Sentences with phrase «third of a percent»

The Nasdaq continued its climb on Friday after rising a third of a percent to an all - time closing high of 5914.34 — the fifth straight closing high for the index.

Mylan saw its stock dip almost a third of a percent during after - hours trading, following members of Congress saying it cheated taxpayers by underpaying Medicaid in rebates owed on sales of its lifesaving device EpiPen.

Nationally, the number of homeowners in arrears represents about a third of a percent of the roughly 4.7 million mortgages outstanding, according to the CBA.

The market for clean development mechanism credits has since exploded in size, accounting for about a third of a percent of world's greenhouse emissions and around $ 4.4 billion in annual value.

The one subject that showed declines was English - language arts, where the percentage of students scoring above «basic» fell by a third of a percent, to 54.1 «proficient» and «advanced,» from 54.4 percent.

In fact, from 1980 to 2011, total household income in Canada grew by less than one - third of a percent per year (averaged out)-- considerably less than inflation.

They estimate that if mangrove deforestation rates continued at a similar rate after 2012, then by 2017 mangrove carbon should have dropped a further third of a percent to 4.16 billion metric tons.

Not exact matches

According to the research site Statistica, Amazon's third party sellers accounted for more than 50 percent of the company's sales during the third quarter of 2017, generating close to $ 23 billion in revenues.

A recent digital wallet survey conducted by data analytics company Thrive Analytics, reported on by trade publication Payments Source on Wednesday, shows that while 80 percent of consumers are aware that digital wallets exist, less than one third use one.

March liftings from Iran, the third - biggest producer among the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries, were down 26 percent year on year.

Only 30 percent of these businesses survive into the second generation and a mere 12 percent make it to the third.

An estimated 44 percent of all online sales take place on Amazon, and more than one - third of American adults are estimated to be members of Amazon Prime.

Schultz cited a Manpower Group survey in which one - third of employers said they have trouble filling open positions because of talent shortages, and 43 percent said those shortages hurt their ability to serve clients.

Health care companies represent a third of companies of the 122 companies in the IPO pipeline, and 60 percent of new filings in August.

Social customer service company Conversocial partnered with New York University on research that found that more than one - third of all tweets to companies were about customer service issues, but that only three percent incorporated the company's Twitter username with the @ symbol.

The third group, usually only 5 percent or so, use their sick days plus most or all of their vacation time and additional lost time because of illness.

Uber co-founder and former CEO Travis Kalanick is planning to sell a third of his 10 percent stake in the company for about $ 1.4 billion, a person familiar with the matter told Bloomberg.

The FY 2019 request is an even greater disparity: Commerce's request increased to $ 9.9 billion while SBA received the third largest cut of all agencies, at $ 0.6 billion — now just 6 percent of Commerce's proposed budget.

For those who export, two - thirds said they did so to increase company sales and profits, and roughly 70 percent said they devote less than 5 percent of annual operating revenue preparing to export.

Shares of Priceline sunk 6 percent after the company reported weak guidance for its third quarter.

The investor was referring to a 2015 study from Goldman Sachs that showed 63 percent of millennials don't own a credit card and a third said they won't need a bank in five years.

The British Chamber of Commerce (BCC) cited higher than anticipated third quarter gross domestic product (GDP) numbers in the revision of its full - year forecast to 2.1 percent from 1.8 percent.

Nearly two - thirds of 2011's incidents involved female perpetrators, although men embezzle, on average, 25 percent more.

About 98 percent of the more than 300,000 U.S. exporting firms are small, and they account for over a third of the $ 1.4 trillion in annual total export dollars in 2014, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, which defines a small business as having fewer than 500 employees.

Alcoa is now pricing around 95 percent of its third party alumina sales basis either an index or the spot market, it said in its Q1 results.

Nearly two - thirds (61 percent) of survey espondents said that there was an increase in business succession in 2012 and about 57 percent forecast a continued rise next year.

HSBC, Europe's largest bank, announced a 5 percent rise in pretax profits in the first half of 2017 as well as the third share buyback in a year.

The economy contracted for a third consecutive quarter over October - December, shrinking 0.1 percent from the previous quarter and missing analysts» forecast of a 0.1 percent expansion.

Mergers in the U.S. represented 42.1 percent of all deals made across the globe in the third quarter.

Societe Generale reported a 15 percent drop in net income during the third quarter of the year, as it prepared to resolve two legal disputes in the U.S.

Information technology was the best performing stock sector in the S&P in the third quarter, up 8.3 percent in a fifth - straight quarter of gains.

Macy's, one of the few big winners last holiday, said on Wednesday that its earnings per share rose 30 percent to 61 cents for the third quarter.

It is not clear when Amazon hopes to meet its goals and how it would extend same - day delivery to more third - party sellers, who account for 40 percent of items sold on Amazon's website and pay fees between 8 percent and 20 percent in most categories.

The result was that nearly two - thirds of Japan's GDP grew only at an average annual rate of 0.5 percent.

More than a third of retirees told Merrill Lynch they have already moved, and 27 percent anticipated doing so.

«We expect the ECB to continue net asset purchases until around the third quarter of 2018, while the Fed will likely begin reducing its stock of quantitative easing assets early in 2018... These opposite moves mean that the ECB's balance sheet could be around 20 percent larger than the Fed's by around end - 2018, assuming constant FX rates,» he noted.

However, only 38 percent of human - resource professionals re-engage candidates every six months or more, while more than a third report they have moved on to more current candidates.

That follows an increase of 4.1 percent in the third quarter.

Funding in the fourth quarter of the year fell 32 percent from the third quarter, to $ 13.8 billion, however.

Last month, PetSmart reported flat third - quarter net income of $ 92.2 million as net sales rose 2.6 percent to $ 1.7 billion.

Activity in the manufacturing sector declined 9.1 percent in the third quarter from the prior three months, the latest data showed, better than an initial estimate of a 17.4 % contraction.

In Germany, Europe's biggest car market, women buy about a third of all new vehicles and in France 37 percent.

• One third of lesbian couples and 20.1 percent of gay male couples without a high school diploma are in poverty, compared to 18.8 percent of different - sex married couples.

Citrix Systems jumped more than 6 percent after the IT services provider handed in third - quarter adjusted earnings of $ 1.04 a share on $ 813 million in revenue, topping estimates of 84 cents on $ 786 million.

According to a recent Shop.org survey, more than one third of retailers are earmarking between 31 and 50 percent of their total online - marketing budget specifically for the holidays.

Specifically, with Millennials, two - thirds say they will switch to a brand that provides a discount of 30 percent or more.

The 7 - 2 vote for the rate move, the Fed's third this year, raises the benchmark lending rate by a quarter percentage point to a target range of 1.25 percent to 1.5 percent.

According to the survey results, a little over two - thirds (68 percent) of marketers now believe social media is the «most important» piece for digital video campaigns.While using social media for advertising purposes is nothing new, the greater emphasis on video reflects the effectiveness of new video marketing tools on platforms like Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and the like.

Those decisions include the aforementioned centralization of decision - making, a fee that amounts to 3 to 5 percent of sales to cover the costs of restocking shelves and running promotions and a requirement for food companies to use a third - party service for in - store demos, a critical means of promoting a new brand.

And among the borrowers who had paid off their debt, only a third could keep their businesses going — or just 15 percent of all of the program's borrowers.