But a half on 16 guaranteed America the extra half point they needed to win.
This might very well have happened, since the margin at the top was a mere half point.
Being that there was no mention made of Remote Disc, we're gonna give this a half point.
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The June note future is off by one half point but pared its losses from a session low at 118-09.
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Looking ahead, the optimists point to further interest-rate cuts (perhaps another half point during the next few months) and a tax rebate.
The Fed held off on raising rates by one-half point, a move some had feared would come before the central bank takes a breather.
Garcia hits an excellent second shot on to the green but misses a 20-foot putt for a birdie and has to settle for the half point.
We either go to straight line up at one-half point per trading day for the remainder of the year or we correct and then move up again.
Els makes the green in two, but is forced to settle for a par-four and the half point when his 15-foot putt runs along the edge of hole.
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.
The September bond future added a half point to stand at session highs of 123-22 ahead of lunchtime shaving four pips off the 10-year yield to 2.96% and leaving it within a couple of basis points of the lowest since early December.
But the laugh on the last was left to the Molinari brothers who held their nerve to secure a half point from the jaws of defeat as Francesco cleared the water feature protecting the green to land the ball within inches of the hole.
Contracts expiring beyond one-year forward saw implied yields rise by seven basis points while government bond futures expiring in September fell by one-half point to trade at 125.81 carrying a yield of 2.94% as its yield crossed back above those available on comparable treasuries.
Prime lending rates have fallen one percentage point since June, including a half-point cut Nov. 2.
Tour Eiffel has a 5.7% earnings yield, a full percentage point greater than the French ten-year, whereas U.S. REITs average just a half-point over the ten-year T note.
It sold 20, 000 vehicles last year, good for a mere half-point of market share in China.
The prices of euroyen futures indicate a further half-point rise in interest rates next year.
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My guess: Over a long period his strategy will be good for an incremental half a point a year.
Half the point of the Windows near monopoly is that we all know how to use it.
Interest rates are still only half a point higher than they were in the summer of 1998.
He thinks this is too tall an order, and expects rates to rise by another half-point in 1998.
MPC's half-point cut in interest rates last month, is now calling for a repeat performance on December 10th.
The limited move was followed this month by half-point reductions in the ratio for both large and small banks.
Even if its sales to the region fell by 25%, this would reduce growth only by half a point.
In effect, Mr Paulson engineered the equivalent of a half-point cut in interest rates targeted at the mortgage market.
Figures today show it rose again to 5.2% last month, up more than half a point on August's figure.
Wall Street, which had been hoping for a sixth half-point cut, was disappointed.
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