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The reason was that the Fed would respond "aggressively" , by which he meant a cut in the federal funds rate of just one percentage point.

Since then, there have been four interest rate rises, lifting the cost of money one percentage point.

The shutdown lasted for 20 days and was estimated to have shaved one percentage point off US economic growth for one quarter of the year.

If it grows even one percentage point faster than GDP in future, the effect on public-sector net debt would be huge (see chart).

Chinese exports fell 2. 8 per cent in December, at least one percentage point less than expected, Dow Jones reported on Saturday.

The Bank of England made another big cut in interest rates, by one percentage point, to 2%.

An increase in the unemployment rate by one percentage point seems to suppress the real wages offered to new employees by 1. 8 per cent.

Under the current formula companies are allowed to raise ticket prices next year by one percentage point above that.

As a rule of thumb, it takes a two-percentage point increase in GDP to reduce the unemployment rate by one percentage point.

That is only one percentage point better than the country's joblessness three years ago at the depths of the recession.

General estimates of the GDP of developed countries MICE contribution rate by one percentage point.

For the last 30 years, it has been losing almost one percentage point of market share every year.

It would seem reasonable to cut mortgage interest rates by one percentage point.

Greek yields have risen by more than one percentage point this week and by three percentage points since October.

With that money, I'm down just about 1% annually over five years, outperforming the S&P 500 by about one percentage point.

Some brighter signs exist: America's trade with other countries added around one percentage point to GDP.

Economists at the European Commission now put it at around 8%, one percentage point less than in 1997 (though well above America's 5%).

One percentage point of capital more or less is not really the decisive factor.

That, and other measures in the previous Labour government's pipeline, will eventually push up tax by about one percentage point of GDP.

Net trade added more than one percentage point to GDP growth in the year to the first quarter.

That will drop below one percentage point by mid-year and fall to nothing thereafter.

A one percentage point cut in the ratio would release around 760 billion yuan in funds, almost matching the drain from the new policy move.

In 2003-08, the average annual rate of credit growth was just one percentage point lower than during the credit bubble of 1998-2003.

It expects its share to stabilise at around 18. 5%, only one percentage point below its figure for this year.

A typical short-term fund stands to lose about 3% if interest rates rise one percentage point.

A one percentage point increase in growth on average reduces poverty by more than 1. 5 per cent each year.

Since 2006, China Mobile's dividend payout ratio has risen by just one percentage point, to 43% of earnings.

UNCTAD expects world output to grow by around three percent this year. That is almost one percentage point less than in 2007.

Every one percentage point rise in hours worked meant firm productivity rose by 2. 14 percentage points.

While that trails gold's rise by one percentage point, it is a smaller gap than in the past.

Editor's note: 100 basis points equal one percentage point.

This research suggests that a rise of one percentage point in the ratio of the stock of FDI to GDP will raise GDP by 0. 4%.

France's (albeit already high) unemployment rate has crept up just one percentage point to 9. 3 per cent since 2007, according to the OECD.

The drought knocked one percentage point off Australia's growth rate last year, by the government's reckoning.