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Letter volumes were falling by just a few percentage points a year, allowing sufficient cost savings to be found to maintain profit margins.

A difference of just a few percentage points on natural-gas prices, he added, translates into billions of dollars.

suggest that over the long-term housing has tended to beat inflation by a couple of percentage points a year.

If measured correctly, it may be up to ten percentage points larger as a share of GDP (and investment lower by the same amount).

The report said the cost would be equivalent to shaving growth in the world's GDP by only 0. 12 percentage points a year by 2030.

The saving rate rarely moves more than a couple of percentage points in a year, so a sudden pullback to 5% would be extraordinary.

Car numbers increased by 40%, but gasoline consumption increased by just a few percentage points and diesel consumption fell.

They promised to do their part to cut the growth rate in health spending by one and a half percentage points a year.

That paper said the growth rates of other fast growing nations fell by at least two percentage points once they hit a certain income level.

Unemployment tends to rise by seven percentage points during the down phase of the cycle, which on average lasts four years.

Even a few percentage points matter, because fuel accounts for around three-quarters of the lifetime cost of a turbine.

The huge amounts of money thrown at this problem since Libor peaked almost five percentage points higher than it is now have had an effect.

Spending hours or even days finely tuning a server for just a few percentage points is a waste of time.

Phil Davis, a building contractor, has no work at all, despite cutting his margins by ten percentage points.

Mr Wu said the deal would allow Pudong Development to boost its capital adequacy ratio by four percentage points to close to 14 per cent.

It is higher, they say, by at least two or three percentage points.

Both people said the export-tax rebate rate on most of the goods targeted in the plan would rise between four and eight percentage points.

Although its business there has been growing, it is estimated to be only a few percentage points of its total revenues.

He thinks Unilever should be able to expand sales at a rate of 1 or 2 percentage points ahead of the product markets in which it operates.

Companies selling unsecured commercial paper will have to pay an effective rate of two percentage points above this OIS benchmark.

Typically, he said, presidential approval ratings hover about 20 percentage points above the national 'right direction' number.

Hungarians borrowing in Swiss francs win nine percentage points of interest savings a year.

Better models have won car-buyers back: in August GM had a 20. 4% market share in America, up almost two percentage points in a year.

The expansion of commercial farms could, over the next decade, raise world output by a further few percentage points.

At least two percentage points of the second quarter's earnings growth is directly attributable to the weak dollar, analysts say.

The Tories are only a few percentage points ahead in a race that many think they should be cruising.

Winning a presidential election with a margin of 16 percentage points would be considered a triumph for most politicians or their parties.

In other age ranges, the differences are far less greater, with only a few percentage points differentiating the two groups.

The figure was 10. 7 percentage points higher from a year earlier, showing the adverse effects of the economic slowdown was still under way.

A challenging game, you will battle with the computer, compete for the site to see who the final percentage points will win.

Investment expenses and taxes each have cut returns by roughly one to two percentage points a year.

Historically, inflation has eaten away three percentage points of return a year.

If it is more or less unchanged during the year, we would hope to be up about ten percentage points.

If it falls to parity against the dollar, Morgan Stanley estimates it would knock 4 percentage points from H&M's gross margin.

We have allowed for an extra 3% annual rise in the yuan against the dollar on top of the inflation gap of two percentage points.

Output per worker rose at 9. 8 per cent a year. Of this, no less than 6. 2 percentage points was generated by rising factor productivity.

A survey published on February 28th showed that it had fallen to just two percentage points.

Economists in general expect China to allow the yuan to appreciate by only a few percentage points in coming months.

But will China abandon the benchmark system, with its advantages of price stability, for an extra 10 percentage points price cut?

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He found that the average stock that added 'China' to its name outperformed the overall market by 31 percentage points over that period.

Social Democratic Party votes will soar more than 10 percentage points as the Green Party form the next state coalition government.

Bonds are termed distressed when they yield at least 10 percentage points more than similar-maturity government notes.

That is, China's annual GDP growth rate would drop by four percentage points if its exports did not grow at all.

Professor Sabia finds that deciding to have sex will knock a few percentage points off your grade.

Spending fell by more than five percentage points as a proportion of GDP and tax revenues rose by almost as much.

He predicted factory output growth in 2012 would be 1-2 percentage points lower than this year, but did not elaborate.

You might say that these are minor mistakes, just a few percentage points.

Funds-of-funds are struggling in 2009 as well: their returns are lagging five percentage points behind the average for the industry.

But the best result, by a few percentage points, still comes about by selectively binding the best optimizable classes.

Chinese borrowers will now have to pay at least 0. 25 percentage points more interest on their loans.

Hillary Clinton won the Kentucky primary by 35 percentage points. According to exit polls, she did well among women and white voters.

Consider the scope of that swing: the growth rate of a $14. 5 trillion economy shifted by 12. 3 percentage points in about nine months.

Under such conditions, one would expect house prices to overshoot, say at least 10 or 20 percentage points beyond the trend line.

It saw dropout rates fall by over 1. 5 percentage points and students move ahead by about a year in reading and maths.

Yet typically banking crises eat up some four percentage points in net losses; America's tests assumed a three-point hit over two years.

And even if costs were ten times that of Kobe, they would add only about 7 percentage points to Japan's debt-to-GDP ratio.

In Honduras, a CCT program increased the proportion of children who had at least one preventive health visit by 20 percentage points.

It had a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

Relative to its baseline, CBO projects that a fiscal stimulus could reduce the unemployment rate by about one or two percentage points.

Yet still they come: China's urban population makes up almost half of the total, 13 percentage points higher than a decade ago.

Despite the opposition gaining a further five percentage points, the election results can hardly be described as a step towards democracy.

The reports of the alert status helped cause the main stock index in Seoul to drop more than three percentage points in early trading.

Overall rural consumption should add 2. 5 percentage points to growth every year between now and then, he said.

To avoid charges of spurious accuracy, we have rounded down our estimate of the stable debt burden to the nearest five percentage points.

The DPJ's rating was up 6 percentage points from the previous survey a week earlier.

Ipsos said the survey had a margin of error ranging from 2. 6 to 3 percentage points depending on the country.

And divorced women were marginally, by 10 percentage points, more likely than married women to have returned to full-time work.

Without consumer goods from China, the U. S. price index would go up an extra two percentage points every year.

Subsidised loans form a central plank of the stimulus package: Hanoi has paid 4 percentage points of new loans to businesses.

Mr. Holleyman said he hopes China can reduce its piracy rate by 10 percentage points within four years.

Investment-grade firms are now paying a spread of more than five percentage points, compared with less than one point in February 2007.

That would cut their average rates of growth by roughly four percentage points annually during the period adjustment.

The state sector still accounts for more than half of all industrial assets, only ten percentage points down on 1998.

But investors who bought emerging markets companies earned 13 more percentage points annually over the period, for a 19% annual gain.

Back in 2002, emerging-market bonds offered a yield a full ten percentage points higher than American Treasury bonds.

Moderates do less well: Mr Obama was thrashed by 30 percentage points when he ran for Congress in a majority-black district.

In the next two years, tight macroeconomic controls knocked 4. 6 percentage points off its growth rate.

In contrast, figures in the euro area and Britain have been revised up by an average of 0. 5 percentage points.

But remember that 6 per cent would be a spread of less than 3 percentage points over German bunds.

Just one other state, Alabama, leans Republican (between five and nine percentage points in favour of the party).

Chavez's popularity has suffered a decline of 12 percentage points over the past year and a half, Cabrera told The Associated Press.

However, according to the American scholar David Weinstein, the official numbers understate Japanese deflation by several percentage points.

Some 25% of respondents judging it to be important, down two percentage points on the previous month.

Mr. Ewanick admitted his budgets have been flat and will stay that way in 2010, give or take a few percentage points.

Greece has promised to cut public spending in an effort to reduce its deficit by four percentage points this year.

Women's speeding offences have risen by four percentage points in the past five years yet still constitute only 17 per cent of the total.

But by 2030 , the CSIS predicts , the contraction in the working-age population will reduce growth by 0. 7 percentage points a year .

Mr. Clinton reduced government spending as a share of GDP by 3. 5 percentage points, more than the next four best presidents combined.

And that would let Google grow even more, eating up percentage points along the way.

That suggests unemployment, up five percentage points so far, could remain in double digits into 2011.

The Conservatives lead the Labour Party by a stable but modest margin of around seven percentage points in the opinion polls.

Assume that America's top five investment banks would pay two percentage points more on unsecured borrowings without an implicit guarantee.

It expects to earn a return on equity of three to five percentage points less as a result of lower leverage.

Meeting a voter face to face makes him seven percentage points more likely to vote for you, he claims.

It would be optimistic, however, to expect its share of GDP to rise even by as much as 5 percentage points.

For years, Beijing set a ceiling on deposit rates and a floor on lending rates, creating a spread of about 3 percentage points.

The margin of sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points for all adults and for Tea Party supporters.

Overall, the U. S. economy will not drag on overall growth, the U. S. gross national product impacts only 0. 1 percentage points.

But achieving this goal is problematic, since it requires that household consumption grow four percentage points faster than GDP.

In the early 1990s, inflation was measured in thousands of percentage points.

Investment-grade corporate bonds now yield three to five percentage points more than comparable Treasurys.

Several middle- and high-income economies in the region are growing at about 2 percentage points less than pre-crisis.

Most of this came from new infrastructure investment, which probably added 8 percentage points, offsetting a sharp fall in exports.

Last month Mr Kan promised to slash five percentage points off the tax in the 2011 budget, which goes before parliament in March.

New orders were a driving force behind the manufacturing gains in the U. S. , rising almost 10 percentage points to 64. 9.

Over the past few decades, these costs have risen at a consistent 2. 5 percentage points above the growth rate of the economy.

"We are heading for a brick wall, " says a man responsible for several percentage points of GDP.

GDP is mostly hit by high oil prices could shave off 0. 8 percentage points of regional growth in 2011, he said.

Spreads between ten-year Greek bonds and benchmark German bunds the day before spiked to nearly seven percentage points.

An increase of five percentage points of saving would leave the economy with a $545 billion gap to fill.

In Florida, the polls say Mr Rubio would beat Kendrick Meek, the likely Democratic candidate, by nearly ten percentage points.

This year, although spreads have widened from the historic lows seen in May, they have settled at a modest two percentage points or so.

That gap was 5. 68 percentage points just a day earlier.

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

Central banks need to look at their economies afresh and cut rates by at least 1, and ideally2, percentage points.

In 2006 Ollanta Humala, a populist former army officer with no previous political experience, came within five percentage points of winning.

The disaster will likely shave up to 0. 5 percentage points from the country's economic growth this year.

Retail sales of consumer goods increased by 15. 9% in real terms, registering a year-on-year growth of 3. 6 percentage points.

But analysts said that PMI usually declines by an average of 0. 9 percentage points from September to October.

We must reduce our federal rate by at least 10 percentage points and the states should follow suit.

That's actually the lowest interest rate being paid by any advanced economy, two percentage points lower than Germany's rate.

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

Beijing has let the value of the yuan rise by about two percentage points in the past month as U. S. pressure accelerated.

Over the same period, obesity has increased by three percentage points.

As a result, the consumption share of the Chinese economy could increase by at least five percentage points of GDP by 2015.

We assign a likelihood (high, medium or low; percentage points; statistical quantiles) to various events we are concerned about.

But unlike other top-rated debt instruments, CPDOs pay a succulent interest rate of as much as two percentage points over cash.

As of July 6, that was 1. 35 percentage points more yield than I'd get with a 10-year Treasury note.

Harris Interactive said the results have a sampling error of plus or minus 1. 2 percentage points.

Two months earlier, respondents had favored more government involvement by a margin of 11 percentage points.

That would be a drop of more than 4 percentage points from 2011's expected growth.

Chinese government bonds, the best reference, yield as much as 2 percentage points less in the offshore market (see chart).

b. The oil company executive proposes to add 20 percentage points to the real discount rate to offset the risk of a dry hole .

Factor productivity generated a contribution to India's growth of 2. 3 percentage points a year between 1993 and 2004.

The U. S. asset manager outperformed the MSCI World Index by 51. 5 percentage points following its acquisition.

In contrast, Hungary's central bank raised its key rate three percentage points to 11. 5% in an emergency meeting Wednesday.

The strengthened dollar shaved nine percentage points off revenue growth, and 14 percentage points from operating profit growth.

The stocks chosen in this way outperform unconnected stocks by 8. 4 percentage points a year.

In the 18 earlier crises, the average drop in output growth was two percentage points and it took two years for growth to return to normal.

In industry, China's growth rate was 11 per cent a year, of which employment contributed just 1. 2 percentage points.

The Taylor rule, a popular rule of thumb, suggests it should be six percentage points below.

The risk premium on Argentina's bonds has fallen by more than three percentage points over the past month.

This can mean that white students have to get a matric mark some 20-30 percentage points higher than their black peers.

Portugal approved a VAT increase of two percentage points.

This leaves a gap between actual unemployment and our employment target of five percentage points.

Tax burdens on the rich have fallen (see chart 1). Across the OECD the average top marginal rate fell by nearly 11 percentage points.

In Greece, the value-added tax (a national sales tax) was increased four percentage points; the normal retirement age is also being raised.

Uruguay is charged a premium of only five percentage points, and can thus more easily afford a fiscal stimulus.

Overall, poverty rates are more than 20 percentage points higher in countries affected by violence than the others.

This time Japan, with a deterioration of 34 percentage points, is ahead, and the US, with 27 percentage points, just behind.

America's unemployment rate fell 0. 4 percentage points in January for a second consecutive month, dropping the rate to 9. 0%.

Two-thirds had higher turnover than they predicted; on average, they underestimated their turnover rate by 26 percentage points.

The gap between what banks are paying on deposits and the rates they are charging ordinary customers to borrow is several percentage points.

Each of these booms saw loan growth of near 50 percentage points of GDP.

That would be an increase of 4 percentage points of GDP.

Spreads over German bunds reached 3 percentage points, a euro-era record, before coming down a little.

For the five worst crises, growth rates tumbled by five percentage points from their peak and recovery took more than three years.

Earlier Tuesday, investors were demanding a premium of four percentage points over benchmark German bonds to lend to Spain for 10 years.

Across the OECD the average top marginal rate fell by nearly 11 percentage points.

The widening deficit hinders US output and in the second quarter the gap knocked nearly 3 percentage points off the growth rate.

In recent weeks Irish bond spreads over German bonds have widened by over two percentage points.

The island, which has nationalised its three biggest banks and cut interest rates by 3. 5 percentage points, has been in talks for a week.

Already the country is chafing under interest rates that were pushed up by six percentage points to 18% during talks with the fund.

Their overall portfolio allocation to cash, deposits and fixed income securities rose nine percentage points to 44 per cent.

The country immediately rallied behind its widowed president, increasing her approval rating by over 20 percentage points.

His support rate dropped by 25 percentage points from when he entered office last May.

The agreement also cuts workers' Social Security taxes by two percentage points.

The net exports surplus expanded YoY again in real terms (net of the price effect), contributing 0. 3 percentage points to real GDP growth.

His opinion-poll rating has plunged by 14 percentage points in less than a month.

Normally, Railways' revenue grows by two percentage points higher than the growth of Indian economy.

Mr Shih's estimate (not counting the untapped credit lines) would add another 34 percentage points to China's ratio of public debt to GDP.

Since January 2006 the RBI has raised its overnight lending rate by one and a half percentage points, to 7. 75%.

Goldman Sachs economists expect fiscal stimulus will continue to boost annualized growth by two percentage points in the first half of 2010.

Before the crisis, Ireland's ratio of public debt to GDP was 40 percentage points less than Germany's.

Export taxes on primary steel products were also raised by five percentage points.

Another two countries come within 2 percentage points of the target prevalence of stunting.

The previous quarter's horrendous fall was itself revised downward by more than two percentage points, to an annualised 14. 4%.

Barack Obama lost here by 13 percentage points in 2008 and there is no reason to think he will do any better next year.

The growth of narrow money (M1), meanwhile, fell by an even steeper 11. 2 percentage points.

Yes, this is a very crowded trade: Wynn Macau's performance this year is 55 percentage points better than the benchmark.

The voting share of European Union members was cut by 2. 8 percentage points in the recapitalisation agreed during the financial crisis.

SJM gained two percentage points from the previous month while Sands held steady.

To make up for the lost revenue, banks will need to improve their deposit margins by only 0. 3 percentage points, Mr Meleis calculates.

His approval rating rose by five to ten percentage points in polls taken shortly after the mutiny.

Our latest findings show that people's trust in the HKSAR Government has dropped 6 percentage points compared to two months ago.

One recent poll put the PdL just 2. 5 percentage points ahead of the biggest opposition group, the Democratic Party.

The party's share of the vote fell by ten percentage points.

In the eurozone, generally considered more prone to deflation than the US, the gap is still 1. 5 percentage points.

By 2015, he expects Chinese carmakers to add another 5 percentage points to their share of a rapidly growing market.

That, says the government, has reduced economic growth by two percentage points to 7%; others guess that growth has fallen to less than 5%.

By the same measure, individual taxes are 2 percentage points lower than where they have trucked along for decades.

Russia's surplus as a proportion of GDP has declined by almost 15 percentage points.

It paid off on polling day, when Mr Bloomberg beat Fernando Ferrer, his Democratic rival, by 20 percentage points.

McCain won the Florida contest Tuesday by five percentage points.

Proximity to an opera house can increase regional growth by as much as 2 percentage points, they wrote.

But Germany's rise is only 16 percentage points.

Across the region, CCTs have boosted school enrollment from 1 to 10 percentage points, with larger effects in the higher grades.

Hours worked did decline by about 5%, and unemployment grew by several percentage points.

The EU endorsed Greece's plans to cut its budget deficit by 4 percentage points of gross domestic product this year.

In 2007, net exports contributed almost three percentage points of the 12% increase in GDP.

The proportion has increased by four percentage points since then, but has only reached 43%.

The annual rate of profit growth was 21. 2%, some six percentage points higher than people had expected.

China has also reduced its tariff level by three percentage points.

As exporters suffered and reduced investment, capital spending shrank, pushing growth down by another 1. 6 percentage points.

says its weighted average (which emphasises the most recent results) has Mrs Lowden up by 11 percentage points.

SKS has voluntarily shaved two percentage points off its loan rates in AP, where it has 2. 2m borrowers.

The proportion of unattached men jumped 9. 2 percentage points since the survey was last conducted, in 2005.

Since Pasok came to power only ten weeks ago, the cost of raising new two-year debt has risen by 1. 35 percentage points.

In the first two months of the year, China's import went up 64%, 32 percentage points higher than its export growth.

As recently as 2003, Ukraine's bonds yielded 2 percentage points less than Russia's.

Apple Inc. maintained third place, increasing market share by a half percentage points to 25. 5%.

7% of the speed increase, only one investment on economic growth, the contribution rate reached 7. 3 percentage points.

The profit this year will increase two percentage points.

If the centre-right could win over half the waverers, it could grab three to four percentage points.

But after the best years, stocks outperformed by 6. 8 percentage points annually -- a statistical dead heat .

The underperformance is 2. 5 percentage points even when financial stocks are excluded, London-based Style Research notes.

The yield on 10-year Treasurys, which moves in the opposite direction of price, is up some 0. 25 percentage points in October.

A 3% drop in nominal GDP from current levels would push that ratio up by more than seven percentage points to 342%.

Mortgage rates increased by as much as two percentage points.

Goldman Sachs expects it to raise rates by as much as three percentage points in 2010.

Bringing securitised assets back on its balance-sheet will erode Citi's core capital by 1. 4 percentage points.

In the event she fell short by three percentage points, more than the margin of error.

Just two weeks ago the spread between 10-year German and Greek debt was below three percentage points.

Residence-related charges, which include rent and utility costs, were increased by 4. 22 percentage points, the bureau said.

One recent poll showed that the Socialists had cut the PP's lead to seven percentage points.

Over the past 50 years, the earnings yield has averaged around five percentage points higher than the return on cash.

The spending decline lopped more than 3 percentage points off GDP. Last month, consumer spending was estimated down at a 3. 5 percent pace.

When this gap grows to 35 percentage points or more, the market value of firms drops to only 80% of their book value.

According to the OECD, Japan's household saving rate has fallen by over eight percentage points since 1998, a deeper plunge than America's.

The difference in yields on Treasury debt and mortgage bonds guaranteed by Fannie has narrowed roughly 0. 7 percentage points.

Yesterday the difference between the yield on the 10-year bond and on the two-year note widened to 0. 71 percentage points.

Meanwhile, Research In Motion lost its grip on the top position, sliding 4. 5 percentage points to a market share of 27. 1%.

In the survey, 53% said they approved of the job Mr. Obama is doing as president, up eight percentage points from December.

Malnutrition in India has fallen only six percentage points, to roughly 46 percent, since economic reforms began in 1991.

The region's biggest economies are expanding around 10 percentage points faster than the US in nominal terms.

Each phase represents 80 percentage points in the variance reduction.

That growth gap of 8. 5 percentage points would be the biggest on record.

And differences in primary deficits explain 2. 9 percentage points of this gap.

The unemployment rate rose by 7 percentage points in previous crises, on average.

Underwriters aimed to keep GM's first-day 'pop' at 10%, give or take two percentage points.

Even with Fannie and Freddie continuing to lend, he reckons the credit crunch will knock 1. 8 percentage points off GDP growth.

The poll's margin of error was plus or minus two percentage points.

Inventory rebuilding will be by far the biggest factor in this year's GDP expansion, contributing 3. 4 percentage points of total growth.

But when debt rises above that level, average growth drops by as much as 2 percentage points.

During the middle of the past decade, trade surplus often accounted for about 2. 4 percentage points of China's annual growth.

Withdrawing stimulus, would only accomplish a spending reduction of 1. 5 percentage points of GDP, the fund said.

Goldman Sachs research report projects the expiration of the tax cuts could shave just under 0. 5 percentage points off growth in 2011.

Declines were also seen in Shanghai, Beijing, and other first-tier cities, which fell 6 percentage points.