My guess: Over a long period his strategy will be good for an incremental half a point a year.
Interest rates are still only half a point higher than they were in the summer of 1998.
Even if its sales to the region fell by 25%, this would reduce growth only by half a point.
Figures today show it rose again to 5.2% last month, up more than half a point on August's figure.
For tiny investments, the Is are a great deal, paying only half a point less than the tradable inflation-indexed Treasurys.
The unemployment rate, meanwhile, has fallen half a point in the past three months, to 8.5%, the lowest since early 2009.
September German bund futures remain half a point firmer at 131.67 having earlier made gains of 82 ticks on the day.
For one thing, a 1% tax increase -- half a point each on workers and employers -- goes into effect that year.
Living in cities brings many benefits, but Dr Meyer-Lindenberg's work suggests that Shelley and his fellow Romantics had at least half a point.
The good news for journalists: The unemployment rate for recent college grads was 7.7%, a half a point below the national rate of 8.2%.
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Analysts said some investors were buying in anticipation that the Federal Reserve will cut its fed funds rate by half a point to 1 percent on Wednesday.
But he has half a point when he argues that race relations in Britain are at least as good as in most other rich countries.
With only half a point separating the sides, Lehmann's innings was vital, and he reached his double century with a six off left-arm spinner Paul Wiseman.
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Contrast that with the United States, where the economy is racing, interest rates were raised by half a point on May 16th and further increases are expected.
At its previous meeting the Fed's policy-making committee raised short-term rates by half a point, bringing the cumulative rise over the past year to one and three-quarter points.
Investors may well want more than just half a point, especially as the money markets have in effect increased the cost of bank funding by much more than that.
All in all, a Ginnie Mae or Fannie Mae should offer a yield at least half a point over the comparable Treasury before you even give it a second look.
Brawn, whose car is powered by a Mercedes engine, needed half a point to wrap up the title in Brazil, ahead of closest rivals Red Bull, and they picked up five.
The best finish achieved by a woman in F1 was in 1975 when De Filippis' compatriot Lella Lombardi scored half a point for placing sixth in a shortened Spanish Grand Prix.
In deciding to raise short-term interest rates by half a point, to 6.5%, on May 16th, Alan Greenspan, the chairman of the Federal Reserve, has clearly decided to pour cold water on America's red-hot economy.
Instead, the central bank, which has already cut rates twice in recent weeks, still has to lower them by about half a point by January to converge with the rates of the other euro countries.
Just before the U.S. Federal Reserve raised interest rates by half a point May 16, Biggs and Senior Correspondent Assif Shameen ran through the outlook for various Asian markets, having already taken the hike into account.
Shopping centers, which play host to day-to-day necessities--drugstores, hair salons, laundries--are down 0.5%. (The big malls, owned by powerful players like real estate investment trusts, are finding meager advances in same-store sales at their department stores and boutiques.) Warehouses, their growth pace off only half a point to 4%, are still much in demand.
Thai annual growth has been ticking along at 5% or more, and brokerage economists say the events culminating in Thaksin's ouster after five years could shave from a half point to a full point off that.
After cutting the funds rate by a half-point on Sept. 11 and a quarter-point on Oct. 31, the central bank indicated that those two reductions might be all that were needed to combat the threat of a recession given that financial markets appeared to be stabilizing.
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