percentage points (82 %) from less than a year ago.2 Also, 45 % of job seekers say they use their mobile device specifically to search for jobs at least once a day, up two percentage points in less than a year.

«In the United States, there is the illusion that we can do without world markets, and indeed we export less as a percentage of GDP than you do,» points out Christopher Sands, a professor and director of the Center for Canadian Studies at Johns Hopkins University.

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 one - day loss for many funds, including Vanguard Total Bond Market, iShares Core U.S. Aggregate Bond, Pimco Total Return and Metropolitan West Total Return, while less than a half a percentage point, still amounted to more than 10 percent of their current yield.

If undertaken over five years, the 1.5 percentage point hike for employers would be just 0.3 per cent per year, which is less than ordinary year - to - year variations in wages.

She found that, all else equal, for every one - percentage - point increase in the national unemployment rate, the starting income of new graduates fell by as much as 7 percent; the unluckiest graduates of the decade, who emerged into the teeth of the 1981 — 82 recession, made roughly 25 percent less in their first year than graduates who stepped into boom times.

As a result, the gap here was 2.9 percentage points — more than double the average for the rest of Canada.

For instance, if a person agrees with the statement that, «Expanded trade with China would bring greater economic prosperity to Canada,» the probability of this person supporting a Canada - China FTA is 12 percentage points higher than a person who disagrees with this statement.

For example, the cost for the Indonesian government to borrow money for a decade rose more than half a percentage point, to 4.8 percent; similarly eye - popping interest rate increases occurred in countries including Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Russia, and PolaFor example, the cost for the Indonesian government to borrow money for a decade rose more than half a percentage point, to 4.8 percent; similarly eye - popping interest rate increases occurred in countries including Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Russia, and Polafor the Indonesian government to borrow money for a decade rose more than half a percentage point, to 4.8 percent; similarly eye - popping interest rate increases occurred in countries including Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Russia, and Polafor a decade rose more than half a percentage point, to 4.8 percent; similarly eye - popping interest rate increases occurred in countries including Brazil, Mexico, Turkey, Russia, and Poland.

With a lower credit score, you might only qualify for an interest rate that is 1 or 2 percentage points higher than the lowest rates advertised.

Interest rates for non-prime loans are several percentages points higher than those of prime loans.

In general, interest rates on a second mortgage will several percentage points higher than for a comparable - sized first mortgage; and second liens can be fixed - rate or adjustable - rate mortgages (ARM).

As a basis for comparison, between 1980 and 1995, household credit grew, on average, by around 3 3/4 percentage points faster than nominal GDP.

But student credit cards have high APRs; the average on these cards is 19.8 %, about 5 percentage points higher than the average for all credit cards.

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

However, if the appraised value of the home is more than a few percentage points higher than the lender's expectation for what that value should be, the lender may ask to commission a second, verifying appraisal.

Authorities also have taken steps to cool demand for houses by insisting that new buyers qualify for loans at rates that are two percentage points higher than current rates.

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.

Results from the Bank's latest quarterly survey of financial market economists show that the median inflation forecast is 2.1 per cent over the year to June 2004, before picking up to 2.4 per cent over the year to June 2005; forecasts for both periods are lower than they were in November 2003 by 0.1 percentage points (Table 16).

Working for themselves is also top of mind for many millennials with 74 per cent saying they thought of owning their own business, 11 percentage points higher than the average Canadian adult.

However, if you are likely to qualify for the lowest rate at FreedomPlus, go with them as this is a full two percentage points lower than the lowest rate at Discover.

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.

In November 2011, we analyzed the keywords of HubSpot's customers to find that more than 11 % of organic search traffic was being affected, and by January of this year, we'd found that for the HubSpot website specifically, about 55 % of the organic search we got each month was encrypted (and we'd seen that percentage steadily rising by about 4 percentage points each month).

Residents also need 60.7 % of local median income to pay for the typical home — No. 1 among markets on RealtyTrac's bubble list and 3.8 percentage points higher than the previous peak.

One frequently cited bar graph has been used to suggest, for the decade 1965 - 75, a severe diminution of seven mainline Protestant bodies by contrast both with their gains in the preceding ten years and with the continuing growth of selected conservative churches (see Jackson W. Carroll et al., Religion in America, 1950 to the Present [Harper & Row, 19791, p. 15) The gap in growth rates for 1965 - 75, as shown on that graph, is more than 29 percentage points (an average loss in the oldline denominations of 8.9 per cent against average gains among the conservatives of 20.5 per cent) This is indeed a substantial difference, but it does not approach the difference in growth rates recorded for the same religious groups in the 1930s, when the discrepancy amounted to 62 percentage points.

On average, the Gallup Youth Survey documents teen church attendance that is 10 percentage points higher than the national figures for all adults.

An OMF report, saying that the percentage of drop - outs of missionaries in the Third World countries is higher than that of Western countries, pointed out that the main reason for this is the lack of needed training.

Fully 42 percent of Catholic baby boomers are currently unchurched, which is a mere three percentage points lower than the figure for mainline Protestants.