The Taylor rule, a popular rule of thumb, suggests it should be six percentage points below.
Monday's surge in bond yields widened the gap between Italian and German 10-year bond yields to a euro-zone era record of 4.75 percentage points, up from 4.48 percentage points Friday.
The risk premium on Argentina's bonds has fallen by more than three percentage points over the past month.
Mr. Ewanick admitted his budgets have been flat and will stay that way in 2010, give or take a few percentage points.
The book have shown that being the child of an alumnus adds the equivalent of 160 SAT points to one's application and increases one's chances of admission by almost 20 percentage points.
Symbian, also used on some phones from other vendors, lost almost 10 percentage points of market share to 41.2 percent as Nokia struggled to revamp it and bring out new products.
That is still ten percentage points below whites.
The gap has since widened to 16 percentage points, according to the Pew Research Centre.
More students are applying for financial aid. It’s a significant increase, four full percentage points ahead of last year.
Credit Suisse Group ag forecasts the benchmark one-year deposit rate, which has risen 1 percentage point to 3.25 percent, will climb another 1.5 percentage points by the end of the year.
A cut of two percentage points in the reliefs on capital investment means it will take two to five years longer to write off an investment against tax.
Positive changes began to take place in foreign trade export in July, with the volume of export increasing by 6.6 percent on last year's same month and the growth rate rising by 7.2 percentage points on June.
M1 was around 4.6 trillion, up 17.7%, about six percentage points higher than the year before and three percentage points above the target.
The difference between yields on two-year Fannie Mae bonds and Treasury notes rose 0.25 percentage point Wednesday to 1.5 percentage points.
The yields on ten-year Greek government bonds rose to 6.3% this week, a spread of some three percentage points over German Bunds.
A recent study of their effect, by economists at the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank, pegged their contribution at just 0.4 percentage points of the close-to-10% jobless rate.
The spread of ten-year bonds against bunds widened by 0.16 percentage points, to 1.43 points.
Polls suggest that the race will be tight, with "yes" votes prevailing by five to six percentage points.
Newham, the borough which overlaps most with the Olympic Park, has London's lowest employment rate, stubbornly around a dozen percentage points below the average (see chart).
Government spending is three percentage points higher than inflation.
He cites a number of reasons why yields may be at least 150 basis points (one-and-a-half percentage points) too low.
The proportion of working-age people with degree-level qualifications has increased too, from 13.8% in 1995 to 21.9% in 2008 (though it was still seven percentage points below the national mean).
Only 50% of small businesses now offer health insurance, down almost 10 percentage points since 2000.
In spite of competition from the World Cup and the economic downturn, this year's Singapore Arts Festival was a hugh success - 80.2% of tickets for its core programmes were snapped up, an increase of 5 percentage points over the previous year.
The survey, with a margin of error of 3.1 percentage points, suggested possible big gains by Republican candidates in next year's elections.
In Nicaragua, the IEG reports, a pilot programme along these lines raised enrolment rates by about 22 percentage points.
By contrast, the German unemployment rate remained stable at 7.7% for the three months to July and has moved up only 0.6 percentage points between September last year and July 2009.
Overall, ASTA says, GDS usage has declined 19 percentage points since 1999 to 79%.
However, they do change the percentages of the cost per user by several percentage points.
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