First of all, a lot of people don't seem to even grasp that basic point that you buy stocks for the dividends.

首先,很多人不明确这一基本点,买股票就是为了股利

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The discount rate was a policy variable set by the Fed and it was typically fifty basis points below the Federal Funds Rate.

贴现率是一个联邦可改变的政策,并且它比联邦资金利率通常,低五十个基本点。

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Well it could go twenty basis points lower but interest rates can never be negative.

呃，它可以再跌二十个基本点,但是利率永远不能是负值。

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The primary discount rate is typically a hundred basis points above the Funds Rate.

一级贴现率通常,在联邦资金利率一百个基本点之上。

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The discount rate is now only 2.5% twenty-five basis points higher; it's at 2.5%.

贴现率现在只高了,二十五个基本点；是。

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Interest rates have hit zero 0.2%; that's twenty basis points above zero.

利率已经接近零了0。2%；,这只有零点以上的二十个基本点。

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They were worried that if the discount rate is fifty basis points below the Federal Funds Rate then it's going to hit zero and that would be embarrassing; so they moved it.

他们担忧的是,如果贴现率比,联邦资金利率低五十个基本点,那么它将会接近零点,并且那将会很尴尬；所以他们改变了它。

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