Article: Brazil's Lula widens lead by one percentage point: poll

Article: The European Central Bank fulfilled expectations and cut interest ...
The Economist (US);  December 7, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... Bank fulfilled expectations and cut interest rates by half a percentage point to 2.75%. A probable further easing of inflationary pressures ... higher provisons for bad debts and exposure to Argentina and Brazil. The travails of the life-insurance industry led Australia ...

Article: China Exports Trouble, Too; The overall effects of a China ...
Newsweek International;  March 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... linkages to neighboring Asian economies, along with impacts on a resource supply chain that stretches from Australia and Canada to Brazil and Africa, the overall effects of a China slowdown could easily knock more than 0.5 percentage points off global economic ...

Article: HMOs Expect a 4.6% Increase in Insurance Rates and a 1.3 ...
PR Newswire;  October 1, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... increase in premium rates and a 1.3 percentage point decrease in their medical loss ... overall medical costs: The 1.3 percentage point decline in the medical loss ratio follows a 1.5 percentage point improvement expected for 1997 ...

Dictionary definition: percentage point
A Dictionary of Statistics;      298 words ...percentage point ( lower percentage point ) For the probability distribution of a random variable X , the θ percentage point (or lower θ percentage point) of the distribution is x 1 , such that P(X <  ...

Article: Sberbank lowers loan rates by average of point percentage ...
Russia & CIS Business and Financial Newswire;  July 2, 2009 ;     675 words ... ... lowers loan rates by average of point percentage point as of July 1 (Part 3) MOSCOW. July ... rates on loans by an average of one percentage point as of July 1, the company's president ... we lowered rates on average of one percentage point," he said. It was earlier reported ...

Article: HMOs Expect an 11.4% Increase in Insurance Rates and a 2.0 ...
PR Newswire;  October 11, 2000 ;     692 words ... ... increase in premium rates and a 2.0 percentage point decrease in their medical loss ... in the Mountain region. The percentage point change in the medical loss ratio spanned a 5.8 percentage point improvement in the Mountain region ...

Article: HMOs Expect an 8.3% Increase in Insurance Rates and a 2.4 ...
PR Newswire;  October 2, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... increase in premium rates and a 2.4 percentage point decrease in their medical loss ... East South Central region. The percentage point change in the medical loss ratio spanned a 5.9 percentage point improvement in the East South Central ...