Sentences with phrase «tiny fraction of a percent»

To the other extreme, there are variable annuities with a fixed $ 20 / mo mortality fee which on a large valued account can be a tiny fraction of a percent of the funds invested.

Not exact matches

But while automated trading accounts for about 75 percent of all financial market volume, just a tiny fraction of independent or amateur traders use them due to the complex technology, need for massive historical data and high costs.

As far as excess reserves are concerned, B&K argued back in 2016 (when the IOER was a mere 0.25 %), «the only potential loans that would have been affected by the Fed's payment of interest are those with risk - adjusted short - term returns between precisely zero and one - quarter percent — surely a tiny fraction of the total.»

You know, that's not the 1 percent; that's a tiny fraction of the 1 percent.

In fact, our politicians waste roughly 30 to 70 percent of their time raising money from the tiniest fraction of the one percent.

His campaign raised $ 26.2 million in the third quarter — 77 percent of which came from small donors, compared to just a tiny fraction from maxed - out donors — and spent only $ 11.3 million.

And in some areas, only a tiny fraction passed: On the reading exams, a mere 5.4 percent of Rochester students passed, 8.7 percent of Syracuse students passed and 11.5 percent of Buffalo students passed.

What turns out [is] that scientists are having [a] really, really hard time finding them, and what that tell [s] us is that there are these genes that influence intelligence but each particular gene is responsible for a tiny, tiny amount of variation — like a fraction of 1 percent.

But healthcare agencies, such as universities, helped develop only a tiny fraction of the apps, 2.8 percent, the study found.

«Originally genetics was focused on the one percent,» said bioinformaticist Mark Gerstein of Yale University, referring to geneticists» early concentration on genes that code for proteins, which represent just a a tiny fraction of the genome's myriad parts.

October 28, 2016 • Around 20 percent of Israeli citizens are Arabs, but they hold only a tiny fraction of management jobs.

All this hoopla and RttT was only $ 4.35 billion (SIG was $ 3.5 billion), a tiny fraction of the $ 100 billion in education funds passed out in 2009 as part of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and less than 1 percent of the $ 600 billion spent on K — 12 public education in the United States.

Despite the growth, testing costs still make up a tiny fraction of state spending on education - in Pennsylvania, 0.5 percent.

We now know that only a tiny fraction of cats in a community are admitted to a shelter on any given day — far less than 1 percent of the overall free - roaming cat population.

Only a tiny fraction of people live near the world's great ice sheets, and for most of the world's coastlines the resulting local rise in sea level is larger than the global average, perhaps approaching 50 percent faster than the global average.

An additional smack - down to the CO2 haters is that not only is CO2 very dubious as a significant driver of climate (as opposed to the sun, water vapor, clouds, and oceans), but man - made CO2 comprises only a tiny fraction — about three percent — of the Earth's total atmospheric CO2.

The full article, entitled «Rise in renewable energy will require more use of fossil fuels» also points out that wind turbines often produce a tiny fraction (1 percent?)

And maybe we'll go join the 15 percent of all Americans who use Twitter, a small fraction of which sometimes get news updates and an even tinier fraction of which who work in the news business and crow loud and long about using Twitter on their iPhones at the airport.

But while this spyware only affected a tiny fraction of Android devices — 0.000007 percent — and it remains unclear who was targeted by Equus and how they were convinced to download the apps, Google has issued advice on protecting against Lipizzan and other malware.