percentage point
noun
: one hundredth of a whole : percent
interest rates rose one percentage point from 6.5 percent to 7.5 percent
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The Democratic presidential campaign has over 375 staff members in the state, nearly four times Trump's, yet a FiveThirtyEight compilation of polls shows Harris has less than a one percentage point edge over the former president in the state.
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Terry Moseley, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2024
This would track with the history of the one pristine Fed-enabled soft landing of recent decades, when an initial rate cut in July 1995 immediately sent the 10-year yield rising by more than half a percentage point over the next month, before resuming its longer-term decent.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024
For example, analysts at UBS estimate that a 60% tariff on imports from China and a 10% tariff on goods from the rest of the world would lower global economic growth by one percentage point in 2026, when the tariff hikes are likely to have been fully implemented.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
Trump has since regained a slight lead – less than a percentage point – in one October 2024 poll.
—Christopher A. Cooper, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
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Terry Moseley, USA TODAY, 28 Oct. 2024
This would track with the history of the one pristine Fed-enabled soft landing of recent decades, when an initial rate cut in July 1995 immediately sent the 10-year yield rising by more than half a percentage point over the next month, before resuming its longer-term decent.
—Michael Santoli, CNBC, 26 Oct. 2024
For example, analysts at UBS estimate that a 60% tariff on imports from China and a 10% tariff on goods from the rest of the world would lower global economic growth by one percentage point in 2026, when the tariff hikes are likely to have been fully implemented.
—Hanna Ziady, CNN, 24 Oct. 2024
Trump has since regained a slight lead – less than a percentage point – in one October 2024 poll.
—Christopher A. Cooper, The Conversation, 23 Oct. 2024
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“Percentage point.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/percentage%20point. Accessed 14 Nov. 2024.
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