Sentences with phrase «than a percentage point from»

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.

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.

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An Angus Reid poll of 799 British Columbians last October suggested 75 % felt it should be taxed and regulated rather than prohibited, up six percentage points from a year earlier.

More than one third of business owners said they expect to decrease capital spending in the year ahead, an increase of about 10 percentage points from the previous quarter.

The fees can vary from less than 1 percent to a few percentage points — and interest at the prime rate to several points over prime on the balance of receivables you sell, making it steeper than most bank loans.

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!

That would be a percentage - point improvement from 2016, and better than any other country in the Group of Seven rich economies.

Despite a shortfall of workers, average hourly pay rose just 2.4 percent from a year ago, one - half percentage point lower than September's annual gain.

Data from the Census Bureau released last week showed that in 2014, 9.7 percent of the businesses in the St. Louis metro area were startups less than a year old, up three percentage points from 2009.

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).

Ryan Avent pointed out that even if we enacted Trump's massive tax cuts and spending increaes, adding $ 34 trillion in new debt over the next two decades, our ratio of debt to GDP two decades from now would still be 30 percentage points less than Japan's government debt ratio is right now... and the market is still buying their negative interest rate long term debt...

That's three percentage points lower than it is now, representing roughly 7.5 million jobs missing from the nation's economy.

The most recent GDP release is a case in point: the drag induced by the drop in inventories subtracted more than two percentage points from the annualized fourth quarter GDP growth rate.

is a case in point: the drag induced by the drop in inventories subtracted more than two percentage points from the annualized fourth quarter GDP growth rate.

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.

This means that, in 19 out of 20 cases, survey results will differ by no more than 2.5 percentage points from what would have been obtained by the opinions of all target group members in the U.S.

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.

Volume / mix decreased 0.8 percentage points as the benefit from a shift in Easter - related sales as well as gains in frozen, macaroni and cheese, and condiments and sauces were more than offset by select distribution losses in cheese and meats as well as lower shipments in foodservice.

In general terms, an ownership change results from a cumulative change in the equity ownership of certain stockholders by more than 50 percentage points over a three - year period.

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 refinance must produce a net tangible benefit resulting in at least a 0.5 percentage point reduction in the combined interest rate and Mortgage Insurance Premium (MIP) or Refinancing from an Adjustable - Rate Mortgage (ARM) to a Fixed - Rate Mortgage (with no more than 2 percentage points greater than the combined interest rate and MIP)

This is a percentage point lower than average potential growth in the decade prior to the crisis... We estimate that the real neutral policy rate is currently in the range of 1 to 2 per cent... This translates into a nominal neutral policy rate of 3 to 4 per cent, down from a range of 4 1/2 to 5 1/2 per cent in the period prior to the crisis.»

But during these periods inflation was mild, ranging from being unchanged to rising by less than 2 percentage points.

During the bear market beginning in 1973, the inflation rate increased by more than 9 percentage points — from 3.4 percent to 12.4 percent.

The latest ABS projections, based on Australian Bureau of Agricultural and Resource Economics (ABARE) estimates, indicate that farm GDP fell by around 30 per cent over the year to the June quarter 2003, subtracting a little under 1 percentage point from GDP growth, which is a slightly smaller subtraction than previously expected.

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).

Personal loan rates today are approximately 1.4 percentage points lower than they were in 2011, according to rates data from the National Credit Union Association (NCUA) compiled from March 2011 through September 2016.

That was nearly 10 percentage points faster than the pace of growth from number one AWS.

The same study showcases «the percentage of Americans who are religiously unaffiliated — describing themselves as atheist, agnostic or «nothing in particular» — has jumped more than six points, from 16.1 to 22.8 percent.»

In 15 of those countries, more women than men say this by margins ranging from 10 percentage points in Peru, Chile and the United States to 23 points in South Korea.

The Cardinals were the most improved team in the major leagues last season, raising their winning percentage by more than 100 points (from.434 to.543) over 1995.

I am fairly sure that a large percentage of Arsenal fans are finding it hard to get enthused about the defence of the FA cup trophy, because two points from the last three Premier League games has left the Gunners down in third place and our challenge for the Premier League title looking a lot less assured than it was a couple of weeks ago.

Ingram's long range shooting — he made a higher percentage from three - point range than two - point range in two of his four NCAA seasons — could have earned him a steady paycheck in one of Europe's many basketball leagues.

I don't want to see him on the roster until he can hit a FT and up his 3 point shot percentage (31 % from the international 3 will likely be less than that from the NBA 3).

Since the highest four - year pro success rate from any QB in this sample is 46.1 percent (from both Cousins and, thus far, Dak Prescott), and since 35 of 38 quarterbacks in our draft sample were at least three percentage points lower in the NFL than in college (most were much further away than that), let's set an artificial bar at 49.1 percent.

From a biological point of view, one question begs answering: why or how could 40 - 60 % of otherwise healthy infants have sleep problems to solve and if this is percentage is anything near the truth then the cultural and or scientific models of normal healthy sleep that underlie our cultural ideologies must reflect far more about adults than they do about babies.

As it turned out, that GOTV effort was far more necessary than initially believed, since the Democratic nominee, former NYC Comptroller Bill Thompson, came within 4.5 percentage points of knocking the billionaire self - funder from his perch.

Unemployment in upstate rose to 8.5 percent in August, close to one percentage point higher than during August 2011, according to a new report from the New York State Department of Labor.

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

With 99.6 percent of precincts reporting, Singas, the acting district attorney, led Murray, the longtime Hempstead Town supervisor, by 16 percentage points — or more than 30,000 votes, according to results from Nassau County Board of Elections.

Thus, Ghana slided back by one percentage point from the 48 points scored in 2014 but better than its performance in 2012 when it scored 45 and 2013 when it scored 46 points.

Overall, Ukip secured 12.6 % of the vote, an increase of 9.5 percentage points from the 2010 election, the largest of any major party and more than three times the size of the SNP's improvement.

Unemployment in the Binghamton area in June stands at 5.4 percent, an increase from 5.2 percent in the last 12 months and nearly a full percentage point higher than the state average.

Robert regarding your view that labour cold win with 35 %, yes, but we won in 1974 ′ with 37 % and I believe Callaghan actually got a few more votes in 79 ′ than 74 although the percentage was the me, the point was that the 74 manifesto was so far from what the public felt, that the following election lots of liberals or stay at home voters came out and the Tories would get 13 + million for the next f our.

A Quinnipiac poll released Tuesday said the city's public advocate has support from 30 percent of likely Democratic voters, six percentage points higher than City Council Speaker Christine Quinn.

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.

Today, researchers at the annual meeting of AAAS (which publishes Science), previewed data from a recent poll showing that when the word «human» is replaced with «elephant» in the evolution question, 75 % of Americans agree — about 25 percentage points higher than before.

New estimates released from the Office of the Actuary at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) project that aggregate health care spending in the United States will grow at an average annual rate of 5.8 percent for 2012 - 22, or 1.0 percentage point faster than the expected growth in the gross domestic product (GDP).

As the difference of the missing values was more than 20 percentage points, no reliable conclusions can be derived from the results.

With the full set of covariates in Model 5, the award probabilities for applications from blacks were 10.4 percentage points lower, and for Asians were 4.2 percentage points lower, than for whites (P <.001).