Sentences with phrase «third of a percentage points»

In other words, equity dividends are higher by a third of a percentage points than quality bond yields, and that's before the dividend tax credit and before any capital gains.

Our futures, too, are higher, with the gains on the order of a third of a percentage point.

A highly skilled work force can raise economic growth by about two - thirds of a percentage point every year.

In fact, the average break over the last 20 years is a little more than two - thirds of a percentage point (just 0.67 percent).

According to the bank's forecasts, the precipitous decline in the price of oil is expected to knock about a third of a percentage point off of Canada's GDP this year.

Not exact matches

A few things stand out about this particular rate change: first, the magnitude of influence that just a quarter percentage - point change had on the stock market; second, the current rate with an upper range of.50 % compared to the various long - term averages of about 5 %; and third, the rate remains historically low, with only minute incremental changes, despite the relatively good news we continue to read about the economy.

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 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.

In tandem with that reading, 9 percent of repsondents said they planned to decrease head counts at their companies in the next 12 months, which represents a decrease of two percentage points, compared to the third quarter.

U.S. and Beijing could both lose 0.2 percentage points of growth within the first year of a «limited trade war», AMRO's economic team said, and an additional 0.2 percentage points for the U.S. by the third year given Washington's relatively greater openness to global trade.

The Nielsen survey also found that recessionary sentiment is growing in Malaysia, up a «notable» 16 percentage points in the third quarter, with «nearly nine in 10 Malaysians feeling the country is currently in a state of recession.»

Commentary: «New equipment orders at Otis were up 19 percent over the year ago third quarter including favorable foreign exchange of 7 percentage points.

A one percentage point increase in the growth rate of productivity has been associated with between two - thirds and one percentage point higher growth in median worker compensation in the period since 1973, and with between 0.4 and 0.7 percentage points higher growth in production / nonsupervisory worker compensation.

There are long - term consequences to accepting equity financing because the offer of a percentage of ownership to a third party includes the implication that there will be a payout at some point down the road — meaning an IPO, sale, merger, or some other capital event.

One big reason that the economy stabilized last summer and fall is the stimulus; the Congressional Budget Office estimates that without the stimulus, growth would have been anywhere from 1.2 to 3.2 percentage points lower in the third quarter of 2009.

Data from the Census Bureau's Housing Vacancy and Homeownership (CPS / HVS) survey show that the US homeownership rate increased to 63.9 percent in the third quarter of 2017, up 0.4 percentage points from the third quarter of 2016.

The effect of the drought can also be seen in farm output, which fell by around one - third over the year to the March quarter, subtracting 1.1 percentage points from aggregate GDP growth.

Adjusted development margin percentage increased 2.3 percentage points to 22.6 percent in the third quarter of 2014 from 20.3 percent in the third quarter of 2013.

As a result, inventory investment contributed 0.73 percentage point to third - quarter GDP growth, after adding just over a tenth of a percentage point to growth in the prior period.

Piper refers to Trump's «divisive rhetorical style... and his reckless Twitter form of leadership,» and says, as his third point, that a «huge percentage» of white evangelicals voted for Trump «even though the character issues were screaming to be taken more seriously» (Statistically, around 80 percent of white evangelicals voted for President Trump in the 2016 election.).

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.

As of Sunday, Just Plain Joe ranked second in the ACC in scoring (22.3 points a game) and third in both field goal percentage -LRB-.616) and rebounds (9.7).

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.

The third set didn't see Federer improve his second serve percentage, but he did hit seven aces and eight winners, converting on one of two break points to snag it and force a fourth set.

Greenberg said the biggest decline in those numbers came once again from downstate, where the percentage of people who want Cuomo to serve a third term as governor dropped by 27 points.

The Quinnipiac poll is the third in recent weeks that show the governor's race in New York remains stagnant, with Cuomo ahead of Republican challenger Rob Astorino by nearly 25 percentage points.

Despite remaining in opposition for its third election in a row, Labour at 40.0 % won its greatest share of the vote since 2001, made a net gain of 30 seats to reach 262 total MPs, and, with a swing of 9.6 %, [127] achieved the biggest percentage - point increase in its vote share in a single general election since 1945.

Sean Coffey's campaign strategist Bruce Gyory sent out a statement earlier today, dismissing the Siena poll that showed his candidate in third place and invoking the closer - than - expected 2009 NYC mayor's race in which Bill Thompson defied predictions and came within less than 5 percentage points of ousting Mayor Bloomberg.

After the 2010 election, there were 194 seats in Britain with a gap of less than ten percentage points between the first - and second - placed parties; after the 2015 election there were only 120, a reduction of more than one - third in those that can be captured by a swing of no more than five points.

At the 1983 general election, the Alliance parties came within two percentage points of pushing Labour into third place.

The investigators found that nearly a third of the group experienced an abnormal heart rhythm — or «cardiac arrhythmia» — at some point during the festival, a much higher percentage than usually seen among the general population.

A second important outcome was that the lower - performing students, so these were students who were about the bottom third of our sample, these were students who were earning Grade Point Averages (GPAs) of a C or below in the semester prior to the intervention [and were] most likely going to be struggling in school; for these students, the intervention increased their GPAs and also increased their likelihood of passing core courses like Math, English, Social Studies and Science - and increased that by around 6.5 percentage points.

As can be seen in Figure 2, the schools that have larger kindergarten readiness gaps also have larger test score gaps in third and fifth grades: as the kindergarten readiness gap increases by 10 percentage points, the test score gaps increase by around 0.06 of a standard deviation.

In addition, students are approximately 1.5 percentage points more likely to enroll at a four - year institution, with about two - thirds of this effect driven by movement away from the two - year sector (see Figure 3).

For the 11 schools with kindergarten readiness gaps of around 30 percentage points, test score gaps range from less than third of a standard deviation to over 1.5 standard deviations.

Looking at the SAT and ACT performance of high school graduates by racial group, the percentage changes (about 5 percentage points from the third year on) are similar among white, black, and Hispanics, but the differences in impact relative to the prior performance of each group are sizable.

To put that in perspective, the percentage of students passing math assessments falls by about one - third to one - half a percentage point for each day school is closed.

In two years, the passage rates for third - grade math jumped 47 percentage points, with 95 percent of third - graders passing in the 2014 - 2015 school year.

Less than a third (32 %) of Britain's 130 medallists at Rio 2016 attended fee - paying schools, a four percentage point reduction from London 2012, when 36 % of Team GB's medal - winners were privately educated.

Third - gradestudents had a pass rate on the state's standardized math test of 95 percent, a gain of 47 percentage points from two years ago.

Although the single percentage point drop in 2014 was small, it was only the third one - year dip in this measure since the end of World War II.

Two - thirds of pupils (67 %) on free school meals gained a Level 4 in reading, writing and maths this year - up four percentage points on 2013.

Former University of Tennessee researcher William Sanders found students who scored at about the same level on state math tests in third grade had score differences of as much as 50 percentage points on sixth grade tests after having less qualified teachers.

Across the district, 78 percent of students in 2015 - 16 reached their literacy benchmark by third grade, up six percentage points from the previous year.

Statewide, 71.6 percent of third graders hit those marks in reading, also a 1.7 percentage point drop.

Access to just one cut dropout rates for black students by nearly a third and increased the likelihood of aspiring to college by 3 percentage points.

What's more, these gains were seen largely because the percent of teachers drawn from the upper third of the score distribution increased dramatically, by more than 13 percentage points, making up more than 40 percent of entering teachers by 2010.

Similarly, the percent of teachers drawn from the bottom third of the distribution fell by 7 percentage points, and made up less than 20 percent of entering teachers by 2010.

With English learners and low - income students making up two - thirds of its enrollment, 57 percent of its students scored proficient in English language arts and 45 percent scored proficient in math, 8 percentage points higher than the state average.

Scott - Clayton and her colleagues found that by incorporating high school grades into the college placement decisions, misplacements were corrected by up to a third, and there was a 10 - percentage point increase in the likelihood that those students placed in a college - level course would complete that course with a grade of C or better.