The Federal Reserve has cut the discount rate five times in 12 months.
美联储已在12个月间5次下调贴现率。
At the Cut-Rate Drug Store, no one colored was allowed to sit down at the counter or tables, with one exception: my father.
在廉价药店里，任何有色人种都不准坐在柜台或桌子旁，我父亲是个例外。
However, Thailand's central bank may have eased some of the pain this week, when it surprised financial markets with its largest rate cut ever.
但是，令金融市场惊讶的是，泰国中央银行本星期有史以来最大幅度削减利率，这个举措可能已经缓解了部分痛苦。
Once the refi rate is cut to 1%, the deposit rate will go to zero unless the ECB Narrows the gap.
一旦再融资利率降至1 %，那么存款利率将降至为零，除非欧洲央行采取措施缩小这一差距。
The Japanese people have gradually cut this rate to 2pc, cushioning the effects of the long slump.
日本人民逐渐把这一比率降低到2%，才缓冲了长期低迷的影响。
The rate cut was accompanied by other measures to unclog India's banking system, which is becoming as congested as its city streets.
降息同时配合其他措施来清理印度银行系统，该系统已经如城市街道般拥堵不堪了。
Then, those who bought on the news of the first rate cut would have done better to wait for lower stock prices.
而那些在美联储第一次降息时买入的人可能将看到更低的股价出现。
News from Athens and the ECB rate cut saw yields slip back to 6.2% in late trading.
据雅典的新闻消息，ECB下调利率后，交易显示已回落至6.2%。
America's Federal Reserve cut its policy rate by a further half point, to 1%, on October 29th.
10月29日，美国联邦储备委员会将基准利率进一步下调50个基点至1%。
A bill in the Senate would cut the rate to 8.75 percent, or 5.25 percent for companies that added jobs.
而在参议院的一项法案中，针对增加就业岗位的公司，税率则将减至8.75%，甚至5.25%。
This could be done through a standstill in repayments, extension of maturity, interest-rate cut or, in the most severe cases, the dreaded haircut.
这一决定可以通过在偿还贷款过程中的停顿、延长期限、降息或者在最严重的可怕的理发业来实现。
Newfoundland, helped by royalties from oil and mining, has cut its poverty rate in half (to 6.5%).
靠着石油、矿产土地使用费，纽芬兰已将贫困率减少了一半(降至6.5%)。
In that environment, a rate cut would have signalling value but would not rapidly translate into actual borrowing costs.
在这样的环境下，减息只有作为信号的价值，而不会迅速转化为实际的借钱成本。
But since expanding aggregate demand is precisely the goal of the interest rate cut, that incentive is not a bug but a feature!
但是，由于扩大总需求正是降息的目的，这一消费激励并非这个方案的缺陷，而是这个方案的特点。
A 25bp cut in the Fed Funds rate, possibly with a steeper cut to the higher discount rate, at which it lends to Banks, looks the most likely prescription.
看起来，美联储最可能开具的药方是：联邦基金利率降低25个基点，并可能更大幅度降低其贷款给各银行所依据的较高的贴现率。
Two of the nine members of the MPC had already resolved the dilemma in November by voting for a rate cut.
九位金融政策委员会成员中的两位已经在十一月投票赞成减息来摆脱目前的困境。
Cleaning up the housing market would help cut America’s unemployment rate, by making it easier for people to move to where jobs are.
要降低美国的失业率，整顿楼市是可行之法，这样人们的工作地点就不会受制于住所位置。
Even Apple, which has resisted this cut-rate trend, is offering modestly lower prices or higher specs for the same prices as before.
即便一向不愿屈从降价趋势的苹果电脑也推出了低价电脑，或者更高规格但价格不变的电脑。
Some experts believe the crisis could even force the Bank to make an emergency rate cut before next week's scheduled meeting.
专家认为目前的危机甚至可能会迫使央行在下周例会前提前紧急降低利率。
A rate cut does not just increase the supply of cash; it directly influences people's calculations about risk.
降息不仅仅增加了现金的供给，它还直接影响到人们对风险的评估。
Markets posted steady gains in Asia following an interest rate cut by the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank.
美国联邦储备委员会宣布降低利率后，亚洲股市呈现平稳的涨势。
This looks doubly dangerous: a rate cut is not certain; it would also, quite possibly, be the wrong thing to do.
这看起来双倍危险：降息并非板上钉钉；而且加息行为本身可能是错误的。
"Overall, this is as clear a signal as we could have expected that the MPC is braced to cut Bank Rate soon and in size," Walker said.
沃克表示：“总的来说，这是清晰的信号，我们可以预计货币政策委员会做好尽快适当减息的准备了。”
With his Direct Taxes Code legislation, Singh hopes to cut the corporate rate to 30 percent from 33 percent.
这次他推出的直接纳税制，有希望降低企业的税率，从33%降低到30%。
With that carrot dangling in front of them, many white companies were happy to sell their shares to blacks at cut-rate prices or even give them away.
面对挂在面前的胡萝卜，很多白人公司很愿意将股份用打折的价格卖给甚至白送给黑人。
With that carrot dangling in front of them, many white companies were happy to sell their shares to blacks at cut-rate prices or even give them away.
面对挂在面前的胡萝卜，很多白人公司很愿意将股份用打折的价格卖给甚至白送给黑人。
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