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Chinese officials are even hinting that it may be worth sacrificing a percentage point or two of growth to meet energy intensity goals.

On any normal business day the spreads would be only a few hundredths of a percentage point.

The power of a percentage point There is only one way I can see out of this box: stronger economic growth.

Less than an hour after the Bank of England's decision, the ECB reduced its main rate by three-quarters of a percentage point, to 2. 5%.

That pace would bring down the unemployment rate by less than half a percentage point over the course of a year.

CAT's operating profit would have been "a half a percentage point higher" if currency had been neutral, DeWalt added.

Kyodo did not give a margin of error, but a poll of that size would normally have a five percentage point sampling error.

Mr Sarkozy's overriding objective, at least before the crisis, was to raise France's trend rate of growth by a percentage point.

So should the Bank of England follow suit? The answer is: no. Another quarter of a percentage point cut now makes good sense.

By June, the effect would be only a few tenths of a percentage point, which translates into several hundred thousand jobs.

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.

But it looks as if the regional financing deal will add another percentage point of GDP to the deficit.

Over time, such an approach should beat the market (before fees) by around half a percentage point a year.

Their contribution in the first quarter of this year is likely to be just 0. 1 percentage point, the bank adds.

In reality, the unemployment rate is a full percentage point higher than what Romer and Bernstein predicted it would be without a stimulus.

Eurozone interest rates are almost certain to be cut by at least half a percentage point next week.

The jobless rate, which stood at a low 4. 9 percent a year ago, has jumped a full percentage point over just the last three months.

He said he expects a 0. 75 percentage point boost to inflation.

Economists estimated that this new data could trim nearly half a percentage point off second-quarter growth.

In June 2007 it was as low as 30. 5 basis points (less than a third of a percentage point), according to Dresdner Kleinwort.

The Federal Reserve cut a key interest rate today by one quarter of a percentage point. It's an effort to keep the country out of recession.

The outlook for 2009 is for a reduction in risk-averse investing and a two percentage point increase in holdings of alternative investments.

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).

Another quarter of a percentage point cut now makes good sense. Dramatic slashing of interest rates does not.

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

The Fed is expected to cut short-term rates by at least half a percentage point at its policy meeting next week.

Buying the highest yielded of any currency pair produced an average return of 26 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) per month.

Most economists expect that an extra percentage point, or even less, will be added to consumer inflation over the rest of the year.

The bank raised its cash rate target by a quarter of a percentage point to 4. 75%.

It was more than a percentage point higher when inflation was last this high, amid the boom of 2007.

The growth in factory output last month was a percentage point down from March and less than half the rate in April 2008.

The 2001 currency-swap deal arranged by Goldman trimmed Greece's deficit by about a 10th of a percentage point of GDP for that year.

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

If the authors have got it right, these debts will knock half a percentage point off the collective growth rate of the G20's rich members.

The 1. 5 percentage point cut in the Bank of England base rate was passed on by a number of banks, but the process was hardly smooth.

It has now plummeted a full percentage point in four months, a feat unmatched since early 1984 and a fact Mr Obama made sure to point out.

Spanish yields are now at their lows for the year, falling a full percentage point so far this week.

Half of a percentage point was stripped from output thanks to the contractionary impact of state and local government cutbacks.

The tax cuts could boost the U. S. economic growth rate by a half percentage point or more in 2011, but they also widen the budget deficit.

After the recent 0. 25-percentage point lending-rate hike, the rate paid on demand deposits did not budge.

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.

Typically, the rate for such debt would be about one-quarter percentage point over the federal-funds rate, which is currently 2%, he says.

The IMF this week cut its forecast for 2011 global growth by a third of a percentage point, to 4%, from its estimate three months ago.

Hermes repeated today that full- year operating margin should widen by at least 1 percentage point .

Rothman expects interest rates to increase not more than half a percentage point this year, which he says will happen in the first half.

On 18 March, the central bank boosted bank reserves - the amount of cash banks have to put aside - by half a percentage point, to 20%.

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

In the past, an increase of three-tenths of a percentage point has typically coincided with a recession.

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

The bureau gave exact percentage point figures for the degree of change in each of the eight key weightings.

Adjusting for that could knock a percentage point or so off Indian banks' capital ratios.

Nor is the problem an economic one. A percentage point of global economic output is affordable for a worthwhile project.

Ernesto Cordero, the finance minister, has estimated that the violence knocks about a percentage point off Mexico's annual growth rate.

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

Thanks to those extra jobs the productivity figures for 2005 may be revised down by a further half of a percentage point.

The European Central Bank cut its main policy interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, to 1%, as expected.

On January 16th the Bank of Mexico, the independent central bank, cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point (to 7. 75%).

A shift of fractions of a percentage point in half-a-dozen states could easily have swung the election the other way.

On April 2nd the ECB reduced its main interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point, less than expected, to 1. 25%.

Economic forecasters figure a $10-a-barrel increase in oil prices shaves 0. 3 percentage point off the U. S. economic growth rate.

This week America's Federal Reserve raised interest rates by a quarter of a percentage point for the 16th meeting running, to 5%.

And government planners say that resolving it could raise annual GDP growth by a full percentage point.

Beijing has raised the bank reserve ratio six times over the past year, each time by 0. 5 percentage point.

An accompanying commentary points out that in the last decade the prevalence of Type 2 diabetes has increased by almost a percentage point.

The Federal Reserve has slashed a key interest rate by half a percentage point, as it seeks to revive the economy.

Hillary Clinton won the Kentuky primary by 35 percentage point . According to X exit polls she did well among women and white voters .

The central bank recently lifted the discount rate it charges banks on emergency loans by a quarter of a percentage point, to 0. 75%.

Residential construction declined sharply during the quarter, as expected, subtracting about 1 percentage point from overall growth.

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

A decline in home buying subtracted a half percentage point off of the GDP figure, compared with about a full point in the first quarter.

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

Prices dropped a percentage point from July to August, a sign that the pace of decline may be slowing slightly.

Over the same period an 18-percentage point gap opened up between pass rates in A-levels and the International Baccalaureate.

On Tuesday, the Reserve Bank of India raised its benchmark short-term interest rate by a quarter of a percentage point to 6. 25%.

In other words, for every 0. 5-percentage-point rate increase, property prices were 5% higher a year later.

Nearly 1 percentage point is attributed to a group of east Asian countries in which China preponderates.

I think the downside for growth would be small, I mean it would be at most a 1 percentage point reduction in the overall growth rate.

Australia's central bank surprised investors Tuesday by slashed its key lending rate by a full percentage point.

The European Central Bank cut its key rate by a greater-than-expect three-quarters of a percentage point Thursday, to 2. 5%.

On January 15th the European Central Bank cut interest rates by half a percentage point, to 2%, having hinted at a pause only a month ago.

Total sales, which include new floorspace, rose by an annual 4. 5 percent, a full percentage point above the average reading for 2009.

Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, talked about a 24 percentage point reduction of the ratio of debt to gross domestic product.

By most estimates, if the oil price increase since October were sustained, it would take 1 percentage point off growth this and next year.

Deposits parked at the Fed fetch a mere quarter of a percentage point.

With fireworks still echoing from China's Lunar New Year holiday, its central bank said it is raising rates by one-quarter percentage point.

Taiwan made an emergency reduction of half a percentage point in interest rates (the sixth cut since September) amid a slump in exports.

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

Similarly, a further percentage point of growth was due to adjustments to inventory levels.

The yields on ten-year Treasury bonds and British gilts have both risen by more than half a percentage point since late November.

An increase in the retirement age by two years would reduce the deficit by 1 percentage point of GDP.

ECB-watchers were therefore well prepared when rates duly rose, by a quarter of a percentage point, to 3. 25%.

Government lending quotas will translate into a 2 percentage point or so fall in new loan growth in 2008.

It calls for a levy of 0. 15 of a percentage point on the balance sheets of companies with assets exceeding $50 billion.

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

Bracing for a sharp downturn, the Fed this week cut its interest-rate target half a percentage point to 1%.

The Federal Reserves' decision to cut the short- term interest rate by half a percentage point gave the financial market a boost.

Every extra percentage point of saving reduces annual spending by about $109 billion, so aggregate demand contracted violently.

In Gallup's national daily tracking [poll] for June and July, Obama has averaged a three percentage point lead over John McCain.

In the case of the US, 1. 8 percentage points of a 6. 5 percentage point deterioration will be due to such measures.

Two-year Treasuries are yielding a full percentage point less than the Fed funds rate.

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

Spain sold 2. 5 billion euros in bonds on Tuesday, but had to pay a full percentage point more than it did a month ago for the privilege.

A more balanced development strategy and continued macroeconomic controls are expected to slow growth by about 1 percentage point in 2005.

The bank's inflation target is 3 percent, though that includes what it calls a "tolerance range" of plus or minus 1 percentage point.

UBS economists said in a report this week that China's central bank may increase interest rates by 0. 25 percentage point in the short term.

That outstrips the 29 percentage point rise that the financial crisis and economic downturn are expected to inflict.

Similarly, the tournament's projected contribution to gross domestic product has been halved, to half a percentage point.

The October rate rise, also a quarter percentage point, was unexpected and spooked global investors.

This isn't quite the doozy investors were given four years ago, when gross domestic product was slashed by nearly a full percentage point.

Typically, the gap between the two rates is a percentage point.

The analysis also assumes that a percentage point of fiscal tightening would lower growth by half as much.

Ireland's story is amazing: in just five years it will suffer a 93 percentage point jump in the ratio of its net public debt to GDP.

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

On average, managers saw global growth in gross domestic product dipping a full percentage point.

Every percentage point increase in borrowing costs makes it that much harder to get the nation's fiscal house in order.

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

As a result, he had to tack an extra percentage point on a higher new top rate for individual and corporate taxes.

Interstate migration at that time was contributing a full percentage point a year to Queensland's population growth.

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

The move prompted Commonwealth Bank of Australia to raise variable home-lending rates by 0. 45 of a percentage point.

A percentage point increase in efficiency could boost the selling price of solar products by 6 percent, Macquarie said.

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

An analysis by the left-leaning Economic Policy Institute expects the plan would reduce GDP growth by 0. 3 of a percentage point in 2012.

A week ago that spread stood at 1. 4 percentage point.

Before the crisis, it was a percentage point higher.

The spread paid by higher-risk European firms has increased by almost a percentage point since mid-June.

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

This week they increased banks' reserve requirement ratio by half a percentage point.

The central bank responded yesterday with a 1 percentage point cut in rates.

The 2. 1 percentage point rise represented the fourth consecutive increase in the amount of portfolio dollars allocated to equities.

In fact, spreads over bunds have stabilised since February and fallen by just 0. 2 percentage point since the election.

Last week, the Bank raised rates to 5. 75 per cent, representing a 1. 25 percentage point rise since last August.

Zandi expects the Federal Reserve to slash the federal funds rate, currently at 3 percent, by another percentage point this year.

Lending rates for the Personal Housing Accumulation Fund Loan will be cut by 0. 27 of a percentage point.

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

Still, many economists have shaved a percentage point off growth estimates for the year, to between 6% and 7%.

The broad M2 measure of money growth, which includes deposits but not wealth products, was nearly 1 percentage point below forecasts.

China has raised interest rates four times since October and most analysts expect only another one or two 0. 25-percentage-point boosts.

The World Bank estimates that each percentage point decline in developing country growth rates pushes an additional 20m people into poverty.

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.

Mr Wall reckons that every percentage-point drop in annual turnover rates equates to a saving of $400m-500m.

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

Dearer oil may have cost the economy another half a percentage point in output.

The premium demanded by investors to hold the country's debt over German bunds rose to 1 percentage point.

Public net investment is already scheduled to fall by a whole percentage point of GDP between this year and 2012-13.

Graduates in unlucky cohorts suffer a wage decline of 6-7% for each percentage-point increase in the overall unemployment rate.

Feng cited in comparison figures from a top-rated Dutch plant that were about half a percentage point lower in 2009.

Such cuts would shave 0. 1 to 0. 2 of a percentage point from the rate of U. S. economic growth, analysts said.

Brazil's central bank reduced interest rates by a full percentage point to 12. 75%. The cut was larger than expected.

Although America's unemployment rate is down a percentage point from its peak, this is little cause for cheer.

Thailand cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point.

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

Revisions made in August to historical GDP statistics warranted adding half a percentage point to the January estimate, the official said.

The benchmark Ibex 35 stock market index was down by nearly a percentage point in early afternoon trading.

Brazil cut the overnight lending rate by half a percentage point earlier this month, and more cuts are expected.

Inflation in the UK is again more than a percentage point above target.

Cuts individual housing common reserve fund rate on loan, various scales interest rate falls 0. 27 percentage point separately.

"We have brilliant people who dream of ways to increase our market share by 1 percentage point, " Mr. Gates said.

It lopped half a percentage point off this month in an emergency meeting, taking them to 4. 5%.

A CSA survey noted a steady five percentage-point rise to 35% between March and June (see chart).

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

The rate now stands at 1%, and economists expect a half-percentage-point cut to 0. 5% at next week's rate-setting meeting.

Assuming no income growth, each 5 percentage point fall in the debt-to-income ratio equates to about $500bn less consumption.

The Bank of Korea cut its rate by a full percentage point to a record low of 3 per cent.

The Federal Reserve in an October 8 emergency move lowered its key interest rate by half a percentage point to 1. 5 percent.

By contrast, raising the top two rates by 1 percentage point would yield just $115 billion.

It was surprised that the percentage of female smoker in 2000 is higher than male's by 11 percentage point, Is 24% and 13% respectively.

In a base case and assuming a three-percentage-point capital-ratio increase, the absolute level of GDP rises by some 1. 7%.

At the height of the financial crisis in September, it rose to 6. 9%, more than a percentage point above the central bank's 5. 75%.

But stocks fell another percentage point in July.

As recently as 1995 a referendum on independence was lost by barely a percentage point.

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

With each assignment missed, you will lose a percentage point.

But the size -- fifty basis points, or half a percentage point -- was double what many people expected.

That alone is enough, says Ms Boone, to chop around a percentage point off GDP growth in 2012.

Central banks in both the Philippines and Malaysia raised key interest rates 0. 25 percentage point on Thursday.

That gap is particularly high: the average difference since 1997 has been 0. 85 of a percentage point (see chart).

Any unexcused absence deducts a percentage point from your final grade: two latenesses count as one absence.

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.

The financial markets now project that the central bank will raise rates three times in 2011 in small 0. 25 percentage point increments.

National Australian Bank, or NAB, shaved 0. 1 percentage point off its forecast for the quarter.

The consumer price index rose 7. 7 per cent in the year to May, down a full percentage point from the February peak.

A widely used rule of thumb says each sustained $10-a-barrel increase in oil prices shaves 0. 2 percentage point off U. S. growth.

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

A 100 basis points is equal to a percentage point.

A rule of thumb is that a 10% increase in the price of oil will cut a quarter of a percentage point off global growth .

And in past US recessions, the IMF found that for every percentage point drop in US GDP growth, Asia's GDP growth fell by 0. 28 per cent.

During that time a gap of around half a percentage point opened up between the two.

Most economists had forecast a quarter percentage-point increase at that meeting.

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

The Federal Reserve cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point, to 4. 75%.

ALG says that a Toyota leased today will lose 0. 9 percentage point more off its residual value than it would have before the recalls began.

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

Turkey's central bank lowered its key lending rate half a percentage point to 5. 75%; as a result, the lira fell 2% against the dollar.

Sweden's central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point, to 0. 5%.

The situation is also dire in Russia, where a 4. 2 percentage-point rise has left more than one in ten out of work.

In fact, a 1% increase in body mass results in a 0. 6 percentage point decrease in family income.

The US two-year yield is already at a new low and the 10-year is down a full percentage point in four months, to just 2. 5 per cent.

The latest forecast from UBS China economist Wang Tao envisages a 1. 1 percentage point drag on GDP growth from net exports in 2012.

S. , markets expect a half-percentage-point cut to 1%.

They concluded that for every 10 percentage-point decline in export growth, GDP growth would fall by 2. 5 percentage points.

Raising all six income tax rates by 1 percentage point would yield an additional $480 billion over 10 years.

The benchmark lending rate dropped a full percentage point, to 2. 75 percent.

The government could raise rates by half a percentage point "within weeks" , according to Credit Suisse.

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%.

Based on current prices, the tax on wheat and corn exports decreased by about 1 percentage point.

The gap of 0. 3 percentage point was the same as in 2007.

That's a 15-percentage-point gain in just four or five months.

The headline earnings figure fell even faster by 0. 6 of a percentage point, also to 3. 5 per cent.

Winter storms cut perhaps half a percentage point off growth from January to March, according to some estimates.

They will each see a 0. 2 percentage point drop in their annual GDP, according to the Moody's Analytics forecasts.

Yields on bonds of the Netherlands rose 0. 09 percentage point on Tuesday, rising to 0. 626 percentage point above bunds.

Most schools in China use the hundred percentage point system, with 60 percent as the passing grade.

Surging exports will add 0. 4 percentage point to economic growth in the second quarter, it said.

For whites, the poverty rate in 2010 was 9. 9 percent, a half percentage point increase from the previous year.

An oft-cited rule of thumb is that a $10 per barrel increase in the price of oil knocks half a percentage point from global GDP growth.

Viewed this way, Action Alerts PLUS didn't double the market's return; it squeaked past by a cumulative 0. 9 percentage point.

However, the estimated three percentage point hit to euro-zone growth would easily do the job there.

In Britain and Japan inflation is running half a percentage point below the rate predicted at the end of last year.

Spanish yield premiums over Germany could widen another 0. 20 percentage point to 0. 30 percentage points, Citigroup argues.

That margin increased 0. 6 percentage point in the first half, Nestle said.

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.

On average, the revisions were just 0. 1 percentage point.

A seasonally-adjusted inflation expectation index dropped 0. 6 percentage point to 70. 7 percent, the central bank said.

Of those surveyed, 58. 3 percent said prices are "too high to accept, " down 0. 6 percentage point from the previous quarter.

Refinery utilization was forecast to increase by 0. 5 percentage point, on average, after a jump of 3. 1 percentage points the week before.

In 2006, media usage per person per year declined half a percentage point to 3, 530 hours.

Mr. Puttipong said that based on a rough estimate, the protests will trim about 0. 6 percentage point off Thailand's growth rate this year.

Goldman Sachs estimates the tax proposal could add between 0. 5 and 1 percentage point to economic growth in 2011.

In the four months during which unemployment dropped a percentage point in 1983-84, non-farm payrolls leapt by 1. 6m.

Thus the gap has narrowed by 0. 7 percentage point.

The IMF thinks that Italian GDP will rise by just 0. 3% in 2012, down a full percentage point from the 1. 3% it predicted in June.

Household spending increased 1. 6 percent, contributing 0. 9 percentage point to GDP.

The benchmark one-year lending rate will fall 0. 27 percentage point to 7. 2% from Tuesday, the People's Bank of China said on its Web site.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. analysts reduced their projection of growth in the second half by 0. 5 percentage point to 2. 75 percent.

He calculates that a three-percentage-point rise in rates would add 4. 5% to disposable income and lift consumer spending by 3. 5%.

Ten-year JGB yields dropped to 0. 995 per cent, dropping below the 1 percentage point threshold for the first time since August 2003.

That's an increase from the 0. 48 percentage point spread on January 4.

Fifteen-year mortgage rates dropped 0. 03 percentage point to average 3. 92 percent, the lowest since records began in 1991.

A basis point is 0. 01 percentage point.

The two-year yield fell 0. 08 percentage point and ended below the 1% mark for the first time since March 22.

The yield on the French 10-year bond also moved sharply higher, adding 0. 12 percentage point to trade at 3. 56%.

Barclays Capital reckons that funding costs have risen by more than a percentage point since last year.

Spanish 10-year yields rose to 6. 39 per cent, up 1 percentage point this month alone.

The poll, which interviewed 1000 adults between Jan. 13 17, has a 3. 1 percentage point margin of error.

The IMF lowered Japan's forecast by 0. 2 percentage point to 1. 5 percent.

Better health care would add just 0. 4 to 0. 6 percentage point.