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。
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%。
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。
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。
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 US and China both cut interest rates yesterday, with the US Federal Reserve cutting interest rates by half a point to 1 per cent, a level equalled only once before in 2003.
美国和中国昨日双双降息，其中美联储（Federal Reserve）将利率下调50个基点至1%，这一水平仅在2003年出现过一次。
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。
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。
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