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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.

That's an increase of more than 2.5 percentage points since January.

Since January, Apple's stock has fallen by 5 percent, and it's only up 23 percent over the last three years — two percentage points lower than the S&P 500.

Since then, housing prices have grown by 4 % annually, or about 1.2 percentage points more than inflation every year.

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 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.

Canada's tax rate on corporate profits has fallen by more than 14 percentage points since the turn of the century, to just 15 percent this year.

In China, this has been the case since 2011, with total household consumption spending growing on average faster than overall GDP by 1.5 percentage points each year.

Long - term bond yields have been quite volatile since the previous Statement, and in net terms are up slightly, although they remain around 1/2 a percentage point lower than in mid 2002.

There, credit has grown on average by around 1 1/2 percentage points faster than nominal GDP since 1980.

The former effect reflects the narrowing of margins on housing and small business loans: the rate on standard variable rate housing loans has fallen by 1.3 percentage points more than the cash rate since mid 1996; in 1998, the average variable - rate on small business loans has fallen by 0.7 of a percentage point relative to the cash rate.

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.

But despite the fact that joblessness has fallen by more than two percentage points since then, median hourly wages were the same in the first quarter of 2015 as a year earlier.

However, this is four percentage points higher than the average (33 %) of the seven historic polls concerning other refugee groups that Gallup has taken since 1939.

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 perSince 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 persince 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.

Their 66.4 point percentage in the regular season was 17 points better than any other expansion team since the league grew to something resembling its modern membership in 1967 - 68.

-- Martinez's win percentage at Everton is now 29 % (the same as he had at Wigan)-- It's been 9 months (to the day) since we had consecutive league wins — We are currently 4 league points better off after 23 games than when we finished 17th under Moyes — Three home wins all season in the league — Six wins all season out of 23 games — 10 defeats at Goodison since the start of last season — The worst defence in the league in terms of goals conceded

But in a sign of how challenging this transition can be for schools, district figures show that lunch sales for September through December dropped by about 5 percentage points since the previous year, or more than 20,000 lunches a day.

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.

Espaillat came close to beating Rangel, 86, who has held the seat since 1971, in the 2014 primary and lost by less than five percentage points in the 2012 primary.

Since the election, it has also emerged that the former chancellor Alistair Darling wanted to raise VAT to 19 per cent, a single percentage point lower than the rate that will be introduced in January 2011.

Nationally, the drop in unemployment since June 2009 has been bigger than New York's — 3.4 percentage points for the nation as a whole.

This is mostly due to a sharp fall in the percentage of people who have faith in Labour's ability to run the economy (down 18 points since the election), rather than any great increase for the Conservatives (up 4 since the election).

Indeed the number of marginals — those won by less than ten percentage points — was at its lowest level since the Second World War.

One expert on racial inequality, economist Samuel Myers of the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, calls for the same type of comprehensive analysis to be done for NSF; overall funding rates for black scientists who apply for NSF grants are about 4 percentage points lower than for whites, according to the agency's own data since 2002.

A NAHT survey of its members has found that the number of schools currently in deficit has more than doubled since its 2015 survey (up 10 percentage points from 8 per cent to 18 per cent).

Since the employment gains attributable to each first - wave reform were roughly 2 percentage points larger for black males than for white males, states that implemented them closed the black - white employment gap by roughly 11 percent.

The graduation rate, which has risen 1.7 percentage points from the previous year and more than 7 percentage points in the past decade, has reached its highest point since the late 1970s.

These three groups have improved by more than 20 percentage points since 2006 on the measure of five good GCSEs, while the national average has risen by 13.5 percentage points.

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.

Since then, Boston's students made great strides in math and its fourth - graders have grown faster than average on reading, too, rising to within a percentage point of the national average.

Since 2007 there has been a national decline in the number of school library / media centers and there are fewer library / media centers operating in high ‐ poverty schools than in wealthier schools, especially low income schools in the inner cities, where the number has dropped by five percentage points.

This year, 51 percent of private schools received the top grade, down more than 30 percentage points since 2011.

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

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.

2015 results show that primary sponsored academies open for 2 years have improved their results, on average, by 10 percentage points since opening, more than double the rate of improvement in local - authority - maintained schools over the last 2 years

The leavers were replaced by even more joiners, as they have been every year since 2011, and the rate of teachers leaving is only one percentage point higher than it was four years ago.

VICTORIA — About three per cent of residential real estate transactions last month in Metro Vancouver involved foreign buyers, a decline of more than 10 percentage points since the B.C. government intervened with a new tax.

Nothaft put the mortgage rate increases into perspective: «For example, with fixed - rate loan rates up by 0.5 [percentage point] since last summer, and house prices in national indexes up at least 5 percnet, the monthly principal and interest payment is more than 10 percent higher than it was last summer, adding to affordability challenges for first - time buyers.»

If Fabian the son had simply followed the 39 - week moving average system to switch between an index fund and cash, since 1992 his newsletter would have produced a profit more than two percentage points per year higher than it actually did.

The author notes that since its inception in 2005, the ETF's index has bested the broader S&P 500 by a little more than 3 percentage points a year.

The same study said that the total cost of credit was down two percentage points in the first five years since the CARD Act was passed and that more than 100 million credit card accounts were opened in 2014.

Since January 1, the average card APR has climbed by more than three quarters of a percentage point.

The average 30 - year, fixed mortgage rate is 4.22 percent — hitting more than a one - quarter percentage point increase since the start of the year, according to Freddie Mac's recently released Primary Mortgage Market Survey ® (PMMS ®).

Another positive trend is the increased share of those who reported their income as «significantly higher» from twelve months ago, which is now at the highest level recorded over the past year and 7 percentage points higher than those who reported income as «significantly lower» (the largest difference between the two since the survey began).

Sixteen percent of respondents say their income is significantly lower than it was 12 months ago (down 1 percentage point since January), while 63 percent say it has stayed the same (up 1 percentage point since January).

After dropping in December, the share who says it is a good time to buy a home increased 3 percentage points to 67 percent, and the share saying they would buy rather than rent if they were to move jumped 5 percentage points to 66 percent, marking the first increase since September 2014.

This submarket's inventory growth rate since 2012 is 107.7 %, 8.8 percentage points higher than the read more