With an official interest rate of 0.1%-which the bank left unchanged at its meeting on friday-it has little scope to do much more through conventional means.

日行在周五的会议中表示将保持0.1%的官方利率不变，然而这些传统的方式已经很难发挥更大的作用了。

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Lending institutions often charge interest on subprime mortgages at a rate that is higher than a conventional mortgage in order to compensate themselves for carrying more risk.

贷款机构通常会对次级贷款收取高于常规贷款的利息以便补偿他们承担的更大的风险。

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That's another conventional formula that goes from interest rate to price of the security.

这是另一条已知利率,求证券价格的经验公式

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It also renders conventional monetary policy impotent, as the interest rate that prevents too much saving is below zero.

ECONOMIST: Paul Krugman's London lectures

In December, it exhausted its supply of conventional monetary ammunition when it lowered its short term-interest rate to between zero and 0.25%.

ECONOMIST: The Fed