ECONOMICS, FINANCE
Markets showed a slight recovery when the Federal Reserve cut short-term interest rates by half a percentage point.
Meaning of percentage point in English
(Definition of percentage point from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
Examples of percentage point
percentage point
That is up by one percentage point over the results of the previous year.
The result represented a 1.3 percentage point increase on its previous performance.
Raising the rate by one percentage point would cover half the shortfall for 75 years.
Episode 4 saw an increase of one percentage point from the previous week to 3.9 million viewers (16%).
The region boasts 955,000 college degree holders, which represents a 31 percent regional college attainment rate and a two percentage point increase.
If he scores more than 50% his new rating is the competition average plus 10 points for each percentage point above 50.
It is the difference between the actual and the natural rate of unemployment of one percentage point for one year.
Relative to total energy consumption, renewable energy sources have increased their share by only about one percentage point in the past 20 years.
A one percentage point reduction in the structural deficit delivers a 0.67 percentage point improvement in the actual fiscal deficit.
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