We then calculated the dollar difference and percentage difference between renting and buying.
And Wednesday the junior Massachusetts senator made repeated references to unifying a divided nation that produced only a two percentage point difference in the popular vote for the two presidential candidates.
From their database, the authors find that a one percentage point difference in taxes results in a 0.225% reduction in the share price at takeover, and calculating backwards this indicates that the effective tax rate is 31% of the statutory one.
In the fourth quarter, the difference between the stock with the biggest returns and the stock with the worst returns was about 30 percentage points, compared with the average difference of 50 percentage points over the past decade, Ms. Subramanian says.
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Those 7.6 cents reflect 40 percent of the 19-percentage-point difference based on the crude estimate.
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"Only a one- or two-percentage-point difference, but over billions of dollars, that's a lot of money, " says Robert Wayman, HP's current chief financial officer.
Over 30 years that difference of half a percentage point compounds to 13%.
Steve Hodge, treasurer of Shell, an Anglo-Dutch oil giant, says that a difference of only one percentage point in the discount rate can change the value of, say, an oil refinery with a 15-year life by hundreds of millions of dollars.
The current difference of 11.45 percentage points is the largest in at least 22 years, Synovate estimates.
Depending on the taxpayer's circumstances, he says, there can be a difference of one to five percentage points, or more, in after-tax returns.
In normal times, the difference is more like eight percentage points.
How significant, in percentage and dollar terms, is the difference between the values the investment managers report to the pension regarding alternative investments and the liquidation values the pension might actually receive in a forced liquidation?
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"Owning another percentage point is not going to make a difference, " Warnsman said.
Lavin said the difference was the Irish took high-percentage shots in the second half, and credited Grant and Atkins.
The one difference is that this week, a greater percentage of outflows were attributed to local currency funds mainly because emerging market currencies (Brazil, in particular) have suffered in the recent risk-off period.
Obama aides believe if that percentage increased just modestly in 2008, it could make the difference in at least a half-dozen states: Missouri, Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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However, it could make a difference in the severity of downturns, if a larger percentage of investors are unwilling to hold through the declines.
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If even a small percentage of customers use less power in those times, it makes a huge difference.
As the difference between the two parties seems to be only 2-3 percentage points, the outcome may be too close to call.
The difference between Italy and Germany's yields dipped below 2.87 percentage points on Wednesday.
Still, the difference in 1980 between Sweden and the U.S. is only about four percentage points.
And those economies are catching up at a faster rate: average growth in GDP per person was 3.3 percentage points faster than America's growth rate in 2000-07, more than twice the difference in the previous four decades.
The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, is 18.4 percentage points.
The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, is at 14.6 percentage points.
The difference between bullish and bearish sentiment, the bull-bear spread, narrowed to -2.6 percentage points.
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