prime rate

基本解釋

Since the prime rate just dropped by 0.75%, many credit card rates just dropped 0.75%, which will help a bit if you have a large credit card balance.
考慮到基本利率只是下降了0.75%，很多信用卡費率也只是下降0.75%而已，這將有點幫助假如你有很高的信用卡貸款余額。
Major banks including Bank of America, Wachovia and Wells Fargo soon followed with cuts in their prime rate. This is what banks charge their best customers.
包括美國銀行，瓦喬維亞銀行和富國銀行在內(nèi)的各大銀行也緊隨著降低了他們的頭等客戶貸款最低利率。
Many consumer loan rates, however, are pegged to banks' prime rate.That rate, in turn, is tied to the Federal Reserve's benchmark short-term rate, which remains near zero.
然而很多消費者貸款利率是與銀行的優(yōu)惠利率掛鉤，這優(yōu)惠利率又是緊盯美聯(lián)儲的短期基準利率，這一利率持續(xù)接近于0。

Margolin recommends two closed-end funds: ING Prime Rate Trust and Van Kampen Senior Income Trust.
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The US bank prime rate remained unchanged in the second half of September at 3.25 percent.
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The interest rate is set by the plan and is usually tied to the prime rate.
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A bank's prime rate is the lowest rate of interest that it charges at a particular time and that is offered only to certain customers.