How to Use basis point in a Sentence

basis point

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  • Britain’s 10-year yield fell five basis points to 0.4%.
    — Vildana Hajric, Bloomberg.com, 12 May 2020
  • The yield on two-year Treasuries fell one basis point to 0.11%.
    — Cecile Gutscher, Bloomberg.com, 20 Dec. 2020
  • The yield on two-year Treasuries rose one basis point to 0.13%.
    — Cormac Mullen, Bloomberg.com, 27 Dec. 2020
  • The market has already priced in a 25 basis points lift to the Fed funds rate.
    — Annabelle Liang, The Seattle Times, 25 Sep. 2018
  • The two-year Treasury rate added fouor basis points to 1.66%.
    — Fortune, 12 Dec. 2019
  • So, for that matter, might the 27 basis point rate on five year bonds.
    — George Selgin, National Review, 17 Sep. 2020
  • The Fed paused rate hikes in June then raised them 25 basis points in July.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 26 Aug. 2023
  • That increase came on the heels of a 950 basis point hike in August.
    — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 21 Sep. 2022
  • The company charges from $1 to $4 per trade, and takes a small percentage (50 basis points) of the sale.
    — Casey Newton, The Verge, 27 Sep. 2018
  • Since the first quarter of last year, the Fed has raised interest rates by 500 basis points.
    — Chris Morris, Fortune, 5 June 2023
  • The rise in Italian bond yields Monday widened the their gap over German bund yields to over 300 basis points.
    — Georgi Kantchev, WSJ, 8 Oct. 2018
  • Never argue about a few basis points when the main problem is to stay alive.
    — Neil Senturia, San Diego Union-Tribune, 6 Nov. 2023
  • The average saving is 1 basis point, or 0.01% of the share price, for each share bought and later sold.
    — Derek Horstmeyer, WSJ, 4 Nov. 2022
  • Goldman Sachs expects four rate cuts of 25 basis points apiece, with the first cut coming in June.
    — Samanth Subramanian, Quartz, 9 Mar. 2024
  • In both instances, the Fed cut rates by 75 basis points to help get the economy through rough patches.
    — Jeanna Smialek, New York Times, 23 Aug. 2019
  • This data is tracked to the hundredth of a percentage point, or basis point.
    — NBC News, 24 Mar. 2022
  • In February, the Fed raised its main lending rate by 25 basis points, its eighth rate hike in less than a year.
    — Matt Ott, BostonGlobe.com, 2 Mar. 2023
  • Over the weekend, news broke that the Fed is leaning more toward a 75 basis point rate increase.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 18 July 2022
  • The benchmark rate has climbed for four days in a row, bringing October gains to about 40 basis points.
    — Andrew Stuttaford, National Review, 22 Oct. 2023
  • Home Depot’s gross margin was 33%, a decrease of eight basis points from the year before.
    — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 20 Feb. 2024
  • The market is pricing in three interest-rate cuts this year of 25 basis points each.
    — Bryan Mena, CNN, 18 Feb. 2024
  • Plus, a Fed rate cut of 50 basis points last week is looking like a weaker and weaker bandage.
    — Anne Sraders, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2020
  • But now, the consensus view implies just three 25 basis point cuts.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 3 Apr. 2024
  • Quite the contrary: Bond traders are now expecting the fed funds rate to fall almost 50 basis points by the end of October.
    — Brian Chappattabloomberg, Los Angeles Times, 7 Aug. 2019
  • People think that cutting 25 basis points is going to solve the problems.
    — Andy Mills, Quartz, 21 June 2024
  • And Nomura’s economists even argued a 100 basis point rate hike could be in the cards.
    — Will Daniel, Fortune, 14 Sep. 2022
  • The 10-year Treasury yield sits just a basis point below 1.5% early Tuesday.
    — Jj Kinahan, Forbes, 22 June 2021
  • Vacancy is forecast to rise by 40 basis points to 5.2 percent that year.
    — Katherine Feser, Houston Chronicle, 12 Aug. 2019
  • The Fed is likely to cut rates at its next meeting in September and may be torn between a 25 basis point and 50 basis point reduction, Trichet added.
    — Sophie Kiderlin,holly Ellyatt, CNBC, 6 Aug. 2024
  • High yield bond spreads are at 300 basis points, which basically is a fancy way of saying that the credit markets don’t see any problems on the horizon.
    — Andy Mills, Quartz, 31 July 2024

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