How to Use basis point in a Sentence

basis point

noun

• Then the Federal Reserve cut interest rates by 50 basis points.
  — Ezra Klein, The Mercury News, 15 Oct. 2024
• 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
• Yields need to rise about 150 basis points across the board for that to be fair value.
  — Marley Jay, The Seattle Times, 20 Jan. 2018
• 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 Fed moved to raise rates by 25 basis points, as expected.
  — Susan Tompor, ajc, 26 Mar. 2018
• 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 Fed last week reduced its target range for rates by 50 basis points.
  — Vicki M. Young, Sourcing Journal, 23 Sep. 2024
• 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
• Over one year, the gap narrows to a few basis points and the fund beat its benchmark for its broader universe.
  — Rachel Evans, Bloomberg.com, 1 Mar. 2018
• On Wednesday, the Fed moved to raise rates by 25 basis points, as expected.
  — Susan Tompor, Detroit Free Press, 21 Mar. 2018
• 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
• The yield on the 10-year Treasury, which mortgage rates follow loosely, jumped more than 10 basis points in two days.
  — Diana Olick, USA TODAY, 20 Dec. 2017
• 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
• The Fed cut interest rates by 50 basis points earlier this month, marking the first interest rate cut in close to four years.
  — Trefis Team, Forbes, 1 Oct. 2024

Last Updated: 9 Nov 2024