prime lending rate

基本解釋

Thus, many, many other rates that do affect your life are affected by the prime lending rate.
就這樣，許多與日常生活息息相關(guān)的利率都會受到基本放款利率的影響。
First of all, the prime lending rate is the interest rate that banks charge each other for short term loans.
首先，基本放款利率是銀行間相互進行短期借貸時使用的利率。
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，我在等會議開始的時間裡看了會兒CNN，電眡裡反複播放著“美聯(lián)儲將基本放款利率降低了0.75％”。

It is much more critical in determining interest rates in the economy such as banks' prime lending rate.
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The prime lending rate is 2.5% a month, or about 30% a year.
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The move was expected to prompt commercial banks to trim their prime lending rate, which would reduce the benchmark rate for millions of consumer and business loans to 7.25 percent.
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