Sentences with phrase «than that percentage at»

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With Memorial Day weekend on the horizon, the overall domestic summer box office is ten percentage points lower than it was at this time last year.

The bonds of iHeartMedia have long been in the basket of «distressed debt,» meaning their prices have fallen so far to where their yields are at least 10 percentage points higher than equivalent Treasury yields.

In James» 15th season, at age 33, he has scored slightly better than his career average, averaged a new high in assists per game, and posted the third - best True Shooting Percentage of his career.

But it also looked at who's putting that knowledge into action, factoring in the percentage of state residents who held to good financial habits (like building an emergency fund), as well as bad ones (spending more than they earn or using payday loans).

According to the most recent Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index, big banks are granting a higher percentage of loan requests than at any time since the mid 2000s.

In Gaza, more than 2,000 people were killed, with Israel putting the percentage of civilians killed at approximately 50 percent and the Palestinians estimating it to be closer to 70 %.

More than one - third of Uber's global workforce is women, but the percentage shrinks when it comes to women in technical roles and leadership positions at the company.

Among the 2001 Inc 500 companies started at home, the percentage that, when they moved to their next location, had One to 5 employees: 62.98 % 6 to 10 employees: 10.58 % More than 10 employees: 7.69 % No employees: 18.75 %

«It takes guts to make the claim that the percentage change is more important than the absolute number of daily users, especially considering that's the primary driver» of Twitter's business model, said James Cakmak, an analyst at Monness Crespi Hardt & Co..

The longest - term portion of the offering, $ 8 billion of bonds maturing in 30 years, sold originally at 99.4 cents on the dollar to yield 1.95 percentage point more than comparable Treasuries.

Still, though China has managed not to rely on any single country for more than a small percentage of its oil needs, its imports are still quite concentrated in terms of geographical region and in unstable regions at that, namely the Middle East and Africa.

«The global unemployment rate would remain broadly constant during the next five years, at half a percentage point higher than before the crisis,» the ILO said.

Just like in business in general, when you offer your clients a «done for you» service, even at a much higher price than general consulting, you will get a percentage of your clients who will be delighted to just have it done, and who will gladly pay much more for that privilege.

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.

At a time when Chinese wages are rising by double - digit percentages annually, Bangladesh has gained market share: it is now the world's second - largest exporter of apparel (behind China), sending more than $ 19 - billion worth abroad in 2012.

Apple told Business Insider at the time: «The diagnostic data we've received from upgraders shows that for this small percentage of users experiencing the issue, we're seeing a more than 80 % reduction in iPhone 6s and over 70 % reduction on iPhone 6 of devices unexpectedly shutting down.»

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.

At these levels, Canadian energy companies are expected to reduce investment again, albeit by less than half 2015's drop in percentage terms.

Additionally, some large companies will take a discount, usually a couple of percentage points, if they pay sooner than their own dictated terms, often at their own discretion.

Birch ranks Nebraska 49th in the country in two categories: the percentage of people working at companies that are less than 15 years old and the number of jobs lost to layoffs and closings.

«I think Azure overall is growing faster than AWS in percentage terms, from a smaller base, of course,» said Dave Bartoletti, an analyst at Forrester Research (forr) via email.

This is a much higher percentage than Italy's, which stood at 12 percent.

A much larger percentage of successful entrepreneurs are dyslexic than in the general population: Richard Branson, Paul Orfalea, Charles Schwab, John Chambers at Cisco, David Neeleman at JetBlue.

«A profitable firm at which 30 percent of leaders are women could expect to add more than 1 percentage point to its net margin compared with an otherwise similar firm with no female leaders,» the report notes.

Pharmaceutical companies have the highest percentage of unrepatriated profit by industry group at roughly more than 15 percent, UBS said in a May 3 report.

The seller is also likely to want a higher percentage in down payment from the buyer because they are at more risk than a bank.

The company's stock dropped 8 % (which is still three percentage points more than the BlackBerry's market share) in early November after analysts at Pacific Coast Securities said the BlackBerry 10 would be dead on arrival.

Research identified that while just 47 percent of people are creative thinkers, the percentage jumps to more than three quarters when looking at entrepreneurs.

Looking at the global economy, the Fund noted that «global economic activity continues to firm up» and is estimated to have grown by 3.7 percent in 2017, which is 0.1 percentage points faster than projected in the fall.

Stéfane Marion, chief economist at National Bank Financial, noted earlier this month Canadian factories currently are using 82 % of their production capacity, a historically strong number that is seven percentage points higher than the corresponding capacity - utilization rate in the United States.

If you have a retirement - savings plan at work, that plan is more likely than ever to automatically enroll you — and to automatically increase, over time, the percentage of your salary that gets saved.

Borrowers should keep in mind that lower interest rates at the beginning of a loan result in more actual savings than lower interest rates towards the end of a loan since the principal is lower as time goes by (interest charged is a percentage of the current loan balance).

An offer of a stock allowing institutional investors and occasionally high net - worth individuals to buy a large percentage of a company's equity, usually at an price higher than previous offer of stock.

«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.

That figure, which comes out to a combined 360 billion euros ($ 401 billion) in bad debt, is more than three times the bank loans that were bad in the U.S. on a percentage basis at the height of the financial crisis.

Its stock was down less than half a percentage point at $ 110.81 in midmorning trading.

Among them: more modest growth, low - for - long interest rates and a household sector that comprises a relatively smaller percentage of the economy than it did at the peak in 2007.

Remarkably, this is true even when the dividend is cut provided that the stock price declines at a greater percentage than the dividend was lowered.

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).

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.

Selling, general and administrative expenses were 74 basis points lower than last year as a percentage of sales due to sales leveraging, lower incentive compensation and a reduction in media spend at Olive Garden.

Last August, at the time of the announcement of the sale of the Washington Post, I noted that Washington Post Co. shares had proved a mediocre investment over the past two decades, trailing the S&P 500 by more than 2.5 percentage points on an annualized investment (although starting at the time Buffett began accumulating shares, in 1973, the performance was much better, with an estimated annual return of 11.5 %).

On average, high - quality corporate bonds currently have yields that are at least one percentage point higher than Treasury bonds.

Bitcoin's share of the total crypto market is at 45 %, which is about 12 percentage points higher than January's all - time low.

That's close to a record low, and nearly a full percentage point lower than where we were at the start of last year.

With less than 30 % equity in that home, the rental income can not be included at all — not even a percentage of it.

Underscoring the mixed - to - lower tone that emerged over the course of the day — not only was the NASDAQ off by nearly 50 points at its nadir — but the small - cap Russell 2000 had turned down by more than a full percentage points, as well, as losing stocks held a strong lead over gaining issues throughout.

In addition, short interest as a percentage of shares outstanding in the $ 31.5 billion iShares iBoxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond ETF stood at more than 8 % as of last week, the highest since 2010.

Finally the real New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) as a percentage of US GDP rose to new highs — going over the previous high set on March 2000, more than 15 years ago when the dot - com bubble was at peak!