Happy Thursday!
Percentages are certainly top of mind this morning after some major financial news yesterday, so today we're looking at three percentages you should know.
2.5%
The new Federal Reserve benchmark funds rate as of yesterday. Despite President Donald Trump's tweets against another rate hike, the Federal Reserve raised the interest rate by a quarter of a percent. It also lowered 2019 interest rate hike projections to just two.
28%
The percentage of MLB, NFL, NBA, and NHL stadiums that had half or more of their food service outlets (i.e. hot dog stands, restaurants, etc.) with high-level health inspection violations, according to a recent ESPN Outside the Lines report. Yankee Stadium ranks just outside the top-5 worst venues by percentage of vendors with recent high-level violations, and is the worst-ranked ballpark out of every single one in America.
49%
The percentage of New Yorkers who would prefer to be greeted with "Merry Christmas" during the holiday season as opposed to "Happy Holidays" (41%), according to new poll results from Sienna College. A Pew Research poll from 2017 said that most Americans don't have a preference of how stores greet customers for the holidays though, so don't call this a new development in the "War on Christmas" just yet.