The Federal Reserve lowered interest rates by half a point.
联邦储备委员会将利率降低了0.5个百分点。
They didn't; and some now think they might rise by half a point next month.
它们（利率）没有，而且一些人现在想下个月它们（利率）可能增长至50个百分点（具体是多少？）
Norway's central bank also swung into action today, slicing half a point off its rates to 4.75%.
挪威央行今天也采取行动，将利率下调了0.5个百分点至4.75%。
And after the prime rate declined by half a point, and the Dow rose by thirty-two, guess what happened to Goose and Fox?
要是主利率降了半个点，道·琼斯涨了三十二点，你们猜大白鹅和狐狸能赚多少？
He found that IQs increased among children aged between five and 10 over the 28-year-period, at the rate of up to half a point a year.
他发现，在过去的28年间，5至10岁孩子的智商在以每年提高0.5分的趋势增长。
Living in cities brings many benefits, but Dr Meyer-Lindenberg's work suggests that Shelley and his fellow Romantics had at least half a point.
生活在城市得到很多好处，但是迈耶·林登·贝格博士的研究表明雪莱和他的浪漫主义追随者至少有一半是对的。
So the Central Bank surprised everyone in August when it cut its benchmark rate by half a point (to 12%) even though inflation was then at 6.9%.
央行不顾6.9%的通胀率，在八月将基准利率下调了50个基点至12%，令众人跌破了眼镜。
The Bank of England's monetary policy committee (MPC) is tipped to chop at least half a point off its benchmark rate at its monthly meeting next Thursday.
英国央行货币政策委员会(monetary policy committee)暗示将于下周四的每月例会将基准利率至少下调0.5个百分点。
The unemployment rate fell in that month by nearly half a point, to 9.4%, but that was mainly because so many jobless workers gave up and stopped looking.
当月失业率下降近0.5个百分点，达到9.4%，但是这主要是因为不少失业人员放弃了找工作。
It was Fischer s only loss in the 17-round tournament, and he finished first, two points ahead of Korchnoi and Smyslov (Petrosian was half a point behind them).
这是菲舍尔在17轮比赛中唯一的败局。尽管如此，费舍尔还是取得了第一名，领先科奇诺伊和斯密斯·洛夫(彼得·罗森落后他俩半分)两分。
When stock markets in the United States, Europe and Asia continued to plunge, the world’s leading central banks on Oct. 8 , with the Federal Reserve cutting its two main rates by half a point.
美国、欧洲和亚洲的股市持续下跌。 10月8日，全球各主要央行联手大幅降息，美联储也降息0.5％。
Last month the central bank cut short-term interest rates by half a point. It did so to help keep problems in the housing and credit markets from harming the wider economy and causing a recession.
上个月中央银行把短期利率下调了0.5个百分点，这么做是为了不让房产和信贷市场的问题损害到更多的经济领域，造成经济萧条。
He has taken out a half-page advertisement in his local paper to put his point across.
他拿出了当地报纸上的半版广告来阐释他的观点。
"Yes, that's a good point," I commented, forcing a half smile at my girls.
“是啊，有道理，”我评论道，同时对着我的女儿们强颜欢笑。
Winter storms cut perhaps half a percentage point off growth from January to March, according to some estimates.
按照某些人的估计，从一月到三月，冬季暴风雪可能将增长率消减了半个百分点。
The uninhibited spread of HIV would diminish the economy's long-term growth rate, taking off half a percentage point annually by 2010 and a full percentage point annually by 2020.
艾滋病病毒的任意传播将降低俄国经济的长期增长率，在2010年之前每年减少半个百分点，到2020之前每年减少整整一个百分点。
Thanks to those extra jobs the productivity figures for 2005 may be revised down by a further half of a percentage point.
2005年的生产率数据因为这些增加的工作可能还要进行修改，大致还要进一步减少半个百分点。
The European Central Bank (ECB) tried to rebel but failed: on Thursday January 15th it cut its benchmark interest rate by half a percentage point, to 2%, having hinted at a pause only a month ago.
欧洲中央银行（ECB）曾试图反抗，结果却无功而返——本月15日周二，在暗示将暂停本轮扩张仅一月之后，它再次降息半个百分点至2%。
The Bank of England sliced its key interest rate by half a percentage point to 1.5%, its lowest level since the central bank was founded in 1694.
英格兰银行将其主要利率下调半个百分点至1.5%，这是该行自1694年成立以来的最低利率水平。
In effect, Mr Paulson engineered the equivalent of a half-point cut in interest rates targeted at the mortgage market.
实际上，这就是保尔森实现了对住房抵押市场降低利率半个百分点的目标。
The Bank of England reduced interest rates by half a percentage point, to 0.5%.
英格兰银行削减利率半个百分点，降至0.5%。
They have marked up their forecasts for the American economy next year by between a half and a full percentage point.
他们将其对美国明年经济的增长预期提高了半个至一个百分点。
For whites, the poverty rate in 2010 was 9.9 percent, a half percentage point increase from the previous year.
对于白人，2010年得贫困率则为9.9%，比上年增加了半个百分点。
On September 10th the average rate on a 30-year mortgage was 5.79%, almost half a percentage point below the average rate of 6.25% the previous week.
9月10日，30年期抵押贷款平均利率为5.79%，几乎比前一周的6.25%低了半个百分点。
Mr Callow at Barclays Capital thinks that the ECB will cut interest rates by another half a percentage point in March to prevent inflation from falling too far.
巴克莱资本的Callow先生认为，欧洲央行将于三月再次降息半个百分点以防通胀过分下落。
Rothman expects interest rates to increase not more than half a percentage point this year, which he says will happen in the first half.
Rothman预测利率将提高不超过0.5个百分点并且他说这将发生在今年上半年。
On 18 March, the central bank boosted bank reserves - the amount of cash Banks have to put aside - by half a percentage point, to 20%.
3月18日，央行提高银行准备金一半的百分点，到20%——银行的大量现金被搁置。
On 18 March, the central bank boosted bank reserves - the amount of cash Banks have to put aside - by half a percentage point, to 20%.
3月18日，央行提高银行准备金一半的百分点，到20%——银行的大量现金被搁置。
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