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Example sentences for: quarter-point

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

But as today's quarter-point hike in the discount rate--in addition to the expected quarter-point hike in the federal funds rate--demonstrates, the Fed has, at some point in the last five years or so, come to see inflation-fighting as not merely a matter of raising or lowering rates.
I do not think we underestimate the severity of the problems with which we are dealing," and then says that investors widely took this as indicating the quarter-point rate cut.
The 199-point jump in the Dow Jones industrial average came amid anticipation of a quarter-point raise in short-term interest rates.
You might assume that the quarter-point hike means the Fed isn't that worried about inflation, even though there are signs that continued strong demand and tight labor markets are beginning to make themselves felt.
The LAT lead says that Wall Street is concerned that the Fed's quarter-point rate cut didn't add enough credit to the U.S. banking system to prevent the overseas economic crisis from inducing a recession here.