Example sentences for: interest-rate

How can you use “interest-rate” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

  • Also, an article contends that Tony Blair's legislative proposals (to adopt a bill of rights, abolish hereditary rights in the House of Lords, impose proportional representation, assign interest-rate control to a central bank, and establish parliaments for Scotland and Wales) will change Britain as much as Thatcherism did.

  • The interest rate that most journalists have in mind when they talk about "interest-rate concerns" is not the interest rate that you see at the bottom of that bug in the corner of the CNBC screen.

  • It used to be that interest-rate hikes were automatic bad news for stocks, since the idea behind the hike is that it will slow down the economy and, presumably, profits.

  • One crucial ingredient in all of today's explanations of the sell-off (and we are now entering the putatively substantive part of the column, so watch your heads) was, of course, "interest-rate concerns."

  • If you're a big retailer, or an aluminum company, or even a car company, an interest-rate hike could have--though I stress could--a big impact on your business.


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