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Previously, commercial banks were allowed to set their lending rates no higher than 70% above the PBOC benchmark rate.

These 'microfinance' lenders often charge interest rates up to four times the benchmark rate.

Shanghai Interbank Offered Rate (Shibor) launched with a high profile, marking that it will be the target choice of China' benchmark rate.

Some said the Reserve Bank of Indiamight increase its benchmark rate from 7. 5 per cent before its next rate setting meeting in July.

All the commercial banks in Beijing had been holding to the benchmark rate before the CCB's latest move.

Today's benchmark rate increase signals that officials still view inflation as the major near-term threat to China.

A reduction would take the ECB benchmark rate down to 3. 25%, their lowest level in two years.

He says he would slash wasteful public spending, leaving room for interest rates to fall (the Central Bank's benchmark rate is 10. 25%).

But most people still expect that its benchmark rate, currently 4%, will reach at least 4. 5% before the increases stop.

China preceded the US cut with a 27 basis point reduction in its benchmark rate.

We had anticipated a benchmark rate hike as a result of higher inflation in July.

A reduction in the credit quota this year means that interest rates firms pay for bank loans have risen by more than the benchmark rate.

Turkey's central bank recently raised its benchmark rate to 16. 75%; Brazil's pushed its key rate up to 13% on July 23rd.

The ECB declined to follow the Fed's lead, deciding to keep its benchmark rate unchanged.

Reuters, the data provider, has been appointed to calculate and disseminate the benchmark rate.

The proportion of loans bang-on the benchmark rate, in fact, is up by about a fifth over that period.

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The Governing Council set the benchmark rate at 1 percent for the 21st month, as predicted by all 53 economists in a Bloomberg News survey.

In real terms the Central Bank's benchmark rate, the Selic, is now only around 6%, down from 11% in 2001.

That's the benchmark rate for millions of business and consumer loans.

U. S. interest rate futures suggest the Fed won't raise its benchmark rate until the second quarter of 2012.

The Fed's benchmark rate is down to 2. 25%, so there isn't much room for another round of half- and three-quarter point cuts.

At its present level of 8. 75%, the benchmark rate would be absurdly high in most big economies.

A first test for Mr Tombini after Ms Rousseff takes over on January 1st will be whether he raises the benchmark rate to curb inflation.

The Central Bank has raised its benchmark rate three times this year, taking it from 10. 75% to 12%.

A key benchmark rate set by the Reserve Bank of India stands at 6 percent, up 1. 25 percent since March.

Many now expect a cut in the Fed's benchmark rate from 5. 25% at its next policy meeting on September 18th.

The central bank's benchmark rate is 12% and may need to rise again to tame inflation, which is well above the target of 4. 5%.

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