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percentage

[per-sen-tij] / pərˈsɛn tɪdʒ /


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That triggered a major reversal, with chip stocks going on to lag software stocks by 16 percentage points over the following 100 trading days.

From MarketWatch

Miller had warned of a slowdown of “at least a couple” of percentage points at a UBS investor conference in December.

From Barron's

"The percentage of preventable cancers can change over time and our goal is to get it as close to zero as possible," he said.

From BBC

Separately, PayPal guided for earnings per share to decrease by a mid-single-digit percentage in both the current quarter and the full fiscal year.

From The Wall Street Journal

The calculation now isn’t as simple as a percentage of price.

From The Wall Street Journal