How To Use percentage point In A Sentence
- Unemployment rates for railroad conductors, logging workers and metalworkers fell sharply — seven percentage points or more — in 2010 while jobless rates among construction laborers and roofers rose, according to new data from the Labor Department. Manufacturing, Logistics See Job Gains
- Swift Transportation pulled a planned $1.07 billion refinancing that the trucking company expected to reprice at 3.5 percentage points over Libor with a minimum rate of 4.75%, according to a person familiar with the deal. High-Yield Bond Issues, Loan Repricings Pulled; Treasurys Rise
- Britain's growth rate has rarely exceeded that on the continent by more than one percentage point.
- The net balance of employers expecting to increase the size of their workforces in the next three months is highest in India and Brazil, at 47 and 37 percentage points respectively.
- Some economists expect the figure to be revised up, though only by a few percentage points. Times, Sunday Times
- The lender typically pays 30 to 40 hundredths of a percentage point less than a bank would.
- The Fed has already cut rates seven times this year, by a total of three full percentage points, to try to reignite sputtering economic growth.
- One recent poll put the PdL just 2.5 percentage points ahead of the biggest opposition group, the Democratic Party.
- At an investor conference last month, Bank of America Corp. Chief Executive Officer Brian Moynihan indicated that each additional percentage point of required capital would remove the support for $220 billion in assets at his bank, which he described as potentially "unintended consequences of the tougher rules. Bank M&A Goes MIA in 2011
- Republican Ken Buck has led Democratic Senator Michael Bennet on our trend estimate all year long, but the new polls narrow Buck's lead to roughly one percentage point (46.9% to 45.7%) and his probability of winning to just 64%, well within what we consider the "toss-up" range. New PPP Polls Favor Joe Manchin, Michael Bennet In Senate Races