This was before a two percentage point increase in the VAT in July 2010.
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If inflation holds in the 5% to 7% range, a two percentage point increase in interest rates is realistic.
The Temporary Payroll Tax Cut Continuation Act of 2011 keeps alive the two percentage point payroll tax cut we had in 2011.
Optimism that stock prices will rise over the next months stayed within a two percentage point range for the third consecutive week.
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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.
Traders acting at one bank, or even with the clubby co-operation of counterparts at rival banks, would have been able to move the final LIBOR rate by only one or two hundredths of a percentage point (or one to two basis points).
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House Republicans yesterday voted down the Senate's two-month extension of the two-percentage-point payroll tax holiday to 4.2% from 6.2%.
Social Security's actuaries assert that a two-percentage-point increase in payroll taxes would render the system solvent for another 75 years.
The agreement also includes a two-percentage-point payroll-tax reduction, lowering Social Security taxes for most Americans to 4.2% from 6.2% for one year.
"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.
Instead, many employers will be using the 2012 tables come January but will omit the two-percentage-point Social Security tax cut in effect this year.
That caused some amazing moves in the crossover index, including a 40-basis-point (two-fifths of a percentage point) jump in one day.
For the 2010 fiscal year the company expects 14% of revenue to be attributed to SAC, and for that number to drop over the next two years by one percentage point as revenues and subscribers increase.
As even conservative economists have said, the American Jobs Act would create nearly two million jobs, lower our unemployment rate by one full percentage point and increase our GDP by two percentage points.
Suppose that mortgage rates have gone up not one percentage point but two, to 5.5 percent.
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Since its formation in 1971, the Front has steadily built up its support by a percentage point or two a year.
Just be sure not to sacrifice liquidity and control for a percentage point or two, as it may come back to bite you.
Democrat-leaning and bailout recipient Goldman Sachs estimates that an expiration of the tax cut could knock two-thirds of a percentage point off growth in early 2012.
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For one thing, East Asia's annual output is now at a much lower level, even if it manages to tick up by a percentage point or two.
The size of the labor force grew by 578, 000 workers in October, with the labor force participation rate moving higher by two-tenths of a percentage point to 63.8%.
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Real investment had dropped from 1929 to 1932 (the election year) by more than 80% and rose only a percentage point or two by the time Roosevelt took office.
But perhaps a few companies might like to get together, create a little industry body, to fight and battle back against some percentage point or two of these cases.
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In contrast, the yield on German 10-year bonds, considered the safest in the eurozone, fell to 1.45% from 1.55%, meaning that the gap or "spread" in borrowing costs between the two countries rose half a percentage point to 3.44%.
Continue our example with the assumption that short-term rates rise another percentage point in year two before stabilizing.
He noted how Lin's performance in two unsexy statistical categories two-point field-goal percentage (a barometer of inside scoring ability) and RSB40 (rebounds, steals and blocks per 40 minutes) compared favorably with college numbers put up by marquee NBA guards like Allen Iverson and Gary Payton.
Based on some crude assumptions, and on the expectation that other big emerging economies will copy it, China's economic integration could boost annual growth in developed economies by half a percentage point over the next two decades.
The Bernanke Fed has also modified its guidance, noting its ultra-accommodative stance will remain in place until the unemployment rate falls below 6.5% and inflation projections remain no more than half a percentage point above 2% two years out.
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During that time a gap of around half a percentage point opened up between the two.
The 17.5 percentage point rise in bearish sentiment over the past two weeks shows that many investors are second-guessing their prior short-term outlooks.
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The 6.1% decline is an advance estimate that may be revised over the next two months (the advance estimate regularly changes by a full percentage point or more once the Commerce Department has more complete data).
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