benchmark interest rate

基本解释

They cost around half of the Central Bank’s benchmark interest rate.
这些项目的花费占了中央银行基准利率的一半左右。
That will weigh on the euro and will also help indebted households in Spain, Portugal and Ireland, where mortgage rates tend to track the ECB’s benchmark interest rate.
这会对欧元造成重压，且有利于西班牙、葡萄牙和爱尔兰的购房负债者们，这些国家的按揭利率趋于接近ECB的基准利率。
Iceland increased its benchmark interest rate for the first time since its cataclysmic bank crash of 2008.
自2008年灾难性的银行破产以来，爱尔兰首次上调了基准利率。

This week the BoJ kept its benchmark interest rate on hold, at just 0.5%.
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Brazil raised its benchmark interest rate to 12.25% from 12% after market hours on Wednesday.
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Thus we do very much need a change to how this benchmark interest rate is calculated.
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