The benchmark lending rate dropped a full percentage point, to 2.75 percent.

基准借贷利率整整下跌了一个百分点，达到2.75%。

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The central bank's benchmark lending rate is above inflation in corporate-goods prices, now running at 4.5%.

央行的基本借贷利率高于整体商品价格通膨率，后者现已达到4.5%。

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That is much lower even than China's real benchmark lending rate of 3.6% (only China's deposit rates are lower).

这甚至远低于中国3.6%的实际基准贷款利率(只是中国的存款利率更低)。

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The eurozone's benchmark lending rate stands at 4.00%, but the next cut by the ECB probably won't be till the second half of 2008.

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At present, the benchmark lending rate stands at 6%, which is still very high compared to the rates in the U.S. and other developed countries.

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The European Central Bank could cut its benchmark lending rate from a record low of 0.75 as soon as Thursday because the euro area's economy remains stagnant.

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