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Debt has rarely been cheaper, with higher-rated companies paying just a few dozen basis points over government bond yields.

Consequently, out of basis points and true to its dual mandate, the central bank has shifted from conventional to unconventional easing.

The Federal Open Market Committee cut the federal funds rate by seventy-five basis points -- a week before it planned to meet.

In June 2007 it was as low as 30. 5 basis points (less than a third of a percentage point), according to Dresdner Kleinwort.

Tushar Poddar, a Goldman Sachs economist, said the tightening was stronger than the 25 basis points he had expected for the repo rate.

Expect a few more basis points of appreciation the next time the US complains.

The federal funds rate in the US is now 4. 75 per cent, with expectations of a cut of at least 25 basis points this week.

Profit and loss critical point: the stock exchange trading volume basis points more than it would be profitable, otherwise losses.

Buying the highest yielded of any currency pair produced an average return of 26 basis points (hundredths of a percentage point) per month.

That would be fine, except that the standard deviation of returns, a gauge of how variable profits are, was almost 300 basis points.

Under reforms introduced a year ago, 57 banks can borrow limitless cash but at a price 100 basis points above the target bank rate.

But there was a sell-off, which sent gilt yields 17 basis points higher, and dragged the pound up with it.

The short-term policy interest rate fell by an average of about 20 basis points for a fiscal consolidation worth 1% of GDP.

The spread over benchmark German Bunds slipped to 306 basis points, the tightest in more than a week.

Most lending is still done at or close to regulated rates, giving a generous net interest rate margin of around 300 basis points.

Back in 2002 the spread between the yield of Fannie's mortgage portfolio and its long-term liabilities was 63 basis points.

Altering the model for the sake of a few basis points seems needlessly risky.

It explains why, having failed to appreciate the dangers for so long, the Fed has lowered rates by 200 basis points this year.

An outcome that just shaves a few basis points off a sovereign's borrowing costs will not be enough.

In September 2008, it was more than 450 basis points; now, it's less than 20 basis points.

That would be fine, except that the deviation of returns, a gauge ofhowvariable profits are, was almost 300 basis points.

Spreads in the last of these have recently become enormous (at more than 100 basis points).

"We do not see things changing in a major way, perhaps 10 to 20 basis points of widening without demand from the Fed, " Lazard's Ramos said.

Agency guarantees slash about 65 basis points off typical mortgages and quantitative easing at least another 30.

Indeed, Portugal's cost of short-term borrowing soared more than 150 basis points at a Treasury bill auction on Wednesday.

What happens when a few hundred basis points are added to borrowing costs?

The bank expects the Ireland-Spain CDS spread to compress to 20 basis points from the current 70 basis points.

To insure against default, the buyer of a CDS pays the seller a premium, whose value is denoted in basis points.

France is at 56 bps. In more extreme cases, spreads in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Ireland and Greece, are into hundreds of basis points.

China sheds a few basis points of economic growth and investors take $305bn of commodities bets off the table.

The premium Rome pays over Berlin to borrow was at 528 basis points, close to euro-era records.

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That marked the first time since the last tightening cycle in 2008 that the RBI lifted a key rate by more than 25 basis points .

Against that backdrop, the FOMC decided to lower the target for the federal funds rate 50 basis points, to 3 percent.

The Swiss National Bank also cut its interest rates on Thursday by a more conservative 50 basis points.

Credit- default swap contracts on Irish government bonds jumped 25. 5 basis points to 551 , according to data provider CMA in London .

He predicted further interest rate cuts of 200-250 basis points over the next six months.

In the second quarter of 2004 it had fallen to two basis points.

The cost of protecting US investment grade debt against default soared to a high of 188 basis points, from 80bp in January.

Bond markets showed even more alarm as the premium Italy pays over Germany to borrow hit a fresh euro-era record of 455 basis points.

As the market rallied for a second day, the gap between two- and 10-year Treasury yields shrank to 202 basis points from 210 late on Monday.

Mr Oster says homeowners with mortgages should assume interest rates will be about 100 basis points higher by this time next year.

These spreads ballooned out to a euro-era record high of 166 basis points for 10-year debt, a big difference for two triple A borrowers.

The Bank of Korea cut its benchmark interest rate by 75 basis points to 4. 25 per cent last week.

Yields on Italy's new issue debt are over 6%, more than 500 basis points over the European Central Bank benchmark interest rate.

Credit spreads widened by 50 basis points, returning to levels that were set during the Bear Stearns collapse in March.

Treasuries climbed for a third day and the yield on the U. S. 10-year note fell seven basis points to 3. 72 percent.

The spread on default protection for GM in credit derivative markets has widened in recent months, reaching 900 basis points yesterday.

Jan's decision by the monetary policy committee to cut rates by 50 basis points is expected to boost demand further.

To encourage mechanical and electrical products exporting, our government often provide charge rate of loan is lower by 50-75 basis points.

Also, the two-year Treasury yield has fallen by about 150 basis points in the last month.

Moving back to the post-1971 average would thus require an increase in real rates of more than 150 basis points, says McKinsey.

On balance, most members agreed that the target for the federal funds rate should be lowered 25 basis points, to 2 percent.

He believes yields on long-dated bonds could rise a further 60 basis points if Asian investors shift away from the market.

The OECD forecast the main euro zone rate would fall 125 basis points from the current 3. 25 percent in the next few months.

A fund manager might have paid a commission of 30 basis points (ie, 0. 3%) on a trade 20 years ago.

The report says: "Average merchant fees are about 60 basis points, meaning little profit for [credit card] issuers. "

With administration charges and lending margins of 350 basis points, the effective interest rate to the borrower would be 7. 5 per cent.

In the first half of the year, our gross margins improved 600 basis points. We reduced the amount of promotions by about 30 percent.

Raising interest rates might work, but only a hefty hike of, say, 500 basis points.

China took markets by surprise at the weekend, lifting the ratio of reserves that banks must hold by 100 basis points.

Indeed, Gross recently said that he views Treasury yields as perhaps 150 basis points too low, given expectations for nominal GDP growth.

Sriram said on an option-adjusted basis, mortgage bonds could widen by 25 to 35 basis points after the Fed exits the market.

We expect more to come in 2011, forecasting another 75 basis points of rate hikes by the end of next year.

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Central banks in Indonesia and the Philippines increased benchmark interest rates by 25 basis points yesterday.

Meanwhile, in a separate move, China cut its various interest rates by 27 basis points.

The IOER rate, currently set at 25 basis points, could be reduced to, say, 10 basis points or even to zero.

Economists at HSBC expect 150 basis points of further cuts to be packed into the first half of 2012.

Cutting the IOER rate even to zero would be unlikely therefore to reduce the federal funds rate by more than 10 to 15 basis points.

It also reduced the share of deposits that banks must keep as reserves at the central bank, by 50 basis points.

Bank Indonesia, with its eye on inflation, raised its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points to 9. 5 per cent.

In Dubai, the cost of insuring the emirate's debt against default dropped to 465 basis points from 583bp.

In Europe, the 10-year Bund yield has lost 65 basis points in the last month alone.

Credit spreads widened sharply, with the Markit iTraxx Crossover index of mostly junk-rated credits rising 27 basis points to 765bp.

As credit markets retreated group funding rates rose by around 100 basis points for longer term funding.

We expect additional reserve requirement hikes and another 100 basis points of rate hikes this year.

The premium Italy pays over Germany to borrow in the markets rose to 572 basis points, another euro-lifetime high.

Wednesday's 50 basis points cut has altered those expectations quite significantly.

More dangerously still, even Spanish spreads have reached 270 basis points (see chart).

The European Central Bank made its biggest-ever reduction to its rate, by 75 basis points, to 2. 5%.

Worryingly, spreads for Spain are also now uncomfortably high, at 240 basis points, while those for Italy have reached 190 points.

Bond markets even rose, while credit default swaps on UK sovereign debt tightened 7 basis points.

After Thursday's announcement of the outlook downgrade, yields on the UK's benchmark 10-year bond rose 7 basis points.

The reverse repurchase rate, or the key borrowing rate, has been lowered by 200 basis points over the same period.

The equivalent US index was also hit, rising 33 basis points in early trade, meaning it is about 67 per cent higher than a month ago.

They've gained 94 basis points since the Oct. 19 increase in borrowing costs, double the 46 basis-point advance in 10-year yields.

Even five basis points would add $50bn of annual interest expense for taxpayers.

Today the yield rose five basis points to 3. 35 percent as of 10: 15 a. m. in London.

That is, admittedly, more fun than shifting base rates by 25 basis points once in a while.

Greek spreads are now back above 800 basis points over Germany's, around their level just after the bail-out.

Notably, since December 2008, the FOMC has held its target for the federal funds rate in a range of 0 to 25 basis points.

The seven-day repurchase, or repo, rate, hit 8. 9 per cent on Wednesday, up more than 500 basis points from its average in May.

Other markets were little affected by the move, with CDS unchanged at 740 basis points according to Markit Intraday.

If the spread for Greece is, say, 900 basis points, that implies a 30 per cent chance of a 30 per cent default.

The cost of insuring Portuguese sovereign debt rose 8 basis points to 562, according to CMA prices for credit-default swaps.

But 110 basis points, equivalent to $114bn, is quite an adjustment.

With a debt level of approx $2. 5 trillion, each 100 basis points increase in bond yields increases the borrowing cost with $25 billion.

On Wednesday, the yuan lost 329 basis points from the previous trading day to reach a central parity rate of 10. 6779 yuan against one euro.

Emerging market sovereign debt yields 11EMJ have blown out around 55 basis points over U. S. Treasuries over the past week.

That is, admittedly, a lot more fun than shifting interest rates by 25 basis points once in a while.

Over the same period, the spread on the 10-year bond yield has risen by roughly 125 basis points.

Yet its debt continues to trade at spreads of more than 300 basis points over Germany's.

But the size -- fifty basis points, or half a percentage point -- was double what many people expected.

S. dollar, the country's central bank raised the required reserve ratio, or RRR, by 50 basis points.

On Barclays Capital estimates, every 1 per cent move in the dong versus the dollar adds roughly 15 basis points to inflation.

Credit indices improved, with the iTraxx Crossover index tightening 12 basis points to 890bp.

Portuguese two-year yields tightened by 78 basis points on Thursday alone.

The Fed's lending came as the US central bank lowered interest rates by 50 basis points to 1 per cent.

The cost to insure French debt jumped again on Wednesday to around 255 basis points.

If they became and remained, say, 400 basis points, the real interest rate on long-term debt would be 5 per cent.

It means that Spain's borrowing costs are 150 basis points higher today than a month ago.

The yield on the bill that matures on August 4 , which returned no interest earlier this month, rose to 20 basis points.

Later in the day the central bank cut its benchmark interest rate by 25 basis points.

The premium France pays to borrow over Germany also hit a euro-era high of 75 basis points.

Rate-sensitive Treasuries fell on the news, pushing yields as much as 10 basis points higher to 0. 964 per cent in Tokyo trading.

The RBI cut the repo rate by 50 basis points to 7. 5 per cent, lowering the main short-term interest rate for the second time in two weeks.

The 10-year gilt yield has risen 50 basis points in a month even as short-term rates stay low.

In other words, long-term rates have risen by 167 basis points in the space of five months.

A 100 basis points is equal to a percentage point.

A five-year credit-default swap on Lehman debt now costs almost 600 basis points.

But, he says, "I would bet you it is not more than 50 basis points. "

The premiums Madrid and Rome pay to borrow over Germany also reached new euro-era highs of 404 and 384 basis points.

The difference in yield between that Portuguese 10-year bonds and comparable German bonds widened 6 basis points to 517 basis points today.

A 50 basis points cut in the Fed funds rate to 4. 75 per cent was a tonic for America's crisis-struck economy.

The swap dealer profits 20 basis points from the transactions.

The Fed was quick to slash the federal funds rate by 550 basis points to 1 per cent and the US economy eventually recovered.

Canada's central bank raised interest rates by 25 basis points to 1%, despite slowing growth in the country.

Rabobank has also cut its forecast for ECB tightening this year to 50 basis points from 100 basis points.

Insuring Spanish debt became less costly too; Spain's credit-default swaps fell by 10. 5 basis points.

Ten-year yields held a 180 basis points premium above two-year notes, versus 181 basis points on Monday.

At the 'wides' the bonds were yielding nearly 700 basis points more and similar maturity in bunds. We think both are money good. '

Editor's note: 100 basis points equal one percentage point.

The 2-year US Treasury note fell to just 16 basis points, well below the previous record low achieved earlier this week of 23 basis points.

Yesterday, the HKMA cut its base rate by 25 basis points to 6 per cent, matching the Fed's overnight move.

The 10-year swap spread quickly regained positive territory and by June 14 stood at a plus 12 basis points.

First, yields on 10-year Treasury bonds have fallen by about 50 basis points since Oct. 14, getting close to their previous 2008 lows.

China has raised benchmark lending rates by 100 basis points to 6. 31 per cent, but small businesses have seen steeper increases.

In those 20 years, large-cap stocks outperformed small-caps by 430 basis points annually.

The average annual fee on ETFs stands at around 33 basis points, compared with 146 basis points for active funds, according to BlackRock.

Worse, spreads on Spanish and Italian 10-year bonds over German bunds have reached 328 and 296 basis points, respectively.

Spencer says he expects the Fed to further reduce interest rates by around 25 to 50 basis points.

The reserve ratio will increase 50 basis points starting Nov. 29, the central bank said.

The cost of CDS protection on US Steel, for example, was at the time about 500 basis points annually.

According to our Chinese financial conditions index, conditions have eased a huge 520 basis points since last October.

The yield increased 29 basis points this week, the most since June.

A flight to safety saw the yield on the two-year US Treasury bill fall 38 basis points.

RBS has since halved its Greek exposure, so that could be 100 basis points less by now.

The 10-year yield fell by as much as 25 basis points on the first trading day after Standard & Poor's action.

Yet Chinese LICs pay market interest rates, giving banks a spread of 200-300 basis points.

On May 20, the cost of protection for US sovereign credit jumped 22 basis points to 50bp.

The contracts earlier traded as low as 532 basis points.

The yield on the 10-year treasury note fell two basis points to 2. 82 per cent in response to the news.

The RBA is expected to lift rates by 25 basis points today.

South Korea lopped off another 50 basis points on Thursday, bringing its total to 325.

Hang Seng Economist Monthly expects the Mainland to increase interest rates this year (2005) by 50 to 100 basis points.

Spreads may need to drop to 200 basis points to encourage lenders to resume new lending, NewOak's Lieberman said.

According to analysis from JP Morgan, the downgrading means interest rates for US treasury bonds could increase by 60 to 70 basis points.

The four ETFs all carry a total expense ratio of 50 basis points.

Italian default swaps briefly pierced 600 basis points for the first time.

On Friday the central bank raised its refinancing rate by 100 basis points, to 13 per cent.

Mr Bond estimates current central bank bond buying has cut 10-year US Treasury yields by between 50 and 100 basis points.

It also expects 200 basis points of RRR hikes, which will freeze more than $210bn of liquidity in the Chinese banking system.

On the Christmas day, thePeople's Bank of China raised interest rates by 25 basis points for bothone-year lending and deposit.

The Lyxor ETN , for example , currently costs over 100 basis points, due to the high cost of collateral management .

The yield on the two-year note dropped as much as two basis points to 0. 66 percent, the lowest level since Dec.

That drove the difference in yield with German debt down by 32 basis points to 3. 12 percent, the lowest since Oct. 14 on a closing basis.

In volatile overnight trading, the yield on 30-year bonds rose 8 basis points.

In addition, the primary credit rate was lowered 25 basis points, and the maximum term of primary credit loans was extended to 90 days.

The RBI was widely expected to boost its main interest rate on July 26th, but by only 25 basis points, not 50.

The PBoC lifted the deposit rate by 27 basis points, and the lending rate by 18 basis points.

This week the yield for 30-year bonds rose to a record level of 114 basis points above that of the 10-year note.

They also forecast another rate hike of 25 basis points in June and one more in the third quarter.

Westpac followed yesterday, increasing its standard home loan rate by 30 basis points to 9. 27 per cent.

Yield spreads on agency debt securities ended 0. 5 to 2 basis points wider amid the latest round of supply.

Spanish 10-year bond yields have climbed above 4 per cent at auction and are 137 basis points above bunds.

Now the bills are proposing to reduce subsidies by 50-55 basis points.

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Australia this week also raised its key rate by 25 basis points to 6 per cent.

It is the biggest US rate cut since October 1984, when rates came down by 175 basis points.

Average management fees at fund of funds declined by three basis points since the same quarter last year.

China's central bank today raised the reserve requirement ratio by 50 basis points to 15%, effective January 25, 2008.

The People's Bank of China (PBoC) increased the one-year bill yield by 8. 3 basis points in its open market operation Tuesday.

Greece's two-year yield slid 285 basis points to 76. 91 percent today, compared with an average of 27 percent in the past year.

The benchmark one-year borrowing and lending rates will rise 25 basis points to 6. 06%.

One-year notes fell to just 4 basis points.

The gap between two- and 10-year note yields widened to 273 basis points from 272 basis points late Tuesday.

"We expect another 75 basis points of rate hikes in 2011. "

Yields on German 10-year bunds, the benchmark for Europe, fell 10 basis points to 3. 16 per cent while equities were battered.

That outlook was shattered last week when the yield on the 10-year bond soared 28 basis points in just 28 hours.

Thailand slashed its key interest rate by a full point to 2. 75 percent and Indonesia lowered its rate by 25 basis points to 9. 25 percent.

One-year interest-rate swaps based on the repurchase rate climbed three basis points to 3. 12 percent.

The SNB also cut its interest rates by 25 basis points, taking its three-month Libor target range down to 0-0. 75 per cent.

The three-month dollar London Interbank Offered Rate, the rate at which banks lend to each other, rose 20 basis points to 4. 52 per cent.

The two-year government bond yield advanced 3 basis points to 4. 31 percent.

That is what the credit default swaps market shows: spreads on UK government bonds have drifted up again, to 70 basis points.

Ten-year yields rose 11 basis points to 2. 11 per cent, their highest level in three weeks.

The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which rose to within a whisker of 5 per cent on Tuesday, slipped 2 basis points to 4. 97 per cent.

At about midday in New York, the yield on 10-year Treasuries was down 6 basis points at 3. 58 per cent on weak data.

The Fed also cut its discount rate 25 basis points to 5 per cent.

Interest rates on similar loans to businesses fell by 65 basis points to 4. 73 per cent.

Yields on 10-year Treasury notes increased three basis points to 3. 41 percent.

On that day, the 10-year note's yield fell nearly 47 basis points, sending it to an all-time low of 2. 47 percent.

Yet, at 157 basis points it remains well below June's 200.

FHA's fees, typically 75 basis points, will rise by 25.

But a rough rule of thumb is that a 10% depreciation adds 60-100 basis points to inflation, says Mr Chakraborty at Standard Chartered.

Producer prices in the US were up 1. 4 per cent, 60 basis points higher than forecast.

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US Treasury debt prices rose, with the yield on the 10-year note falling 23 basis points to 2. 67 per cent.

The average bid of most traded European loans fell 197 basis points, closing at 86. 31 per cent, based on pricing from Markit.

Rates on securities due in 2012 increased 32 basis points this month, while those for 2020 notes fell by 13.

by early afternoon , the yield on the 10 - year note was up 4 . 5 basis points at 4 . 099 per cent in new york , but off earlier highs.

The Italian 10-year yield fell 26 basis points to 5. 34 per cent, also sharply elevated from normal levels.

The yield spread tightened to about 119 basis points in 2001, compared with 135 basis points in 2000.

The benchmark three-month London Interbank Offered Rate jumped 26. 5 basis points to 3. 476 per cent.

In the past five months the cost of borrowing has fallen by 375 basis point in Australia and 189 basis points in China.

The yield on the one-month Treasury bill fell 160 basis points to 1. 34 per cent in early trading.

The EMBI 11EMJ. JPMEMBIPLUS yield spreads finished the week at 259. 472 basis points and remained unchanged on Thursday.

Late in New York, the yield on 10-year Treasury notes was 3 basis points higher at 2. 41 per cent.

The 10-year yield fell 15 basis points on the day, matching the single-day decline on July 8, 2009.

The yield on the 10-year German bund rose 14 basis points to 3. 38 per cent, its highest in three months.

The move will boost its tier one ratio by 157 basis points to 8. 32 per cent.

Domestic revenue margin decreased 149 basis points to 13. 8% while international revenue margin decreased 7 basis points to 15. 6%.

The benchmark 10-year Japanese government bond yield is down 10 basis points to 1. 20 per cent.

The benchmark one-year lending rate will rise 25 basis points to 6. 06 per cent, the People's Bank of China said on Tuesday.

Three-month dollar Libor rose 29 basis points to 3. 77 per cent.

Last Tuesday, Ireland saw the extra premium it has to pay over Germany jump to a record 356 basis points.

Spreads rose to 166. 88 basis points, according to Markit Group, although they closed slightly better at 161. 25bp.

German 10-year Bund yields fell 16 basis points to 1. 85 per cent, their lowest ever.

Credit-default swaps on Portugal rose 13 basis points to 489, and contracts on Spain rose 3. 5 basis points to 303.

At one point, the spread between the Italian benchmark bond and its German equivalent reached a record 290 basis points.

Its benchmark 10-year bond yields fell 24 basis points to 2. 32 per cent, their lowest since January 2009.

Yields on the benchmark 10-year bond fell some 6 basis points to 3. 8 per cent.

The 10-year Treasury yield slipped 4 basis points to 3. 26 percent.

The two-year yield dropped by 5. 5 basis points to 4. 897 per cent.

The yield on 10-year notes fell 10 basis points to 2. 95 per cent, extending its decline from 3. 30 per cent over the past month.

The yield on the 10-year note fell 7 basis points to 2. 85 per cent.

One-year U. S. credit default swaps rose to a record high 85 basis points, up 8 basis points on the day.

The 10-year yield declined three basis points to 2. 52 percent as of 9: 53 a. m. in Tokyo, according to BGCantor Market Data.

Ten-year bond yields fell 1. 5 basis points to 1. 02 percent at 2: 40 p. m. in Tokyo.

The lead contract is up 0. 67 at 139. 21 and the 10-year yield is down three basis points at 1. 270%.

HSBC this week also hiked Hong Kong mortgage rates by 50 basis points, dealing another blow to an already falling market.

The Hong Kong Monetary Authority said it would cut rates by 100 basis points to try to contain the effects of the credit crisis.

Gold hit a record of $1, 681. 67 while 2-year US Treasuries fell 5 basis points to 0. 26 per cent, a new all-time low yield.

Net interest margin of 4. 38 percent, up 11 basis points from prior quarter and up 8 basis points from a year ago

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The RBA is expected to lift rates by 25 basis points today. (Reuters: Will Burgess, file photo)

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The central bank is widely expected to raise the benchmark discount rate another 12. 5 basis points to 1. 625% later this month;