At least one bank cut its prime rate today.
至少有一家银行今天降低了自己的最低贷款利率。
美国基本利率。
Banking giant Wells Fargo said it was cutting its prime rate to 3.25 percent.
银行业巨头富国说，这是削减其最优惠利率为百分之三点二五。
Most credit CARDS have their rate fixed at the prime rate plus some specific percentage - prime plus 11.9%, for example.
大多数信用卡的利率是固定的，由基本放款利率加上一些特定比率-如基本放款利率加上11.9%。
And after the prime rate declined by half a point, and the Dow rose by thirty-two, guess what happened to Goose and Fox?
要是主利率降了半个点，道·琼斯涨了三十二点，你们猜大白鹅和狐狸能赚多少？
Another reason the more important is that employees receive a special low interest rate on loans, usually one percent below prime rate.
另一个原因更重要，就是职工可享受特殊的贷款利息率，较之最优惠利息率一般还要低去百分之一。
Since the prime rate just dropped by 0.75%, many credit card rates just dropped 0.75%, which will help a bit if you have a large credit card balance.
考虑到基本利率只是下降了0.75%，很多信用卡费率也只是下降0.75%而已，这将有点帮助假如你有很高的信用卡贷款余额。
Major Banks including bank of America, Wachovia and Wells Fargo soon followed with cuts in their prime rate. This is what Banks charge their best customers.
包括美国银行，瓦乔维亚银行和富国银行在内的各大银行也紧随着降低了他们的头等客户贷款最低利率。
For example, the Fed has proposed limits on how much mortgage interest rates can exceed the prime rate for low-income borrowers with poor credit ratings.
例如，美联储曾提议将低信用评级的低收入的贷款者的按揭利率超出最优惠利率的范围做一个限制。
However deeply the Fed decides to cut rates, the prime rate, now at 4 percent, for many consumer and small-business loans would drop by a corresponding amount.
然而美联储早已决定降低利率，最优惠利率目前为4%，对于消费和小规模商业的贷款会有一定数量的下调。
Many consumer loan rates, however, are pegged to Banks' prime rate.That rate, in turn, is tied to the Federal Reserve's benchmark short-term rate, which remains near zero.
然而很多消费者贷款利率是与银行的优惠利率挂钩，这优惠利率又是紧盯美联储的短期基准利率，这一利率持续接近于0。
Many consumer loan rates, however, are pegged to banks' prime rate. That rate, in turn, is tied to the Federal Reserve's benchmark short-term rate, which remains near zero.
然而很多消费者贷款利率是与银行的优惠利率挂钩，这优惠利率又是紧盯美联储的短期基准利率，这一利率持续接近于0。
The empirical results show that the Banks with larger scale tend to have lower prime rates and that bank capital costs and operating expenses have positive effects on the prime rate pricing.
实证结果发现，银行资金成本及营业费用对基本放款利率有正向影响，而规模愈大的银行则会有较低的基本放款利率。
If a bank needs some quick cash, it can always borrow it from a bank down the road for that prime lending rate.
如果一家银行需要尽快获得一笔流动资金，他总是能够以基本放款利率从另一家银行借到这笔钱。
A prime symptom of the monetary malaise has been the extraordinarily high rate that Banks have been charging each other for three-month loans.
货币市场弊病的主要症状是银行之间互相收取异常高的三个月贷款利率。
I watched CNN for a while yesterday while waiting for a meeting and they kept going back to the big news that the Federal Reserve cut the prime lending rate by 0.75%.
昨天，我在等会议开始的时间里看了会儿CNN，电视里反复播放着“美联储将基本放款利率降低了0.75％”。
The Fed's decision was matched by a reduction in the prime lending rate.
美联储的决定是符合减少了优惠贷款利率。
Coined (or at any rate hammered almost to death) by the prime minister, David Cameron, and other coalition politicians, it has been chosen by Oxford academics as the Word of 2010.
这个由首相大卫·卡梅伦和他的同僚们一手打造的新词，被牛津大学评为2010年度词之首。
Assuming the Fed leaves rates alone, commercial Banks' prime lending rate, used to peg rates on certain credit CARDS and consumer loans, will stay about 3.25%.
假设，美联储不管其利率，商业银行的首要贷款利率，在消费者贷款和固定信用卡上利用固定利率将保持在3.25%。
The official unemployment rate may be relatively low — but the percentage of prime-working-age Americans without jobs, which isn’t the same thing, is historically high.
官方公布的失业率可能相对较低——但是青壮年劳动力的失业率却达到了历史最高点，这是两个完全不同的概念。
First of all, the prime lending rate is the interest rate that Banks charge each other for short term loans.
首先，基本放款利率是银行间相互进行短期借贷时使用的利率。
Thus, many, many other rates that do affect your life are affected by the prime lending rate.
就这样，许多与日常生活息息相关的利率都会受到基本放款利率的影响。
In a nutshell, when the Federal Reserve drops the prime lending rate, they're encouraging you to spend money.
总之，当美联储降低了基本放款利率，他们就是在鼓励你去花钱。
The prime minister must be praying that Mr King and his fellow rate-setters make the right call.
首相一定在祈祷King先生和他的制定汇率的同事们要做出正确的选择。
The prime minister must be praying that Mr King and his fellow rate-setters make the right call.
首相一定在祈祷King先生和他的制定汇率的同事们要做出正确的选择。
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