BANKING,FINANCEtherateofinterestat which acentralbanklendsmoneyto otherbanks:Australia'scentralbankraiseditskeyrateby aquarterpercentagepointyesterday.(Definition ofkey ratefrom theCambridge Business English Dictionary? Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofkey rate
key rateKeyratedurations require that we value an instrument off a yield curve and requires building a yield curve.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The sum of an instrumentskeyratedurations is approximately equal to its modified duration.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.For instance, suppose we know the amount by which the yield curve has steepened at eachkeyratematurity.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.However as current sources operate at a low efficiency and frequency key rates and transmission distances are limited.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.All key rates sampled per 1000 of population.FromWikipediaThis example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In this environment of subdued inflationary pressures, we continued with our policy of lowering our key rates further.FromEuroparl Parallel Corpus - EnglishBoth key rates of corporation tax have been cut.From theHansard archiveExample from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.#https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/key-rate##
